Books with title Shadows of Outland

Pride and Prejudice meets H.G. Wells with a dash of The Hunger Games.Lenore, a thief, is on the run from the law, from the brutal Enforcers. Just when she thinks she's found safety by assuming a new identity with a wealthy but eccentric family, she discovers they've got secrets of their own. Big ones. As does everyone in this series. And, of course, someone who knows her real identity is chasing after her. Will Lenore find the courage to forge her own path, or will she put her trust in the wrong people and bring this world of lies she's built crashing down?Out of the Shadows, Into the Fire, and Across the Ice are the first three books in the captivating Broken Gears young adult steampunk fantasy series. Fans of the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger and Garth Nix's Old World universe will delight as this Victorian-era-esque world unfolds before them. A multi-layered steampunk fantasy tale of colorful characters, lost magic and technology, and subterfuge that promises to entrance. If you like smart heroines, forgotten magic, and rich Victorian settings, then you'll love Lenore's intrigue-and-adventure storyline."Out of the Shadows features great prose, a gripping plot, and characters that will remain with readers long after they are done reading the story." —Reader's Favorite.Buy it today to enter a steam-powered world of secrets!

Abducted as a child. Forced into combat training. Groomed to be a teen spy. Expected to become a female assassin.Emily won't be a test specimen too.Three years ago, after prolonged mental and physical abuse, Emily Brelin's genetic structure changed. New abilities emerged, but she hid them from her captor, a rogue general. Fearing she'd be experimented on, Emily escaped and fled across the globe to New York's largest metropolitan area, Golden City. There, she met a sympathetic professor who offered her a new home, a new identity, and a new start.The professor protected Emily's secrets, until cancer intervened. On her deathbed, she made Emily promise to meet her best friend, a female detective who could keep the teen safe.Now, despite reservations, Emily is racing to complete her vow. But the general wants his prized teen weapon back. He's hunting Emily--and her cover is unraveling.Detective Vick Tacket is shocked when she learns her best friend has died. She's more stunned to learn the professor had a hidden dependent and named Vick--a single woman with no maternal interest--as the teen's guardian. But when mysterious girl disappears, Vick scours the streets of Golden City searching for the missing teen.What she discovers could get them both killed.Out of the Shadows jump starts a fast-paced 7-book adventure, The Tacket Secret."Spellbinding! Keeps the reader turning the pages." - 5 StarsOne teen. One detective. A ton of trouble. - Science fiction for teens and adults.

A harrowing post-apocalyptic adventure. David Morr runs away from an unhappy home to join a traveling circus and meets a quirky assortment of characters who test and challenge him as he struggles to come out of his shell and embrace his new life on the stage. But the world is full of sickness, and life on the road is fraught with peril. A plague sweeps across the land, turning ordinary people into mindless monsters. Soon, the performers find themselves fighting for their lives against crazed mobs. All the while, the Empire of Tockland is on the rise, the cruel tyrant, Joseph Mattock, conquering one city after another, and the black and silver flag will soon fly over every nation. Unwittingly, David and his fellow performers find themselves traveling deeper and deeper into the very heart of darkness, where plague and madness and tyranny collide in a brutal struggle for survival.

Prophecies foretell of a great demon who will someday emerge to destroy the world. Only one man possesses the power to stop it.And he has no idea.In the lawless land of Tarmerria, only the strong survive. Eric, the simple son of a blacksmith, learns this awful lesson the day his village is attacked by horrific black-winged monsters. But the monsters aren't simply wreaking havoc. They're searching ...For him.Surrounded by enemies on all sides, Eric must place his trust - and his life - in the hands of a mysterious girl who may be his only chance to fulfill his destiny. If they can survive long enough.This book is intended for mature audiences.

Stevie Bryant, better known by his classmates as Psycho Stevie, has it rough. Everyone believes that he killed his parents. Fourteen-year-old Stevie can’t remember what happened the night they died. Now a resident of the Jubilee Home, he struggles with loneliness, bullies and the very realistic hallucinations that he sees in the shadows. He can’t tell anyone at Jubilee what he sees, since they already think he’s crazy. Will he ever be able to find out what happened to his parents? What about the creatures in the shadows? Are they hallucinations or something else? Stevie wants answers and he’ll do whatever it takes to get them.

