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FOR THOSE WHO DARE THE IMPOSSIBLELaurel could stay home and watch her future crumble.Instead, she risks everything.Searching for a better future, she enters a mysterious stone world where everything is backward. Pretty is ugly and ugly is pretty. Unless Laurel completes the quest in three days, she may be trapped.You'll be drawn into the medieval world of stone masons and cathedral builders, entertainers and herbalists. And gargoyles. This haunting tale will become a legend in your heart and mind.MIRACLES COME AT A HIGH PRICEWill Laurel succeed? Impossible. She needs a miracle. Or two. This is a rich, surprising, and sometimes disturbing historical tale of gargoyles, and those who carve the creatures from solid stone. There's darkness in this cautionary tale for teens, that nevertheless pulls off not one, but two miracles, and brings Laurel home to stay. An apt, if unexpected ending. A brilliant coming of age, sword & sorcery tale.BUY NOW to follow Laurel's harrowing journey toward miracles.

After solving the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a prominent local man as well as her mother's disappearance, Marley's world has been turned upside down. In the second installment of the series, Marley wastes no time diving head first into a new case. This time, it's a terrifying roller coaster ride of scares, where her instincts and morals will be tested time and again. It's Halloween in Greenbriar and a mad man is on the loose, terrorizing young women on campus. When Marley's friend falls victim to his prey, she finds herself in her most dangerous assignment yet. Especially, when she discovers her handsome neighbor is her most likely suspect. Meanwhile, she is hired to investigate rumored hauntings at a historical hotel. Without a clue where to begin, Marley reaches out for help from an old high school classmate, who specializes in paranormal activity. All the while, a love interest resurfaces causing Marley to shed her inhibitions and open her eyes to new possibilities. Heart pounding twists and turns pave the way for an ending that you'll never see coming.

To protect their worlds, Olessia and Ryder must conquer the true enemy.The one that haunts them both.The one they see in the mirror.Ryder is human. Olessia is something else. At least, that is how it was to begin with. Now, the extraordinary secret that unites them could destroy the people and places they love. Running from an extraterrestrial ruler with a thirst for war, and the enemies who seek to use them to end his rule, the girls are forced onto very different paths. Isolated from each other and the strength their unity brings, Olessia and Ryder will have to confront their deepest fears alone.Because the power that haunts them, may be all that can save them.

The Mist in the Woods is one of many stories about the life and adventures of Gabby and her family. The stories take place on the family farm and with her grandmother Gigi. The land has been in the family for years and was originally purchased by her great-great-great-grandfather Patrick and his sister, Kathleen. Gabby faces many scary encounters, but her faith in God helps her to persevere.

She tried to ignore them. Now she might risk everything to save them.After a summer spent in a haunted castle-a summer in which she traveled through time to solve a murder mystery-Kat is looking forward to a totally normal senior year at McTernan Academy. Then the ghost of a little girl appears and begs Kat for help, and more unquiet apparitions follow. All of them are terrified by the Dark One, and it soon becomes clear that that this evil force wants Kat dead.Searching for help, Kat leaves school for the ancestral home she's only just discovered. Her friend Evan, whose family is joined to her own by an arcane history, accompanies her. With the assistance of her eccentric great aunts and a loyal family ghost, Kat soon learns that she and Evan can only fix the present by traveling into the past.As Kat and Evan make their way through nineteenth-century Vienna, the Dark One stalks them, and Kat must decide what she's willing to sacrifice to save a ghost.The Girl Who Saved Ghosts is The Haunting of Sunshine Girl meets Outlander. It's a fast-paced YA time-travel murder mystery novel that combines paranormal and gothic elements to create a story full of ancestral legacies, powerful spells, unexpected connections, and inherited destinies.2017 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Gold Medal Winner in YA Mystery/HorrorRelated subjects include horror and ghosts, family saga, Connecticut, New England, paranormal mystery, series, young adult, romance, and historical fiction.

