When the PSI team is called aboard a luxury cruise ship to help with seemingly inexplicable yet terrifying incidents, they are hopeful that this case won’t be as destructive as their last. But, with tensions rising as the team tries to investigate, the chilling incidents send them tumbling into a downward spiral. Still wary and wounded from the events of their last case, the team finds themselves in deep water.
Will and his beloved dog, Whisker, hate being separated during the week – but at weekends, it’s Will and Whisker time. One weekend, as they’re playing, Will and Whisker get whisked into another world … a world of Moon Magic, where pack law reigns! For this is Wolf World, and as they navigate this strange new place, Whisker and Will’s relationship begins to change in unexpected ways – being a human in a world of wolves is a scary thing.
The first in a new series, readers are introduced to Anderson House, a retirement home for witches. Meeting its quirky and diverse cast of residents and their familiars, we learn that the witches have given up magic in retirement, that is, until one day, a boy arrives requesting help …
Tess lives in The Turns, a network of tunnels beneath the River Tees, with her Aunt Peg and the evil, imprisoned Unkle Darkwater. Tess longs to know about her past, her family background and how they came to live in this strange place.Tess must care for Aunt Peg, who’s mind is muddled, making Tess wonder if her aunt can continue to keep her safe, especially with Unkle Darkwater nearby ...
Jermaine, a boy who’s a budding filmmaker, finds himself at his great-great uncle’s Dead Yard, the Caribbean version of a wake. But when Jermaine eats one of the patties left out for his deceased relative before midnight, the boy ends up haunted by his uncle’s ghost. To help Uncle Carl crossover, an adventure ensues where Jermaine and his friends must first stop a terrifying monster known as Ole Higue from sucking the local kids dry of life.
Set in London in the year 1865, the reader is transported to a different time of servants, séances and secrets. A Grave Inheritance is a unique story featuring a fiery, female protagonist, Dolores Rain, who is convinced she is dying as her other family members have also passed away, leaving her with the family fortune. Dolores is certain that she will be next, despite being medically sound. However, she begins to question whether the deaths in her family were as a result of illness at all or is there something sinister at play? Soon everyone becomes a suspect …
Aptly recommended for fans of The Atlas Six, in I.V. Marie’s Immortal Consequences purgatory is a form of academia, in which the characters learn magic, reap souls, and stroll the extensive and atmospheric grounds of Blackwood Academy. However, there’s a catch: if you’re there too long, you begin to lose your memories.
The first in the Aurelain Cycle fantasy series, Fireborne begins amid a bloody revolution, before jumping to the present day. Told through the alternate viewpoints of two of the Guardians, a crucial part of the new regime initiated by the revolution, nine years previously. The Guardians are dragonriders, but not the dragonriders of ‘Before,’ when the noble born dragonriders exerted tyranny over the population of Callipolis. However, all is not as clear cut as one might think, with the Department of Propaganda controlling much of the narrative for the people.
The story of Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up, is so permeated within the culture of childhood that it’s often easy to forget that the story itself was first and foremost a play. Since it was first performed in 1904, successive generation’s experience of Neverland has often been mediated first through literary adaptation, and more recently film, so it is pleasing to see the story revisited in a book form which attempts to somewhat capture the magic of the theatre.
This book is packed with material for the young sleuth who is interested in ghosts, the supernatural and, indeed, in history and folklore. Written in a very accessible style, each double-page spread deals with a different aspect of the topic of ghosts. There is a wealth of information about everything from timeslips, to spirit photography, to enduring legends.
