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Title: The Heart of Betrayal (The Remnant Chronicles #2) Author: Mary E. Pearson Pages: 480 Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Release Date: July 7, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | B&N | Kobo (Received for review from Macmillan & Raincoast Books) Read: December Summary: ( Goodreads ) Intrigue abounds in this hotly anticipated sequel to  The Kiss of Deception ! Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen. Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward: there's Rafe, who lied to Lia, but has sacrificed his freedom to protect her; Kaden, who meant to assassinate her but has now saved her life; and the Vendans, whom Lia always believed to be barbarians. Now that she lives amongst them, however, she real...

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: The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1) Author: Mary E. Pearson Pages: 492 Genre: YA/Dystopian/Fantasy Publisher: Raincoast Books/ Henry Holt Release Date: July 15, 2014 Summary: (Goodreads)  In this timeless new trilogy about love and sacrifice, a princess must find her place in a reborn world. In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she doesn’t—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to a prince she has never met. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assasin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—even as s...