Frank Carlson Library

Written by USA Today bestselling author K.L. MiddletonA modern-day tale of adventure, romance and witches.When shy, eighteen-year-old Kendra meets the new guy at school, Tyler, she can't help but be drawn to his irresistible charms. Soon, she agrees to visit his family's new shop, Secrets, and is drawn into a world that takes her breath away. Unfortunately, where magic reigns, so does danger, and she is forced into an adventure that leaves her racing...

I'm not a hero. I'll never be that guy. No matter how much she makes me wish I could… My life isn't truly mine. Working for the mafia means my loyalty is to the family. Love and marriage aren't for me. I can't be what Serafina needs. What she deserves. But that doesn't stop me from wanting her. From taking her. From possessing her. She's the only comfort I've known for years. My light in the dark. And it doesn't matter. Because keeping her...

MORMAMA is a riveting supernatural, southern gothic tale from Kit Reed, the author of Where. Dell Duval has been living on the street since his accident. He can't remember who he was or where he came from. All he has is a tattered note in his pocket with an address for the Ellis house, a sprawling, ancient residence in Jacksonville. He doesn't know why he's been sent here. In the house, Lane and her son Theo have returned to the ancient family home-their...

The world's greatest evil stalks the world's greatest ship, and the only one who can stop him hasn't been born yet.Jamie Collins is a junior at Santa Clara University in 1986. He has friends, a professor who mentors him, and a promising future as a writer.Then the dreams begin - nightmarish memories that transport him back to a time and place fifty years before he was born: Titanic's maiden voyage in 1912.When Jamie discovers a foreign cell in his...

A desperate mother summons the spirits as her infant son's last hope...but what if she's wrong? A group of women hold a séance on a dark and snowy winter's night to summon forth wisdom from beyond the grave in order to save a sickly child. But, what is the real nature of the spirit that answers the summons? And, will they have to call forth something even worse to save them from what their séance brings?

A deliciously Gothic and atmospheric novel, one for fans of Susan Hill and Andrew Michael Hurley 'A writer who never ceases to surprise' Jenny Offill, author of Weather On a November evening in Victorian London, the moneyed but listless Edward Monteith stokes the fire at his local gentlemen's club, listening to stories of supernatural experiences and theories of life after death. His curiosity leads him to a séance, where he falls under...

From Scout Media comes A Haunting of Words-the third volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world. In this installation, the reader will experience a multi-genre journey beyond traditional haunts; from comedy, to drama, fantasy, romance, and horror, these stories put eclectic spins on the every-day ghost tale. Whether you are running from the ghost of a vengeful mother, falling in love with an apparition,...

I am William Lee: brute; liar, and graveside thief. But you will know me by another name. Heathcliff has left Wuthering Heights, and is travelling across the moors to Liverpool in search of his past. Along the way, he saves Emily, the foul-mouthed daughter of a Highwayman, from a whipping, and the pair journey on together. Roaming from graveyard to graveyard, making a living from Emily's apparent ability to commune with the dead, the pair lie,...

What Must We Sacrifice to be Forgiven? Samuel Fisher has committed a sin of biblical proportions-he killed his own brother, Jacob. Haunted by guilt and talked by a vampire out for his soul, Samuel starts down the same dark path of destruction that led to his brother's death. A captivating coming-of-age story unlike any other, Plain Fear: Forgiven pits redemption against temptation, love against fear, and simple faith against the intricacies of sin...

Would the contents of your bookshelf get you burned as a witch in the past? Throughout history, women accused of being witches and put to death by burning, stoning, hanging, or drowning were women who were smart, educated, healers, single, widowed, old, overly social, confident, too beautiful, too ugly, sexual, subversive, and deviant. Witches have been most often portrayed as evil, living solitary lives in the forest, eating children, and communing...