Ripley Patton

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About Ripley Patton

Ripley Patton lives in a 22-foot camper in the woods of Southern Illinois with a cat named Lemmy. Her two young adult children, a daughter and a son, are her favorite people. When Ripley's not out exploring nature and getting her hands dirty, she's usually reading or writing a book.

Ripley is an award-winning short story writer and author of The PSS Chronicles, a four-book young adult paranormal thriller series. The first book in the series, GHOST HAND, was a semi-finalist for The Kindle Book Review 2013 Best Indie Book Awards and a Cybil Award Nominee.

You can find out more about Ripley and her fiction on her website at ripleypatton.com.

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Ghost Hand (The PSS Chronicles Book 1) Nov 28, 2012

by Ripley Patton

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Now a Complete Series to binge read this fall.

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.

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Ghost Heart (The PSS Chronicles Book 3) Oct 14, 2014

by Ripley Patton , Lauren McKellar , Jennifer Ingman

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Now a Complete Series to binge read this fall.

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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Ghost Hope (The PSS Chronicles Book 4) Jun 15, 2016

by Ripley Patton , Lauren McKellar

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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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Ghost Hold (The PSS Chronicles Book 2) Sep 27, 2013

by Ripley Patton

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Now a complete series to binge read this fall.

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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The PSS Chronicles: The Complete Set: Books 1-4 Oct 26, 2016

by Ripley Patton , Lauren McKellar

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Binge read over 1,500 pages in this compelling young adult paranormal thriller series with over 400 5-star reviews across the books.

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.

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Abbraccio Fantasma (Le Cronache della PSS, Volume 2) (Italian Edition) Oct 12, 2015

by Ripley Patton , Ernesto Pavan

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Olivia Black è tornata.

Ma questa volta non è lei ad avere bisogno di aiuto.

Samantha James - ricca, popolare e, a soli diciassette anni, musicista di successo - è il prossimo bersaglio sulla lista dei CAMFisti. Per convincerla a venire via con loro, Olivia e Samantha devono fingersi cugine, frequentare la scuola più prestigiosa di Indianapolis e infiltrarsi in una misteriosa setta nota come l'Abbraccio.

Olivia non si aspetta un compito facile, nonostante l'appoggio dei suoi compagni di avventura. Ma ciò che scopre nel corso della missione metterà in discussione tutto ciò che sa su se stessa, la sua famiglia e soprattutto Marcus, il ragazzo di cui si sta innamorando perdutamente.

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Mano Fantasma (Italian Edition) Aug 3, 2015

by Ripley Patton , Ernesto Pavan

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La diciassettenne Olivia Black è affetta da una rara anomalia genetica nota come Psiche Sans Soma, o PSS. La sua mano destra, invece che di carne e sangue, è fatta di energia eterea.

In quale modo Olivia convive con la sua mano fantasma? Condendo la sua vita con un tocco di macabro e molto, molto sarcasmo.

La madre di Olivia pensa che la sua ossessione per la morte, i vestiti scuri e il cimitero locale esprimano il suo bisogno di attenzione. Ma quando Marcus, il nuovo studente, la fissa come se fosse uno scherzo della natura durante la lezione di Algebra, Olivia non la prende bene. E quando la sua mano assume vita propria e comincia a fare cose che Olivia non avrebbe mai creduto possibili, la ragazza si ritrova a dover sfuggire assieme a Marcus a un gruppo di uomini che vogliono impadronirsi del potere della sua mano e usarlo per scopi nefasti.

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Crónicas Del Pss 1: Mano Fantasma (Spanish Edition) Jan 19, 2015

by Ripley Patton , Eduardo Ferrer E Iria Sánchez

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Olivia Black tiene diecisiete años y una rara malformación congénita conocida como Psique Sans Soma, o PSS. En vez de una mano derecha de carne y hueso, nació con una mano hecha de pura energía. ¿Cómo lleva Olivia el ser “la chica de la mano fantasma”? Bueno, ella es un poco siniestra y bastante sarcástica. Su madre piensa que su obsesión por la muerte, la ropa negra y el cementerio de su ciudad son solo cosas para llamar la atención; pero cuando Marcus, el nuevo chico en la clase de matemáticas de Olivia, se le queda mirando como si fuese un bicho raro, a ella no le gusta nada. Y cuando su mano se rebela y empieza a hacer cosas que ella nunca creyó posibles, Olivia se ve obligada a escapar junto a Marcus para salvar su vida de un grupo de hombres dispuestos a utilizar el poder de su mano para sus propios y perversos propósitos. Olivia Black acaba de empezar a comprender el enorme poder del que dispone.

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Over the Rim (A Fantasy Novella) Mar 5, 2013

by Ripley Patton

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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.

AWARDS

Over the Rim was nominated and short-listed for a 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novellette/novella.

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The PSS Chronicles (4 Book Series)

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From Book 1: Now a Complete Series to binge read this fall.

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.

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