School Thrillers

Madeline Dare has traded in the drudgery of life in backwoods Syracuse, New York, for work as a teacher at Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for emotionally disturbed teenagers in the Berkshires. Behind the ornate gates of the academy, she finds a disturbing realm where students and teachers must follow the dean's bizarre therapies.

A satire of teenage life follows cynical soon-to-graduate Flannery Culp on a raucous journey through high school in the 1990s, covering SATs, college applications, friends, boyfriends, tabloid journalism, and TV talk shows. A first novel.

With his Broadway dreams derailed after a car accident leaves him visibly scarred and plagued with panic attacks, 17-year-old Erik Patko is forced to transfer to a private school in New Jersey where the only bright spot is reuniting with his childhood sweetheart. Trying to bolster his confidence, the effusive Evie convinces him to audition for the drama club production of The Russian Princess. He lands the lead, but with Evie haunted by her past and a stalker on the loose, Erik has several mysteries to solve before the curtain falls on opening night.

Class would be different this semester. Clara was going to be sure of that. Her new life at Crossedlake made her feel happier and more at home than anywhere else, regardless of the tragedies that had happened. Although she felt strange after her encounter with the god of another realm, she still felt confident and ready for anything. Her confidence was knocked down a peg when she was thrust into the path of death on her first day of school, barely surviving thanks to a strange creature she promptly forgot about when she returned to the real world. Choosing necromancy as your specialization ...

Alexis has always been able to rely on two things: her best friends, and the magic powers they all share. Their secret is what brought them together, and their love for each other is unshakeable - even when that love is complicated. Complicated by problems like jealousy, or insecurity, or lust. Or love. That unshakeable, complicated love is one of the only things that doesn't change on prom night. When accidental magic goes sideways and a boy winds up dead, Alexis and her friends come together to try to right a terrible wrong.

"TRUE BLOOD and TWILIGHT, anyone?" 🔥 Step Into the Enchanting World of BLOOD CROWN, the Captivating 8th Installment in The Blood Series—From New York Times, USA TODAY, and Amazon Top-100 Bestseller Tamara Rose Blodgett! 🔥 What Readers are Saying: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Guaranteed great read!" ~ Eric Thornton ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Couldn't put it down—gripping from start to finish!" 💔 A Saga of Intrigue, Survival, and Destiny: Julia Caldwell and Scott face their greatest challenge yet as they venture into the sinister Below to destroy the demon spore and confront the Dark Master. With ...

Book Two (Reluctant Deception), and Book Three (Perilous Defiance), are Now Available! In the realm of fantasy, where imagination knows no bounds, there lies a time travel romance series that promises to captivate readers and transport them to a world brimming with magic, adventure, and intrigue. Built upon the meticulous world-building established in the million-selling The Wardstone Trilogy and featuring new, well-developed characters, the Devious Arcana series invites readers on an epic journey where heroism is tested, destinies unfold, and the boundaries between good and evil are ...

*Winner 2024 International Impact Books Award - Mystery/ Thriller category * Second place winner of the International Firebird Book award * Literary Titan 5 stars review: "The Weight of Rage, by Ruben Elustondo, delves into the tumultuous life of high school cheerleading, friendship, and hidden vendettas. Set against a backdrop of competitive teenage sports, it explores the unraveling of relationships and the lengths to which people go to protect their desires. Lucia Romero, the new girl who threatens the established social hierarchy, soon becomes entangled in a web of jealousy, ...

When Raine finds a hidden message in some old yearbooks that can't be ignored, she finds herself racing to solve a deadly puzzle before everyone at her school dies.

A Prequel to "The Impelled Series": Sixteen year old Emma Walker’s world revolves around one thing: horses. When Emma isn’t navigating her junior year of high school with her two best friends at her side, she is riding or working her horses board off at the barn. There is one thing that taints a perfect day at the barn though – the barn owners son, Luke, and his posse of infuriating friends. To make matters worse, Luke attends her high school and is friends with Emma’s former friend, and now sworn rival, Jaclyn Alcott. As if juggling horses and high school isn’t hard enough, ...

