New Release Books by Danielle Vega

"Hendricks discovers that even though Steele House is gone, the hauntings in Drearfield are far from over -- and it''s up to her to stop them"--

ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY''S "BIGGEST AND BEST YA BOOKS OF THE SUMMER" From Danielle Vega, YA''s answer to Stephen King, comes a new paranormal novel about dark family secrets, deep-seated vengeance, and the horrifying truth that evil often lurks in the unlikeliest of places. Clean slate. That''s what Hendricks Becker-O''Malley''s parents said when they moved their family to the tiny town of Drearfield, New York. Hendricks wants to lay low and forget her dark, traumatic past. Forget him. But things don''t go as planned. Hendricks learns from new friends at school that Steele House--the fixer upper her parents are so excited about--is notorious in town. Local legend says it''s haunted. But Hendricks isn''t sure if it''s the demons of her past haunting her ...or of the present. Voices whisper in her ear as she lays in bed. Doors lock on their own. And, then, one night, things take a violent turn. With help from the mysterious boy next door, Hendricks makes it her mission to take down the ghosts . . . if they don''t take her first.

"Page-to-page Stephen King-style terror..."--Booklist "The Merciless is chilling...think ''Mean Girls'' meets ''The Exorcist.''"--MTV.com "Pretty Little Liars fans, get a sneak peek at your new favorite book The Merciless...a nail biting thriller."--Seventeen Magazine Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she''s here. No one can hear her scream. Sofia Flores knows she shouldn''t have gotten involved. When she befriended Riley, Grace, and Alexis on her first day at school, she admired them, with their perfect hair and their good-girl ways. They said they wanted to save Brooklyn. They wanted to help her. Sofia didn''t realize they believed Brooklyn was possessed. Now, Riley and the girls are performing an exorcism on Brooklyn--but their idea of an exorcism is closer to torture than salvation. All Sofia wants is to get out of this house. But there is no way out. Sofia can''t go against the other girls...unless she wants to be next. By the shockingly twisted end, readers will be faced with the most haunting question of all: Is there evil in all of us?

The fourth book of the scream-worthy cult series The Merciless combines Stephen King-level terror with true crime stories like the Amanda Knox case. The ropes tighten on Berkley Hubbard''s wrists. Blood drips down her fingers and lands with a smack on the cold floor of the church basement. She''s trapped, bound, and petrified by fear. A knife punctures her fragile skin as Berkley''s captors search for the mark of the devil on her body. They say they want to save her--drive the devil away and cleanse her soul--but will she make it out alive? When Berkley arrived in Italy a week ago, the last thing she expected was that she''d end up fighting for her life. After spending six months at the Institute, confined to a room with the dangerous-yet-alluring Sofia Flores, Berkley was certain that a vacation in Italy with her two best friends would be the perfect getaway. But Berkley is hiding a terrible secret, one that threatens to undo everything. As she''s forced to face her wicked past, she learns that the devil is always watching, and no one is coming to save her.

Experience the terrfiying first two Merciless novels - the series MTV calls "Mean Girls meets "The Exorcist" - in one volume. Sofia Flores should have known better. In The Merciless, Sofia found herself friendless and lonely in a new school. She jumped at the chance to join pretty, popular Riley''s clique of good girls. They told her they needed Sofia''s help. Their former friend Brooklyn was going down a dark path and it was up to them to save her. Sofia didn''t realize they believed Brooklyn was possessed. What happened that night changed Sofia. After, she was plagued by visions of blood and chains. Brooklyn''s screams. Her own narrow escape. Sofia hoped for a fresh start and in The Merciless II, she got her wish. When her mother died, Sofia was sent to St. Mary''s, a Catholic boarding school where she planned to put her past behind her. A new love named Jude looked like her chance at redemption. But when Sofia opened up to him about her past, Jude became convinced that they should find a way to save her soul... The first two books in the Merciless series will have you up all night, wondering: Is there evil in all of us?

The fourth book of the scream-worthy cult series The Merciless combines Stephen King-level terror with true crime stories like the Amanda Knox case. The ropes tighten on Berkley Hubbard''s wrists. Blood drips down her fingers and lands with a smack on the cold floor of the church basement. She''s trapped, bound, and petrified by fear. A knife punctures her fragile skin as Berkley''s captors search for the mark of the devil on her body. They say they want to save her--drive the devil away and cleanse her soul--but will she make it out alive? When Berkley arrived in Italy a week ago, the last thing she expected was that she''d end up fighting for her life. After spending six months at the Institute, confined to a room with the dangerous-yet-alluring Sofia Flores, Berkley was certain that a vacation in Italy with her two best friends would be the perfect getaway. But Berkley is hiding a terrible secret, one that threatens to undo everything. As she''s forced to face her wicked past, she learns that the devil is always watching, and no one is coming to save her.

Horror queen Danielle Vega finally reveals the sinister mystery of how a teen girl named Brooklyn became the epitome of evil in this terrifying prequel to the series MTV calls "Mean Girls meets The Exorcist." Brooklyn knows that there’s no good without evil, no right without wrong. And when a helpless girl calls her teen helpline, whispering that someone is hurting her, Brooklyn knows that she needs to save her anonymous caller, even if it means doing something bad. Her parents and friends assure her the call was probably a prank—but Brooklyn has always had a tendency to take over, whether someone has asked for help or not. She discovers the call came from Christ First Church and finds herself plunged into the cultish community of its youth group. She''s especially drawn to Gavin, the angelic yet tortured pastor''s son. Torn between an unstoppable attraction to Gavin and her obsession with the truth, Brooklyn is forced to make a devastating choice to rid Christ Church of evil once and for all. . . . But the devil has plans for Brooklyn’s soul.

Ever since Sofia''s involvement with an exorcism she has been haunted by bloody visions, and when her mother dies suddenly she is sent to a creepy Catholic boarding school in Mississippi where she meets the mysterious Jude who becomes convinced that Sofia is possessed by the devil.

Fresh out of rehab for oxycodone addiction, Casey and some of her friends attend an all-night rave called Survive the Night in the New York City subway, and find themselves fighting for their lives because drugs are not the only danger here--something is using the rave to attract victims, and some of them will not be coming back.