YA | New York Times Bestseller CJ Lyons

YA Thrillers from CJ LYONS:

“A tight and engaging mystery with well-defined characters make this excellent choice.”

~School Library Journal starred review

17 yo high school senior Ella Cleary knows exactly what it’s like to live life as a misfit. Her family suffers from a rare medical condition, synesthesia, where senses are scrambled, making it difficult to survive in the real world. Her Gram Helen is a virtual recluse, forced to isolate herself because she feels every sound she hears. Ella’s own synesthesia manifests itself as the ability to see people’s auras with colors and images that reveal their true emotions. That is until she meets a guy whose aura she cannot read: Alec Ravenell.

Alec is a mystery to Ella—which intrigues her. Doesn’t hurt that he’s kinda cute and in his own way seems a bit out of step with the rest of the world. But then he reveals the real reason why he’s sought her out. He wants to learn the truth behind her parents’ deaths. The parents that all her life Ella thought had died in fire when she was three. Alec exposes the harsh reality: her father killed her mother and then himself in a fit of rage.

After learning her entire life has been a lie, Ella has no clue who she can trust or even who she really is. Could she also inherit the madness that drove her father to kill her mother and himself, leaving her as a toddler covered in their blood, abandoned and alone?

But…what if that’s not what happened? What if there are more layers of deceit burying the truth of who killed her family and why?

What if the only way for Ella to discover who she really is, is to find a killer?

“Lyons weaves a thrilling tale of deception, murder, and heartbreak.”

~Booklist

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Join CJ as she returns to her medical thriller roots with the debut of her first YA novel!

"Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak meets Kathy Reichs' Virals." ~Bookseller Jill Moore, Square Books Jr.

"An intense page-turner" ~April Henry, New York Times bestselling author

WOULD YOU PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE TO BE NORMAL?

Diagnosed with a rare and untreatable heart condition, Scarlet has come to terms with the fact that she's going to die. Literally of a broken heart. It could be tomorrow, or it could be next year. But the clock is ticking...

All Scarlet asks is for a chance to attend high school—even if just for a week-a chance to be just like everyone else. But Scarlet can feel her heart beating out of control with each slammed locker and vicious taunt. Is this normal? Really? Yet there's more going on than she knows. And finding out the truth might just kill Scarlet before her heart does...

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A Young Adult Thriller appropriate for ages 14 and up

WATCHED

“Lyons creates a deeply disturbing and equally compelling addition to the YA thriller genre, with all-too-real characters experiencing--and fighting through--a hell many adults wouldn't believe can really happen. A must-read for educators and parents, Watched is a tense, burning novel with a critical story to tell today's digital natives.” ~Tom Leveen, author of Random and Party

When hackers can hijack any cellphone or computer webcam, no one is safe- including Jesse

Jesse seems like a normal sixteen-year-old, but he isn't. He is a victim of King-a ruthless hacker who has been blackmailing Jesse with incriminating screen photos and videos. So far, Jesse's given in to King's demands in order to protect his family. But now King wants something that's too horrible to contemplate- and if he doesn't get it, King will kill Jesse's little sister.

Terrified and helpless, the answer to Jesse's prayers arrives in the form of a plain manila envelope. Inside there's a phone number and a note: I can help.