Books like Splinter by Sasha Dawn

At 17, Charlotte Davis has already faced the trauma of abandonment, abuse, and loss. Since her father and best friend are gone and her mother is unreachable, she learns to survive alone in a world that offers little compassion.

When Clay Jenkins discovers 13 tapes left by his classmate Hannah Baker, who recently committed suicide, he must confront the 13 reasons that drove her to end her life—one of which is him.

Turtles All the Way Down follows sixteen‑year‑old Aza Leonard, who battles obsessive‑compulsive disorder while searching for her missing friend and confronting the pressure to fit in at high school.

Two teens on the brink of heartbreak and despair find an unlikely friendship that turns their worlds upside‑down, teaching them that hope can bloom even beside the darkest thoughts.

When five Bayview High students gather for detention, one is murdered in a shocking twist of betrayal. With secrets, motives, and a hidden app, the mystery forces the four remaining classmates to confront lies and uncover the truth.

Thirteen‑year‑old Conor struggles with his mother’s cancer and the cruelty of reality until a mysterious monster offers him guidance.

A 13‑year‑old girl with a mentally challenged mother becomes obsessed with a mysterious word in her mother’s limited vocabulary, sparking a cross‑country quest to uncover family secrets.

Jade, a young woman haunted by a cult past, seeks safety and family after years surviving on the streets. With the help of former cop Luke Kelly, her journey to reunite with her father exposes lingering dangers and the secrets of her trauma.

The Hardy Boys investigate a string of strange incidents in their town, uncovering a plot involving robbers and kidnappers that threatens their friends.

Fourteen‑year‑old Cynthia Bigge returns twenty‑five years later to unlock the mystery of her family's sudden disappearance, while her skeptical husband Terry Archer faces new supernatural threats after a TV reenactment.

Tom Henderson, known as King Dork, discovers his late father's copy of *The Catcher in the Rye* and is thrust into a web of conspiracies, mysteries, and school‑wide shenanigans that test his identity and his quest for teenage romance.

When Rachel Knott’s hospice death raises questions, detective Deborah Knott and her husband investigate a killer among Colleton County’s tight‑knit community, uncovering a conspiracy that links a support group for caregivers, a con artist, and a quest for revenge.

A high‑school mystery grows when popular student Lizzie Lovett vanishes, drawing the town’s attention as classmates confront jealousy, loneliness, and the secrets they keep.

Seventeen‑year‑old Gwendolyn Bloom disappears her identity and journeys across Europe to rescue her missing father, even if it means becoming as ruthless as his captors.

Journalist Avery Chauvin is devastated when she receives word of her father's suicide. How could her father, a dedicated physician, have taken his own life? That he set himself on fire is unfathomable.Returning to her hometown of Cypress Springs, Louisiana, Avery desperately searches for answers. Instead she hears whispered rumors of strange happenings, of neighbors who go missing in the night. She discovers a box of old newspaper articles in her father's house, all covering the horrific murder of a local woman. Why had her father kept them?Then the past and present collide. A woman is found brutally slain. An outsider passing through town vanishes. And Avery begins to wonder, could her father have been the victim of foul play?As each step closer to the truth exposes yet another layer of deceit, Avery must face the fact that in this peaceful Southern town a terrible evil resides, protected--until now--by the power of silence.

After her younger brother Tyler’s suicide, Lexie must navigate grief, a fractured family, and strained friendships, while grappling with memories that linger all too vivid.

A young boy with amnesia wakes in Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art, and must unravel his past while stopping a massive art forgery plot.

A teenage girl named Wendy is kidnapped by her own mother, a Nazi spy, and taken from Maine to Berlin during World War II, where she must survive with the help of a loyal dog and an unexpected family."

Hayley Kincain and her veteran father, Andy, return to his hometown after five years on the road, hoping to restore stability and heal from Andy’s PTSD while Hayley seeks normal school life and a budding romance with Finn.

In 1920s New York City, Anna Van Housen, a budding magician, plays sidekick to her mother—an impostor medium—while secretly hiding her own genuine psychic powers.

A sixteen-year-old girl struggles to find her identity and her place in the world after her mother's unexpected kidnapping.