Fidellia: A warrior who's spent her life honing the art of the sword, set out on the quest to find the Holy Gem and restore the world to its greatness, and prevent it from dying. Virnesse: A brutal fighter who doesn't believe in all this holiest of gems garbage and wants to go to this journey to snag the cash off of a delusional old man. Their mission? Simple. Locate the Holy Gem and use it to save the world before it ends. What it means: Travel to a place where the legend of saving the world comes from, and somehow save the world. It's vague. The existence of the Holy Gem comes from a folklore, a children's fairytale, even. Then again, the existence of powers should be something out of a fairytale, yet it exists all the same. The problem: Besides Virnesse and Fidellia hating each other's guts due to the difference in beliefs-or rather, Fidellia's intense beliefs and Virnesse's lack of one? A tribe that's set out to find the Holy Gem, who have an agenda that ties them in with Fidellia and Virnesse's journey.

Meet Emma: a 16-year old girl traveling the world alone in order to flee from a traumatic past that she doesn't dare to face. Then meet Brandon: an 18-year old boy who has never once left his home of the city of Amsterdam. After a horrible incident, he now faces the heavy pressures of society as he walks down the road of atonement. And so when Emma and Brandon's paths cross in the city of Amsterdam, they relish in the benefit of being strangers. As curiosity draws the two together, they both decide to hide their past identities and pretend to be someone they are not, in hopes to convince not only each other but themselves as well. However, as their relationship thickens, Emma soon realizes that Brandon is falling in love with a different version of herself, a version she had lied about. What's worse, is that she is falling in love, too. Now, she must make a decision: should she continue on her journey around the world? Or stay in Amsterdam and finally face her fears? A story of love, loss, and self-discovery, I Amsterdam expresses the importance of accepting your past and embracing your future, and explores the lasting impact of finding another after you have lost yourself. Rankings: 7/18/20 - #2 in Amsterdam 7/21/20 - #4 in Sunrise 7/21/20 - #8 in wilderness Excerpt: "This is it, my brain kept scolding me. You've hit rock bottom and there's no way out. You're lying to your lover. He thinks he knows you, but honestly, he doesn't know the first thing about you. He has no idea where you've been, where you'll go, or who you even are. "

When is the time to stop? When is the time to draw the line and let go? At what point does pain become anger and how far are you ready to go to let that anger out? What line does the innocent have to cross to become the villain? After spending 5 years away, Winter Van Doren comes home, to her adoptive family. The moment she steps into the house, everything turns upside down. The story follows Winter as she tries to set her life back on track, whilst dealing with her traumatic past, agonizing present and highly uncertain future. Her life was never simple and the choices she has to make won't make it any simpler now. "The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish." Friedrich Nietzsche

Taking down an unmasking villain probably wasn't what most teenage siblings did in their spare time. But Noah and Madeline 'Maddy' Torrez were a super and his sister- each enthusiastic about sleuthing for their own reasons. But the clues all pointed to the Unmasker being Inferno, a mysterious fire-wielding supervillain. A supervillain who just could've been Noah's crush at school. They had no plans, per se. Just a few harebrained schemes, endless enthusiasm, and one ominous, rhyming note. Would the siblings stop the Unmasker before the supers of Phaonix City were gone? WARNING:- SIBLING-ROASTING, INTENSE HUMOR, AND MANY IDIOTS INVOLVED. #TheSparklingAwards