Books published by Finch Books

Paintings can stir emotions, but for Julia, emotions bring paintings to life...literally.Ice Princess.That''s what the kids at St Peter''s High call seventeen-year-old Julia Parsons, the girl who doesn''t show emotion. But that all changes when Julia loses the protection of her late mother''s charmed necklace, and the emotions that have been locked deep inside her are unleashed. Now, after years of priding herself on being calm, cool and collected, Julia is forced to accept two life-altering revelations-she can feel just as deeply as any other teen and her emotions can make paintings come alive. As Julia struggles to control her ability, she discovers that her boyfriend, Nick, is trapped inside a mural that she herself created. She enters the wintry world to save him before it''s painted over but quickly realises that a mysterious force is keeping Nick tethered to the work of art.Unless Julia can learn how to harness the power of her new and unfamiliar emotions, they won''t make it out of the painting alive.

What started as homework ended in fireworks.Emma has one foot out of her small Southern town. She spends her weekends memorizing facts and figures and spending time with Alex, her best friend, while she still has time. In six months, they’ll be out of there.Nonetheless, every day that the quiet, determined high school senior hops in Alex’s hand-me-down car and goes to school, she spends more time within the confines of her favorite books than hanging out with the high school entourage—that is, until an English project becomes so much more than an assignment.Suddenly, with the help of a bad boy on a horse, Emma embarks on a journey to find herself and escape her comfort zone, all the while learning lasting lessons about friendship and the power of love. Yet, in the end, she has to make the choice—to love or to leave?

At five years old, Cassidy had outlived almost Earth’s entire population. Now, at sixteen, she’s in a forbidden relationship with an unworthy Earth boy.Cassidy Jones was five years old when her parents escaped Earth with her and her brother. They were safe in Earth’s orbit in the town of Petriville—hovering at the center of an indestructible sphere—when the meteor impacted Earth and killed Cassidy’s grandparents, aunt and cousin.But now, eleven years later, Gina Petri, Petriville’s founder, assigns a mate to each youth. When Cassidy refuses to participate in this forced mating, her dissent places her and her family in Gina’s firing line. This becomes especially pertinent when Cassidy enters a communication pod and meets an alluring hologram. Eric isn’t in Petriville and he insists Gina will murder his people if she discovers their existence, because he is one of Earth’s few survivors.The more Cassidy gets to know Eric, the more she’s drawn to him—and the feeling seems mutual. He has lost so much in his life and her compassion for him runs deep. Despite the intensity of the static electricity when Cassidy and the hologram of Eric touch, she yearns for the day when she will meet him in person.All the questions will be answered when Petriville returns to Earth, and that day is quickly approaching…

Adam has a secret. But maybe Charlie has a few of his own.Adam’s got a secret and nobody knows.He’s promised himself never to get into relationships and risk revealing it, but Charlie Fielding has a way of getting under one’s skin. One party, one kiss and Adam is faced with a horrible choice—tell Charlie the truth or keep quiet. And either way, lose the only friends he’s had in years.But Charlie might have a secret, too—and everybody knows but Adam.

Brianna must break the curse of the Chakka Chakka and save her family and friends.Brianna is just beginning to settle into her new life in the Crystal Castle when she and Issah are attacked by the Abrasaxons’ mortal enemy, the Chakka Chakka. These small blue flying humanoids burrow their slender spiral horn into a host’s ear until it pierces their brain. Once the horn is embedded the Chakka Chakka chatter, squeak and whisper semi-intelligible sounds day and night, sending the host mad.Brianna wants to help the Abrasaxon defeat them, but there are those who spurn her efforts, including her half-brother, Hashnok. With the help of her friends she follows the clues to the mountains and finds the secret of the Chakka Chakka.Armed with this information, she sets a trap to capture them. Brianna is injured in the battle, though, and her greatest challenge may turn out to be finding a cure not only to save the other victims, but to save herself as well.

What do you do when the troll at the end of your garden tells you everything you ever believed in is a fantasy and your fantasies are reality?When Jake moves from California to his new school in Oxford, he knows he is going to a different country, but he doesn’t realize he is entering a whole new world.His first clue is when Gorm, a nine-foot, three-thousand-year-old Irish gnome, appears at the foot of his garden and gives him three special powers—powers that are of absolutely no use to him—or so he thinks.But when things start getting really weird and Jake discovers that there’s an ancient prince from Tír na nÓg who is out to get not only him and the girl he is in love with but the whole of mankind, too, he also discovers that the powers Gorm has given him are more useful than he could ever have dreamed possible.

