THE LAKEBRIDGE CYCLE
BY NATASHA TROOP

SPRING

Vermont, picturesque and lovely, attracts visitors from across the country in search for the perfect picture, the perfect fall foliage or perhaps a taste of maple syrup. Stansbury is best known for the odd covered bridge that spans Stansbury Lake and goes nowhere, connecting no roads and serving no known purpose. The locals call it the Lakebridge. Very few know of its mysterious origins and fewer care to know more. Those visiting the town perhaps take a few snapshots and leave, their curiosity quelled by an uneasy feeling that they shouldn’t think on it anymore.

The tourists will eventually leave Stansbury, but its residents strangely linger, seemingly held captive by a force they barely recognize. They also do not think about the town’s mysterious artifact much except in passing, all but Gil, his father, Ben, and a few others. They know of the bridge’s dark history and understand that it is responsible for every horror that ever befell the people of Stansbury: the people who fear the bridge but will not speak of it. The bridge makes people do things – bad things – so that it can continue to love and care for them all.

Some have tried to destroy the bridge, but as long as the bridge is fed with the lives of the innocents of Stansbury it will go on – loving the people of Stansbury.

Lakebridge: Spring is the first of a four book cycle revolving around Stansbury and the Lakebridge.

SUMMER

In the aftermath of a tragic spring day, the people of Stansbury, Vermont, are unable to forget what happened, as they have all the tragedies of their past. After the media exploited their pain, they have become uneasy with the world beyond their town and with any outsiders.

In the aftermath of the media deluge, latecomers straggle into Stansbury looking to pick up the scraps of stories left behind. What they find, however, is that the powerful forces that have guided the destinies of the people of the town for hundreds of years are now at war with one another and in need of pawns.

In the aftermath of Spring, there is Summer.

AUTUMN

The town of Stansbury, Vermont has survived over four hundred years of tragic events. The town survived because the otherworldly beings and powerful humans that have always controlled the lives of the people willed them to forget each terrible event.

As the bloody conflict between those forces has been raging, the people have stopped forgetting. Fear and grief have replaced peaceful ignorance and the powers that be no longer care.

In Lakebridge: Autumn, Stansbury will fall.

WINTER

Long after the autumn leaves have turned, the final curtain of winter descends upon the last residents of Stansbury, Vermont. Lakebridge: Winter is the fourth and final book of The Lakebridge Cycle.

THE RISER SAGA
BY BECCA C. SMITH

Chelsan Derée can control the dead. She lives in a future where the world is overpopulated and a little pill makes you immortal. Where people are secretly being exterminated and serial killers are sanctioned by the government. When Chelsan's mother is killed by one of these exterminations, she vows to take down the man responsible: her grandfather.

Only two months have passed since Chelsan fought against her grandparents and won, but a whole new nightmare has arisen. Chelsan discovers a plot so horrifying, so terrifying, that it may destroy the world itself. She will have to learn more about her power to raise and control the dead so she can stop the evil that threatens everything she’s ever cared about.

Chelsan and her friends are yet again thrown into peril in order to save the world from Elisha’s sinister plans. And Chelsan’s tentative relationship with her grandfather is put to the test as they once again have to work together against a common enemy.

Chelsan must defeat Elisha once and for all in the third installment of the bestselling series the Riser Saga.

LOVE & DARK SERIES
BY HINA MCCORD & BECCA C. SMITH

Shea is starting college with her best friend, Aidan. When she meets Lucian, a vampire, Aidan isn’t jealous; it’s his duty to protect her. Shea is a Vessel. Lucian is sworn to drag the Vessel to his father’s prison, her blood the key to his release. Lucian and Shea can't fight their destiny: they are destined to be together forever.

Caelius is free, and the world is his. Shea trains with Lucian to master her powers as an elemental so she can beat Caelius and free them all from his twisted desires. But when Aidan warns Lucian that one of his sons has been taken by Caelius, Lucian goes off to confront him alone. Lucian fails and is imprisoned and tortured. His only comfort is the apparition of his childhood love, Nefertiti. Caelius reveals that she is a vampire and his master plan is for them to rule the world together, as his new Adam and Eve.

The battle is lost. Caelius has won. Lucian has sacrificed himself by giving his body and mind to Caelius to save Shea and the others. As Caelius begins destroying the world, the only obstacle that remains is for him to take Shea’s soul and restore himself to full power. But Shea isn’t giving up. She won’t rest until she has Lucian back by her side and Caelius is destroyed.