Books published by publisher Edge Books

Darlene Ortiz was with Ice T for 17 years, beginning with his early days hustlin' on the streets and his subsequent rise to fame. In Definition of Down: My Life with Ice T & the Birth of Hip Hop, she tells how hip hop started, with intimate glimpses into their daily life and stories about their climb to the top and all the rappers who got their start in those times.

In a delightful new book from Misty Moncur, a broken nose and two black eyes are all it takes for her vibrant young heroine to heal the heart of a scarred and lonely ex-soldier. Silent and invisible, Kenai was the best spy in the stripling army, but all he wants to do is forget what happened during the war. Nothing feels right at home anymore. What good is being a spy among people who have no secrets? He should just slip away into the woods and go back to being invisible, but that’s hard to do when a pretty little village girl is constantly on his tail.Isabel can’t help but notice her brother’s friend is acting strange. They say he was a brave soldier, Helaman’s most trusted spy, but men like that don’t sleep all day, refuse to eat, and avoid their friends. So Isabel does a little spy work of her own, and what she finds in the warrior’s wounded heart might just help her find what’s hidden deep inside her own.

Watching Sarai leave the village in tears was hard enough for Darius, but now everyone thinks it’s his fault. Stung by embarrassment and tired of disapproving village women and their wary daughters, Dare joins a group of spies loyal to the Chief Judges. But his new work takes him to dark places he wishes he’d never seen, and lately, he’s not so sure he isn’t turning into the person he’s been pretending to be. When Ava followed her brother out of their tiny Lamanite village, she didn’t know he wasn’t planning to return. Stranded in the northern lands, she can’t go home, and she won’t make a life for herself among the enemies she hates. Lost in the strange culture and foreign words, Ava’s looking at a lonely future—when she isn’t stealing glances at Darius, the only Nephite who isn’t uglier than a mangy dog. But Dare disappears a lot. He has secrets, dark ones she can see in his eyes. His family wants to know where he goes.And they want Ava to find out.

Curse of the Shamra is a rousing adventure tale about the isolated and peaceful land of the Shamra people who are enslaved by invaders called the Trocs. An unconventional young Shamra girl named Dara escapes and ventures into unknown realms to find allies and leads a resistance to repel the invaders. The novel is an allegory about the quest for freedom on many levels.

Fighting Lamanites was easy compared to returning to the life of a village girl. When Captain Helaman takes back the cities in the south, the Nephites begin to return to their homes. But for Keturah, returning home means leaving the warriors she has come to love and hurting the one she loves the most. She wants to honor her family's wishes, but honor will come at a steep price.Fall in love with the Stripling Warriors in this unforgettable conclusion to the Daughter of Helaman trilogy.

The present and past intertwine in this chilling supernatural story.Angeline Stevens just wants to spend the summer vacation in Logan Falls with her boyfriend Charlie, instead she is forced to go with her parents on a trip to Eastern Europe. After descending a thousand feet underground, into an old Ukrainian salt mine, her life will drastically change. When she returns to Logan Falls, Angeline will have to unwillingly except that she might not ever be the same again.The Tree of Bones contains found diary excerpts from 1920, of a Ukrainian teenager named Katarina - who was the victim of a witch hunt.

She had never been loved before. He thought he would never love again.Zeke never imagined he wouldn’t marry the pretty girl from his village. It was as good as done—until she fell in love with someone else during the war. Captain Helaman’s estate in the city is the perfect refuge, far from pitying eyes and nosy village women. But though time has healed his battle wounds, it hasn’t bound up his broken heart. Abandoned and alone in the world, Eliza asked Uncle Helaman to take her in. She has everything she could want at her new home on the grand estate—everything but the attention of Helaman’s handsome guard. When Helaman sends her on a journey with the brooding Ezekiel, she’s determined to find out what makes him so sad, but in her search for the girl who broke Zeke’s heart, Eliza has to find a way to guard her own.