Books with author Carter

162 days. That’s how long Lexi needs to survive at her new school. Every year, she starts somewhere else under a new name, hiding in plain sight for as long as she can manage. Her record is 134, but it's senior year now and if she can make it till June, she can disappear into the real world. Maybe a big city, where no one recognizes her and no one knows about her brother and what he did. But this time things are different. This time there’s her new friend, Ryan, who makes her believe that she belongs somewhere. This time there’s Marcus, the boy who looks at her in a way no one has before. This time she’s actually started to miss her older brother, Scott, even though she knows she shouldn’t. Scott was the boy who hung out with her reading comics and riding bikes. The boy who applied Band-Aids to scraped knees and chased away spiders. But he’s also the reason that she’s been in hiding away from the world, and from herself. It’s just 162 days, but for Lexi that's a few days too many. Because it turns out you can't really run away from who you are. Eventually, the truth will always catch up with you.

‘This is a haunting and beautiful novel that explores the urgent issue of sexual violence with depth, empathy and devastating anger. Searingly written, it leaps off the page and grabs you by the throat. A love letter to a generation of women who have been taught that they have no choice but to keep quiet and put up with abuse, its message sings out to survivors everywhere and urges everybody else to start listening.’ Laura Bates, founder of Everyday Sexism"Caleb led me into the party. He’d invited me because he could. He’d kissed me because he could. Just like his dad, Caleb lived in a world of could and we drifted from room to room on the privilege of it.”Ellie Frias disappeared long before she vanished. Tormented throughout middle school, she begins her freshman year with new clothes, new hair, and a plan: she doesn’t need to be popular, she just needs to blend in with the wallpaper. It’s a lonely existence, but at least no one’s tripping her in the halls. In fact, no one notices her at all. Until Caleb Breward, tells her she’s beautiful and makes her believe it.Ellie loves Caleb, but sometimes she doesn’t like him that much - his awkward smile, the possessive way he touches her, the tone he uses, how he ignores her one minute and can't get enough the next. And on one black night, she discovers the monster her boyfriend really is. Ellie wasn’t the first victim, but now, trapped, she has to watch it happen again and again. She tries to hold onto her happier memories in order to get past the cold days, waiting for someone to find her.But no one searches for a girl they never noticed in the first place. ?The Lovely Bones meets Asking For It - this is the searing, heartbreaking story of a lost teenager, and the town she leaves behind.

While participating in a covert mission against the pirate threat in Fairydom, Princess Rebecca is also wrestling with wedding preparations, complicated customs of her soon-to-be in-laws, and arranging to share her wedding day with two of her former suitors and their fiancees. Realizing that the wedding is just the beginning of marriage, she and her fiance work very hard to grow together through it all. They'll probably survive the wedding and coronation--but first they have to survive the battle. The royal fleets are sadly outnumbered. Dare they hope for a victorious outcome?

Elrik Torstal is an aspiring young apprentice alchemist living with his strict father, hoping to someday take over the shop. Always striving to improve his alchemy skills, but frequently failing, he faces challenges that push his resolve to the limits as he and his companions struggle to survive in the wondrous magical medieval realm known as Teril. With fierce monsters, powerful magic, memorable characters, and riveting stories, readers will surely be entertained as they are transported into a fantastic and believable new fantasy world.In Witch's Lair, book one of the Alchemist Chronicles series, Elrik is starstruck by a lovely traveling musician. But a jealous necromancer obsessed with Elrik has plans of her own, stopping at nothing to have him for herself- leading to a surprising and exciting story climax!

The Grimm Brothers are about to lose the only home they've ever known — a rundown apartment above a rowdy pub. If they can't come up with the gold, they'll be thrown to the wolves — literally.When they hear rumors of an artifact that proves the existence of a lost princess, it's decided: they must find this artifact and sell it.But to do so, they'll have to brave the evils that lurk in the woods of the Dark Forest, and survival is no sure thing. Can they find the artifact, or will their necks meet the jaws of the big bad wolves?

Great news for those wary of selling their soul to the Devil. Just take out a loan instead!Darcie Rose is Satan’s top Substitute Soul, tasked with temporarily replacing the eager living souls who sign a deal with the Devil. The exchange is a simple one. They receive a Lucifer-facilitated status boost when they return to their body, and Darcie earns a temporary reprieve from Hell. But there are two rules she must abide by if she wants to stay on Luci’s good side: 1.) Avoid her former life now that she is an accidental murderess. 2.) Never expose proof of a demonic Hell in the presence of humans. Easy as pudding... until now.Something’s glitched, and Darcie’s sent Earth-side without the necessary details of whose body she’s inhabiting. Even Hell can’t compare to coming face-to-face with her former fiancé, and taxidermy animals rising from the dead like a macabre puppet show.Can Darcie regain control of a job quickly spiraling out of control? Or will this slip up get her banished to the torturous bowels of Hell? From Internationally Bestselling author L.B. Carter comes book one in the Loan Soul Series, a dark paranormal fantasy with a sardonic twist!

"Sky Spy" describes the evolution of a new Air Force pilot who has a dream to reach for the stars and become a U-2 pilot. The book describes his zany squadron mates in the C-130 and their travels around the world; then his experiences teaching students to fly high performance jets. He reached his goal and details what it was like to fly the world's most exotic aircraft.

After losing his wife in a tragic car accident, Michael began to fold under pressure. He wasn’t sure how to deal with his emotions, so he began drinking, thinking it was a way to solve his problems and ease his heartache. While making him feel better for the moment, drinking caused him to have a lapse in judgment. No longer being the man Hellen would be proud of, Michael began neglecting, and even beating his children, mostly his oldest son, Matt.He didn’t realize the error of his ways until it was too late. After brutally beating Matt, he couldn’t take it anymore and ran away with his younger siblings. Once Michael realized they were gone, regret began to set in, forcing him to finally work on getting himself together. Michael wants his children back, but even after getting himself together, will the Jacobs family be willing to send them back to him? Or, has Michael’s ways caused him to lose them for good?