Movies, Mobsters & Mayhem! Charlie Barnett loves movies. He's such a fanatic that he's become best friends with the manager at the local theater, Mr. Mankiewicz. But when the mob comes looking for a mysterious object and Mr. Mankiewicz is kidnapped,...
The human condition -- it’s what makes us sentient beings, what ties us together, and eventually causes us to face our own mortality. Here is a collection of fiction and poetry that explores the facets of being human -- both good and bad -- and off...
When the tortured body of fourteen-year-old Sarah Jo McElvoy washes up on the river's edge during a Fourth of July fireworks display, panic seizes Cedar Hill. And when another young girl goes missing just days later without a trace, detectives fear ...
Sometimes just surviving second period is an accomplishment... Zach Ziegler's mom says he's "big-boned." His grandfather referred to him as "strapping." His dad, whom he never sees much, calls him "Sporto." No one uses the F-word: fat. But Zach's a...
Sunny beaches. . . deadly secrets. St. Celine boasts secluded pink-sand beaches and sparkling turquoise waters just an hour's ferry ride from Nassau. In the wake of a personal tragedy, Sarah and Amy arrive for a week of sun and margaritas and may...
A legendary treasure…A secret palace…One big adventure! When 12-year-old Brock Ford is invited to Africa with his globe-trotting anthropologist uncle Dirk Armstrong, he jumps at the chance to ditch his boring hometown to spend the summer on s...
A lost goldmine... A forgotten ghost town... A terrifying creature! “Alaska is a huge place. Easy for a man to get lost and never be seen again.” These words ring in 12-year-old Brock Ford’s ears as he embarks for the frozen north with his ...
It waits. They came for adventure - a day of exploring the caverns and underground vistas of an abandoned tourist trap known as Devil's Catacombs. But something waits in the permanent night, something that knows their weaknesses, their desperat...
Across the sea... Over the desert sand... And into the tomb of a missing mummy! When 12-year-old Brock Ford joins his anthropologist uncle Dirk Armstrong on an expedition to Egypt, he never imagines he’ll be shipwrecked at sea and thrust into an in...
Some ghosts of Christmas past can haunt the present - again...and again...and again. On a dark December night in 1984 three teenagers committed a crime so heinous, so disturbing, they vowed to hide it and never speak of it - even to each other. B...
Just a quiet place to write...a place to clear his head...that's all he wished for. He left his family just after Christmas. Now author Lee Houston must spend the winter battling his addictions, his regrets, and one giant case of writer's block....
Lullaby...Now You Die Two years ago reluctant psychic Joel Roberts helped catch a violent child murderer. Now, a killer stalks pregnant moms in the sleepy college town of Cedar Hill and Joel may again be the key to solving the crimes. But Joel's miss...