Ten Twisty Tales is a collection of gripping stories suitable for readers of 13 and above. They are all standalone, and explore a range of themes, from deceitful friends to thorny relationships and family crises. Some are darker than others, although there's often a glimmer of light shining through.
"Shani Struthers is my Queen of Horror." Not every back road takes you home It's just another day at the Mason Town Museum, where Shady Groves and Ray Bartlett work, alongside their boss Annie Hawkins. Not that the museum is ordinary, it's home to objects infused with energy, often of the destructive kind. The three regard themselves as caretakers, seeking to dispel that energy, in turn protecting the unwitting public, whose hands they could otherwise fall into. No ordinary museum, and no ordinary day either, not when Beth Wick arrives, having read about Annie and the team online. In her hand, she clutches something, half a golden heart hanging from a cheap chain. It belongs to her recently deceased sister Kim, and the other half of the heart to her brother Ethan, who's been missing for two years. When she thrusts the chain into Shady's hand, Shady - who is gifted in the art of psychometry - is immediately plunged into a nightmare world, one in which a distraught Kim demands she finds her brother, her spirit unable to rest until she does. Failure is not an option. Whilst Annie tends to the museum, Shady and Ray travel with Beth back to her hometown of Wyatt, South Dakota. There they discover a web of secrets and lies, a man called Johnny, once a teenage bully, but now the town's darling, and backroad after backroad, one in particular - the Spook Road - a myth attached to it that may just prove significant. Download today or READ FOR FREE in KU: Psychic Surveys Series: Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage Psychic Surveys Book Five: Descension Psychic Surveys Book Six: Legion Psychic Surveys Book Seven: Promises to Keep Psychic Surveys Book Eight: The Weight of the Soul Psychic Surveys Book Nine: The Devil's Liar Psychic Surveys Companion Novels: Eve: A Psychic Surveys Prequel Blakemort (Corinna's story) Thirteen (Ness's story) Rosamund (Rosamund Davis - Ruby's great-grandmother's story) Jed (the story of one of Psychic Surveys most loved and mysterious characters) This Haunted World Series: This Haunted World Book One: The Venetian This Haunted World Book Two: The Eleventh Floor This Haunted World Book Three: Highgate This Haunted World Book Four: Rohaise This Haunted World Book Five: Resistance Reach for the Dead Series: Reach for the Dead Book One: Mandy Reach for the Dead Book Two: Cades Home Farm Reach for the Dead Book Three: Walker Reach for the Dead Book Three: The Spook Road Jessamine Series: Jessamine Comraich Summer of Grace - A Standalone Mystery Thriller Christmas Ghost Stories Carfax House The Damned Season Wildacre Alice
In Remember Remember the four time travelling teenagers in the Temporal Detective Agency help the FBI solve the kidnap mystery of 2 USA presidents, and in the process get involved with the Gunpowder Plot and the establishment of Hollywood. In the adventure the TDA meet H G Wells, Thomas Edison, Napoleon, Al Capone and Guy Fawkes.
Flight of the Bluebird is a mystery adventure for readers aged 9 - 14, the second book in The Time Crystals series, suitable for fans of Harry Potter, A Wrinkle in Time and His Dark Materials.
Tell and You Die is a crime mystery with a hint of the paranormal. Suitable for readers of thirteen and above, perfect for fans of Holly Jackson, Karen McManus and Sophie McKenzie.
Darkness spreads like a poison and the Belladonna's influence grows ever stronger. The signs are increasingly evident but most people remain blind to the truth. Even in Arissel's underground streets, there are stirrings of rebellion and rumours of war.
A secret time portal. A desperate cry for help. Can a young girl alter her own fate and prevent impending catastrophe? The Time Crystals is a prize-winning time travel adventure with twists and turns and an exhilarating finale.
"No tale is ever complete. Stories go on forever and it is only we who end them."Several months have passed since James Fynch returned to his world, but not day goes by when he doesn't think about his extraordinary adventure. With the gold clock ticking more persistently than before, he knows that time is running out. Turning the dials of the clock, he finds himself once again in Arissel. Reunited with Will, Arthur and Aralia, the quest for Arvad's crystals begins again. The task ahead is daunting and the companions must use every skill they possess to fight against the rising darkness. James is determined to protect his world, but soon discovers there is nowhere to hide. Danger lurks everywhere, but the journey is far from over. Following nothing but a myth about the mystical island of Arvora, they face enslavement and death in their race to find the seastone...
A Young Adult Mystery Adventure set in Cornwall, by the 2013 winner of The Next Novelist. When fourteen-year-old Holly Champion's father sends her to an exclusive clifftop academy in Cornwall, she must race against time to save the people she loves and expose a chilling plot.
If you enjoyed His Dark Materials, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Prydain and Harry Potter, then you will love reading The Firestone. 'It was thirteen minutes past midnight when the airport screens went black'...James Fynch doesn't believe in magic, but his discovery of a coexisting world changes his destiny. The barrier between worlds hasn't been broken for centuries, but with dark powers rising, it is more fragile than ever before.In this magical world, James becomes bound to a quest for the firestone, one of four mythical crystals able to destroy the rising darkness. Although James doesn't believe in magic, he must find the firestone or else both worlds may fall...
"A cracking, breathless, plot with every sentence stiletto-heel sharp and witty." Richard Curtis. Blackadder, Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral.A lawyer running from the Russian mob. A jilted lover hard on his heels and a hitman who has them both in his sights. All three are on a collision course to a remote Scottish Island, and not all of them will be making it home. John Grisham's The Firm meets The Thomas Crown Affair and bumps into Whiskey Galore! on the way."Rough Music is a subtle, slick, swift-moving journey into the sinister shadowlands of finance and corruption. A most enjoyable, well-crafted debut novel that moves easily between different worlds, be it nature's wilderness or the more dangerous Badlands of our cities." Paul Doherty. The Brother Athelstan and Hugh Corbett mystery novels.
Fantasy, fast-paced action-adventure, comedy. Female protagonist, pirates, magic usage, dragons, fantasy creatures and races. Swords and sorcery, epic battles, personal demons. Where live, laugh, larceny meets death, doom, destiny.
It's NYPD's Detective Josie King's last day on the force. As farewell toasts are raised, she receives a text-message that stops her breathing. Olive, her one-year-old goddaughter, has been kidnapped! Now no longer a cop, and without the department's weight and resources behind her, she doggedly follows the clues the kidnapper sends her, determined to bring little Olive home!She knows it's personal. Someone is messing with her head, but who and why? With the clock ticking down and the hours shrinking, Josie finds Olive isn't the only person close to her being targeted by a monster from her past.
Comraich - Gaelic for Sanctuary - that's what this ancient fortress of a house in the Highlands of Scotland has offered its generations, a haven from the world beyond.The nesting instinct kicking in, a pregnant Jessamin decides that Comraich, which she shares with her partner Fionnlagh Maccaillin, needs refreshing. Getting to work in one of the spare bedrooms she makes a startling discovery, one that pulls her into a world of the intense and disturbing passions of others that have been here before.Jessamin has to decide.Will delving deeper into Comraich's history bring hope and peace to this troubled house or return her to a darkness she's only recently left behind?
From the world of New York's Catholic Cathedral, to the secret and treacherous brotherhood of a Black Forest monastery. And onward to a Vatican conclave to elect a new pope. This is the second novel from Robin Driscoll of Alas Smith and Jones and the Mr. Bean TV series and films. Following the success of Rough Music, Robin has crafted a thriller full of verve and pace and introduces the fearless and engaging Josie King, as she delves into an underworld of religious fanaticism on a personal crusade for vengeance. "A breathless, compelling thriller with sinister religious fanatics, an engaging heroine, a shocking crime and a dark secret, The Unborn is guaranteed to keep you awake deep into the night," Lisa De Silva, Sussex Living Magazine.
Brookbridge housing estate has long been a source of work for Psychic Surveys. Formerly the site of a notorious mental hospital, Ruby and her team have had to deal with spirits manifesting in people’s homes, still trapped in the cold grey walls of the asylum they once inhabited. There’ve been plenty of traumatic cases but never a mass case – until now. The last remaining hospital block is due to be pulled down, a building teeming with spirits of the most resistant kind, the institutionalised. With the help of a newfound friend, as well as Cash and her colleagues, Ruby attempts to tackle this mammoth task. At the same time her private life is demanding attention, unravelling in ways she could never imagine. About to delve deep into madness, will she ever find her way back?
Jessamin Wade's husband is dead - a death she feels wholly responsible for. As a way of coping with her grief, she keeps him 'alive' in her imagination - talking to him everyday, laughing with him, remembering the good times they had together. She thinks she will 'hear' him better if she goes somewhere quieter, away from the hustle and bustle of her hometown, Brighton. Her destination is Glenelk in the Highlands of Scotland, a region her grandfather hailed from and the subject of a much-loved painting from her childhood.Arriving in the village late at night, it is a bleak and forbidding place. However, the house she is renting - Skye Croft - is warm and welcoming. Quickly she meets the locals. Her landlord, Fionnlagh Maccaillin, is an ex-army man with obvious and not so obvious injuries. Maggie, who runs the village shop, is also an enigma, startling her with her strange 'insights'. But it is Stan she instantly connects with. Maccaillin's grandfather and a frail, old man, he is grief-stricken from the recent loss of his beloved Beth.All four are caught in the past. All four are unable to let go. Their lives entwining in mysterious ways, can they help each other to move on or will they always belong to the ghosts that haunt them?
The latest in a long line of psychically-gifted females, Ruby Davis can see through the veil that separates this world and the next, helping grounded souls to move towards the light - or 'home' as Ruby calls it. Not just a job for Ruby, it's a crusade and one she wants to bring to the High Street. Psychic Surveys is born. Based in Lewes, East Sussex, Ruby and her team of freelance psychics have been kept busy of late. Specialising in domestic cases, their solid reputation is spreading - it's not just the dead that can rest in peace but the living too. All is threatened when Ruby receives a call from the irate new owner of Highdown Hall. Film star Cynthia Hart is still in residence, despite having died in 1958. Winter deepens and so does the mystery surrounding Cynthia. She insists the devil is blocking her path to the light long after Psychic Surveys have 'disproved' it. Investigating her apparently unblemished background, Ruby is pulled further and further into Cynthia's world and the darkness that now inhabits it. For the first time in her career, Ruby's deepest beliefs are challenged. Does evil truly exist? And if so, is it the most relentless force of all?
Welcome to the asylum…2015Their troubled past behind them, married couple, Rob and Louise, visit Venice for the first time together, looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Not just a romantic destination, it’s also the ‘most haunted city in the world’ and soon, Louise finds herself the focus of an entity she can’t quite get to grips with – a ‘veiled lady’ who stalks her.1938After marrying young Venetian doctor, Enrico Sanuto, Charlotte moves from England to Venice, full of hope for the future. Home though is not in the city; it’s on Poveglia, in the Venetian lagoon, where she is set to work in an asylum, tending to those that society shuns. As the true horror of her surroundings reveals itself, hope turns to dust.From the labyrinthine alleys of Venice to the twisting, turning corridors of Poveglia, their fates intertwine. Vengeance only waits for so long…
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