When Davy Hamilton's tests come back positive for Homicidal Tendency Syndrome (HTS)—aka the kill gene—she loses everything.

Her boyfriend ditches her, her parents are scared of her, and she can forget about her bright future at Juilliard. Davy doesn't feel any different, but genes don't lie. One day she will kill someone.

Only Sean, a fellow HTS carrier, can relate to her new life. Davy wants to trust him; maybe he's not as dangerous as he seems. Or maybe Davy is just as deadly.

Sang Sorenson used to be the invisible girl in class. As a new student at Ashley Waters High School, Sang hopes that her new friends will be the change she’s been craving and will make fitting in a breeze.

But Academy students aren’t there to take it easy. The high school is overcrowded and rife with violence. When fights begin, Sang will uncover the true reason the boys traded in their private school life for a public one. This year, Sang will no longer be invisible. This year, Sang is a target.

The principal and vice principal are eager to take Sang down, and her own mother is determined to entrap Sang forever in her belief that the safest place to be is in the shadows. Despite this, Nathan, Luke, Kota, North, Silas, Victor, and Gabriel will discover Sang’s unyielding loyalty. And they will sorely need it.

The Academy, supremely influential.

Get this, I'm supposed to be starting a journal about "my journey." Please. I can see it now: Dear Diary, As I'm set adrift on this crazy sea called "life"... I don't think so.

It's been seventy-five days. Amy's sick of her parents suddenly taking an interest in her. And she's really sick of people asking her about Julia. Julia's gone now, and she doesn't want to talk about it. They wouldn't get it, anyway. They wouldn't understand what it feels like to have your best friend ripped away from you. They wouldn't understand what it feels like to know it's your fault.

Amy's shrink thinks it would help to start a diary. Instead, Amy starts writing letters to Julia. But as she writes letter after letter, she begins to realize that the past wasn't as perfect as she thought it was—and the present deserves a chance too.

"You've eaten too much, you fat pig."

When Jessica was thirteen years old, she met the Monkey. The Monkey lived inside her: a driving, fiery voice telling her that thinness was the only way. The only way to be safe, to be good, to be acceptable, and above all, to escape from the cold, looming threat of approaching adulthood. Jessica listened to the Monkey, and it consumed her.

This is the illuminating story of a teenage girl's wanderings in darkness: the spiral down into madness, the terrible realities of an adolescent psychiatric unit, and the stark choice that she must either tame her monster—or die.

Through memory, reflection, and enduring black humour, Jessica makes a tenuous peace with the world and with her emerging adult self.

The Rapture of Canaan takes you on a journey into the lives of the members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind. Here, the community spends their days and nights in the service of the Lord, eagerly awaiting the Rapture—the moment before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will ascend to heaven, leaving the damned to face a thousand years of tribulation on earth.

Grandpa Herman, the founder of Fire and Brimstone, paints a terrifying picture of the tribulation: "We'd run out of food. Big bugs would chase us, stinging us with their tails. We'd turn on the faucet to find blood instead of water. Evil multitudes would come, severing our limbs, and we wouldn't die." Yet, he offers hope: "You can go straight to Heaven with all of God's special children if you'll only open your hearts to Jesus."

Ninah Huff, a 15-year-old girl, bears the weight of this damnation on her mind. To distract herself from sinful thoughts about her prayer partner, James, Ninah places pecan shells in her shoes and nettles in her bed. Despite her efforts, Ninah and James are drawn to each other, leading to tragic and transformative consequences for their community.

The Rapture of Canaan is a tale of miracles and transformations, where even the most stringent beliefs are challenged by the complexities of human emotions and the mysterious ways of the divine.