Books with author Meredith Tax

If I Stay meets One of Us is Lying in this gripping contemporary thriller.When band-geek Ivy and her friends get together, things start with a rousing board game and end with arguments about Star Wars. Her older sister Autumn is a different story. Enigmatic, aloof, and tough as nails, Autumn hasn't had real friends--or trusted anyone--in years. Even Ivy. But Autumn might not be tough enough. After a drug deal gone wrong, Autumn is beaten, bound, and held hostage. Now, trapped between life and death, she leaves her body, seeking help. No one can sense her presence--except her sister. When Autumn doesn't come home, Ivy just knows she's in trouble. Unable to escape the chilling feeling that something isn't right, Ivy follows a string of clues that bring her closer to rescuing her sister... and closer to danger.Autumn needs Ivy to find her before time runs out. But soon, both sisters realize that finding her also means untangling the secrets that lead to the truth--about where they're hiding Autumn, and what Autumn has been hiding.

If I Stay meets One of Us is Lying in this gripping contemporary thriller.When band-geek Ivy and her friends get together, things start with a rousing board game and end with arguments about Star Wars. Her older sister Autumn is a different story. Enigmatic, aloof, and tough as nails, Autumn hasn't had real friends--or trusted anyone--in years. Even Ivy. But Autumn might not be tough enough. After a drug deal gone wrong, Autumn is beaten, bound, and held hostage. Now, trapped between life and death, she leaves her body, seeking help. No one can sense her presence--except her sister. When Autumn doesn't come home, Ivy just knows she's in trouble. Unable to escape the chilling feeling that something isn't right, Ivy follows a string of clues that bring her closer to rescuing her sister... and closer to danger.Autumn needs Ivy to find her before time runs out. But soon, both sisters realize that finding her also means untangling the secrets that lead to the truth--about where they're hiding Autumn, and what Autumn has been hiding.

He bet on logic. She bet on love. Romance author Seven Michaels believes in love to her very core. She has to—not only for herself, but for her readers. So when luxury salesman Blake Turner insults not only her books but the people who read them, Seven’s ready to throw down. How dare a playboy like Blake insinuate romance lovers are full of crap? He wants proof? Fine. She bets Blake she can make him fall for her by using the rules in her latest novel before the end of the convention, or she’ll denounce love in front of all her fellow authors and fans at the Romance Lovers Convention ball. A dangerous game to be sure, but humiliating Blake is worth the risk. But when Seven realizes she’s the one who’s being seduced, she’s no longer sure who is playing whom...or whether she’ll have a career when the bet is over.

Sports Illustrated celebrates the Golden State Warriors' third championship in four seasons with a special issue highlighting the team's remarkable accomplishments. SI traces the Warriors' journey from plucky upstart to superteam to possibly the greatest NBA champion of all time. Relive the team's dominant regular season and every round of its exciting playoff run with stunning photographs and analysis from SI's basketball experts. Go deep with features on Finals MVP Kevin Durant, team sparkplug Draymond Green and super-smooth shooting guard Klay Thompson. Get a blast from the past with a look back at the first time Golden State had a revolutionary offense: The RUN TMC era, when the high-scoring trio of Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin ran teams off the floor. This special issue is a fitting salute to a special team and its city.

Evelyn Summers is imprisoned for a crime that was wiped from her memory.In order for Evelyn to be released, she―along with other “reformed” prisoners―must pass seven mental, physical, and virtual challenges known as the Freedom Trials. One mistake means execution and, with her history of being a snitch, her fellow inmates will do everything they can to get revenge. When new prisoner Alex Martinez arrives, armed with secrets about Evelyn’s missing memories, she must make a choice. She can follow the rules to win and walk free, or covertly uncover details of the crime that sent her there. But competing in the trials and dredging up her erased past may cost Evelyn the one thing more valuable than freedom: her life.

The massive labyrinth was built to protect Zadie Kalvers' isolated desert town. Unfortunately, living in the maze's shadow makes her feel anything but safe. Even without its enchanted deathtraps and illusions, a notorious killer named Dex lurks in its corridors, terrorizing anyone in his path. But when Zadie's best friend vanishes into the labyrinth-and everyone mysteriously forgets he exists- completing the maze becomes her only hope of saving him. In desperation, Zadie bribes the only person who knows the safe path through-Dex-into forming a tenuous alliance. Navigating a deadly garden, a lethal blood-filled hourglass, and other traps-with an untrustworthy murderer for her guide-Zadie's one wrong step from certain death. But with time running out before her friend (and secret crush) is lost forever, Zadie must reach the exit and find him. If Dex and the labyrinth don't kill her first.

Evelyn Summers is imprisoned for a crime that was wiped from her memory.In order for Evelyn to be released, she—along with other “reformed” prisoners—must pass seven mental, physical, and virtual challenges known as the Freedom Trials. One mistake means execution and, with her history of being a snitch, her fellow inmates will do everything they can to get revenge. When new prisoner Alex Martinez arrives, armed with secrets about Evelyn’s missing memories, she must make a choice. She can follow the rules to win and walk free, or covertly uncover details of the crime that sent her there. But competing in the trials and dredging up her erased past may cost Evelyn the one thing more valuable than freedom: her life.

The massive labyrinth was built to protect Zadie Kalvers' isolated desert town. Unfortunately, living in the maze's shadow makes her feel anything but safe. Even without its enchanted deathtraps and illusions, a notorious killer named Dex lurks in its corridors, terrorizing anyone in his path. But when Zadie's best friend vanishes into the labyrinth-and everyone mysteriously forgets he exists- completing the maze becomes her only hope of saving him. In desperation, Zadie bribes the only person who knows the safe path through-Dex-into forming a tenuous alliance. Navigating a deadly garden, a lethal blood-filled hourglass, and other traps-with an untrustworthy murderer for her guide-Zadie's one wrong step from certain death. But with time running out before her friend (and secret crush) is lost forever, Zadie must reach the exit and find him. If Dex and the labyrinth don't kill her first.

Alexis Wood always knew she was different. Separated from the only father she ever knew at nine years old, she enters the tough world of the city orphanage without a friend in the world. Soon she discovers that someone is watching over her, protecting both her and her special gift. As her earliest memories come back to her she finds that her life, her family, and her past are anything but ordinary. Whisked off to a different dimension ruled by the Princes of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water, Alexis discovers that she may be the only one who can save this realm from a sinister force that seeks only to dominate and destroy. Soon she is on a quest to find the secret that will defeat her nemesis- a dark and evil opponent that seems strangely familiar. To succeed in the quest, Alex must learn to control her gift, and more importantly, to control her own heart- to become the heroine she never thought she could be, and to fulfill her ultimate purpose.

Note: if I can give my children nothing else, I would endeavor to make them heirs to hope. From the pen of the author of Concrete Jungle is perhaps his most compassionate and revealing story yet, a novel of overwhelming candor and beauty, where triumph is illuminated through the poetry of tragedy, comedy, bitterness, and hope. In the dying light of the day, the kingdom is forced to realize that life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to doubt the crucial caveats that give the last unanswerable word on the poverty of helplessness-a princess forced into a nightmarish journey of despair by the desperation, circumstance and the predatory will of deceitful villains, and by legends conceived in fairytale and flowered in evil. Each character reflects a visual pageantry that speaks through the quiet elegance of an example isolated in the indulgence of possibility. Here is a refreshing story of mythical forests, storybook kingdoms and fascinating lands that stretches the imagination around an unforgettable tale of hope and faith and the audacity to believe in a dream come true.