The Orchid Room
The teenagers of Maggie’s Knee have been vanishing without explanation, their disappearances blamed on everything from adolescent rebellion to “shadow people” in the woods.
Farren Murakami, an eighteen-year-old who has suffered more than most, finds out first-hand where the youth have gone when she’s recruited to join a tribe of teens living in an abandoned camp hidden deep in the woods. It isn’t long before she learns there is more to the story than just runaway kids; a sinister presence dwelling in the forbidden buildings tucked far back in the camp seems to have handpicked her for its purposes.
In her search for answers, Farren discovers her involvement with the tribe goes farther back than she can imagine, and that whatever lives in the forbidden buildings wants much more than the fealty of some kids playing in the forest.
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Something Sweet
Shy and awkward, Calvin Nickelsimmer has always been the black sheep in the family. All of that changes when Calvin discovers his new passion; creating decadent, almost intoxicating desserts. Nickelsimmer Sweets is born, with an enviable storefront on the trendiest street in Jubilee City.
Calvin's health inspector cousin-in-law Arthur is determined to learn the secret behind Calvin's success. He gets his opportunity to peek behind the scenes when he is assigned to perform the initial inspection of the Nickelsimmer Sweets shop. Putting his career and relationships on the line, Arthur does whatever it takes to discover Calvin's secret. But will he like what he learns?
The Boy in the Canvas
When twelve year old Joseph tragically loses his mother, his world is shattered. Left with his angry, alcoholic father in their rundown apartment, he finds himself longing to be free of the life he’s been stuck with.
Staring into a generic landscape painting in the church basement at his mother’s funeral, he almost gets his wish; a mysterious girl in an Iron Maiden vest steps out of the picture, opening his eyes to impossible and incredible worlds. Joseph longs to follow her into the painting but before he can join her, he is ripped away and sent to St. Theodore’s Academy, a correctional school run by a sadistic headmaster.
Aided by his only friend, Odilon Mercier, Joseph will stop at nothing to escape St. Theodore's. His only hope at freedom is through the magical, strange, and dangerous worlds of the paintings he finds within the school.
But something else lurks within them. Something dangerous. Something hungry.