Shady Woods has morphed into a new thing, same as Grace and Riah. But when a new teacher moves to town with his son, they upend Grace's life with the secrets they represent. As Grace struggles with the change and truth this brings, dendrite girls go missing, one by one. When the new town council disbands the police force instead of letting them investigate, Grace brings her Sentinel brother, Ethan's policeman uncle, and the old town council to...
Does the life change the person or does the person change the life?
On the eve of Marin's birthday, her parents tell her they're getting divorced-or, in a parallel universe, they don't tell her anything at all. This defining moment, along with Marin's subsequent choices, turn her into polar ends of herself and drastically affect the relationships she has with her two best friends, her mom, and soccer player Sam Hanson. The possibilities of '...
Welcome to Shady Woods, where the paranormal hide in plain sight...
A Sentinel force has been created to watch the perimeter of town, to keep interlopers out. Yet when Grace leaves for an evening with a friend, they seem more determined to keep her in.
Ethan's mom, a vampire who left many years ago, shows up out of the blue with a pack of wild vampires to show around town, as if Shady were an example of how the entire world could be.
The...
Welcome to Shady Woods, where the paranormal hide in plain sight...
After a little mishap in the very human city of Chicago, Grace James is forced to move back to her parents' hometown in the middle of nowhere-and right at the start of high school, too.
The very secret and very small town of Shady Woods allows werewolves, vampires, sirens, and dendrites like Grace to live some semblance of a "normal" life, and although it's stifling to a cit...
What does human enhancement technology (HET) and artificial intelligence (AI) have to do with religion? This book explores, specifically, the intersection of HET and AI with spiritual health, Christianity, and ethics. The exploration strengthens an emergent, robust body of publications about human enhancement ethics. What does it mean to make us "better" must also address the potential spiritual implications.
Concern for spiritual health promi...
A fun, easy read for lovers of the paranormal.
At the start of high school, Grace James is forced to move back to her parents' hometown in the middle of nowhere, Northern Wisconsin. Being that she's dendrite, and couldn't keep her powerful thoughts to herself, she set in motion a series of events that ran her family out of the very human city of Chicago. This stifling, small town of Shady Woods exists to allow the above-normals to live some ...
A fun, easy read for lovers of the paranormal.
At the start of high school, Grace James is forced to move to her parents' hometown after she invades the mind of an unsuspecting cashier in their very normal city of Chicago. Shady Woods is a place for "above-normals" to co-exist peacefully, a sort of in-between living wild and normal for the vampires, werewolves, sirens, and dendrites. As Grace grapples with accepting her new home and all its s...
What if you woke up one morning looking as perfect as you'd always hoped you'd be? What if you then went after all the things you were too afraid to chase after before? And what if that made everything go wrong, instead of right?¿Drawn to Hawk and intrigued by his colorful best friend Ivy, Eden thinks maybe she could choose something more than the safe, vanilla life she's always had. Juggling the old and new is more difficult than she imagines...
A fun, easy read for reluctant readers, families, and lovers of the paranormal...Just as Grace accepts Shady Woods as home, the tide in town begins to turn. Maybe pacifism is more of a compromise than the werewolves and vampires are okay with any longer. Maybe the dendrites and sirens should make some more concessions, so the others can live how they were meant to live. After all, that is the whole point of Shady.As the debate heats up about w...
A fun, easy read for reluctant readers, families, and lovers of the paranormal
Just as Grace accepts Shady Woods as home, the tide in town begins to turn. Maybe pacifism is more of a compromise than the werewolves and vampires are okay with any longer. Maybe the dendrites and sirens should make some more concessions, so the others can live how they were meant to live. After all, that is the whole point of Shady.
As the debate heats up about ...
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