It's the first day of summer in the swamps of South Louisiana. Twelve-year-old Cajun boys Billy Boudreaux and Nick Landry are preparing their "Swamp Camp" for an upcoming camp out when they encounter the elderly Mr. Pierre as he makes a mad dash to escape the legendary swamp monster, Rougarou. Breathless and terrified, he vows to abandon his home in the swamps of Pierre Part, Louisiana, and to never return. Doubtful that the creature is anything more than a myth and wanting to help their neighbor, Billy and Nick set out to solve The Mystery of the Rougarou. In the course of their adventure, they stumble upon the hideout of an escaped convict, Lufroy Aucoin, and his dimwitted cousin, Gator Bait. To make matters worse members of the hillbilly mafia, run by the ruthless Roscoe Clinton, will be arriving soon to purchase the stolen property Lufroy has stock piled at this remote location. After being captured, our young heroes must use all the skills and knowledge they have of this dangerous environment to not only make their escape, but to survive what will be the most difficult challenges they have ever faced. The boys will introduce you to the unique beauties of the swamp, unfortunately, with beauty, comes danger.

Lake Livingston: August, 1961.Mark Gaitlin is 15, the son of one of the wealthiest men in Texas, and on the most boring summer vacation of his life. His days are filled with the pomp and circumstance of country club life, while his nights are a parade of one embarrassment after another at the hands of giggling teenage girls.But the piney woods above Lake Livingston are dark at night, and hold many secrets for an impressionable youngster on the cusp of becoming a man. And one night, after skinny dipping in the lake with a mysterious local girl, Mark Gaitlin's life takes a crazy turn into the fire and brimstone religion of backwoods snake handlers and abandoned villages haunted by old family secrets. If he can survive the snakes and the ghosts and his own family's dark history, he just might make it out of the woods alive.And something else...he just might become a man.

"Isabel, once known as Wasp, has become leader of the fearsome upstarts, the teen girl acolytes who are adjusting to a new way of life after the overthrow of the sadistic Catchkeep-priest. They live in an uneasy alliance with the town of Sweetwater--an alliance that will be tested to its limits by the dual threats of ruthless raiders from the Waste and a deadly force from the Before-time that awaits in long-hidden tunnels. Years ago Isabel befriended a nameless ghost, a supersoldier from the Before-time with incredible powers even after death, and their adventure together in the underworld gave her the strength and knowledge to change the brutal existence of the Catchkeep acolytes for the better. To save Sweetwater, Isabel will have to unlock the secrets of the twisted experimental program from centuries gone by that created the supersoldier and killed his friends: the Latchkey Project"--Page 4 of cover.

An enchanted island. An evil resurrected. A society determined to gain power...When a violent attack leaves their father in the hospital, Abigail and Benjamin Cole discover there's more to their family history than mental illness.But after fifteen-year-old Abi is abducted, she learns the attack wasn't random. Thrust into an exotic and beautiful world part of a multi-millennial feud, she must decide who to trust in a society built on secrets. Questioning everything she's ever known, she enlists the help of a boy connected to her in impossible ways and uncovers a dangerous secret stretching generations.Seventeen-year-old Ben desperately tries to search for both his sister and his mother, but his hold on reality is fading. Something dark has latched onto him. In a race against his own failing mind, where violent hallucinations and paranoia force him to believe he's next in line for the family curse, he learns he's the only one that can save his family.When darkness is coming, who do you trust?Magic. Deceit. War. Perfect for fans of Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, and Leigh Bardugo.

A classic collection of spooky stories about spirits and goblins from ancient Japan.In the late 1800s, Lafcadio Hearn collected and retold strange and wonderful ghostly tales from old Japanese legends. In these stories, a blind poet must perform for members of a dead royal family; an old man gives up his life in exchange for blossoms on a wilting cherry tree; a man trying to comfort a strange woman crying in the dark recoils in horror on seeing her face; and a mandarin duck haunts the hunter who shot her companion.These are timeless and hair-raising stories in which humans and ghostly creatures co-exist. This new edition, with an introduction by Ruskin Bond, will leave readers spellbound.

Walk the paths that weave and turn under trees, through ferns, and over bridges. After emerging from the undergrowth, a fence blocks the way. Turn and go back, follow another path, and emerge, only to be blocked again by a fence. Unable to get out of the botanic gardens, we may end up stuck here forever to become the ghosts of the botanic gardens.

Chase Walker is beginning to doubt his own sanity. From the moment he turned eighteen, a strange paranoia has taken over his mind. It all started the moment he discovered his uncle's old watch...The watch calls to him. Though it beckons, he resists. His body strains toward it, blood pulsing, heart pounding in a mysterious and primitive need to connect with his uncle's old beat up watch.When sexy and mysterious Alyx saves his life, she promises answers. She talks of dimension travel, and wears a magical watch of her own…