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Title: Bad Romance Author: Heather Demetrios  Pages: 368 Genre: YA Contemporary Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. (BYR)/Raincoast Books Release Date: June 13, 2017 Summary (Goodreads)  Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her life, and into the role of Parisian artist, New York director—anything but scared and alone. Enter Gavin: charming, talented, adored. Controlling. Dangerous. When Grace and Gavin fall in love, Grace is sure it's too good to be true. She has no idea their relationship will become a prison she's unable to escape.  Deeply affecting and unflinchingly honest, this is a story about spiraling into darkness—and emerging into the light again.

Title: I'll Meet You There Author: Heather Demetrios Pages: 400 Genre: Contemporary/YA Publisher: Henry Holt and Co (BYR)/ Raincoast Books Release Date: February 3, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N *Received for review from Raincoast/Macmillan Kids* Summary ( Goodreads ) If seventeen-year-old Skylar Evans were a typical Creek View girl, her future would involve a double-wide trailer, a baby on her hip, and the graveyard shift at Taco Bell. But after graduation, the only thing standing between straightedge Skylar and art school are three minimum-wage months of summer. Skylar can taste the freedom—that is, until her mother loses her job and everything starts coming apart. Torn between her dreams and the people she loves, Skylar realizes everything she’s ever worked for is on the line. Nineteen-year-old Josh Mitchell had a different ticket out of Creek View: the Marines. But after his leg is blown off in Afghanistan, he returns home, a shell of t...

Title:  Exquisite Captive (Dark Caravan Cycle #1) Author:  Heather Demetrios  Pages: 480 Genre: YA Publisher: HarperCollins Canada/Balzer +Bray Release Date: October 7, 2014 Summary: (Goodreads)  Forced to obey her master. Compelled to help her enemy. Determined to free herself.  Nalia is a jinni of tremendous ancient power, the only survivor of a coup that killed nearly everyone she loved. Stuffed into a bottle and sold by a slave trader, she’s now in hiding on the dark caravan, the lucrative jinni slave trade between Arjinna and Earth, where jinn are forced to grant wishes and obey their human masters’ every command. She’d give almost anything to be free of the golden shackles that bind her to Malek, her handsome, cruel master, and his lavish Hollywood lifestyle. Enter Raif, the enigmatic leader of Arjinna’s revolution and Nalia’s sworn enemy. He promises to free Nalia from her master so that she can return to her ravaged homeland and fr...