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Sixteen-year-old Tom Cavanagh--a survivor of past trauma who suffers from anxiety--befriends Alice, a new girl at his school and the former inhabitant of his home, hoping to rescue her from the secrets she seems to be concealing.
Tom's family have moved into their dream home, but soon he notices that something is very wrong: there are strange messages written on the wall and locks on the bedroom doors. On the outside. The previous owners have moved...
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"No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind. As she...
3) Locked Doors
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A thrilling, gripping tale of fear, menace, and mystery in which Miss Adams becomes enmeshed, when she plays the double game of nurse and detective in a large, eerie house where doors are barred at night!
4) Locked Doors
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Travel to a haunted house in the Wisconsin forest with twelve-year-old Lillia Pameroy to discover the truth about the man who lives there? Lillia, with her brother Charlie and Grandaunt Nora, arrive at their destination, a lumber baron's mansion on the Wisconsin River. It seems abandoned until they meet Walter, the sweet, but forgetful old man who lives a lonely life in the big empty house. Soon Lillia realizes that it's not really empty...secrets...
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From the darkest of shadows After a year wrongfully imprisoned in an asylum, Louisa Turnhill can't believe it when Robert, Lord Fleetwood, arrives to rescue her. As her new guardian, he's there to take Louisa to his London town houseand a different life. to the dazzling swirl of the ton Thrust into an unknown world of debutantes and balls, Louisa starts to put her trust in Robert. But his life is tainted with darkness, too. With society's eyes upon...
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It's not easy being a gay man in Utah, but it's even more difficult when you're young and overweight. Jay has never fit in with the general "club culture" and he knows he'd never be attractive enough to catch a one-night stand, much less a boyfriend. Losing himself in books and school alleviates his loneliness, and he doesn't waste time dreaming about what he can't have. Until he meets the new director of the GLBT Center on campus and promptly falls...
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Charles is determined to create a better life for himself. But while he strives for business success and personal happiness during the day, his nights are plagued by bizarre and disturbing dreams.The Last 'Lock the Door' Dream is an engaging psychological novel following a man's quest to heal the emotional scars left from his abusive childhood and learn the truth about where he comes from. Readers gain insight into Charles' most private thoughts and...
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Montana Randall stands at a fork in the road contemplating college or career. A trip to Vegas to wind down after a grueling semester with her best friend, she's regrouping and putting her life into perspective. Some call it fate; others call it destiny, perhaps just a chance meeting, her life catapults in an entirely new direction. Carson Cavanaugh, "the good-boy rocker" lives his life immersed in concerts, fans, and paparazzi. The rock star with...
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One man, not sure where his next job would come from, is employed by God where he will compassionately care for society's least fortunate--the mentally or emotionally ill, when they transition into the psychiatric hospital system. I am that man. This is my story of working in the psychiatric system, usually in a hospital setting.
This volume is a telling of twenty-nine years of caring for and about people who, but for the grace of God, could be...
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A collection of eight suspenseful tales from one of the century's finest crime authors With stories published when the author was in her seventies and eighties, this collection proves that after five decades writing crime fiction, Dorothy Salisbury Davis has lost none of her edge. In "Christopher and Maggie," based on Davis's own experiences during the Great Depression, a traveling magician stumbles upon a murder victim. In other stories, a woman...
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Henrietta Achilles, the heir of a legendary wizard, has a serious plumbing problem. When flooding from the wizard's house threatens to destroy everything around it, Henrietta must rally a group of unlikely allies to stop the deluge. Alongside Captain Booner's soldiers and Nate Flemming's motley bandits, Henrietta travels into the house's depths, a journey that brings danger...and discovery.
Soon Henrietta encounters one of her uncle's lost creations―and...
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