"In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell...

No matter the effort that Bromise Balducci put forth early on to undermine his passion to kill, he'd fall weak to the seducer of power over again. Initially, it was only his mentor and grandpa, Brisco, that basked in the joy of Bromise's frequent killing sprees. Then something changed. He began to feel the urge to kill--to feel his adrenaline rush through his bloodstream as his pulse beat in sync with the rapid blasts of his banger. With each job,...

"To honor his deceased mother, BJ joins Mendel High's track team and excels, but before he can cash in on any scholarship offers, his father's thuggish past catches up with them and an old enemy comes seeking revenge"--

Detective Aristotle Ashford and his rookie partner, Myles Sivad, witness the apocalyptic suffering of Chicago's Woodlawn community in the 1970's.

"In life, sometimes the only thing that can save you is death. Ariana Molina is a high school senior living in secret in Chicago, in hopes her father's enemies do not find her. One day her father Reynaldo Molina, the lead federal investigator in Mexico targeting criminal organizations, arrives unexpectedly at her doorstep. After he is involved in a strange car accident that leaves on person dead, Ari begins to have visions of a veiled skeletal figure...