Fire Will Fall is the sequel to Streams of Babel which I did not read, but the story was still easy to follow and enough background was provided to set a suspenseful tone and conflict. The series is about a group of teens who survived a bioterrorist attack on the NY/NJ water system, and the two t...
When Christopher Creed, the class freak and whipping boy, suddenly disappears without a trace, everyone speculates on what could have happened to him. Soon fingers begin pointing, and several lives are changed forever.
A tiny pistol, passed from friend to friend at a party on an abandoned pier, suddenly fires, and Casey Carmody falls into the water below. Kurt, Casey's older brother, endures a seemingly endless night at the police station while the coast guard searches for his sister and his friends are questio...
The close-knit residents of Hackett Island have never seen anyone quite like Lani Garver. Everything about this new kid is a mystery: Where does Lani come from? How old is Lani? And most disturbing of all, is Lani a boy or a girl?Claire McKenzie isn't up to tormenting Lani with the rest of the hi...
Ella Diablo Agujero – She-Devil of the Hole. It’s a legend in West Hook, but not to Evan, who hears her shriek. One time, his brother Emmett got creeped out by the way he put his fingers in his ears and shouted that he heard The She shrieking, that he beat Evan so hard he bruised. Evan’s mom, cap...
AS DOBBINS DROVE us to the vacated store, I had a couple moments of sanity. Couldn't I have put this off until after the service tomorrow? Dobbins looked over at me a few times, and I guess he was wondering the same thing. The place was in Surrey, the next town over, which was about as quaint as ...
A lunatic talking to the moon? Then there were two sets of whispers. Suddenly, peals of laughter broke out at the place where I'd pointed. Not nice laughter. I thought of my high school cafeteria and tuna hoagies. A form jumped up, then another. The sound of the voices put them about ten feet awa...