Aurora Rising: The acclaimed writing duo Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff have done it abut with the introductory volume in the Aurora Cycle: Aurora Rising. On the cusp of the draft in which star cadet Tyler Jones gets to assemble his Aurora Academy Squad, he gets lost in the Fold and rescues cryosleeping Auri from her vanquished starship. Tyler, having missed the Draft, is left with a squad of misfits, the cadets nobody else [...]

I should have known that "We Were Beautiful" was going to be a tear-jerker. Author Heather Hepler (Jars of Glass, Scrambled Eggs at Midnight) is a master of the art and this one did not disappoint. It's been almost a year since Mia was in the car accident that killed her sister, Rachel. Mia has been left badly scarred and spent the year in a cloud of surgeries, hospitals, guilt, and depression. Her mother [...]