california, northern

Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.

Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.

When private investigator Jim Bishop is sent to investigate corruption at a Northern California airport, he sets in motion a series of events that will lead Jim and hisboss on a desperate hunt for a master assassin.

In northern California, Julian Carter-Li and his friends old and new fight to save a grove of redwoods from an investment company that plans to cut them down.

It is the beginning of December. Oak fires are burning in the stately flickering hearths of Nideck Point. It is Yuletide. For Reuben Golding, now infused with the wolf gift and under the loving tutelage of the Morphenkinder, this Christmas promises to be like no other . . . as he soon becomes aware that the Morphenkinder, steeped in their own rituals, are also celebrating the Midwinter Yuletide festival deep within Nideck forest. From out of the shadows of the exquisite mansion comes a ghost - tormented, imploring, unable to speak yet able to embrace and desire with desperate affection . . . As Reuben finds himself caught up with the passions and yearnings of this spectral presence and the preparations for the Nideck town Christmas reach a fever pitch, astonishing secrets are revealed, secrets that tell of a strange netherworld, of spirits - centuries old - who possess their own fantastical ancient histories and taunt with their dark, magical powers.

April Taylor, her parents dead, estranged from her older sister, and alone after the death of the uncle with whom she had been living, is taken in by a kind elderly woman and her deaf granddaughter, and through their friendship and love learns to trust herself--a quality that comes in handy when danger appears on the doorstep.

Eliot and Fiona, fifteen-year-old orphans who live in their grandmother's strict household, learn that they are the children of a goddess and Lucifer, Prince of Darkness; the gods and fallen angels devise tests for the children as the custody battle wages on.

California sheriff's deputy Rhoda Swift reluctantly joins forces with author and journlist Guy Newberry in an attempt to solve a thirteen-year-old multiple murder--a case that is revived when a copycat killing occurs on the anniversary of the massacre.