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The Twelve is an extraordinary and unforgettable novel about a most unusual man. As a child, Max lives in a world of colors and numbers, not speaking until the age of six. As an adult, Max ventures on a journey of destiny to discover the secret behind the ancient Mayan prophecy about the “end of time,” foretold to occur on December 21, 2012. When he is fifteen years old, Max has a near death experience during which he has a vision that reveals to him the names of twelve unique individuals. While Max cannot discern the significance of these twelve names, he is unable to shake the sense that they have deep meaning. Eight years pass before Max meets the first of the twelve. With this, Max’s voyage of discovery begins, as he strives to uncover the identities and implications of “the twelve”—individuals he will meet during his journey towards truth, all of whom seem connected, and all of whom may hold the answer to what will happen at the exact moment the world may end. The novel takes the reader on a series of global adventures, culminating in a revelation of why and how Max and the twelve are destined to unite to discover the magnitude of the meaning of December 21, 2012. Only the twelve can provide the answers, as the fate of all humanity rests in the balance.

In this bold follow-up to Dark Eyes, Wally and Tiger fight trained assassins and face unspeakable danger as they work to unravel a conspiracy that stretches far wider than they’d ever imagined. “An absolute page-turner. Murder, action, intrigue and the toughest female vigilante since Lisbeth Salander.”—Pittacus Lore, #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Am Number Four, on Dark Eyes Five months after the Shelter Island tragedy, Wally Stoneman is trying to hold it together as a young, emancipated sixteen-year-old. She spends her nights alone in her hip but empty rooftop apartment in Brooklyn, and her days working for the Ursula Society, an organization that solves missing persons cases the police have long forgotten. All the while, Wally has been tracking the one person she longs to locate more than anyone: her fugitive brother, Tiger, who’s been on the run since Wally last saw him on Shelter Island. But Wally isn’t the only one after Tiger—so is the notorious criminal Archer Divine, as well as the siblings’ sadistic father, Klesko, who is also at large. Will Wally’s involvement with the brother she’s waited her whole life to find be tainted by her father’s desire for revenge?

Volume 1)A lonely girl. An Undying soldier. An uncommon romance.Kieli is a reclusive girl isolated by her ability to see ghosts. Her only friend is her 'roommate,' Becca, the precocious spirit of a former student still residing in Kieli's dorm. Everything in Kieli's life changes suddenly when the girls meet the handsome but distant Harvey who, like Kieli, can see ghosts. He also turns out to be one of the legendary Undying, an immortal soldier bred for war now being hunted by the Church. When Kieli joins Harvey on a pilgrimage to lay to rest the spirit of a corporal possessing an old radio, as unlikely as it seems, she feels she may have finally found a place where she belongs in the world. And in Kieli, Harvey may have found a reason to live again.

A beautiful, sheltered heiress traveling to the Amazonian rainforests to search for an Incan treasure finds herself captured by a surprisingly friendly native tribe Merran Faulkner inherits her eccentric uncle's fortune, but there's one condition: as a world-famous explorer, it was his dying wish that she should travel to South America to search for a lost Incan treasure—certainly not what she had in mind for her next vacation. But as Merran treks her way through the jungle, her uncle's artifact isn't her only new discovery. Meeting the mysterious Don Miguel, Merran's Amazonian adventure becomes much more than her uncle's will ever entailed. And as Merran gets to know Don, with his temptingly exotic ways, suddenly the wild side she's tried so desperately hard to hide begins to come out and play.