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Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather. . . . It was no ordinary murder. Though the torture and abuse that killed him were real, Andy Gage's death wasn't. Only his soul actually died, and when it died, it broke in pieces. Then the pieces became souls in their own right, coinheritors of Andy Gage's life. . . .While Andy deals with the outside world, more than a hundred other souls share an imaginary house inside Andy's head, struggling to maintain an orderly coexistence: Aaron, the father figure; Adam, the mischievous teenager; Jake, the frightened little boy; Aunt Sam, the artist; Seferis, the defender; and Gideon, who wants to get rid of Andy and the others and run things on his own.Andy's new coworker, Penny Driver, is also a multiple personality, a fact that Penny is only partially aware of. When several of Penny's other souls ask Andy for help, Andy reluctantly agrees, setting in motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy the stability of the house. Now Andy and Penny must work together to uncover a terrible secret that Andy has been keeping . . . from himself.

Leading Up To The Highly Anticipated Arrival Of Odd Apocalypse This Summer, Catch Up With Odd Thomas In Odd Interlude, A Special Three-part Ebook Series By #1 Bestselling Master Of Suspense Dean Koontz! Here Is The Spine-tingling 58-page Third Installment Of This Super-charged Stand-alone Odd Adventure. There’s Room At The Inn. But You Might Not Get Out. Nestled On A Lonely Stretch Along The Pacific Coast, Quaint Roadside Outpost Harmony Corner Offers Everything A Weary Traveler Needs—a Cozy Diner, A Handy Service Station, A Cluster Of Cottages . . . And The Harmony Family Homestead Presiding Over It All. But When Odd Thomas And Company Stop To Spend The Night, They Discover That There’s More To This Secluded Haven Than Meets The Eye—and That Between Life And Death, There Is Something More Frightening Than Either. Includes A Preview Of The Next Thrilling Novel In Dean Koontz’s Acclaimed Odd Thomas Series: Odd Apocalypse! “koontz Gives His Character Wit, Good Humor, A Familiarity With The Dark Side Of Humanity—and Moral Outrage.”—usa Today “the Nice Young Fry Cook With The Occult Powers Is Koontz’s Most Likable Creation . . . Candid, Upright, Amusing And Sometimes Withering.”—the New York Times “suspense, Tension, And Surprising Plot Twists . . . Characters And The Search For Meaning, Exquisitely Crafted, Are The Soul Of His Work. . . . One Of The Master Storytellers Of This Or Any Age.”—the Tampa Tribune

Everyone in Santa Martina knows about the Bush House. It's big, and dark, and no one knows who or what's inside. Nobody with any sense would go there-especially at Halloween. Except for Sammy Keyes. And when Sammy goes creeping up the path, only to be knocked sideways by a skeleton carrying a bulging pillowcase, she begins to understand why... Fast-paced and funny, packed with menacing suspects and clever clues, the Sammy Keyes mysteries keep you guessing to the last riveting page.

'..the face that stared at him through the glass was his mum's, but it didn't look like her. Stephen's mouth dropped open and real fear grabbed his stomach. His mum's face was chalk white, her mouth twisted in pain. Behind her was a dark shadow. Stephen dropped the bones. ' A six year-old boy has vanished, his mother and grandmother horrifically murdered. At the scene forensic scientist Rhona Macleod finds a chilling African talisman, made from the bones of a child. Can she decipher its meaning and track Stephen down before he becomes the next link in the killers' chain?

In 'The Haunted Monastery', Judge Dee and his wives seek refuge from a violent mountain storm and are plunged into a bizarre series of interrelated crimes. Three women have been murdered in the monastery; Dee has seen something impossible, perhaps supernatural, and inexplicable events flash forth in the dark tangle of corridors and the Taoist Hell - a hall filled with statuary showing realistically the torments of Hell.

In 1961, a Hollywood movie company came to tiny Polvo, Texas, to film a movie about Pancho Villa. However, the film was dogged with trouble: a man was found murdered on an island in the middle of the Rio Grande and the case was never solved.Now, forty years later, trading post owner Texana Jones is hosting a video crew making a special celebrating the film's anniversary. Most of the townspeople are excited by this event, but some want nothing to do with the project. On the day the townspeople gather to meet the actors, the RV belonging to actor Dane Anthony catches fire and explodes. Is it an accident or arson? And who is the mysterious river watcher in the camouflage suit? While Texana's veterinarian husband Clay fights to save several abandoned horses, Texana searches in the past for a key to the present danger. She makes some startling discoveries about her own family and about the conflicting presence of the movie people forty years earlier. But, when a local child goes missing, Texana relies on a freelance reporter to help her discover who is behind the threats and whether or not the death of the Villista is connected to present day events. As the past and present converge, Texana slowly begins to uncover a motive for all the evil, but has she done it in time to prevent further tragedy?

The Secret Histories Novels combine "witty banter, tough guy standoffs, visceral fight scenes, bad guy atrocities, surprise revelations, and high stakes"* in supernatural adventures that can only come from the imagination of New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green. The name is Bond, Shaman Bond. Better known as Drood, Eddie Drood Yes, I'm one of those Droods--the family who've been keeping the forces of evil contained in the shadows for as long as humans have walked the earth. Recently, I suffered a slight case of death, but thanks to Molly, my best girl (who happens to be a powerful witch), I got over that right quick. Unfortunately, my family wasn't so lucky. In my absence, Drood Hall was destroyed and all my relatives were killed. Which left me as the Last of the Droods. I didn't much like being The Last Drood, I can tell you--and then I realized that things weren't as they seemed. Someone had activated a dimensional engine, sending my Drood Hall off to an alternate Earth, replacing it with a burnt-out doppelganger. My family is still alive out there. Somewhere. And nothing's going to stop me from finding them... *Green Man Review

An old friend's promise of access to some rare texts of Aristotle's has taken Master William Falconer far from Oxford to the remote Furness Abbey. While crossing the dangerous shifting sands of Lancaster Bay, he witnesses the recovery of a body from the sandbanks that mark the changing course of the River Kent. Back at the abbey, the body is identified as that of a monk who disappeared twenty years earlier. His death may not have been an accident. The dead man was to have been the new abbot, and the present incumbent, who took his place exactly two decades ago, is the prime suspect. But Falconer's friend is convinced of the abbot's innocence. Will Master William look into the matter?

This winner of the 1987 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery of the Year is back in print. When an old skeleton is found beneath the floor of the du Rocher estate, American skeleton detective Dr. Gideon Oliver is called in to uncover the secrets behind the bones.

History comes alive - with ghosts! Anderson finds himself drawn to the old trunk full of military relics in the basement of his family's junkshop. His friends Greg and Julie warn him to stay away from it, but he can't help himself. This time Anderson finds a cool old grenade that has a strange message scratched into it. But an old grenade is dangerous . . . and so might be the ghost that appears with it: an intimidating soldier in army fatigues and covered in mud. What does this ghost want with Anderson, Greg, and Julie? Is he here for their help - or for something more sinister? As the friends struggle to find answers, they discover that this ghost served in the Vietnam War, only he went MIA. But there has to more to the story than that . . .