YA Author Rendezvous

Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins
by Michael Bailey

It was the worst summer of Carrie Hauser’s life, and the weirdest: it was the summer her parents announced they were getting divorced, and when a dying alien passed on to her his fantastic superhuman abilities.

All Carrie wants now is to settle into her new home in Kingsport and get her life back to something resembling normal – but that won’t be easy when her secret is discovered by a group of teenage super-hero wannabes, who need her help to discover why experimental military drones have been wreaking havoc in town.

Their search leads the fledgling super-team to Archimedes, an artificial intelligence that will do anything to escape its virtual reality prison and enter the real world.

However, the kids aren’t the only ones with an interest in Archimedes, and the super-teens soon find themselves caught in the middle of a longstanding feud between Concorde, Kingsport’s high-flying hometown hero, and his nemesis, the deadly mercenary Manticore.

Save the day? Sure…as soon as school lets out.

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Action Figures – Issue Two: Black Magic Women
by Michael Bailey

The world is full of magic…and it wants the Hero Squad dead.

Winter in Kingsport heats up when the necromancer Black Betty comes to town, on the hunt for the Libris Infernalis, a legendary book of dark magic with the power to raise hell on Earth…literally.

Facing power beyond their understanding, the Hero Squad turns to the Protectorate’s resident sorceress for help, but the mysterious Dr. Enigma seems to have an agenda of her own. Is she on the side of angels, or is she a devil in disguise?

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Action Figures – Issue Three: Pasts Imperfect
by Michael Bailey

The past is coming back to haunt the Hero Squad.

Archimedes, the Squad’s first foe, is finally heading to trial, and the teen heroes aren’t exactly looking forward to again facing the man capable of revealing their deepest secrets to the world — but their secrets are nothing compared to the dark truths being hidden from them by people they know and trust.

When those secrets are finally laid bare, they could tear the team apart, one heartbreaking piece at a time…and if they don’t, the bloodthirsty killer known as Buzzkill Joy will.

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Action Figures – Issue Four: Cruel Summer
by Michael Bailey

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Action Figures – Issue Five: Team-Ups
by Michael Bailey

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Action Figures – Issue Six: Power Play
by Michael Bailey

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Locksmith’s Closet (Locksmith Trilogy Book 1)
by Paul Briggs

Lachlan Smith investigates a strange noise in the closet of his new bedroom, and discovers a portal to a world of wild animals and overgrown ruins. It is the future, and humanity is extinct.

Lock and his friend Gary find that they can change the future. They set out to learn what will happen and prevent it.

But there are many dangers in the future — and in the present. The previous owner of the Smith house disappeared, and now a stranger has come who insists that the house belongs to him and he will stop at nothing to get it.

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Locksmith’s Journeys (Locksmith Trilogy Book 2)
by Paul Briggs

Lachlan Smith knows when the world ends.

He doesn’t know how.

When 12-year-old Locksmith found a portal to a hundred years in the future, he discovered a world where no human had lived for decades. Now Lock and a small group of his family and friends are exploring the ruins of the future to learn its secrets. At the same time, they’re trying to keep those secrets from the world of the present… all while maintaining the semblance of a normal life.

The more they find, the more they realize that if they’re going to prevent the end of the world, they can’t do it by themselves. But who can help them? And who can they trust with the portal and the power it represents — the power to reshape the future… or destroy it?

For Locksmith, new discoveries, hard choices and dangerous journeys await.

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The Hanting of Tinley Hall

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Dawn of the Dreamer (Dreamer Trilogy Book 1)

Fall of the Dreamer (Dreamer Trilogy Book 2)

by L.J. Higgins

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Enjoying her new life in Sandhaven after the events of the year before, Amelia feels like she has it all – great friends, a home by the beach, a job that she loves, and a handsome boyfriend. But a new threat is brewing in the city; the Cambiar Virus is spreading fast and people are dying. Amelia does not want to give up her peaceful life, but someone must fight for those who are unaware of the danger they’re in. With Cameron acting strange, her friendship with Sarah strained, and her relationship with Jonah growing more complicated, the last thing Amelia wants is to put her personal life aside and get involved in another life threatening situation. But she doesn’t have a choice.

