Every oath has a price. I came to Blackthorn to find out what my sister paid.They told me Cora killed herself. I didn't believe a word of it. So I lied my way into the only place that could give me the truth: Blackthorn University, where the ivy hides knives and the richest students in the world answer to a society that doesn't officially exist.I expected secrets. I didn't expect him. Lucian Thorne is the Court's heir: beautiful, glacial, and utterly without mercy. He shoul...

What if the last train of the night wasn't taking you home?Cole Whitmore knows the railway tracks outside Briarwood have been abandoned for decades.So when the sound of a train whistle cuts through the fog one night, he knows something is wrong.Then the Midnight Train arrives.Drawn toward its flickering lights, Cole steps aboard and immediately realizes he has made a terrible mistake. The passengers sit silently in the shadows. Some have no ...

What if the only friend who truly understood you had been dead for more than a century?Lucy is tired of being the new kid.Another move has brought her family to an enormous old Victorian house filled with dusty rooms, forgotten belongings, and enough creaking floorboards to make anyone wonder what might still be wandering its halls.Then Lucy hears a giggle.Footsteps cross empty rooms. Her mattress sinks beneath an invisible weight. A rocking...

Mara Quinn has never heard of the great-aunt who left her a shuttered Victorian in a dying New England mill town. She has heard of the clause. Live in the house for thirty consecutive days, and never count the rooms. Three months behind on rent, named on no lease, with no living family to call, Mara takes the train. The house is warm. The work comes easily there. The money starts arriving early. Then the tally marks on the cellar doorframe gain a line for every night she sleeps. A neighbor...

What if you looked through an old telescope and saw yourself looking back?Thirteen-year-old Isabelle expects to find little more than dusty boxes when she sneaks into her grandfather's forbidden attic. Instead, she discovers an extraordinary antique brass telescope covered in mysterious symbols.Her grandfather calls it The Watcher.And it doesn't show her the stars.Through its lens, Isabelle sees places she recognizes, but ev...

What if the stories about the forbidden woods weren't meant to scare people away, but to warn them?Hope has heard the legends for years. People disappear in the woods beyond Haven Brook. Strange whispers drift from between the trees. Those who enter either never return or come back changed.But they're only stories.At least, that's what Hope and her friends believe when a dare sends them across the tree line for one night in the forest.Almost...

What if the dollhouse you inherited wasn't a miniature of an ordinary house, but a doorway into something else?When Lily inherits an elaborate antique dollhouse from her great-aunt Helen, she isn't sure what to make of it. The tiny rooms are perfectly furnished, the porcelain dolls are strangely lifelike, and something about the old family heirloom makes her uneasy.Then one of the dolls moves.Soon, Lily hears tiny footsteps in the middle of the nigh...

What if the abandoned ship you discovered wasn't really abandoned at all?While exploring a secluded cove during a seaside vacation, Mia discovers an enormous sailing ship hidden between the cliffs. Weathered by time and covered in barnacles, the vessel looks as though it has been forgotten for decades.But something aboard The Silent Horizon is still waiting.Whispers call Mia's name from empty cabins. Ghostly sailors appear from the shadows....

What if your new substitute teacher knew secrets about your school that happened decades before he arrived?Wraithmoor High has always had its share of strange stories, but Brynn never expected to become part of one.It begins when a mysterious substitute teacher named Mr. Enoch appears at school. There is something unsettling about him from the start. He seems to know things he shouldn't, students begin behaving strangely around him, and impossible events st...

What would you do if you found your own name carved into a gravestone?Fifteen-year-old Morgan Beckett never expected an ordinary walk through the woods to lead her to a forgotten cemetery hidden beyond an ivy-covered stone archway. The graves are old, the stones are nameless, and the entire place feels as though it has been waiting for her.Then Morgan finds the one gravestone that isn't blank.It has her name on it.Soon, fami...

Some letters are written to be sent. Some are written because the not-writing has become unbearable.Two years after Hunsford, Elizabeth Bennet has revised everything she once thought about Fitzwilliam Darcy. The revision is thorough, honest, and entirely without consequence, because the man himself is nowhere in her life, and a corrected opinion with nowhere to go is simply something to be lived with.Then she comes to Pemberley as companion to his ...

Anglican priest and author Sabine Baring-Gould’s The Book of Were-Wolves has long prowled the edges of horror lore and been whispered about by devoted fans, but now, after decades, this ancient work reemerges in a stunning hardcover edition, introduced by modern horror master Stephen Graham Jones.The shadow manifested in your room. The figure in the trees. The howl carried across the moors. They all started here.When it first appeared in 1865, Sabi...