Books with author Melissa Marr

Have you ever blown up at your best friend or sibling? Maybe you were just so angry, but you didn't really know why. The answer is in the science of rage! Whether you keep your anger bottled up or sometimes lash out with or without meaning to, middle school is a time when you get ALL. THE. FEELS. But next time you or your friends get mad, you'll understand what's really going on in your brains. Plus, you'll learn tips to decode aggressive body language and how to listen when your anger is telling you something is wrong. Find out what's happening in your body and how anger can actually be useful. But keep your head! Mental health is still important, so when rage and aggressive feelings have crossed the line, you'll also learn when it's time to reach out for help.

Brother and sister Michael and Olivia Brooke haven't lived in their new house long before strange things start happening. First an amber-eyed wolf attacks Michael in the woods behind the house. Then the children's mother vanishes, the only clue an ominous message left drying on a wall. Michael and Olivia soon discover that the new house also comes with a previous occupant—the ghost of a young girl named Suzy Walters. Suzy leads the two children to the In-Between, a dimension that lies between the living earth and the underworld. Signs suggest their mother’s abductor took her there. But the In-Between is dying and the Brooke family is somehow connected; to unravel the mystery and save their mother, the children must first aid the denizens of the realm. A mixture of fantasy and horror similar in tone to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, Lie with the Wolves introduces readers to a world that’s only a hairsbreadth away from our own.

The Phoenix Elite~ They'll leave you breathless...literally.Elora Rae Gannon believes her life is over. On her sixteenth birthday she receives news that she is a mythical monster of hellish proportions and if that's not bad enough, she receives this information in the form of a letter from her dead mother who also informs her that she must become part of an elite secret society of others like herself or die. Sucky birthday, huh? And just when she thinks she's got it all figured out, her new-found family in the Elite forces her to break ties with her human BFF shortly before her BFF just up and vanishes. With her world in utter upheaval, Elora makes the move to a new school- Marlind Prep, with full intentions of finding out exactly what is going on behind the scenes and why her best friend has vanished- all while trying to figure out how to successfully make out with her boyfriend without sucking the very life out of him!

The Summer King is missing; the Dark Court is bleeding; and a stranger walks the streets of Huntsdale, his presence signifying the deaths of powerful fey. Aislinn tends to the Summer Court, searching for her absent king and yearning for Seth. Torn between his new queen and his old love, Keenan works from afar to strengthen his court against the coming war. Donia longs for fiery passion even as she coolly readies the Winter Court for battle. And Seth, sworn brother of the Dark King and heir to the High Queen, is about to make a mistake that could cost his life. Love, despair, and betrayal ignite the Faery Courts, and in the final conflict, some will win . . . and some will lose everything. The thrilling conclusion to Melissa Marr's New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series will leave readers breathless.

Phoenix, Elora Gannon is on the brink of her seventeenth birthday and life renewal with no solution in sight- she must kill to live. With her heart wrenching and no obvious alternative, she chooses to side with ancient Ruhk, Isaac for answers. But will siding with the enemy ultimately be her death as an impending war brews between the blood-born Ruhk and those of abhorrent creation? Driven by the desire to be normal and to change the lives of those she's wronged, Elora delves into a primitive side of herself she never knew existed, hell bent on taking those who would harm her loved ones down with her once and for all.