XGeneration is a teen paranormal thriller series inspired by classic superhero comics and the 1980s. This box set contains the first three books: You Don't Know Me, The Watchers, and Silent Generation.~~~ABOUT YOU DON'T KNOW MEIn the fall of 1984, Cold War tensions between Washington and Moscow are close to breaking. But in sleepy Gainesville, Florida, fourteen-year-old Janis Graystone is mainly worried about starting high school, earning a spot on the varsity soccer team, and keeping her older sister from running her life. And then there are her paranormal experiences. Experiences where she awakens in her backyard — out of her body — with the disturbing sense that someone is watching her. For Scott Spruel, the start of high school means the chance to start over. And he's willing to ditch everything — computer hacking, Dungeons & Dragons marathons, even his comic book collection (well, except for his X-Men) — if it means getting closer to Janis, the secret love of his life. But what about the eavesdropper on his telephone line, a presence he senses through powers he is only beginning to understand? As clocks tick down, Janis and Scott will need the other's help. But first they'll have to find one another and that means traversing Thirteenth Street High's caste system — a system that can be as brutal as it is unforgiving.ABOUT THE WATCHERSBeing a telepath is no picnic, something Janis is learning firsthand. In the wake of a brutal attack and new warnings of a group with dark designs on her powers, Janis finds herself withdrawing from those closest to her, even the friend she's falling for. Scott senses Janis's growing distance, and he'll do anything to help her. That's what friends are for, right? But will using his supernatural abilities only cement his deadly fate — the one Janis is trying to protect him from? Bad boy Tyler Bast has a secret. A few of them, actually. But what if someone else knows What Happened? The answer could destroy him. After all, some deeds are best left buried. As menaces converge and choices dwindle, Janis, Scott, and Tyler must decide: hide their powers or risk everything to confront ... the Watchers.ABOUT SILENT GENERATIONIt’s decision time for the teens of Oakwood: join the Champions and develop their supernatural abilities or be expelled from the neighborhood — and each other’s lives — forever. For Janis, there are no clear answers. It doesn’t help that she and Scott disagree over the Program’s intentions. Janis just wants to know what happened to the last team. Is that so crazy? And why does Director Kilmer seem determined to keep that information a mystery? Flashback to 1961 Washington, D.C., where shape shifter Reginald Perry is struggling with his own questions. Namely, who’s assassinating his fellow Champions? His quest will carry him deep inside the nation’s power centers, but can he resurface before becoming a target himself? Or has someone already marked the last Champion from that era for death? Past, present, and the pervasive peril of nuclear war merge in this explosive installment.

Playing fast and loose with the Order’s rules has finally caught up with me.Sentenced to hunt down a cagey insurgent known as the Death Mage, I’m not feeling overly optimistic. Wizards with far more experience have tried and, well … died.But overmatched or not, I want this assignment. The Death Mage killed my mother—he might also be my father.I need to play it smart, though. The mage wields an evil, mind-warping magic. A power that undermines his victims’ sanity while pledging their souls to an ancient being and devourer of worlds.How would I even know if that magic was corrupting me?Or is it already?

The journey is over.The quest for the Sun fallen to ruin.From the depths of a hopeless swamp, Iliff condemns himself. But when he encounters a dethroned king and his war-torn subjects, he stirs to new purpose: to protect these good people from the darkness of the world. It will be his redemption. Or will it? For the more fiercely Iliff struggles to fortify their light, the greater looms the enemy’s shadow — and his own.So continues The Prisoner and the Sun, the fantasy-based trilogy that asks: What lies beyond our walls?Lights and Shadows is approximately 68,000 words, or 270 print pages. It is preceded by Escape and followed by Final Passage.Appropriate for ages 10 and older

Fantasy adventure. Inspirational allegory. The journey of a lifetime.Young Iliff believes his prison world to be all there is. But when a stranger tells him the fantastic tale of a long-ago escapee, Iliff resolves to learn the truth. Thus begins his journey to find the Sun, a magnificent power from which all things are said to originate -- including him. But first he must venture beyond the very walls he is charged with upholding and into realms deep and dark, where fearsome creatures lurk.So begins the The Prisoner and the Sun, the fantasy-based trilogy that asks: What lies beyond our walls?Escape is approximately 50,000 words, or 200 print pages. It is followed by Lights and Shadows and Final Passage.Appropriate for ages 10 and older

Murder Creek, pop. 4999.For Janis Graystone and Scott Spruel, it’s the vacation they’ve long needed. No superhero training. No nation saving. Just a week of rest and relaxation, even if it happens to be with Scott’s screwy parents.But when someone breaks into their beach house and dogs begin turning up blood-drained, the pair of Champions are on the case. Scott suspects vampires, namely the motorcycle-riding hoodlums who loiter in the town’s amusement park, while Janis’s intuition speaks to a more pervasive evil, one that lurks in the town’s shadowy past.Soon enmeshed in a murder mystery, Janis and Scott must scramble to piece the clues together before the killer strikes again.Or strikes them.Cry Little Sister is the first standalone novel in the XGeneration collection, independent of the series’ overarching Cold War plot.XGeneration is a teen paranormal thriller series, inspired by classic superhero comics and the 1980s.Rated 14+ for language and moderate violence.

A deranged leader self-chosen to propel the Soviet Union to sole superpower.A cunning kingpin determined to revive a perilous global arms race.A Champions Program in its final days—and harboring a traitor.A doomsday device called the Dead Hand.A countdown to all-out war.This is it.