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Ripley Patton lives in Portland, Oregon with one cat, two teenagers, and a man who wants to live on a boat. She is an award-winning short story writer and author of The PSS Chronicles, a young adult paranormal thriller series.

Seventeen-year-old Olivia Black has a rare birth defect known as Psyche Sans Soma, or PSS. Instead of a right hand made of flesh and blood, she was born with a hand made of ethereal energy.How does Olivia handle being the girl with the ghost hand? Well, she's a little bit morbid and a whole lot snarky.Her mother thinks her obsession with death, black clothing, and the local cemetery is a bid for attention. But when Marcus, the new guy in Olivia's calculus class, stares at her like she's a freak, Olivia doesn't like it. And when her hand goes rogue, doing things she never imagined possible, Olivia finds herself running for her life with Marcus from a group of men bent on taking the power of her hand for their own nefarious purposes.*GHOST HAND was a semifinalist for The Kindle Book Review 2013 Best Indie Book Awards in the Young Adult category and a 2013 Cybil Award nominee. GHOST HOLD, the second book of The PSS Chronicles in now available on Amazon and other fine e-book retailers.GHOST HEART, the third book of The PSS Chronicles is now available on Amazon and other fine e-book retailers. GHOST HOPE, the fourth and final book of The PSS Chronicles will be released Spring of 2016.For more information on The PSS Chronicles and to keep up-to-date on releases, giveaways, and other great bookish stuff, subscribe to Ripley's Author newsletter by copying and pasting this link into your browser: eepurl.com/M7sEb and submitting the form.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Teen & Young Adult

Olivia Black is back. Only this time she's not the one in need of rescue. Samantha James, rich, popular, and an award-winning composer at age seventeen, is the next target on the CAMFers' list. In order to convince Samantha to come with them, Olivia and Passion must pose as cousins, blend into the most affluent high school in Indianapolis, and infiltrate a mysterious cult known as The Hold. Olivia doesn't expect it to be easy, even with the PSS guys backing them up. But what she discovers over the course of the mission will call into question everything she ever believed about herself, her family, and especially about Marcus, the guy she is undoubtedly falling in love with.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Teen & Young Adult

In the aftermath of a brutal tragedy, Jason and Passion are on the run. Marcus is lost beyond reach, and The Hold is in shambles. If that weren't enough, Olivia Black has been taken by the CAMFers to be used as Dr. Fineman's personal lab rat in his merciless quest to uncover the mysteries of Psyche Sans Soma once and for all. But only if he can break her. They are scattered. They are devastated. They are ruined. Their only hope is Olivia's stubborn determination to thwart her captors and unlock the secrets of her ghost hand before Dr. Fineman can. Will she finally find the strength within herself to embrace the full power of her PSS? And will it even matter if Marcus has already betrayed her?

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Teen & Young Adult

Olivia Black does not feel safe. Nightmares plague her sleep and haunt her days. If she has to endure one more minute stuck in a safe house in rainy Portland, she's going to lose it. When Mike Palmer sneaks off to find her sister Kaylee without her, it's the last straw. She has to do something. Then Palmer's hackers find the Dome on a satellite feed: dark, abandoned and smack in the middle of the Oregon desert three hundred miles from where it started. If they can reach it before anyone else, they can crack the computer systems and access every piece of information on PSS the CAMFers and The Hold have ever collected. But in order to do that, Olivia must return to the origin of her fears in a race against all the forces that have ever pitted themselves against her. She must unravel decades of deceit to reveal the true origins of Psyche Sans Soma to the world at last.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Teen & Young Adult

Mike Abbot doesn't want a trip to Crater Lake National Park, or a puppy, but his dad seems to have forgotten he is seventeen, not seven. None of his dad's efforts are going to fix what is broken, or restore what they've lost, but Mike is afraid, if he points that out, he might lose the only parent he has left. When Mike takes the puppy on the trail around the crater to do its business, a strange sign rises out of the morning fog to warn him: Keep animals leashed at all times. Pets have been known to vanish over the rim. And when the dog does just that--vanishes over the crater's edge--it seems the universe and the strange village nestled outside of time on Wizard Island have plans for Mike that will change both worlds forever.AWARDSOver the Rim was nominated and short-listed for a 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novellette/novella.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Teen & Young Adult