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In this debut speculative YA mystery, a Black teen with premonition-like powers must solve her friend's disappearance before she finds herself in the same danger, perfect for fans of Ace of Spades.Sariyah Lee Bryant can hear what people need—tangible things, like a pencil, a hair tie, a phone charger—an ability only her family and her best friend, Malcolm, know the truth about. But when she fulfills a need for her friend Deja who vanishes shortly after, Sariyah is left wondering if her ability is more curse than gift. This isn’t the first time one of her friends has landed on the missing persons list, and she’s determined not to let her become yet another forgotten Black girl. Not trusting the police and media to do enough on their own, Sariyah and her friends work together to figure out what led to Deja’s disappearance. When Sariyah’s mother loses her job and her little brother faces complications with his sickle cell disease, managing her time, money, and emotions seems impossible. Desperate, Sariyah decides to hustle her need-sensing ability for cash—a choice that may not only lead her to Deja, but put her in the same danger Deja found herself in.

In this young adult speculative mystery, a teen must find a way to free a cursed witch in order to save her best friend before time runs out.Every year horror-loving Simone Washington throws an epic Halloween party for her classmates. Party-planning is her favorite escape from the dark secrets in her past, and this year, she's taking things up a notch with an invitation-only event to celebrate her eighteenth birthday-something that will leave the halls of Pinegrove Academy flooded with gossip about the big ghoulish bash. The overnight stay at Doll's Head Lake will be filled with spooky pranks and scary stories told by the fire-including the legend of a local witch named Regret.But those dark secrets from Simone's past are forced to the surface at the party when her best friend Kira dies under questionable circumstances. The witch appears and offers Simone a deal: if Simone can figure out how to release Regret from the curse trapping her at the lake within fourteen days, all of Simone's regrets will be erased. If Simone accepts, Kira's life will be immediately restored. But if she fails, Kira will die again-and Simone will be the one to kill her.

A page-turning thriller with a supernatural twist by the author of Needy Little Things, perfect for fans of Signed Sealed Dead and Harrow Lake.'Unsettling, page-turning' Guardian 'A fascinating, twisty, gripping mystery' SchoolReadingList.co.ukA dark spectre lives on the banks of Yearwood Lake.Make a deal and you're in her debt.Those who've met her call her Regret. Halloween is Simone's favourite holiday. Every year she throws an epic, spooky party, and this time she's hosting it beside a lake, where legend has it that a haunting figure named Regret makes deadly deals with trespassers.Simone isn't worried about all of that she just wants to have fun, scare her friends and distract herself from her own dark secrets.But in the dead of the night, things begin to go very wrong. When her best friend's life is in danger and Regret appears, Simone must make a choice. How far will she go to save her friend? Every deal comes with a price ...

A page-turning thriller with a supernatural twist by the author of Needy Little Things, perfect for fans of Signed Sealed Dead and Harrow Lake.'Unsettling, page-turning' Guardian 'A fascinating, twisty, gripping mystery' SchoolReadingList.co.ukA dark spectre lives on the banks of Yearwood Lake.Make a deal and you’re in her debt.Those who’ve met her call her Regret. Halloween is Simone’s favourite holiday. Every year she throws an epic, spooky party, and this time she’s hosting it beside a lake, where legend has it that a haunting figure named Regret makes deadly deals with trespassers.Simone isn't worried about all of that – she just wants to have fun, scare her friends and distract herself from her own dark secrets.But in the dead of the night, things begin to go very wrong. When her best friend's life is in danger and Regret appears, Simone must make a choice. How far will she go to save her friend? Every deal comes with a price ...

A brilliantly page-turning thriller with an unusual psychological twist, which fans of One of Us is Lying, Ace of Spades and A Good Girl''s Guide to Murder will love.''Memorable, fascinating and full of emotional complexity, this is an original, layered YA thriller.'' Guardian''Intense and compeling thriller ... a jaw-dropping ending ... powerful and thoroughly engrossing'' LoveReading websiteSariyah is determined not to let her missing friend become just another statistic, one of many vanished Black girls. But despite her talent for ESP, Sariyah is struggling, even when the clues point surprisingly close to home.When Sariyah''s birthday celebrations at a music festival turn sour with the disappearance of one of her friends, she knows she can''t rely on the police to find her. The authorities are no more help than they were when her friend''s twin sister, another young woman of colour, went missing five years earlier. Sariyah feels guilty that her uncanny ability to predict people''s needs didn''t help to keep her friends safe. She is determined to find out what''s happened to Deja. But the more she cracks the clues leading to her, the closer she gets to home …''An unputdownable mystery centering a missing Black girl and the relentless search of friends who won''t give up on her. [...] Needy Little Things is a triumphant debut.'' Jessica Lewis, author of Bad Witch Burning

A brilliantly page-turning thriller with an unusual psychological twist, which fans of One of Us is Lying, Ace of Spades and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder will love.'Memorable, fascinating and full of emotional complexity, this is an original, layered YA thriller.' Guardian'Intense and compeling thriller ... a jaw-dropping ending ... powerful and thoroughly engrossing' LoveReading websiteSariyah is determined not to let her missing friend become just another statistic, one of many vanished Black girls. But despite her talent for ESP, Sariyah is struggling, even when the clues point surprisingly close to home.When Sariyah's birthday celebrations at a music festival turn sour with the disappearance of one of her friends, she knows she can't rely on the police to find her. The authorities are no more help than they were when her friend's twin sister, another young woman of colour, went missing five years earlier. Sariyah feels guilty that her uncanny ability to predict people's needs didn't help to keep her friends safe. She is determined to find out what's happened to Deja. But the more she cracks the clues leading to her, the closer she gets to home …'An unputdownable mystery centering a missing Black girl and the relentless search of friends who won’t give up on her. [...] Needy Little Things is a triumphant debut.' Jessica Lewis, author of Bad Witch Burning