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Free Meeker is een 19-jarige met een opvallende uitstraling: kaal, met een neusring en een tribal tattoo. Ze zit vast in een ongelukkige relatie met een vriendje die haar bedriegt en ontdekt dat ze zwanger is. Op weg naar haar zuster in Oregon, pikt ze een liftster op, maar raakt betrokken bij een fatale kettingbotsing met meer dan 50 auto's. Free weet te ontsnappen, maar de liftster, Lydia Watkins, verbrandt in de explosie. De volgende dag leest Free dat haar naam op de lijst van overledenen staat; haar familie heeft Lydia's lichaam als dat van Free geïdentificeerd. Om te ontsnappen aan haar oude leven, besluit Free dat ze dood is en dat ze Lydia Watkins wil worden, een zwangere weduwe op zoek naar rust. Deze keuze, echter, blijkt voort te komen uit naïef optimisme. April Henry schrijft een thriller over een jonge vrouw die wanhopig probeert te ontsnappen aan haar uitzichtloze situatie, met een eigentijds en tegendraads hoofdpersonage.

When Savannah disappears after arguing with her mom's boyfriend, everyone assumes she ran away. The truth is much worse

The only thing she knows is that she must run! When Cady wakes up, she has no memory of who she is. All she knows is that there is a pillowcase over her head and a person in the room has instructed someone to "take her out back and finish her off". Cady must find a way to save herself. But how can she when she doesn't even know her name? April Henry has written another nail-biting suspense thriller, which explores such themes as murder, memory loss, identity theft and biological warfare. As in her previous novels, her strong female protagonist joins forces with another teenager. Together they race against time to stay alive and save Cady's missing family.

Piper Gray starts a true-crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old cold case in this thrilling YA murder mystery by New York Times bestselling author April Henry

When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.

Alexis, Nick, and Ruby have very different backgrounds: Alexis has spent her life covering for her mom's mental illness, Nick's bravado hides his fear of not being good enough, and Ruby just wants to pursue her eccentric interests in a world that doesn't understand her. When the three teens join Portland County Sheriff's Search and Rescue, they are teamed up to search for a autistic man lost in the woods. What they find instead is a dead body. In a friendship that will be forged in danger, fear and courage, the three team up to find the girl's killer—before he can strike one of their own. This first book in April Henry's Point Last Seen YA mystery series, The Body in the Woods is full of riveting suspense, putting readers right in the middle of harrowing rescues and crime scene investigations. This title has Common Core connections.

Discovering a diamond ring that went missing fifty years earlier, Claire Montrose wonders of the young woman who owned it really committed suicide and encounters an elderly neighbor who is willing to kill in order to keep a secret.

Nineteen-year-old Free Meeker has a shaved head, a nose ring, and a tattoo of Chinese characters around her biceps. She has a career, if you can call it that, as a pet groomer. And she has just learned that she is pregnant, and that her boyfriend is a two-timing bastard. Then a disastrous highway pile-up erroneously adds her name to its list of victims - and hands Free a chance for a new life. In the chaos of the fiery accident, she acquired the identity papers of the hitchhiker who is mistaken for her - plus a gym bag filled with $740,000 in drug money that otherwise would have been burned up. Go, Free, go! Free sets out to transform herself into Lydia, the sweet-faced girl whose identity she has assumed. Raised by aging hippies, Free has always secretly longed to be more "normal," to try shaving her underarms instead of her head. Now she has a chance to make herself over. But Free doesn't know that two men are hot on her trail. One man wants the money back. If he doesn't get it soon, he knows he will end up dead. The other man wants his wife back. He doesn't know the real Lydia died in the accident, on the run from his pathological abuse. Now he is determined to "teach her a lesson" - even if the lesson is fatal. As Free/Lydia settles into a new life full of possibilities, she is completely unaware that it is threatened by resourceful pursuers who are closing in on her.

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a pulse-pounding YA thriller about a girl on a mysterious scavenger hunt that reveals her darkest secret—and puts her life at risk. On her eighteenth birthday, Cleo receives an invitation to a scavenger hunt, initially believing her best friend Hope or her brother Connor is behind it. However, as Cleo and Hope begin the hunt, the locations and clues start to resonate with Cleo's past, particularly her deceased boyfriend Declan, who drowned a year ago during a rafting trip. The clues—a bracelet she gave him, a favorite song, and a group photo taken before his death—lead to unsettling revelations. Soon, Cleo begins receiving phone calls with Declan's voice taunting her with a cryptic question: "You ready?" As the scavenger hunt progresses, it becomes evident that someone knows the truth about Declan's death and is determined to ensure that Cleo and her friends face the consequences. With time running out, they must unravel the mystery before another tragedy strikes.

Cassies Stiefvater Rick ist Psychiater. Drei seiner jugendlichen Patienten nahmen sich unter mysteriösen Umständen das Leben. Kein Zufall, glaubt Cassie, und durchsucht heimlich die Patientenakten. Alle drei Verstorbenen erhielten die Verhaltensdroge Socom - ohne Erlaubnis von Eltern oder Behörden. Doch ehe Cassie Ricks illegale Experimente an eine Journalistin verraten kann, lässt er die Stieftochter in das Erziehungscamp “Peaceful Cove” einweisen. Dort beginnt die Hölle: eiserner Drill, Beruhigungsmittel und ständige Überwachung. Aber Cassies Willen kann niemand brechen. Schnell gewinnt sie eine Verbündete und zusammen planen die Mädchen den Ausbruch ...

Allein in einer Kammer! Gefangen. Überall Dunkelheit. Und ein Unbekannter, den man „Meister“ nennen muss. Gabys junge Kollegin Kayla verschwindet während einer Pizza-Auslieferung spurlos. Gaby findet heraus, dass eigentlich sie es ist, die gekidnappt werden sollte! Schuldgefühle und Angst machen sich in ihr breit und sie versucht alles, um Kayla zu finden. Die Zeit läuft, denn auch Kayla weiß: Sie ist das falsche Mädchen.