Her whole world has been flipped upside down. She’s lost…and only he can find her.Lori Black had everything she could ever want—security in social standing by being one of the most popular girls in school, a hot boyfriend, and a set path toward her future. But her brother’s overdose flipped her world upside down and now nothing makes sense.After spending a year away from home, Lori is ready to try to reclaim her old life. But a lot can happen in a year, and when Lori returns, she realizes she isn’t the superficial girl she left behind and maybe she doesn’t fit the space she used to.Rejected by her old friends and struggling to deal at home, Lori is lost. And the only person capable of understanding her is the quiet boy, Archer, whom no one knows anything about.It is Archer who brings Lori the possibility of being found.

Volatile and unstable, Amy stands at the precipice. Will she fall into the chaos and despair of insanity or ascend into brilliance and redemption?Amy Miles is fifteen and crazy. Or at least that’s her greatest fear. Her severe bipolar disorder, with its roller-coaster manic and depressive episodes, is ruining her life. Yet in Amy’s mind it’s accepting the pills and therapy—not the disorder—that will brand her as ‘crazy’.When Amy lands in a residential psychiatric program, she befriends take-charge Mallory, and the two create family as they try to salvage the shards of their broken minds. While there, Amy also discovers that her illicit drug use has robbed her of her ability to dance and she is forced to weigh how hard she’s willing to work to reclaim her lost talent and potential. But, despite a promising beginning, when Amy falls back into denial, the tragic consequences cannot be undone.Amy is left to decide whether to give up altogether or to accept her diagnosis and the tools she needs to battle her disorder, to learn to dance again and to forge a new and improved version of herself. Will she step up to the edge of her brilliance and shine?

Lady Frederica Felton, or Freddie to her friends, is poised to return to Mapleton Manor boarding school for Sixth Form. After a summer at home in Monaco, Freddie is more than ready to see her friends again...and she''ll find herself in numerous escapades along the way, collecting wristbands as she goes.Midnight feasts, great escapes and ghost stories-life at Mapleton Manor is anything but boring, especially for someone like Freddie. Whilst fiercely loyal and fun loving, she is the go-to girl for contraband and fashion advice. Freddie is the girl to know.But the next couple of years won''t all be fun and games. As well as exam pressure there are rotten teachers to contend with, and a friend Freddie isn''t so sure has her best interests at heart...There are difficult choices to be made. First love to experience. Heartbreak to be had. But with her friends at her side and her fearless nature, will Freddie take her world by storm?

The dangerous quest to find her father and fix her shattered world brings Brianna more than she ever expected.Brianna is determined to elicit help from her elusive Abrasaxon father, Hakon, to conquer the evil Tyban, Zelig, who has invaded her world. But her journey to the Crystal Castle is full of perils that she and her newfound companions are ill equipped to overcome. Danger comes in many forms-tiny vengeful Nixets, a resurrected Yabix and ruthless Tyban who have crossed into the mortal world.As they surmount each challenge, Brianna wonders if she will ever get control of her newly blossoming-and daunting-magical abilities, and how to handle her growing attraction to her new companion, Amon. Her resentment toward her father for failing to prepare her for the inheritance of her ''gift'' flares again when a young woman they save from death, Issah, claims to be her sister. But there is no time for ill feeling with the heart of the Abrasaxon existence, the Crystal Castle, dying, and Hakon and his fellow Direktorate members missing. The two girls combine their untested magical abilities to rescue their father and save the twin lands of Okana and Okiyarra from destruction.

