mystery

Twins Roderick and Madeline Usher live in their ancestral home which has become a house of doom. The house is cracked and divided by a fissure from the roof all the way down to the foundations. Roderick is a man of the world who has returned home because he feels agitated and nervous. Madeleine has never left the house and has lived by herself. She suffers from a mysterious illness that is characterized by apathy, a gradual wasting away and attacks of catalepsy. After one of her attacks, Roderick decides she's dead and entombs her in the cellar under the house. However, Madeleine is not dead and she breaks out of the cellar to get her revenge.

As Becca and Johnny plot revenge against the person responsible for the car accident that killed their loved ones, they discover that nothing is what it seems--either with the crash or with each other.

Lady Kiera Darby is in Scotland in 1831. After a tumultuous courtship she is thrilled to have found an investigative partner and a fiance in Sebastian Gage. When she is commissioned to paint the portrait of Lady Drummond, Kiera sees the sadness in her eyes. And then one day she finds Lady Drummond on the floor. The doctor and Lord Drummond appear satisfied that her death is natural. But Kiera is not so sure---she suspects poison. But can she prove it and not imperil her own life?.

Young Caldan's parents have been murdered so the boy is raised by monks. Grwoing up, Caldan is plagued by questions about his parents and his past. When he ventures outside the monastery, he finds the world is a darker place than he imagined. As he continues to hone his sorcery skills, he finds he does not fully understand his power nor how a shadowy evil manipulates the unwary. Soon the world will be plunged into an age-old conflict that will bring the world to the edge of destruction and then Caldan must choose a side.

Sixteen-year-old Kia is a quirky loaner with an ironic sense of humor. When her father dies, he discloses a secret to her alone: he possesses a magnificent diamond that he has been hiding for years. Fearing that he stole it, Kia keeps it a secret too. She soon discovers that the diamond is from the distant colonized planet of Malem and that the planet is responsible for her father's death. Now she is convinced that it is illegal for any off-worlder to possess a Malemese diamond. When her training as a translator is finished, she is assigned to Malem and soon begins to unravel the origins, and dangers, of the mysterious diamond.

The year is 2021. Sara if focused on a film career that she hopes will start at the UCLA Film School---if she gets admitted. She has set her sights on the tag WH2RR??, the graffiti tag that is appearing everywhere. Whose is it? Why is it appearing all over? What does it mean? As Sara sets out in pursuit of the elusive tag artist, her father, a retired solder turned investigator, is also looking. But if he knows what's going on he's not telling Sara.

Moving to a new school, Krystina finds more than she bargained for in a fourth floor that is only pretending to be a storage room, stairs that lead to an abyss, and a goth djinn with an attitude who likes to play with fire.

When she returns home to find her father dead, mother missing, and a message of "run" written in blood, fifteen-year-old Rylee flees with her brother to determine the truth about who she really is and what is happening.

A young bodyguard and thief in the service of the magical Sinclair mob family pursues vengeance against power-hungry Victor Draconi who murdered her mother and plans to kill every member of her employer's family.

When unconventional high school student Amanda Valentino disappears, her three closest friends, who are from very different circles, band together and, using enigmatic clues that seem to come from Amanda herself, try to find her.