Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

"Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to undergo the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and earth, assigned to only the most dangerous of criminals. Then a coded message...

Twenty-two-year-old Darren lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant with him mother, who wants him to live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. Darren is content working at a Starbucks in Midtown Manhattan, hanging out with his girlfriend and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. An encounter with Rhett Daniels, the CEO of NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team. Darren, the only black...

"There is a dark side to MI6 that needs men like Elliot Kane -- volatile, inquisitive, free-floating -- in the field. They take them and put two years and over £100k into their training, showing them how to steal cars, strip weapons, and hack bank accounts. There are courses on the use of blackmail and improvised explosives, and entire workshops solely dedicated to navigating by the stars. But no one tells them how to go home. Kane has spent fifteen...