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There is an unexplained presence at the Waterville Hydroelectric plant located by Pigeon Creek in North Carolina. Alex Bennett, a young security guard, encounters light anomalies each night that intensify over the course of weeks. Together with his girlfriend, Suzie, he unravels the mystery behind the light show. caused by a group of ghosts who have congregated there to find one of their kind.

Sarah Goodwin, a former ballerina has become a recluse due to an odd reason. After suffering a brain injury while performing, she sees strange visions around people's heads. Returning to Wesley, her hometown in upstate New York, she finds the beauty in living a simple life, ultimately realizing how much the town is a part of her being. The visions she sees help guide her in planning her life's path.

Chief Inspector Edward Wilkes is called to Hyde Park, London, where a skeleton is found at the bottom of Serpentine Lake. Eventually, another one is discovered, each found in a sunken rowboat, chained to a makeshift wooden cross. Wilkes and Smithers find themselves embroiled within an international mystery involving missing MI6 operatives, French double agents and a gold bullion robbery that occurred on New Year's Eve five years ago.

After receiving an urgent call from Seamus Wilkes, his Scottish cousin, interim Chief Inspector Edward Wilkes, learns that his brother, Jonathan showed up at his cousin's dairy farm injured from a gunshot wound. Eventually, Edward meets his brother and learns that Jonathan is a seasoned MI6 agent accused of murdering his partner during a courier exchange. Knowing his brother is innocent, Edward offers him a place to hide above a shuttered shop and enlists Smither's help as he starts to investigate what actually happened. The killer, an MI6 mole surfaces playing havoc with Inspector Willkes'...

While honeymooning in Ireland with his new wife, Colleen, Inspector Edward Wilkes takes part in a murder investigation of a hotel manager. Though not officially on the case, Wilkes helps Irish Inspector James Doyle solve this murder and another similar cold case where the victims were each found with a bloody red cross scrawled across their face.

A young brother and sister, Robbie and Becky, visit a renovated lake cabin in upstate New York, recently inherited by their father. A series of inexplicable events, including the appearance of apparitions, lead them to research the history of the cabin only to discover a tragedy that has been kept secret for more than half a century.

Detective Inspector Edward Wilkes of Notting Hill Station, London, is investigating an unusual case where an initially reported natural death turns into a murder investigation. A wealthy banker, Andrew Gibson, is found dead by his housekeeper, who assumed he was taking a nap. The murder evidence is a hypodermic needle found later at the scene of the crime, a couch in the victim's library. Wilkes and his partner, Smithers, look at Gibson's family, coworkers, and neighbors to piece together who could have committed this puzzling murder.

A young journalist, Helen Dillion, experiences paranormal activity while staying at her deceased Aunt Mabel's beach cottage at Breakwater Beach, located on the shores of Mattituck, Long Island. She encounters apparitions not inside the house but while she enjoys nightly beach fires. Helen is initially unnerved until she realizes her visitors are all connected to her deceased aunt, and their stories harken back to earlier times in this quaint North Fork village.

In the world of Spinfire magic is a part of everyday life, especially in the Dragon sanctuaries where society’s most ancient creatures grow to maturity under the care of their keepers. In the distant past, Dragons were wild, but as food supplies dwindled Spinfarians built sanctuaries as a means to avoid Dragon extinction. Beryl, a young apprentice helping out at her Aunt's Sanctuary, bonds with a newborn Dragon, Boram, and discovers she alone is able to communicate telepathically with her newfound friend. Through Boram, she learns that Dragons are not inarticulate beasts but rather ...

Vermont school teachers, Gladys and Frank Sutter decide to take on a new summer job as caretakers for a large vintage home located in Maine. The Stanford house is in terrible condition on the inside, the result of many years of hoarding by the previous owners. The Sutters get more than they bargained for when it becomes evident they are not alone after Frank discovers a room with no door on the second floor. Soon the presence of two ghosts, a young girl and an elderly man, play havoc on Gladys and Frank during their summer restoration project.

Inspector Edward Wilkes is on the case again. Joined by his loyal partner, Clive Smithers, the two men work to unravel the dark secrets of a mysterious journal found hidden away in an antique secretary. The journal, they learn, details a decades-old murder whose clues had long run cold. Could this be the missing link in the case, or will it leave them chasing down a trail of mere fiction contrived by a group of mischievous young authors? Will the testimony and evidence found prove the work a hoax, or will it confirm that the book is, in fact, a murder journal?

When fifteen year old, Beth Ashford inherits an expensive key pendant from her missing Aunt Elizabeth's jewelry, her life changes dramatically as the necklace starts to guide her on a quest to find out more about her Aunt's disappearance. The Key possesses mysterious powers that increase as Beth searches for answers about her Aunt's fate. From the author of Clara's Haunted Violin and The Mysterious Fantasy Cube Series, Celeste L. Hessler tells a tale about the importance of family, love, and friendship.

Detective Inspector Edward Wilkes of Shepherd’s Bush Station, London, is faced with a puzzling case. Eileen Steuben, a physical therapist at the local Veteran’s center, tells Wilkes that one of her clients has lost five of his close friends in just the past year and a half, all under suspicious circumstances. With his partner, Clive Smithers, Wilkes investigates the friends and close associates of veteran Chester Hawkins, trying to determine if these deaths were strange coincidences or the acts of a deranged murderer.

There's something unusual about the old beat-up violin Clara's mom won in a country auction. More astonishing than the exquisite sound it produces when played is the beautiful spirit woman who's summoned each time the instrument is pulled from its case. Abby, whose soul is mysteriously bound to her former violin, forms a unique bond of friendship with Clara and teaches her all she knows about music and life as she once knew it, until shadows from her former existence threaten her safety in the human world. From the author of the riveting The Mysterious Fantasy Cube Series, Celeste Hessler ...

As colorful as the puzzle upon which its based, The Mysterious Fantasy Cube is a compilation of three continuing tales that brings the reader into a world created within a cursed Rubik’s Cube. Author, Celeste L. Hessler takes readers on a journey into the culture of speed cubing and beyond to Kibur, a fantastic world of magic and mystery. Appropriately fast paced and fun, like the dynamics of speed cubing, follow Jeff and Allyson as they race against the clock to beat the cursed cube once and for all!

Lost Dragons of Spinfire is the second book in the Dragons of Spinfire series. The story of Beryl and her dragon, Boram, continues. Fishermen find an unconscious dragon on Oralia Beach by the capital city of Tonnat who is brought to Beryl's reserve, a place where dragons train to lead independent lives. This dragon is unlike any other since its scales are scarlet red. As the red dragon recovers, Boram and Beryl communicate with him, learning he came to get help for his colony, which is in deep peril. Eventually, Beryl and Boram travel with others to Spier's home, the Dead Isles, a desolate ...

This story begins on April Fool's Day when Chief Inspector Edward Wilkes receives an anonymous email that warns of impending murders. The message was no prank; rather, Wilkes soon discovers that a bizarrely planned series of murders would consume the whole CID office and reach as far as cold cases within MI6. The emails did not stop, the murders did not stop, and even Wilkes' own family becomes a target. In the most demanding case yet, Wilkes and his team struggle to find a pattern that links a diverse series of crimes.