Ghost Mountain

Grand Cayman Island. AJ Bailey wishes she could forget her friend’s tragic death. Yet, the crystal-blue Caribbean offers none of its usual comfort. Especially when an expedition brings her across the floating, naked body of a drowned teenager. Haunted by the memories of her lost friend, AJ involves the local police service before moving on with her business.

Ghost Mountain is a mountain that appeared yesterday, changing the lives of the local people; the town drunk, a retired teacher and her dog, a young soul and his wife, an old soul. It is a story about all that is unmistably present, yet never truly fathomable in our lives.

New Guinea became the site of one of the World War II's most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign: to march 130 miles over rugged mountains and to protect the right flank of the Australian army as they fought to push the Japanese back to the village of Buna.

There are secrets deep in the Appalachian Mountains that are as old as time. Magic, mysteries, the macabre. Secret societies, feral people, the fae, and wandering spirits that the world forgot. These six stories bring the timeless folk story tradition of Appalachian Kentucky storytelling into modern times with contemporary settings. These are the witches and the wanderers of Ghost Mountain.

Life is about to change for Brian Henderson, now that he knows the secrets of Beach Drive. Unbeknownst to Brian and the others, they have brought something else home with them after their misadventure in the forest. The spirit of a mountain man has followed them to Frederickport with a secret of his own.

“Spellbinding.” —Rick Perlstein * “A clever, fast-paced read of dazzling originality.” —William I. Hitchcock “An excellent new book, both important and unsettling” (The New York Times), Ghosts of Iron Mountain unravels the astounding origins and far-reaching impacts of a...

The vivid account of a world-leading conservationist’s efforts to find, study, and protect snow leopards, revealing the challenges facing a beautiful, fragile world in the midst of a major transition Snow leopards have a special grip on the human imagination, a symbol of the mysteries that...

Step into the haunted past of the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachian Trail is a place of natural beauty—but also of unexplained horrors. For centuries, travelers have reported eerie whispers in the fog, shadowy figures between the trees, and chilling encounters with spirits that refuse to rest. In this collection, 15 terrifying true ghost stories are brought to life through immersive, narrative-driven retellings. From legendary haunted cabins to mysterious vanishings and encounters with vengeful spirits, these chilling tales will make you think twice before stepping into the woods at ...

Matt Lee, the sole survivor of a bloody battle with a band of Indians, stepped into insanity. For two years, Matt Lee, in his madness, would become the Ute Indians’ greatest enemy; they started calling him - Ghost. Matt Lee stepped back over into the land of the rational the day he rescued a Ute princess from a mountain lion attack. Forever grateful, she would become his wife, Walk with Ghost. Follow this Kurt James western adventure of redemption and revenge of a man the Indians called “Ghost” as he battles Indians, racial hatred, mountain lions, avalanches, bounty hunters, and ...

From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad, the migrants spent years dynamiting tunnels through the snow-packed cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laying tracks across the burning Utah desert. Their sweat and blood fueled the ascent of an interlinked, industrial United States. But those of them who survived this perilous effort would be pushed to the margins of American life and then to the fringes of public memory.

Try being one of the passengers on a plane that’s bound for a mountain. That’s exactly what happened to Flight 18. And now the passengers are in for one hell of a surprise. Because Frost Mountain is more than your average snowing resort. Crawling with shifters, monsters and bloodthirsty killers that just won’t give up, this magical dimension soon turns out to be the worst place anyone could ever end up. Another interesting fact about Frost Mountain? No one leaves. Ever. Trapped in the freezing cold and struggling to survive against all odds, these unlucky passengers must weather the ...

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The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the 20th century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked the devastating war in Chechnya.

Kelsey Heston is more than just a pretty face. There’s a whip-smart brain behind those model-beautiful looks. She’s been running the family’s Kentucky horse farm, but now plans to use those brains to improve the tourist trade at her grandfather’s Montana dude ranch. But tangled accounting books aren’t the only complication Kelsey has to deal with. What is her old college sweetheart, Max Lee, doing here? The man who’d broken her heart when he’d put family duty before her. Had Kelsey made a mistake coming to Ghost Mountain Ranch?

Mountain men honor a debt...it will probably cost them their lives Claude and his two friends have wintered with their adoptive Crow clan. They can't forget their companions massacred by the marauding Piegan Blackfeet. The thought of their remains scattered where they fell haunts them. They vow to return and bury the bodies and to avenge their murders. What they find, what they experience, will drive them to the edge of madness.

Thirty years ago, torn by shock and guilt over the death of her mother, Darby York fled the dude ranch where she’d grown up in Montana. In her new life in the bluegrass of Kentucky, she’d become a horse groom, an artist, married a wealthy Thoroughbred owner, raised twins, and been widowed. But now, with word her father is growing feeble, Darby has to finally face the truth: no matter how far you run, the past has a way of catching up. Her father hadn’t been the only man Darby had left behind. Would the boyfriend she’d abandoned still be there?

Some rules are meant to save you. Others are built to trap you.Father Thomas Davies hides behind the rigid protocols of his collar. Exiled to a failing parish in the remote mountains of Tolland’s Gap, Colorado, he expects a quiet, bureaucratic end to his career. Instead, he finds an impossible, terrifying order.Inside the cavernous sanctuary of St. Jude’s, the children's play area is rearranging itself. Heavy theology texts and brightly painted wooden toys are stacking themselves into flawless, gravity-defying towers.It isn't a demon. It’s an echo. It is the ghost of an eight-year-old...

Slade Heston has been around horses his whole life. But growing up as a “rich” boy in Kentucky Bluegrass country is nothing like spending the summer as a hired hand at a Montana dude ranch with his mother, Darby, and the grandfather he never knew. A Western saddle, complete with saddlebags, doesn’t make him a genuine cowboy. Unlike his twin sister, with her perfectly planned life, Slade’s still trying to figure it all out. What he never expected was his attraction to a pretty visiting writer.

MOUNTAIN SPRINGS COZY MYSTERY SERIES – Books 1-3 Book 1 – Missing, Presumed Unwed Book 2 – Curses, Fowled Again! Book 3 – Beasties and Butterscotch Pie Introduction Sharon Triplett’s life-change was to retreat to the majestic mountains, settle into her inherited family home with her two kids, plucky pet parakeet, Seymour, and try to recover from the tragic death of her husband, a hotshot, undercover, city detective. It was an elegant plan. It should have worked. But then, astoundingly, Seymour, began eerily communicating to her in her dead husband’s voice and Sharon’s life was...

Roberts writes stories from a wide variety of locations: "Night of the Hunt" in Hendersonville, North Carolina; "Return of the Bell Witch" in Adams, Tennessee; "The Shenandoah Stage" in New Market, Virginia; "Chain Gang Man" in Decatur, Alabama; "Fort Mountain" in Fort Mountain, Georgia; "Laura" in Campbellsville, Kentucky; and "The Coming of the Demon" in Middleway, West Virginia.