Lost & Found

Shea and Darik are engaged to be married but when Darik disappears, Shea discovers he’s told no one about their plans. So did he ditch her or is he in some kind of trouble? The more she tries to find out what happened to him, the more secrets she uncovers until she finds one that looks like it’ll be her last.

Category: teen suspense, mystery.

Speed Trap

Lorrie is coming off a bad case of mono and is slammed with work she has to make up if she is to graduate on time. It isn’t long before she accepts a little something to help her stay awake, and not long after that when she finds herself embroiled in a mess people don’t get out of. She’s determined to find a way before her whole family winds up on a hit list.

Category: teen suspense, mystery.

See Kerry Run

Kerry runs. It’s her standard method of dealing with life, running away from troubles. But now running cross country might get her into college and she doesn’t want to lose that opportunity, so when trouble arrives in the form of twin little boys with a wild tale, she has to stand and face the problem.

Category: teen suspense, mystery.

Party Line

Mark is shy around girls so he uses the anonymity of the telephone party line to eavesdrop, maybe learn something about the subject. But girls are disappearing, girls he’s certain he heard revealing things about themselves on the line. If he doesn’t help, no one will because no one else believes him.

Category: teen suspense, mystery.

Cross the Line

Noah’s father suffers PTSD and it is Noah who holds things together. He really just wants his life to be normal, but when he decides someone has been kidnapped and needs rescuing, he sets off a chain of events that will end explosively, and far from the normalcy he longs for.

Category: teen suspense, mystery.

Krazy 4 U

Abbie should be having the time of her life. Her parents are on vacation and she and her brother are home alone, in charge, with no one to boss them around. But Abbie seems to be dead center in someone’s sights and they don’t want to be friends! Abbie can’t trust anyone, not even her own best friend.

Category: teen suspense, mystery.

The Dead Game

It starts out fun, just a way of blowing off steam at the people who succeed by cheating. Then it gets deadly. It’s a game that won’t stop playing, even after the players quit.

Category: teen suspense, mystery.

Mother's Helper

Becky’s idyllic summer job as a nanny is maybe not so perfect after all. Someone is lying, someone is dangerous, someone tries to commit murder. And if Becky can’t figure out who is who, she might not make it off the island alive.

Category: teen suspense, mystery.

Final Exam

Kelly doesn’t like taking tests. She freezes. It’s her senior year and the pressures to succeed are enormous. When the pranks start she thinks it’s just someone letting off steam, but before the end she’ll be fighting not just to graduate, but to stay alive.

Category: teen suspense, mystery.

Gathering Indio

The first Star Children book.

Elaine sees something amazing happen, a thing that draws her in and tangles her up with mysterious ferocious children and a strange, not-quite giant. Elaine thinks she’s only making a special delivery to a new friend but she’s actually being recruited for a fight against evil.

Category: middle grade and adults.

Mr. Jones's Bones

Mac wants to build a radio so he can talk to his mom in heaven. One of his friends worries because Mac’s success doesn’t seem too likely, and the other friend has a few issues of his own. The main one: he kind of thinks he’s a dog.

Category: middle grade and adults, a little bit metaphysical.

Best Friends Forever

In Ronnie and Sarah’s last summer, they are passing out of childhood with its frogs and trees to climb and bikes to ride. Instead, a war halfway around the world begins to impact Ronnie’s own family. The girls try to understand, but sometimes, when things get too bad, you can’t understand them, you just have to stop them.

Category: middle grade and adults, coming of age.

Belle in the Shadows

Tired of being ignored, Belle makes a daring move that will change everything. There are things that simply cannot be undone, secrets that will never go back in the box no matter how hard she wishes. Now there’s no way to go but forward and that’s the scariest way of all!

Category: middle grade and adults, mystery, metaphysical.

A Certain Spot in the Woods

Casey has a huge school project due. She also has two very strange things going on in her life—visits from someone in the dream world, and a spot of dread in the woods that only she can feel. Strange things are no excuse for not getting your homework done though, even if you might not last long enough to hand it in.

Category: middle grade and adults, mystery, a little bit metaphysical.

Bad Alphonso

Caleb is in a very bad place. He’s locked in a room in the middle of nowhere. He just wants to get free and find out if his mother and his sister are alive. But there is something more than just a locked door holding him back, something in his own mind.

Category: middle grade and adults, a little bit metaphysical.

The Waiting Room

Sheila is getting beaten to death. There will be no help from the police, the neighbors or friends. There is a strange room, though, on what seems like another world. Is it a place to live, or a place to die?

Category: middle grade and adults, metaphysical.

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Without Uncle Joe

Uncle Joe has a tendency to disappear, usually for just a day or two, and the kids carry on without him. This time he doesn’t seem to be coming back. How long can four children fool the world that they’re okay? And ARE they okay?

Category: middle grade and adults, drama.

Angel of Mercy

Introducing Eden Riley.

Murder with a metaphysical twist. Eden is searching for the truth but sometimes the truth is just too hard to believe, especially when it’s been buried for 25 years.

Category: adult mystery, a little bit metaphysical.

On Angel Wings

The second Eden Riley book.

Eden is asked to help an accused murderer. That’s about the last thing she wants to do, but she owes the favor. There are hidden agendas and the more sidetracked she gets in her investigation, the closer she is to unwittingly fulfilling them.

Category: adult mystery, a little bit metaphysical.