Books with author Joey Paul

Prepare for the first in the Lights Out trilogyEver since the war ended, the United English Cityships have had equality. The rules are clear. You are born, you live and the day following your sixtieth birthday, you are sent off for your final sleep. Lock is a firm believer in the system. It means that everyone is truly treated equally. It’s only when she checks in an attendee who claims to be younger than her chip says that Lock starts to realise there may be someone gaming the system.The problem is the corruption goes higher than Lock could even begin to imagine. As her belief in the world she lives in starts to crumble, Lock finds herself wanting justice for those who have gone before their time.Can she do it? Or will they silence her before she can get the word out?

The Lights Out trilogy continues....Lock and Clara managed to escape, now they must rush to cross the border and connect with the only people who can save them. With Lana’s betrayal still fresh in Lock’s mind, they have to leave their cityship and submerge themselves into another.With the heat on, the army after them and Lana ready to avenge her loss, Lock and Clara are taking new steps towards the war that could end their world. But they are not alone. Hayley Lightson, the one attendee to escape her early demise, has her own plans in Evendown. The United English Cityships has a peace treaty. The King demands it stands, and Lana is working with him to ensure that no war is declared. She will stop at nothing to win.Can Lock join the protesters in Evendown and bring an end to the tyranny? Or will they be caught and silenced?

Join Tara in the seventh Dying Thoughts book!Tara will have the house to herself while her Dad goes on his comeback tour. She has plenty of ideas about what to do with the time. Parties, college work and all the bits and pieces that come from being a student who also works for the police.It’s only when an accident almost kills Colin that Tara’s life is turned upside down and she is pulled from college to sit by her father’s bedside. Away from home, from her friends, from her life, she has to somehow piece together what really happened on that tour bus and she has to do it with only her gift and a little help from Kaolin.Only, someone is determined that Colin won't survive his injuries, and if they have to take Tara out in the process, that’s a price they’re willing to pay.Can Tara solve the puzzle before they catch up with her?

Tara has the ability to see the last moments of someone's life when she touches something that used to belong to them. It's a secret she shares with no one, not even her father.Until Kaolin comes along. Tara has always been a loner, but with the prospect of friendship, she finds herself pulled into Kaolin's own secret.The question is, will they both survive when their secrets start to come out?

It’s the year 2050 and it’s possible for people to literally walk a mile in someone else's shoes. Enter Hetti, eighteen, and fresh out of training college, joining the police force alongside her best friend Layla. She’s excited about finally getting to do some practical work after spending so long talking about it in college.Except her first cases are throwing up a few confusing signs. Is it possible that someone is using the Walk A Mile software to kill? And if they are, can Hetti find them before they find her?

The LGBTQ rainbow covers people from all walks of life. Catherine and her friends all have to struggle for acceptance in their own lives. Parents, friends, teachers, pretty much everyone seems to have their opinion on how they should live.The only people who don’t tell them what they should do are each other and the people inside the LGBTQ community.So when people from that community start getting attacked and then murdered, Catherine feels she has to do something to stop it.Dealing with her own issues with her religious parents is tough enough, but what do you do when who you are is the reason someone wants you dead?

Join Tara in the sixth Dying Thoughts book!Tara’s life is full of change. Her education, her friends, even her dad has changed. She’s struggling to find her feet after the events of the last few months. She’s at college, her Dad’s a pop star again and she’s finally coming to terms with her gift. Except it won’t help her when she needs it most.Her new friends are being attacked, someone is targeting young women and Tara is going to find them out and stop them.Now, if only her gift would listen to her then she’d be set.

Join Tara in the fifth Dying Thoughts bookTara has an admirer, someone who thinks the world revolves around her. The problem is, they won’t reveal their identity and the notes they’re sending her are getting weirder and creepier.Then there’s the fact that she thinks she’s being watched. And the notes seem to be coming from someone she knows. Now she’s getting scared.Can she find out who they are before their behaviour escalates and Tara pays the price?

Angelina and Zack couldn’t be anymore different; one lives in apparent riches and the other in poverty. They meet online and a friendship blooms, but then things in Angelina’s life take a turn for the worst and she finds herself turning to the only person she thinks loves her – Zack.With everything against them, can Zack and Angelina cross the distance to change her life before it's too late? Or will Zack have to watch from afar as Angelina continues to suffer?

Harriet has a complicated life. She cares for her chronically ill Mum, while trying to juggle school and a social life. She’s tired, overworked and underpaid.Yet, one day she sees what she thinks is a ghost, but ghosts don’t exist do they? And they especially don’t help you travel in time, right?Now Harriet has a murder to solve, all the while trying to make sure no one finds out about the secret behind that stone in her back garden.