Unhappenings (64 page)

Prolongment, by Grace Eyre
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http://j.mp/1gL6XgS
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To fund their controversial research, B&E Labs patented a medical process called “Prolongment”, in which very old, wealthy clients can extend their consciousness past death.

Prolongment works by mapping a client’s consciousness and throwing it forward in time. To an outsider, these projections look and behave exactly like ghosts. Now the whole city is terrified by spirits with personal agendas and no moral code left to live by.

Fifteen, by Jen Estes
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http://bit.ly/S83NeM
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Ashling Campbell is her generation’s dreamwalker, which means instead of getting beauty sleep, her nights are spent astral-projecting fifteen years into the future. She meets her fiancé, hangs out with her grown-up friends, and witnesses her own execution at the hands of a throng of bloodthirsty demons. It’s “13 Going on 30” meets “Buffy”.

The Mussorgsky Riddle, by Darin Kennedy
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http://bit.ly/1uLF3GB
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The Mussorgsky Riddle is Alice in Wonderland meets Law and Order. Called in to awaken an autistic boy left catatonic after witnessing a grisly murder, psychic Mira Tejedor is pulled into young Anthony’s mind and discovers the cause of his strange malady. The crime has left his fragile psyche shattered into the various movements of composer Modest Mussorgsky’s classical music suite, Pictures at an Exhibition. Mira must help heal the boy’s fractured mind and unmask the murderer before the killer can discover the secrets hidden in the boys mind and silence both of them forever.

Catch Me When I Fall, by Vicki Leigh
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http://j.mp/YDIKEN
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Seventeen-year-old Daniel Graham has spent two-hundred years guarding humans from the Nightmares that feed off people’s fears. Then he’s given an assignment to watch over sixteen-year-old Kayla Bartlett, a patient in a psychiatric ward. When the Nightmares take an unprecedented interest in her, a vicious attack forces Daniel to whisk her away to Rome where others like him can keep her safe. But when the Protectors are betrayed and Kayla is kidnapped, Daniel will risk everything to save her—even his immortality.

The Undead: Playing for Keeps, by Elsie Elmore
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http://bit.ly/1jO8mBo
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Reviving her loser reputation takes the back seat when corpses start stalking Lyla Grimm. But her newfound ability to revive the dead doesn’t just kill her social status, it draws the Grim Reaper.

Disguised as a teen with mad guitar skills named Eric, the grim reaper sets his sights on claiming Lyla’s gift. If he can control her ability, he can free himself from his death–messenger-destiny.

But what they need from each other comes at a cost. She must choose between saving the brother she idolizes and freeing the Grim Reaper who’s stealing her heart. For Eric, he can only win by losing what he holds most dear.

Zhukov's Dogs, by Amanda Cyr
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http://bit.ly/1mkFKHc
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Prodigy agent Nik Zhukov is sent on a mission to the underground city of Seattle, where he infiltrates a group of young revolutionaries and accidentally allows himself to feel like a normal teenager, a dangerous mistake which forces him to question where his loyalties truly lie when the all-powerful Council hands down an unthinkable order