Ro thinks her family is totally unlike anyone else's; Jodie is afraid of herself. So they spend a long time stepping carefully around the truth, hiding secrets that they know are too terrible to reveal. These shadows from the past just won't go away and in a hostile society Ro and Jodie end up with only each other - and that grab bag of feelings that go to make up a friend: love, hate, guilt, and forgiveness.

Twelve-year-old Robert Jacklin comes face-to-face with bigotry, racism, and brutality when he is uprooted from England and moves to Zimbabwe with his family. Robert is enrolled in one of the country's most elite boys' boarding schools. Newly integrated, the school is a microcosm of the horrible problems faced by the struggling new country in the wake of a bloody civil war. The white boys want their old country back and torment the black Africans. Robert must make careful alliances. His decision to join the ranks of the more powerful white boys has a devastating effect on his conscience and emerging manhood.

'If I stood you in front of a man, pressed a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?''No, sir, no way!''What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler? Would you do it then?' Zimbabwe, 1980s. The fighting has stopped, independence has been won and Robert Mugabe has come to power offering the end of the Old Way and promising hope for black Africans.For Robert Jacklin, it’s all new: new continent, new country, new school. And very quickly he learns that for some of his white classmates, the sound of guns is still loud, and their battles rage on.Boys like Ivan. Clever, cunning Ivan.He wants things back to how they were, and he’s taking his fight to the very top.Winner of the Costa, the UKLA and the Branford Boase Awards

Stevie Bryant, better known by his classmates as Psycho Stevie, has it rough. Everyone believes that he killed his parents. Fourteen-year-old Stevie can’t remember what happened the night they died. Now a resident of the Jubilee Home, he struggles with loneliness, bullies and the very realistic hallucinations that he sees in the shadows. He can’t tell anyone at Jubilee what he sees, since they already think he’s crazy. Will he ever be able to find out what happened to his parents? What about the creatures in the shadows? Are they hallucinations or something else? Stevie wants answers and he’ll do whatever it takes to get them.

A harrowing post-apocalyptic adventure. When young David Morr runs away from an unhappy home to join a traveling circus, he meets a quirky assortment of characters who test and challenge him as he struggles to come out of his shell and embrace his new life on the stage. But the world is full of sickness, and life on the road is fraught with peril. A plague sweeps across the land, turning ordinary people into mindless monsters. Soon, the performers find themselves fighting for their lives. All the while, the Empire of Tockland is on the rise, the cruel tyrant, Joseph Mattock, conquering one city after another, and the black and silver flag will soon fly over every nation. Unwittingly, David and his fellow performers find themselves traveling deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness, where plague and madness and tyranny collide in a brutal struggle for survival.

Twelve-year-old Robert Jacklin comes face-to-face with bigotry, racism, and brutality when he is uprooted from England and moves to Zimbabwe with his family. Robert is enrolled in one of the country’s most elite boys’ boarding schools. Newly integrated, the school is a microcosm of the horrible problems faced by the struggling new country in the wake of a bloody civil war. The white boys want their old country back and torment the black Africans. Robert must make careful alliances. His decision to join the ranks of the more powerful white boys has a devastating effect on his conscience and emerging manhood.

Pride and Prejudice meets H.G. Wells with a dash of The Hunger Games.Lenore, a thief, is on the run from the law from the brutal Enforcers. Just when she thinks she's found safety by assuming a new identity with a wealthy but eccentric family, she discovers they've got secrets of their own. Big ones. As does everyone in this series. And, of course, someone who knows her real identity is chasing after her. Will Lenore find the courage to forge her own path, or will she put her trust in the wrong people and bring this world of lies she's built crashing down?Out of the Shadows is the first book in the captivating Broken Gears series, a young adult steampunk fantasy adventure. Fans of the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger and Garth Nix's Old World universe will delight as this Victorian-era-esque world unfolds before them. A multi-layered tale of colorful characters, lost magic and technology, and subterfuge that promises to entrance. If you like smart heroines, forgotten magic, and rich Victorian settings, then you'll love Lenore's intrigue-and-adventure storyline."Out of the Shadows features great prose, a gripping plot, and characters that will remain with readers long after they are done reading the story." --Reader's Favorite.Buy it today to enter a steam-powered world of secrets!