THE RAPTURE by Liz Jensen
Edition I own: paperback
Publication date: January 4, 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox’s main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake.
Raised on a diet of evangelistic hellfire, Bethany is violent, delusional, cruelly intuitive and insistent that she can foresee natural disasters – a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion. But when catastrophes begin to occur on the very dates Bethany has predicted, and a brilliant, gentle physicist enters the equation, the apocalyptic puzzle intensifies and the stakes multiply.
Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator, or could she be the harbinger of imminent global cataclysm on a scale never seen before? And what can love mean in ‘interesting times’?
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THE ART OF FORGETTING by Julie McLaren
Edition I own: Amazon Kindle
Publication date: October 21, 2015
Publisher: Amazon
When Judy realises that she is losing her memory, she decides she must write something down. She has kept a terrible secret for many years and she does not want it to die with her. However, when Laura, her daughter, finds this account, it is only the beginning of the story. It tells how Judy’s friend Linda went missing more than forty years earlier, but it ends abruptly. Laura decides to try to solve the mystery of Linda’s disappearance with the help of her younger sister.
The story unravels against the backdrop of Judy’s deterioration and Laura’s attempts to manage its impact on the family. She finds she is keeping as many secrets as she uncovers. The mystery of what happened to Linda is solved at last, but how will Laura deal with the implications, now that she knows the truth? Are some secrets better left untold?
ASSASSIN’S HEART by Sarah Ahiers
Edition I own: none
Publication date: February 2, 2016
Publisher: HarperTeen
In the kingdom of Lovero, nine rival Families of assassins lawfully kill people for a price. As a highly skilled member of one of these powerful clans, seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana has always trusted in the strength of her Family. Until she awakens to find them murdered and her home in flames. The Da Vias, the Saldanas’ biggest enemy, must be responsible—and Lea should have seen it coming. But her secret relationship with the Da Vias’ son, Val, has clouded her otherwise killer instinct—and given the Da Vias more reason than ever to take her Family down.
Racked with guilt and shattered over Val’s probable betrayal, Lea sets out to even the score, with her heart set on retaliation and only one thought clear in her mind: make the Da Vias pay.
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