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Dark Secrets

the deep end of fear
2003
Seventeen-year-old Kate returns to the estate where she lived as a child to tutor seven-year-old Patrick Westbrook. When Patrick appears to be in contact with Ashley, Kate's childhood friend who drowned in an icy pond, Kate is determined not to abandon him to the evil that threatens to destroy them.

Devolution

a firsthand account of the Rainier sasquatch massacre
2020
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined, until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing; and too earth-shattering in its implications to be forgotten.

Survivor song

a novel
2020
In weeks Massachusetts was overrun by an insidious virus that is spread by saliva. Rations are handed out as the commonwealth are placed under quarantine. Dr. Ramola, a pediatrician receives a call from her best friend Natalie, who is due to give birth in a matter of days. Natalie's husband was bit and Natalie herself as well. Her last chance of survival is to get to a hospital for a vaccine and to deliver her baby. Ramola knows she only has a few hours at most, as they fight for their lives through a hostile landscape.

Basketful of heads

2020
Heads will roll. June Branch is in trouble. She's trapped on Brody Island with nowhere to run. Her boyfriend, Liam, has been kidnapped. And four bloodthirsty escaped convicts will stop at nothing to find her. All poor June has to defend herself with is a strange Viking axe with the terrifying power to decapitate a person and leave their head still talking. If she's going to save Liam and herself, June will have to keep a cool head, or even a whole basketful of them!.

The low, low woods

2020
There's something in the woods. Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania, has been on fire for years. The woods are full of rabbits with human eyes, a deer woman who stalks hungry girls, and swaths of skinless men. And the people of Shudder-to-Think? Well, they're not doing so well either. When El and Octavia wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last few hours of their lives, the two teenage dirtbags embark on a horrifying journey to uncover the truth about the strange town that they call home.

Night of the mannequins

2020
A contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both?.

Escaping from Houdini

2018
In 1889, the ship Etruria departs Liverpool, England, for New York carrying Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her crime-solving partner, Thomas, a famous escape artist, and a cold-blooded killer.

Mongrels

2016
A coming-of-age story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.

Hood Academy

2019
Nestled deep within the forest lies a mysterious school dedicated to wiping out the werewolf population. But where exactly do werewolves come from? And why are children not bitten by a werewolf turning? Mia is about to discover the answers to these questions and more. When fifteen-year-old Mia's father is murdered, it's her estranged uncle that comes to the rescue. But what he offers her in return for his help could be worse than the life she's leaving behind. Taken to Hood Academy, a unique school deep in the forest, she discovers friendships, love, the courage to stand on her own; and werewolves. Is Mia destined to become one of the pack or will she be the hunter chosen to destroy them?.

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