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Winner of a YA Dude Books 2024 Reader's Choice Award A 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominee For seventeen-year-old Shaun Treadway, terror and rage are a way of life. Living with the fear that his abusive stepfather will one day kill his mother, Shaun decides to kill him first-by setting fire to his childhood home with his stepfather inside. Fleeing Baltimore to his mother's hometown in West Virginia, he hides out in his family's isolated cabin. Except ...

Winner of a YA Dude Books 2024 Reader's Choice Award A 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominee For seventeen-year-old Shaun Treadway, terror and rage are a way of life. Living with the fear that his abusive stepfather will one day kill his mother, Shaun decides to kill him first-by setting fire to his childhood home with his stepfather inside. Fleeing Baltimore to his mother's hometown in West Virginia, he hides out in his family's isolated cabin. Exce...

The riveting conclusion to Rowan's powerful story explores the power of friendship, love, and the belief in oneself. Rowan Slone is settling into her first semester at college. On her own for the first time, she's enjoying her work at the animal shelter, and she's finally feeling in control of her life.But the past is back. When her old boyfriend texts out of nowhere, Rowan starts to feel that familiar fear that her life is about to be turned ...

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Rowan Slone has left her dysfunctional, violent past behind. College is looming on the horizon, she has a new job that she loves, and a safe place to call home. Rowan is close to achieving everything she's ever wanted-a sense of family, a sense of purpose, and a sense of self. But there are cracks in Rowan's life as relationship issues threaten to send her future crumbling to the ground. When her long-held secret is discovered, Rowan must find...

When the darkness is too great, When the pain is too real, There is nothing but sharp edges, Razor slices, To remind me that I am alive.Seven years ago, an innocent act by Rowan Slone turned her life into a nightmare. Since the age of ten she's lived with the burden of her baby brother's death. Now she is seventeen and all she wants to do is graduate high school, go to college, and escape the loveless family she has endured all these years-the...

Seventeen-year-old Rowan Slone eases the pain of her baby brother's death by cutting. She dreams of escaping her dysfunctional family and going to college. When her long-time crush invites her to Prom, life suddenly begins to look better.

Winner of the IPPY Gold Medal award for Mid-Atlantic - Best Regional FictionBorn and raised on an isolated Appalachian mountain, sixteen-year-old Marli Meade yearns to break free from her father's diabolical church but fears its clutches are so deep she may never escape.When she meets local boy Nate Porter, though, she realizes the life she craves is worth fighting for even with the grave risk that fight would entail.As her two worlds collide,...

On her own for the first time, Rowan Slone is no longer waiting for the future. She's living in the present, and relishing every minute of it. She has a new boyfriend. She is helping best friend, Jess, raise her five-month-old son, Jacob. And she continues to work as Assistant Manager at the animal shelter-all while settling into her first semester of college. Rowan's stars are aligned and she's not looking back.But all is not as golden as it ...

Her father is gone. Her mother is in jail. And Rowan Slone has left her dysfunctional, violent past behind. With college looming on the horizon, she has a new job that she loves, and a safe place to call home. She is close to achieving everything she ever wanted-a sense of family, a sense of purpose, and a sense of self. But there are cracks in Rowan's life that threaten to send her future crumbling to the ground. When her relationship begins ...

Seven years ago, an innocent act by Rowan Slone turned her life into a nightmare. Since the age of ten she's lived with the burden of her baby brother's death. Now she is seventeen and all she wants to do is graduate high school, go to college, and escape the loveless family she has endured all these years-the same family that holds her responsible for his death. But no one holds her responsible more than herself. When long-time crush Mike And...

Winner of the IPPY Gold Medal award for Mid-Atlantic - Best Regional FictionBorn and raised on an isolated Appalachian mountain, sixteen-year-old Marli Meade yearns to break free from her father's diabolical church but fears its clutches are so deep she may never escape.When she meets local boy Nate Porter, though, she realizes the life she craves is worth fighting for even with the grave risk that fight would entail.As her two worlds collide,...