September 2018 list by L. Buehler
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Escaping from Houdini
by Kerri Maniscalco
In 1889, the ship Etruria departs Liverpool, England, for New York carrying Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her crime-solving partner, Thomas, a famous escape artist, and a cold-blooded killer.
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Fawkes
by Nadine Brandes
Infected with the Stone Plague in 17th-century England, Thomas Fawkes pursues the only available cure by reluctantly joining his father's Gunpowder Plot to assassinate the king.
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For a Muse of Fire
by Heidi Heilig
Jetta, a teen who possesses secret, forbidden powers, must gain access to a hidden spring and negotiate a world roiling with intrigue and the beginnings of war.
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Impostors
by Scott Westerfeld
Frey and Rafi are inseparable, two edges of the same knife. But Frey's very existence is a secret. Frey is Rafi's twin sister and her body double. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. Frey has been taught to kill. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must. When her father sends Frey in Rafi's place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect impostor.
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Learning to Breathe
by Janice Lynn Mather
Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal that she is pregnant by rape and then, turned out by relatives, must find a way to survive on her own in Nassau.
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Seafire
by Natalie C. Parker
When her loved ones are killed by a corrupt warlord and his bloodthirsty armies, Caledonia Styx becomes the captain of a crew of women determined to bring the killers of their families to justice, a situation that is complicated when an enemy asks to defect to her ship.
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Wildcard
by Marie Lu
Teenage hacker Emika Chen embarks on a mission to unravel a sinister plot and is forced to join forces with a shadowy organization known as the Blackcoats.
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