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Local legend Lawrence Ambrose knows the secrets of everyone in town, and he isn't above spilling the beans in a tell-all biography. But when his biographer turns up dead and the manuscript goes missing, it's up to Sarah Booth Delaney to dig up the truth.

Broke, unmarried, haunted by the nagging ghost of great-great-grandmother's nanny, and about to lose the family plantation, Sarah Booth is in no condition to fall in love and investigate a murder, but she finds herself doing both.

When a big New York theater production comes to Zinnia, Mississippi, murder takes center stage--and Southern belle turned P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney, it turns out, is the star suspect.

Andy Dufresne was no ordinary "lifer." He was in Shawshank State Prison for two murders he didn't commit. His posters kept him sane by giving him hope.

Jones details the horrifying events set in motion by a tragic childhood incident. When med student Hale is called home by his ailing mother on Halloween night, he and a group of friends are trapped in an inescapable cycle of violence.

In this collection of flesh-crawling tales, each author contributes one deliciously twisted selection. A writer unearths dangerous truths in backwoods Mississippi and a man's sanity--and life--are threatened by disturbing visions. Then, in the third and final tale, two children are forced to face off against terrifying ancestors.

Short stories, journal entries, family records, and letters maintained by the Repository of History, the center of the Blue Blood's power, reveal secrets of Manhattan's vampire elite dating to the dawn of history.

Jason thinks his worst problems are his recovering alcoholic mother and his workaholic father -- until some unexplainable events occur. After a nightmare that he can't seem to recall, Jason finds a cryptic message on the bathroom mirror: REMEMBER. Suddenly, he is dragged into a world of the supernatural, where he has no command of his own actions, and the people closest to him are in grave danger.

A Mississippi backwater harbors a growing evil. After David Hunter learns of his estranged father's death in a freak boating accident, he travels to the famed author's home in the quaint burg of Mason's Corner to discover the man he never knew--and something terrifying about himself.

Wedding fever has come to Bon Temps, Louisiana! Unfortunately, buxom, blonde, beautiful, and telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie is not the bride-to-be, so she takes the opportunity to travel to New Orleans on family business. As heir to the estate of her newly dead cousin Hadley, Sookie unearths a big secret. Soon it becomes clear that more than a few people will do anything to stop Sookie from looking into Hadley's past.