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Sarah Piper is sent to assist ghost hunter Alistair Gellis, who has been summoned to investigate the spirit of nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare. Soon Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle, for Maddy’s ghost is real, she is angry, and she has powers that defy reason.

After her ghost-hunting uncle dies, Oxford student Jillian heads to his village to pack up his things. Upon arriving, terrifying events convince Jillian that an angry spirit is trying to enter the house. Is it a ghost—or something more sinister?

In 1919, Kitty Weekes obtains a nursing position at a remote hospital for soldiers shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. But something more is going on at Portis House; the former occupants left abruptly, and all the patients seem to share the same, horrific nightmare.

London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter has been murdered at one of her own séances, after leaving a final message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter. But as Ellie delves into Gloria’s secrets, an insidious evil force begins to emerge—a force determined to bury the truth and those who seek to expose it.

Three years after her husband, Alex, disappears, Jo Manders travels to the family estate. But all is not well at Wych Elm House, and she learns things about the family that Alex never told her. Just as Jo begins to question the husband she knew, a stranger returns, claiming to be Alex.

An experiment in particle physics goes awry, and for a few moments, everyone’s consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. When the world reawakens, all human life is transformed by foreknowledge.

Identity Theft is a hard-boiled detective novella set on Mars. Cassandra and Joshua Wilkins are fossil hunters who have both recently transferred their minds into artificial bodies, but now Joshua has mysteriously disappeared. Cassandra must hire Alex Lomax, the only private detective on the Red Planet, to locate Joshua before sinister forces get to him.

After a hurricane, Eliza Elliot is cleaning up an old lighthouse and finds a letter confessing to a decades-old murder. She’s soon involved in an investigation.

Told from the perspectives of both humans and chimpanzees, A Beautiful Truth is about Looee, a chimp raised by a compassionate human couple in Vermont who cannot conceive a baby of their own. When Looee’s two natures collide, this unique family is forever changed.

More than just another baseball story, this soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based is about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive.