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TIME AFTER TIME Nobody needs to tell nineteen-year-old Libby that pouring her college fund into buying an old Victorian house is a bad idea. She's very aware it's a bad idea. But she's been obsessed with the fixer-upper since she was a kid visiting her grandmother, so much so that the For Sale sign seems like, well, a sign. When her parents find out what she's done (and when they determine she's not willing to give up the house she bought), Libby finds herself out of one home... and into a new one. Living in the old Victorian feels strange at first, all alone, but as she settles in, Libby discovers the journals of a young woman, Elizabeth Post, who once called this house home, too. Elizabeth, who fell in love in this house circa 1925. Libby has no plans of falling in love, but she does want to fix up this old house. Which means she needs Tish. Whatever compelled broke college student Tish to knock on her door was a stro...

OUT OF AIR Phoebe Ray has always been at home underwater. She's got the ocean in her blood. As the Salt Squad's lead photographer, too, she's made something of a splash on social media. The future is bright, but... Six months ago, something changed the dynamic of the Salt Squad. Six months ago, they found something on a dive. Six months ago, the bond between them was shaken, but they've put all that behind them. Or they're trying. Now, in their final summer before college, the Salt Squad has big plans, plans to do what they do best: dive beneath the waves, looking for lost treasures. This has taken them to a distant Australian island, to the place of pirate legends and old seaside myths (that they definitely don't plan on exploring). But Phoebe has something of a sixth sense when it comes to the sea, and not everything wants to stay buried beneath the waves... THOUGHTS...

TITAN OF THE STARS Titan is the most advanced, most deluxe space cruiser to ever exist, and Celeste knows every inch of it. She's put in the work, after all. And she and the rest of the crew are set to launch this ship into the stars for Titan 's maiden voyage from Earth to Mars where Celeste will finally have the opportunities (and the credentials, thanks to working as an apprentice on the Titan ) to reach for the life she's always wanted. She can't wait to leave Earth and all its problems behind. For Dominic, this voyage looks a little... less optimistic. Sure, he's not stuck in crew quarters (or worse). Sure, he's got all the luxury of the Titan at his disposal. But he's stuck here with his overbearing father, with the boyfriend he doesn't exactly want anymore, and with a life on Mars devoid of the art school future he longed for back on Earth. So things aren't really going his way, all things considered. What neither Ce...

MURDER LAND Seventeen-year-old Billie has everything she could want. She's got the best friend in the world. She's got a maybe-kinda boyfriend on the hook. And she's just been promoted to ride operator for the most buzzworthy new attraction at the amusement park where she works. Nothing could be better. But preview night at the all-new true-crime themed wing of the amusement park doesn't go as planned when a creepy coworker of Billie's mysterious dies... on her ride. On the ride she ran even though she should have waited for the mechanics. On the ride she's barely authorized to run anyway. And what could have been just a heart attack looks suddenly much more like it is her fault... Her dream job suddenly in peril, Billie knows she has to do whatever she can to keep her position (and the fast-passes she scores for her friend group). But sneaking around a park after-hours isn't exactly safe, especially not this park...

WHAT COMES AFTER This isn't the afterlife Mari was promised. Not that she was promised much of anything. She's never been religious, after all. But nothing has been more disappointing to Mari than her sudden death, and all the problems she's dragged into the afterlife with her. Biggest problem of all: her also-recently-deceased mother Faye. Mari thought she'd finally escaped Faye, as awful as that sounds, with Faye's own untimely demise. But now that Mari's landed in the In Between as well, well, her mother's here waiting for her with open arms. There are rules to follow, paths toward enlightenment that those in charge of the In Between want Mari to follow, and Faye's there to help her along the way (assuming she can get her own dysfunctional self together to do that, of course). Mari's always been one to keep her eye on the prize, regardless of her mother's inability to hold her life together. But att...