Teen Mayhem Series

A girl with secrets. A bad boy in trouble. A community out to get them. Driven out of her friendship group, Sophia finds comfort in all the wrong places. The secret she keeps will tear her world apart and it’s easier to become involved in someone else’s troubles than face her own. Stepping out of her seemingly perfect life and model home, she finds a whole other world on her doorstep. Is it possible to sit in class with someone for four years without seeing their hunger, the holes in their shoes or the bruises on their body? What would you do? Awarded a 5* review from Readers' Favorite. Readers are saying, "Talented K T Bowes once again demonstrates her versatility as a writer with Free from the Tracks. She captures their trials as she develops their characters." If you like teen books with a dose of reality, you’ll love Free From the Tracks. Download at your own risk and stay awake tonight reading.

"She sat and picked the prickles out of her feet, hoping that nobody came looking for her. At least they all knew how she felt now. With any luck, by the time she had composed herself enough to get home again, there would only be good old Edgar left to pick up the pieces and glue her back together. Sophia pulled the last prickle out and hobbled over to the play park. The place was deserted and she was grateful for small mercies. The lady-vicar’s words came back to her, ‘This too shall pass,” bringing comfort and hope." Sophia has no friends at school and her home life is a disaster. The only person who has stuck by her is her boyfriend, Dane. The Year 12 boy is homeless, having put his baby brother and sister into foster care and in trying to help him, Sophia makes his dire situation a whole lot worse. Her actions open up a world of trouble for Dane, when a body is found at his old house and Sophia is forced to take even more risks to put her mess right. She had thought that Dane was changing from the 'bad boy' he had been, but overhearing a chance conversation, Sophia begins to doubt his character and must choose between helping him or letting him lose absolutely everything. Friendless and alone, she finds help in unexpected places and learns that forgiveness can be harder to accept, than to give.

“You hate too many things, Cal,” he sighed, brushing stray curls away from her face. “Your heart doesn’t have room for it all.” When Callister Rhodes runs away from home, she expects to leave her problems far behind. Persuading a classmate to take her into the bush on Mount Pirongia, they stumble on a secret that is not easily forgotten and its menace follows her back to Hamilton, staining her new life with old, familiar wounds. What happens in the bush should stay in the bush, but it won't. As the consequence of what they did wraps itself around the teenagers, they find themselves in danger. Calli realises all too late that the demons in her past have come full circle and want payback. The treacherous New Zealand bush offers Calli love and salvation before snatching both cruelly away. But in her quest to find escape she is forced to test her own limits and ultimately, find herself. This storyline contains issues such as mental illness, self-harming and the theme of rape is touched upon, but not explicitly. Blaming the Child has earned five stars from Readers' Favorite and a top genre winner's seal in the Authors' Cave Book Awards 2014 in the romance genre.

Seventeen and in love, Sophia Armitage has the world at her feet. Until her father starts acting weird. Why would a man who’s never shown an interest in social media create a secret Facebook page and start talking about moving south? As her life begins to unravel, Sophia’s convinced her father’s involved with an online catfish. She and bad-boy heart throb, Dane, set out to stop Edgar making one of the worst decisions of his life but when he puts the family home up for sale, they realise it might be too late. Heading to the southern city of Palmerston North to hunt down the woman manipulating a vulnerable man, the teenagers discover the difference between fishing and phishing first hand and break their own relationship in the process.