All Your Twisted Secrets

All Your Twisted Secrets
Author: Diana Urban
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062908235

A thrilling debut, reminiscent of new fan favorites like One of Us Is Lying and the beloved classics by Agatha Christie, that will leave readers guessing until the explosive ending. “Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting.” What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it’s a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill...or else everyone dies. Amber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive, but that might be easier said than done. No one knows how they’re all connected or who would want them dead. As they retrace the events over the past year that might have triggered their captor’s ultimatum, it becomes clear that everyone is hiding something. And with the clock ticking down, confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into panic as they race to answer the biggest question: Who will they choose to die?

Twisted Secrets

Twisted Secrets
Author: Katee Robert
Publisher: Forever
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1455590533

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert continues her smoking-hot series about the O'Malleys-wealthy, powerful, and full of scandalous family secrets. Greed. Ambition. Violence. Those are the "values" Olivia Rashidi learned from her Russian mob family-and the values she must leave behind for the sake of her daughter. When she meets Cillian O'Malley, she recognizes the red flag of his family name . . . yet she still can't stop herself from seeing the smoldering, tortured man. To save her family, Olivia sets out to discover Cillian's own secrets, but the real revelation is how fast-and how hard-she's falling for him. Plagued by a violent past, Cillian is more vulnerable than anyone realizes. Anyone except Olivia, whose beauty, compassion, and pride have him at "hello," even if she's more inclined to say good-bye to an O'Malley. While his proposal of sex with no strings seems simple, what he feels for her isn't, especially after he learns that she belongs to a rival crime family. Cillian knows that there is no escape from the life, but Olivia may be worth trying-and dying-for . . .

These Deadly Games

These Deadly Games
Author: Diana Urban
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250797209

"A propulsive mystery with high stakes and devious, masterful twists that will leave you guessing until the very last page. Diana Urban's latest had my jaw on the floor." —Jessica Goodman, bestselling author of They Wish They Were Us Let’s play a game. You have 24 hours to win. If you break my rules, she dies. If you call the police, she dies. If you tell your parents or anyone else, she dies. Are you ready? When Crystal Donavan gets a message on a mysterious app with a picture of her little sister gagged and bound, she agrees to play the kidnapper’s game. At first, they make her complete bizarre tasks: steal a test and stuff it in a locker, bake brownies, make a prank call. But then Crystal realizes that each task is meant to hurt—and kill—her friends, one by one. But if she refuses to play, the kidnapper will kill her sister. Is someone trying to take her team out of the running for a gaming tournament? Or have they uncovered a secret from their past, and wants them to pay for what they did... Author of All Your Twisted Secrets, Diana Urban’s explosive sophomore novel, These Deadly Games, is a must-read, propulsive YA thriller with deadly stakes, stunning twists, and a shocking ending you'll never forget—perfect for fans of I Know What You Did Last Summer and One of Us Is Lying.

Tortured Artists

Tortured Artists
Author: Christopher Zara
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-02-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1440532117

Great art comes from great pain. Or that's the impression left by these haunting profiles. Pieced together, they form a revealing mosaic of the creative mind. It's like viewing an exhibit from the therapist's couch as each entry delves into the mental anguish that afflicts the artist and affects their art. The scope of the artists covered is as varied as their afflictions. Inside, you will find not just the creators of the darkest of dark literature, music, and art. While it does reveal what everyday problem kept Poe's pen to paper and the childhood catastrophe that kept Picasso on edge, it also uncovers surprising secrets of more unexpectedly tormented artists. From Charles Schultz's unrequited love to J.K. Rowling's fear of death, it's amazing the deep-seeded troubles that lie just beneath the surface of our favorite art. As much an appreciation of artistic genius as an accessible study of the creative psyche, Tortured Artists illustrates the fact that inner turmoil fuels the finest work.

Be Not Far from Me

Be Not Far from Me
Author: Mindy McGinnis
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062561642

Hatchet meets Wild in this harrowing YA survival story about a teenage girl’s attempt to endure the impossible, from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Female of the Species, Mindy McGinnis. The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhead than a roof. So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with her friends for a night of partying, the falling dark and creaking trees are second nature to her. But people are not tame either. And when Ashley catches her boyfriend with another girl, drunken rage sends her running into the night, stopped only by a nasty fall into a ravine. Morning brings the realization that she’s alone—and far off trail. Lost in undisturbed forest and with nothing but the clothes on her back, Ashley must figure out how to survive with the red streak of infection creeping up her leg.

Twisted Secrets

Twisted Secrets
Author: Karen Stokes
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468580841

Death greeted Kelli when she moved to a small town. A murdered loved one left her a trail of secret clues leading to who she was certain was the killer. Unable to convince the authorities she was forced into betrayal and loss. She was pursued relentlessly by what appeared to be pranks until they turned deadly. A surprise proves her wrong and places her in eminent danger.

Twisted Secrets

Twisted Secrets
Author: Donna Zadunajsky
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2017-05-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781541108097

Craven Falls, Ohio, is a small town with twenty-eight hundred residents-a town where everyone knows almost everyone else and where nothing ever happens, until one day two children disappear. Ashley Teodora spends her days juggling work, school, and her five-year-old daughter, Lily. She receives a phone call from her best friend, Carla Michaels, requiring her to go to Illinois to help Carla who is going through a tough time in her life. When Ashley returns home, she receives horrifying news that turns her world upside down; her precious Lily has been abducted! Reece Garran is released from prison after a five-year sentence. His primary goal is to find the woman whose memory kept him alive all those years while behind bars. This woman had captured his heart and wouldn't let go. When the transport bus pulls into the town of Craven Falls, Reece thinks it's just another small ordinary town until he finds a reason to stay. Catherine Teodora, Ashley's mother, loves crocheting, baking, gardening, and spending time with her granddaughter, Lily. On a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon, Catherine's world is torn to pieces. All she did was look away for a split-second, and Lily was gone! A family pulls together in a time of need, but what happens when those that are close to you are hiding behind twisted secrets? Will they stand by one another and find Lily? Or will the secrets tear this family apart?

Pretty Little Liars #9: Twisted

Pretty Little Liars #9: Twisted
Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062081039

#1 New York Times bestselling series The ninth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars. It's been a year since the mystery of their former friend's disappearance was finally laid to rest, and Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily have worked hard to put their lives back together. Now seniors in high school, the pretty little liars are older, but they're not any wiser. Last spring break in Jamaica, they did something unforgivable. The girls are desperate to forget that fateful night, but they should know by now that all secrets eventually wash ashore. Full of unexpected twists and shocking revelations, Twisted is the ninth book in New York Times bestselling author Sara Shepard’s compelling Pretty Little Liars series.

Twisted Secrets

Twisted Secrets
Author: Ace Gray
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-07-21
Genre: Man-woman relationships
ISBN: 9781723548048

My whole life, there had only been one rule. Don't go to Chicago. It always made me feel like a damsel in distress, trapped in a tower. But my life was filled with kings and queens and the most noble knights and I didn't need another fairytale. I needed a bad boy. Brye McCowan was just that. He was smooth, and seductive. Dark, dangerous and downright drool worthy too. I saw trouble swirling around him in place of a shadow. He was my one rule personified. And I couldn't stop myself from kissing him. Which was right about the time that whole fairytale thing kicked back in. Only this time I wasn't surrounded by heroes. These were the villains, wicked and vengeful. And Brye was one of them. When all was said and done, when all the blood was spilled, the only thing more tormenting than the dungeon he threw me in was knowing it was my family's twisted secrets that put me there.