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Seattle's homeless are turning up dead and mutilated, and zombies have been seen stalking the Underground. Harper Blaine, walker of the shadowy line between the living and the dead, sets out to find the source, and soon comes to realize she's tangling with an ancient evil.

After university researchers create an artificial poltergeist, the team leader suspects someone is faking the phenomena. When a student is murdered, PI Blaine Harper is asked to investigate. Stepping into the spirit world, she realizes the haunting may be very real. But that doesn't necessarily mean a ghost did the killing.

With the help of her sister's friend, Flin Brodie, Freya Hannen sets out in search of the legendary lost oasis of Zerzura in Egypt, which supposedly houses a mythic stone, and could help Freya find out the truth behind her sister Alex's mysterious death.

Seattle P.I. Harper Blaine is viciously attacked and murdered--but after exactly two minutes, somehow she returns to life. Now she's seeing strange things all around her--dark visions from the shadow world--and living a normal life may no longer be possible no matter how hard she tries.

During an endlessly rainy summer in the town of Elbow, twelve-year-old Bea and her misfit friends solve an unlikely mystery involving an unidentified dead man who is missing an eye, an evil surgeon, a ring shaped like an old castle, a bag of smelly intestines, and a helpful ghost.

When the destructive behavior of a new ship of vampirates results in the death of a prominent pirate, the Pirate Federation trains a new crew of vampire hunters that includes newly-appointed captain Cheng Li and pirate prodigy Connor Tempest.

Dr. Tony Hill must make sense of the perplexing death of a soccer star--but the footballer's demise is only a prelude to greater violence.

Irish girls Darcey and Nieve are best friends until the night Darcey's intended fianc�e Aidan drops his engagement plans to run off to America with Nieve. Still haunted by the betrayal, Darcey is shocked when she receives an invitation to their wedding--set to be held at Ireland's most exclusive resort, no less!

Yarbrough tells the story of a Mississippi history teacher who's determined to unravel the truth about one tragic day in 1962. Even as he pursues an affair with a long-lost friend, he wonders if she could hold the missing piece to this racially charged puzzle.

An interweaving of two love stories that span generations begins in the 1940s as Althea Barnes becomes enamored of both India and a Hindu priest, and continues with her granddaughter, who has an affair with a revolutionary in contemporary Peru.