stalkers

Your front door key is not unique. If a homicidal maniac walked from house to house for long enough, trying the same key in each front door, he might eventually open yours. Six-year-old Emilee finds this out the hard way when a smiling stranger coolly unlocks her suburban front door. He walks in and brutally attacks her family, then seems to vanish into thin air. Fourteen years later, the traumatic event haunts both Emilee and Gabriella, the homicide detective who handled the case. Together, they discover that similar home invasions have happened across America for decades. And when they launch a hunt for the 'key killer, ' they start to wonder if unnatural forces could be at work.

Cam has been taking care of his family since his father's death, but when the man who killed his father seems to be stalking the family, Cam fears he is unable to handle the task and is unsure where to turn for help.

Gwen Proctor escaped her serial-killer husband and saved her family. What she can?t seem to outrun is his notoriety. Or the sick internet vigilantes still seeking to avenge his crimes. For Gwen, hiding isn?t an option. Not when her only mission is to create a normal life for her kids. But now, a threatened woman has reached out. Marlene Crockett, from the remote town of Wolfhunter, is panicked for herself and her daughter. When Gwen arrives in the small, isolated rural community, Marlene is already dead?her own daughter blamed for the murder. Except that?s not the person Marlene feared at all. And Gwen isn?t leaving until she finds out who that was. But it may already be too late. A trap has been set. And it?s poised to snap shut on everyone Gwen loves. Her stalkers are closing in. And in a town as dark as Wolfhunter, it?s so easy for them to hide.

Patrick Cusimano and his brother, Mike, become the pariahs of their town after their father kills a boy while driving drunk, seemingly attracting people with troubled pasts to themselves--like Caro, Mike's girlfriend, and Layla Elshere, a goth teenager whose friendship Patrick distrusts, as well as Layla's sister Verna. Toxic relationships lead them all to a crisis of friendship and trust.

Yasmin, a high school misfit who desperately wants to fit in, notices a strange, sinister-looking man stalking Alice, the most popular girl in the school. Yasmin develops a relationship with him despite her resolution to use him to become a hero.

Fifteen-year-old Cal continues to survive the 365 day countdown as a fugitive, enduring all kinds of perils, including stalkers, the hostile desert, and breaking into Oriana's safe to copy her fingerprint.

Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. But the war isn?t over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not since she received a chilling text? You?re not safe anywhere now.

Gina Royal is the definition of average; a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband's secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor, the ultimate warrior mom. With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with her husband's crimes, Gwen dares to think her kids can finally grow up in peace. But just when she's starting to feel at ease in her new identity, a body turns up in the lake, and threatening letters start arriving from an all-too-familiar address. Gwen Proctor must keep friends close and enemies at bay to avoid being exposed; or watch her kids fall victim to a killer who takes pleasure in tormenting her. One thing is certain: she's learned how to fight evil. And she'll never stop.

Presents a description of stalking, discusses the causes and effects of stalking, and offers advice on how to react to being stalked, and how to help others who are being stalked.

Introduces issues relevant to both male and female teen readers: the magic of romance, the importance of popularity, and what it means to be a teenager.