*Wattys 2018 Winner / Hidden Gems* CREATE YOUR OWN MR. RIGHT Weeks before Valentine's, seventeen-year-old Kate Lapuz goes through her first ever breakup, but soon she stumbles upon a mysterious new app called My Dream Boyfriend, an AI chatbot that has the ability to understand human feelings. Casually, she participates in the app's trial run but finds herself immersed in the empathic conversations with her customizable virtual boyfriend, Ecto. In a society both connected and alienated by technology, Kate suspects an actual secret admirer is behind Ecto. Could it be the work of the techie student council president Dion or has Kate really found her soulmate in bits of computer code? She decides to get to the bottom of the cutting-edge app. Her search for Ecto's real identity leads Kate to prom, where absolute knowledge comes with a very steep price.

A campus thriller: suspense, murder & one handsome roommate. ***** When Haley Bell is offered a scholarship to study at the exclusive Woodcreek College, famous for moulding the world's brightest thinkers, politicians and entrepreneurs, she jumps at the opportunity. Except when she arrives, the murders start. In a campus hidden from civilisation in the mountains of Colorado, Haley's classmates are slowly turning up dead. As the bodies pile up and eyes of suspicion turn on her, Haley finds that there's a reason why she was brought to Woodcreek. And it wasn't to study. "That opening line will hook you (I still think about it) & it DOESN'T STOP! I binged this like crazy" - Leah, Sr. Editorial Manager @ HQ [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Ellie Sita

There's nothing you're forced to trust more than your own mind. You're dependent on it, it stores the memories that make up your world. But what if it could be stolen from you? Aspen's world is growing, from the boundaries of her country farm to the edges of the city. Her first year of university. It's supposed to be full of independence and new beginnings, and Aspen's is filled with new friends and the prospect of romance. Until she finds out her best friends are killing people. A YA thriller swimming with mystery, romance, and a seething danger that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Highest rank: #10 in Mystery/Thriller Cover by @supernovass © 2016 AUTHERAS, All rights reserved

After she found her parents dead in their house and her little brother missing, Bliss wants to find the murderer and her little brother. Things get more like whirlwind when she also was told that she was just adopted. Her world is completely shattered with pieces she wanted to connect. With the only piece of evidence of her adoption in her hand,she sets a journey to the other side of the world. She vows to find 3 things which are her true identity, murderer of her non-biological parents and his missing non-biological brother little brother as she figured if all is connected. Along the way, she met Carson Rei who is an orphan in the same place she was adopted by her adoptive parents.

Lindsay Wilson was born different from everybody else. No, she's not a vampire, werewolf, or some super hero. But she can use her whole brain to function. Lindsay knows everything about everything. She has a perfect, photographic memory, and she has mastered every single sport under the sun. She graduated high school when she was seven. Yeah, seven. But now, Lindsay's mom is forcing her back into high school so she can live a normal teenage life. Too bad the only thing that Lindsay can't do is fit in.

Sienna Mast is a tough girl and she always has been. But everybody has their breaking point. Sienna's abusive household becomes too much for her, so she seeks outside help in her uncle that lives across the country. She needs money and he has a lot of it, but she has to earn it. Her uncle promises Sienna money if she can complete the summer at a dance school. Since she's been dancing her whole life, she doesn't think it'll be too hard. However, she starts to rethink her decision when she realizes that her classmates are willing to do anything to beat the competition. With a bubbly roommate, a scary instructor, and a few jealous enemies, Sienna has to make it through the summer for her family's sake. What could possibly go wrong? Buy the paperback edition on Lulu! http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/writerbug44

"It works like the hard drive of a computer, but with infinite storage capacity. This place varies from person to person. It's practically an external hard drive of your brain brought into reality. Think of this place like an infinite storage room filled with the dreams you've had. All of your thoughts, memories, desires, everything. Everything that your mind has ever created, or experienced, is in this place. It doesn't just store in your mind and hide in the trenches or shadows of everyday consciousness. It stores in your Pendulum. You just need to learn how to open the door, Dr. Gram, and I am willing to show you how."

Nearview. A town separated from the world by a large fence. A government system designed and reinforced by an endless Pit that lays out in the fields. The people may do as they so desire as long as it follows one delicate and strictly enforced law: No One Shall Ever Leave Nearview....unless, you want to be thrown into that Pit and fall forever in darkness.

"Three months ago, I was human. One month ago, I died. Today, I can live forever." Evan Mercil is an adolescent who always asked the question, "who am I?" He becomes afraid and spellbound when he finds that his heart stops beating, his skin is becoming pale, monstrous fangs are developing in his mouth that cut the tongue, and above all, he begins to hunger for human blood. Evan soon will discover that he is an adopted child. Upon this discovery, he finds that his human life is nothing more than a mirage of what he really is -- a vampire -- simply, a late bloomer. When Evan runs into his vampire family in Utica, New York, at first, he is in denial of what he is becoming, but his disbelief in the vampire monster only lasts for so long. He realizes that those random outbursts of anger, hunger for blood, and impeccable superhuman capabilities were nothing more but signs of his vampire awakening within. He soon falls in love with the risk taking Essence LaRoux. Upon finding out of Evan's true nature, she decides to help him through this unimaginable transition from human into vampire. Evan's vampire family may seem no different from a loving human family, but not everyone is so welcoming of the his return. Evan's destiny not only awakens his vampire instincts, but also awakens a postponed rivalry within his coven. Evan is the primary target sought to be destroyed because Evan's transformation into vampire holds a much more deeper meaning than he and his family had originally imagined..one in which his own cousin would kill for.

"Give me ten days, and I can give you ten reasons not to die." Evan paused. "And if I can't change your mind by then, you can go jump off that cliff."