When Ava Goddard sees toga-clad people that no one else can, she knows her life is about to change.After first seeing these strange people, Ava quickly jumps to the conclusion that she is A) going crazy or B) she''s always been crazy but is only now realizing it. That is until she actually meets one of these hallucinations and learns that she''s a demigoddess. Not only that, but she''s the daughter of Jupiter himself.Ava soon learns that being a demigoddess isn''t as fabulous as she first thought it would be. Her life is invaded by gods and goddesses who want to befriend her, including a frightening but ironically protective God of Death, a vengeful Queen of the Gods and a snarky dryad in Ava''s tree. And on top of it all, she has to deal with her mother, an overdramatic best friend and a soccer playing potential boyfriend as well.Worse still, there''s a goddess who is lurking in the dark and has been biding her time for the past several millennia, waiting for her chance to take over-and she''s just found Jupiter''s one weakness.Ava.

When destiny gets it wrong, a lifetime of true love hangs in the balance.Gabriel Black doesn''t want to believe he''s been dumped, but when the texts, calls and sweetly scented letters from his long-distance girlfriend, Elle Cassidy, suddenly stop, what else can he think?Just as well his family is starting a new life away from the rat race, which means he can find out what''s going on face to face. But when things don''t go to plan, he finds it hard to keep his cool. And when life gets downright creepy, Gabe''s hot temper quickly burns through his veins as he struggles to comprehend his situation.When the dust settles, he learns that a twist of fate means he''ll have to navigate a new, never-before-trodden path if he''s to have Elle at his side. It''s not easy, danger lurks in the shadows and he has to fight to protect what''s his. But Gabriel and Elle have allies, the ghostly glow of the moonlight is their friend, family love provides breathtaking strength, and together they can face the future no matter how many soul-takers try to tear them apart.

Taking care of a pet is one thing, but when orphaned teenager Karen Fox is kidnapped to service an interstellar zoo, she gets more than she bargained for.We do this for they bring us happiness.We do this because they have no defense, nowhere else to go and no one to care for them.We do this in order so that they may teach us what it means to be different, and for us to embrace that difference.Karen Fox, sixteen and recovering from a terrible car crash that claimed the lives of her parents, dreams only of becoming physically able once more. Hearing a strange voice that comes from somewhere near her hospital, she investigates and is kidnapped by an automated ship transporting interstellar animals to a safe haven. Knowing nothing about how to take care of them and disliking animals to begin with, Karen learns the value of caring for interstellar life. And when a marauding band of poachers attacks the vessel, intending to seize all the animals, Karen is forced to fight for her own life as well as the animals she has come to care for.

Three years ago, CarsonΓÇÖs sister ran away. Now heΓÇÖs found herΓÇöon a porn site.High-school senior Carson Banks is trying to find out what he wants to do with his life, wanting to move forward, though a part of him is firmly rooted in the day his life changed forever. The day his older sister Caitlin ran away, and disappeared without a trace. Then, he finds herΓÇöon an Internet porn site.Deciding that finding Caitlin and bringing her home is the only thing he can do, Carson embarks on a quest that ends up changing him as much as Caitlin seems to have changed herself. Coping with the knowledge that he canΓÇÖt share with the rest of his familyΓÇöyetΓÇöCarson writes thinly veiled autobiographical stories to help himself better understand Caitlin and why she left home.And, while using every opportunity he has to find Caitlin and talk to her, CarsonΓÇÖs typical teenage life goes on. Girlfriend. Family. School. Friends. Things he did in the past that heΓÇÖs not too proud of. ItΓÇÖs a busy senior year, but heΓÇÖll count it a winΓÇöif he can locate her, learn exactly what happened on the day she left and convince Caitlin to come home.

Be careful who you keep secrets with, especially in picture-perfect Cherry Grove, a place where average isn''t good enough, and nothing is what it seems.Lexi Welks wants two things-respect and a college acceptance letter that''ll get her out of too-good-to-be-true Cherry Grove. The problem is that the nasty, life-ruining secret she shares with Monica Sanders is about to go public. If their ugly truth comes out, her plans for college-not happening. And that''s only the beginning of her end.Monica is the kind of student teachers adore-well-behaved, hard-working and always following the rules. She''s the kind of friend other girls follow-well-dressed, popular and always knowing the right thing to do. If only they knew the truth about her. The truth Lexi found out the hard way, after spending the past summer letting Monica talk her into doing things she knew could come back to ruin her.Now it''s the first week of school and one of the seniors is missing. Lexi knows a thing or two about the circumstances of his disappearance, but she''s not talking. Neither is Monica. But wicked truths have a way of crawling to the surface and tearing through the most careful plans.