THE TRUTH APP is the latest craze in the town of Kelton. It listens to everyone around you and tells you if they're lying. When the app goes viral, its teenage creator, Jarli, becomes famous overnight. But being a celebrity can be dangerous. Especially when you've just exposed everyone's deepest, darkest secrets. Now everyone is out to get Jarli. Kids at school. Teachers. The police. Even his own family. And the secret network of criminals based in Kelton have just added Jarli to their hit list. The truth doesn't always set you free...

You are standing inside a busy city bank, wary of three suspicious people you just saw come in. Suddenly an EAR-SPLITTING SCREAM makes you jump. The alarm starts ringing. One of the suspicious trio, a man, has pulled a grenade out of his bag. The woman has just melted the security camera with her laser shooter. Do you get down on the floor like they tell you? Or try to escape when they turn their backs? 30 minutes. 30 paths. You choose if you live or die.

'I was mind blown... I ended up finishing the book at 2:30am on a workday - need I say more?!' Reader review, 5 stars 'Whoa baby, this was a WILD ride! A brilliant page turner' Reader review, 5 stars <h2>Some couples would kill for a weekend away...</h2>It was supposed to be a fun trip. Three couples, friends since high school, arrive at a remote mountain retreat ready to unwind and catch up. When an innocent remark of swapping partners is made, they laugh it off as a joke. But after a few glasses of wine, it doesn't sound like such a bad idea. With the lights off, it's not really cheating when you don't know who you're with, right? As the lights flicker back on, what started out as a night of fun quickly descends into horror when one of the husbands is discovered dead. Suspicion grows between the friends, but no one is willing to come forward and confess what they know. With no phone...

Would you kill your brother to save yourself?After months of searching, disgraced athlete Elise Glyk has finally found her missing brother, Callum. He's being held in a backyard prison by Stephanie Hartnell, a former sheep farmer with an axe to grind. But before she can free Callum or call for help, Elise is captured and locked up alongside him.Stephanie Hartnell doesn't have room for two prisoners, and she has nothing against Elise. But she needs to make sure Elise can't go to the police. So she offers Elise a deal: kill Callum, and you're free to go.Of course, Elise won't even consider the deal. No way. It's unthinkable. But she's running out of time to find another way out. And her brother may not be the man she thought he was ...

When a vengeful physicist captures Agent Six of Hearts and blasts him backwards through time, he has one chance to prevent her from unleashing a catastrophe. If he can find and destroy the components of her time machine, he can stop her from ever building it – but the components are under lock and key.Luckily, he crosses paths with teenage super-thief Ashley Arthur. Unluckily, she has her own agenda...From the award-winning author of MONEY RUN and THE LAB, CROSSOVER is a non-stop roller coaster ride through spacetime.

Meet Ash and Ben, teen master thieves; stealing for the rich, hiding from the law...and wanted by some of the deadliest men and women in the world. Ashley Arthur and her best friend, Benjamin, are teen thieves working for the billionaire Hammond Buckland, hunting down stolen artefacts and returning them to their rightful owners - for a fee. But when they stumble across an SOS from an imprisoned girl, they realise they're in over their heads. Because there are others looking for the girl. Corrupt governments. Ruthless corporations. Rogue assassins. Suddenly it's Ash and Ben at the top of everyone's hit list...and when you're about to break into the largest intelligence agency in the world to rescue a mysterious stranger, that's a seriously dangerous place to be. Smart, slick and explosive, this is teen crime fiction as its most compelling.

Sarah lives in Axe Falls — a town of mysterious disappearances, terrifying visions and unusual events.Sarah is used to being the odd one out. She lives on a boat, makes up tall tales, loves ghosts and will do almost anything to prove they exist.But when her search leads to the dilapidated hulk of a sunken ship, a terrifying monster lies in wait and Sarah begins to wonder...What's really skulking in the deep, dark water?And will anyone survive long enough to find out?

10 stories. 10 dangerous situations. 10 brave kids. 30 minutes to escape.George is trapped in a falling aeroplane with no engine and no pilot.Milla is covered with radioactive waste and her hazard suit is running out of air.Otto is in the darkest depths of the ocean, where something hungry is circling ...

Timothy Blake has nothing to lose. He's headed to an isolated house in rural Texas with a hammer in his pocket and murder on his mind. His target is Fred, the ringleader of a criminal empire on the dark web. Once Fred is gone, Blake can disappear for good.But it turns out that Fred isn't alone. Five other psychopaths live in the house. They work together and call themselves the Guards. Torture, extortion and death are their business. Blake manages to convince them that he's one of their online associates. Soon they think he's a monster, like them. They're not wrong.Blake decides to pick them off one by one. But when a Guard is found with a bullet in his skull, Blake realises that someone else in the house may have the same idea - and he might be their next target.Meanwhile, who are the desperate people chained up in the building behind the house? One of them will change everything . . .A bloody, twisted roller-coaster of dark action and suspense from the acclaimed...

Dale lives in Axe Falls — a town of mysterious disappearances, terrifying visions and unusual events.A family trip turns spooky when Dale finds an old, handwritten book, starting with the words:DO NOT STOP READING;MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT.Soon, strange things begin to happen. When a ghost appears in the lake and a cursed giant stalks him through the woods, Dale starts to wonder...What's really hiding in the dusty pages?And will anyone survive long enough to find out?

Brad has fallen into the lion enclosure, and the big cats are hungry! Charith takes the wheel of an out of control bus after an explosion. Iresha hears strange noises . . . from beneath the seabed. Daniel crawls into a waste crusher after a building collapse–and then it gets switched on. Tak's class goes on excursion to an army base and now an experimental military robot is hunting them.Jack Heath's ten more nail-bitingly dangerous short stories will fascinate and terrify during each full 40-minute count down, as the dangerous situations play out right down to the last crucial moment. Who will live and who will die? 40 minutes of danger, in 30 minutesof reading time!Based on average reading speed

Fero knelt down. As he put his hands up he turned his head to look at the man pointing the gun. It was Wilt. Fero tried to look shocked. 'Dad? What are you doing here?'Everyone seems to know who Fero is - except Fero. Is he a ruthless boy soldier from Besmar, or an innocent teen recruit from Kamau?He's running out of time to decide. If he doesn't help a renegade spy steal a politician's briefcase, his two countries could end up in a full blown nuclear war - the kind that no one wins.

30 dangerous paths. 1 brave reader. 30 minutes to escape. YOU CHOOSE THE PATH TO SURVIVE!You are strapped tightly into your seat on the bullet train. The mountain track is so steep, the aisle is a staircase. As the train accelerates at top speed, a passenger slips out of his seat and begins to fall to the back of the train. He will probably die. Do you unstrap yourself to save him, or do you stay in your seat?Countdown the minutes in Jack Heath's terrifying story of your survival — or your demise! You decide.Read the story in real time! 30 minutes to survive, in 30 minutesof reading time!Based on average reading speed