Frank Carlson Library

On the ocean floor off Hawaii, a new form of plant life is emerging, its seed sent from a planet which no longer exists. The plant, which is giving off gases that could wipe out humanity, is discovered by an archeologist during a dive with her son.

One hundred years ago, in the beautiful village of Secret Cove, Maine, on the night of the annual August Moon Ball, a shy and lovely servant girl committed an act so unspeakably violent that its legacy still lives. Now, the blood-drenched past of this small town is about to come to life once more--just in time for this year's August Moon Ball.

Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. and a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth. His sister is haunted by fearful visions. And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople.

The House: Lush and deceptively tranquil, with its pristine beaches and blossoming vegetation, the island basks in splendid isolation off the South Carolina coast. Here, where sudden storms unleash the murderous rage of wind and sea, stands the Devereaux mansion, a once-great plantation house now crumbling amid ancient oaks dripping with Spanish moss. Here, Marguerite Devereaux, fifty and childless, has cast off her dreams to care for her aged, demanding...

The Tanner family discovers that beneath the perfect facade of the town of Silverdale there is a monstrous evil harbored.

Cassie Winslow has just lost her mother in a terrible accident. Now lonely and frightened she has come to live with the father she barely knows and his new family in False Harbor on Cape Cod. For Cassie, the strange dreams that come to her in the dead of night are merely the beginning, and soon she will come to know the terrifying powers that are her gift.