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Rise of the Dreamer (Dreamer Trilogy Book 3)

by L.J. Higgins

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Every time Amelia thinks she has escaped the MultiMind Corporation, her life is turned on it’s head. Will she ever escape their manipulation and control? Or is she fighting a losing battle?

Amelia’s world is falling apart around her. The man she loves is gone, she’s surrounded by people she doesn’t trust, and her friends moved on with their lives while she was locked away in the MultiMind Corporation’s cells.

Unsure of who she is anymore, and desperate to find purpose in what has happened to her, Amelia is willing to do anything to end the MMC’s control once and for all.

Even if it means putting her own life on the line.

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Pawns (The Wielders of Arantha Book 1)

by Patrick Hodges

Seven hundred years in the future, a powerful alien race called the Jegg invade Earth, wiping out half of the Terran Confederation.

In a hidden base under the Sahara Desert, a team of scientists is working to mount a resistance against the invaders. Fitting an Earth ship with Jegg folding-space technology, they plan to travel to the other side of the galaxy to find a mysterious energy source – one that could help them defeat the Jegg.

Only two of the crew survive and make it to their destination: the team leader’s wife Maeve, and her teenage son Davin. What they find on the distant planet forever changes the future of their family and their planet, as they enter a race against time… and against impossible odds.

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Queens (The Wielders of Arantha Book 2)

A cosmic game of chess is underway, and the planet Elystra is the board.

Earth pilot Maeve and her son Davin have joined the Ixtrayu, hoping to avert the destruction that their leader, Kelia, has foretold. But will Maeve’s burgeoning Wielding powers be enough to thwart the machinations of Elzor and his lightning-wielding sister, Elzaria, before everything the Ixtrayu have ever known is destroyed in Elzor’s quest for ultimate power?

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Endgame (The Wielders of Arantha Book 3)
by Patrick Hodges

Get the Stones. Go to Mount Calabur. Stand on the Nexus. Win the game.

Eons ago, a game to determine galactic dominance began. Now, on the distant world of Elystra, that game is reaching its conclusion.

Two mighty armies are set to clash. On one side, Elzaria the Lightning-Wielder, backed by her brother’s army, is poised to claim the third Stone and final victory. On the other, Earth pilot Maeve and her allies are all that stands in her way.

With the fate of the entire galaxy at stake, who will emerge victorious? And who will have to make the ultimate sacrifice?

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Soraya: A Wielders of Arantha Prequel

by Patrick Hodges

On the planet Elystra, the all-female Ixtrayu tribe have thrived, hidden from their world’s male-dominated societies for eight centuries. Thirty-five generations of Protectresses have safeguarded their sisters from the men who would destroy them for the Elemental power they wield. But how did it all begin? .

Seeking riches and power, a band of vicious slavers steal twenty girls from their homes, as well as the Agrusian Stone, long fabled for its beauty and pricelessness. Among the abducted is Sahria, an eighteen-year-old novice, determined to free herself and return home. When the Stone unexpectedly imbues her with her god’s divine power, she realizes freedom for herself and her sisters is within her grasp … but to save them all would mean leaving behind everything she’s ever known.

With a slaver’s market looming, Sahria must make a choice: escape and return to the safety of her Order, or embark on a far more dangerous path, one where mere survival is only the beginning.

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Rigel (Appointments on Plum Street Book 1)

Appointments on Plum Street is a series set across six worlds, three dimensions and multiple times zones. The first book, Rigel, starts the story as we see the young orphan Rigel on Earth, miserable and alone. Then one night his life is changed forever when a crew of airship pilots tear through the sky and offer to take him to another world.

On their journey they come across other children and Rigel finds that they are all at the centre of a legend thousands of years old … and he has no memory being part of it. The children are the Light Ones and the only hope of saving each planet against The Darkness.

The Darkness, trapped for so long in the Dark Realm, is beginning to stir and venture out from its prison, taking hold a world at a time, led by the malignant and cruel Frivlok.

It is left in the hands of the Light Ones to do everything in their power to stop it. But with limited experience, strength and cunning as a result of hundreds of years of hiding, how will they ever succeed against Frivlok and his Dark Parade?

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Rigel (Appointments on Plum Street Book 1)

Set across five worlds, different dimensions and multiple time zones, Frivlok explores the twisted path of The Three and the further adventures of Rigel and Rona as they cross the barren landscape of Endirin.

Frivlok walks abroad, spreading destruction and chaos to everything he touches. Seeking a way out of his prison, he plots an evil ceremony to transform the captured Light One, Zeph.

Meanwhile, Rigel and Rona begin their training and cross the unforgiving landscape of Endirin, searching desperately for the weapons they need to defeat Frivlok. They could be anything. Or anywhere. How will they succeed against an opponent hell-bent on their destruction?

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The Clay Lion (The Clay Lion Series Book 1)

What if you could go back in time to save the person you love the most?

The rules are simple. If you want to travel back in time, you need to be at least eighteen years old. You can only travel within your own lifespan for a maximum of six months. And above all else, you must never, ever, change the past.

But that’s exactly what Brooke Wallace plans to do.

As Brooke faces existence without her beloved brother, his life cut short by a rare disease, she can think of only one solution – travel back in time to prevent his death. However, her attempts at fixing the past challenge her to confront everything she believes to be true about herself. And ultimately, she is forced to discover whether or not we can ever truly be in charge of our own destiny.

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Tin Men (The Clay Lion Series Book 2)

What if you could go back in time to save the person you love the most?

When his father dies in a tragic climbing accident, Charlie discovers a well-hidden family secret which turns his life upside down and threatens to destroy his sense of self as well as his relationship with his girlfriend, Brooke.

Although deep down Charlie always suspected his family wasn’t what it seemed, the truth of his adoption compels him to search for his birth mother. In the quest to find her, he realizes traveling to the past for the truth he seeks will jeopardize his relationship with the person he cherishes most in the world.

Brooke almost lost everything traveling back in time to save her brother. Will Charlie make the same mistake?

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A Straw Man (The Clay Lion Series Book 3)

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Excelsior (The Excelsior Journey Book 1)
by George Sirois

A comic strip. An evil to defeat. Two planets to save.

High school senior Matthew Peters thinks he’s just writing some online fiction about an alien superhero, Excelsior. But when a woman arrives at his school claiming to be from the distant planet he’s writing about, he must think again. What’s more, she says Excelsior’s lifeforce lives within him.

As an alien assassin tries to kill him, Matthew must decide what is more important: to save his own life or to retrieve an ancient artifact that could save two worlds. To stay the guy with growing online popularity, or lose himself to something he can’t understand. Whatever his choice, he must face an enemy more powerful than him in almost every way.

Hold on to your seat as you race through the first book in George Sirois’ series, The Excelsior Journey, a story that will leave you gasping for breath and wanting more.

Put down the pen.
Pick up the sword.
Unleash the hero within.

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Ever Upward (The Excelsior Journey Book 2)
by George Sirois

An ancient foe. A divided planet. And an impossible choice to make.

The evil Nocterar was defeated, and the planet saved. But if Excelsior thinks the worst is over, he has another thing coming–quite literally!

Things aren’t going well on Denab IV. And when it transpires that the link he kept with earth could destroy both planets, even some of Excelsior’s own people start doubting him.

With Hodera on the march leading a deadly new army and an ancient foe rising more powerful than ever, everything both Matthew and Excelsior love is on the brink of destruction.

Denab IV’s savior must make a choice. One that cuts him to the very core of his being.

But time is running out, and Excelsior must hurry if he is to get the chance to throw the dice one more time.

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Skipping Forward
by Bethany Wicker

What if you could skip forward in time, but never back?

Molly Jacobs has always wished for more time in life. But for Molly, time doesn’t work the same as it does for others because she suffers from time skipping. At least, that’s what she calls it.

From the age of seven, Molly discovers her ability to jump into the future. But it doesn’t come without a price. With each time skip, memories of those seconds, minutes, or hours of her life are lost.

Molly never cared until Rhett enters her life. Now, time has meaning, and as they grow closer together, pieces of their time together disappears. Molly needs to learn discipline and control, before she loses the essence of her life.

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