I only thought having the CIA watch my every move was hard. But that was until I met him. Sander Soto. Arrogant. Sarcastic. Ruthless. And possibly the hottest guy I have ever met. All my friends want to date him, I want to kill him, and my boyfriend... well, he wants to be friends with him. Things aren't going as planned anymore. But at least he's keeping me safe. Especially when I'm not sure who I can trust anymore. East Raven Academy just got a whole lot more interesting. This is book 2 of 4 in the East Raven Academy Series. It is a full length, 65k+ word novel. It is a slow burn, fast ...

When single mum Lola Martinez's son, Luca, starts school, she feels that she'll never fit in with the yummy mummies in the playground. Confident, married to wealthy men, with ample free time, they are everything she isn't. However, Lola is invited into the inner circle, surrounded by seemingly friendly people, even if Lola's silence about her child's father puzzles them. Despite herself, Lola quickly becomes involved in playground politics, making as many enemies as friends. But then Lola is brutally murdered, her death rocking the close-knit community.

In a few short terms since joining the exclusive Cimmeria Academy, Allie Sheridan has been kidnapped, fallen in love - twice, and become a pawn in an international power struggle. After months on the run, Allie returns to find the school in turmoil. The atmosphere is thick with danger. Overshadowing it all is Nathaniel. He is close - very close - to getting everything he wants. A secret civil war is tearing the British political elite apart. And Allie’s family is in the thick of it. Both sides want her.

Severe storms, heatwaves and floods are sweeping across planet Earth. Against this backdrop, three high school students, known and tormented for their strange abilities, fight their own battles against school bullies. The discovery of a strange key plunges all three through a portal into a sister world, Cathora, in another dimension. In this world their behaviours, that labelled them as misfits on Earth, turn out to be the seeds of extraordinary powers. They soon meet Batarr, the Guardian of the portal; he tells them they are not normal children but are part of a group of six entities ...

Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson finally have a chance to start over. With all the freedom their precollege summer program provides and no one on their tail, the only mystery they need to solve, once and for all, is what they are to each other. But upon their arrival at Oxford, Charlotte is immediately drawn into a new case: a series of accidents befell the theater program at Oxford last year, culminating in a young woman going missing on the night of a major performance.

I did the impossible. I hacked Spy School. Except it was a complete accident. When Spy School shows up at my doorstep, I know I’m in trouble. Then they kidnap me for my ‘safety.’ I’m just a seventeen-year-old girl with blue hair. How did I end up here? This is a 50k word novella. It is a completed story with a happy ending. Hacked is a stand-alone story, though it’s set in a world with many other books. It is a slow burn, fast paced, action packed, clean, YA, mystery, spy romance. *This work was previously published with a different cover. It has been reedited, and revamped. I ...

They all thought they did a masterful job of keeping their secrets close to their chest. These stupid fools thought they were the high court of this kingdom, but they had no clue who was really pulling the strings. You might wonder to yourself, who would be that heartless to make them backstab their friends, expose other's secrets, and lose their morals? You don’t need to know who I am, but you better remember my name, The Marked Queen. Danielle, Andrew, Delilah, Aman, and Jasmine all are now faced with a mysterious villain whose one goal is to ruin each of their lives. They must protect ...

Some shadows are hard to shake. And someone has a mean sense of humor. And that person is springing nasty pranks around town. Who and why? And, more importantly, how can Keely Turner and Burke Sloan, the newest sheriff's deputy, stop the malicious prankster before someone gets hurt badly?

The Florida State reform school, notorious for its abuses, is now in the headlines for more than just abusing its guests. Bodies are being discovered and the deaths are referred to as being the most brutal killings of the century. This is mainly because the boys were young and some innocent. Not everyone that stayed at the Dozier school was guilty of a crime but rather simply had nowhere else to go.

Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and 11 of his young charges have been held underground at the group's highly fortified compound for 46 days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets out to discover everything she can about the cult's iron-willed leader, Samuel Mordecai.