La Porte County Public Library System

"They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss...

Sebastian St. Ives tries to protect Amelia Haldwell, who, unbeknownst to herself, holds the key to freeing a bloodthirsty vampire, from the vampire's evil schemes, and from his own growing attraction to her.

An anthology of very short, scary stories by an assortment of authors and illustrators including Chris Raschka, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos, and Lane Smith.

Plantation heiress Ashley Donegal turns to an elite team of paranormal investigators who blend hard forensics with rare, often inexplicable intuition. Among them is Jake Mallory, a gifted New Orleans musician with talent that stretches beyond the realm of the physical, and a few dark ghosts of his own. The evil the team unveils has the power to shake the plantation to its very core. Jake and Ashley are forced to risk everything to unravel secrets...

You don't stay out after dark in Beacon Point... The small town of Beacon Point has always been plagued by eerie local phenomena. It's a town where disappearances are common, strange creatures have been sighted with unnerving frequency, and a ghastly secret lurks in the woods. The adults in town are oblivious to these strange occurrences. Others prefer not to talk or even think about them. But over the course of several terrifying nights, a group...

Hired as the mechanic for a traveling troupe of musicians, Tempest, gifted with the ability to communicate with animals, is astounded to discover an overpowering attraction to Darius, the troupe's leader.

"Emily Emerson is finally a senior at the Wildsmoor Facility. Here, the students live each day as shadows, one day blurring into the next while the symptoms of the Grimm-Cross Syndrome are trained out of them. For Emily, the Grimm means strange dreams and hallucinations that can be set free into the world. It was beautiful until it turned evil. Now she'll do anything to get better and get back to her life. She'll be more quiet and obedient than everyone...