Born under the influence of the rare blink of a star, Donya Monroe has been cursed with powers beyond anything anyone could ever imagine. With the worlds of both Good and Evil afraid of tipping the cosmic scale, she has been the ultimate target since birth. On the run, and with her little brother in tow, she seeks out the Charmed Ones, hoping they'll be able to strip her of her magic for good.

"Would it all be worth it if she 'saves the world?'" What would you do if you woke-up one day in an unfamiliar world? What if you kept stumbling - Would you pick yourself back up? Having already lived a childhood bouncing from home to home in Brooklyn, our reluctant heroine - Amelia La Graine - has her life turned upside down and inside-out when she travels back in time to the era of the American Industrial Revolution (circa 1820). There, she must discover why she was sent back and what she must do to go home. Will one woman, stuck in the past, change the future of a young and budding country? The first book in the "Combustion" trilogy weaves a tangled tale of heroism, deceit, danger, and manipulation - all while Amelia tries finding herself in an epoch that was never meant to be hers. Combustion: The Spark

**Wattys 2016 Winner!** Fifteen-year-old Emmeline Jefferson doesn't have time away from the Demons. Not a minute to say goodbye to her family, not a moment to wonder "Why me?" Every second she's not possessed is spent begging stranger after stranger for help. But no one believes a sporadic girl who claims Demons have spent more time in her body than she has. No one until she finds Dumaine. Dumaine Chartres's whole life fits in his accordion case, his friends are nonexistent, and this fascinating girl is telling him Demons exist. These things all make perfect sense. What he doesn't understand is why humans have such outrageous issues with murder. Death is natural. If he wasn't supposed to kill anyone, they wouldn't have died. Nobody even noticed the bodies anyway. In return for a break from his internal demons, Dumaine offers Emmeline help, and she's willing to receive it from anyone. Maybe this boy can finally be the keeper she needs. Maybe chasing these Demons can explain why he's so different from everyone else. Maybe this friendship can work. With a wise but demented old man, and enough determination to perturb the Demons, Emmeline and Dumaine concoct a plan to unriddle their lives. The first step is to confront the Demon's creator. But something else seems to have found the creator first. And it only looks like an Angel. Human Spines is part one of a YA dark Urban Fantasy written in a style similar to Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me and Elana Johnson's Possession. It's the first of a series and told from the viewpoints of Emmeline, Dumaine, and their rambling but wise navigator, Hans. Through a diverse cast, it explores themes of learned distrust, fear of the unknown, and the battle against the evil inside us all, in a way similar to a Studio Ghibli film. Cover by ecclesia-

A young man and his mother move halfway across the country to escape his abusive step-father. With his mother's new dream-job at a tech firm, their new life together is off to a great start... But they soon learn that dreams are often too good to be true. Isolated in a new town with no one to trust, they must dig up the past to escape the far-reaching grasp of the hand that feeds them. #Wattys2016 #Writing-Contest

The year is 2188. Radiation from WW3 has driven humanity off the Earth to an alien planet called Novam. After 130 years of growing on this new planet, things are reasonably back to normal. With the governments combined making a super country, war is unheard of. Earth is now just a tale told in whispers to children by their elders. Life is peaceful... until, driven by curiosity, 6 teens break into a government facility and find the location of Earth. Together they steal supplies and a ship. Will Earth be nothing but a barren wasteland with nothing but the echo of past life? Or will the teens find those who were Left Behind?