Calista Snipe and her good friend, Skyler McCray, take a short cut home one day after school. They hope to get home before a nasty spring thunder storm strikes. Their short cut takes them through the spooky unkept areas of a local park. Unfortunately they do not escape the storm, but on their journey, they make two unusual discoveries. These two discoveries soon lead Skyler and Calista on new adventures that test their creativity, their imagination, and their courage. In solving the mystery of the purse they also wisely rely on trusted adults in their community for information and assistance...

Having been discovered in the illicit romance with her uncle, Megan Morgan is forced to face life without her uncle's counsel. Initially, Megan pushes back into her many school activities to fill the void but soon finds herself frustrated by a number of situations. Megan's recently discovered sister-in-arms, Kelly Simmons, now only has time for new love Ryan Royek. Megan's mother, Kate, has also become enamored with an attorney, Gus Leone, whom Kate meets through her court-reporting endeavors. Joe Edwards, the boy with whom Megan attended her school's Mistletoe Ball, is sidelined from dating...

Kyle Cook is in tenth grade. His father died in a car accident when Kyle was eleven. He lives with his mother and his fourteen-year-old sister. He kicks field goals and extra points after touchdowns for his high school football team. He also harbors, in the deep recesses of his mind, a horrible secret of a past event. Kyle's secret has lain dormant, its effects on him hardly noticeable to his family and his friends until his awakening sexual interests cause the influences of Kyle's earlier trauma to arise and become noticeable in his behavior. Kyle's abnormal behavior threatens to rend...

In order to avoid a spring thunder storm, eight-year-old Calista Snipe and Skyler McCray take a short-cut through the unkept area of a local park. They are caught by the storm while in the middle of Creepy Hollow, but they make two unusual discoveries. These two discoveries soon lead the children on new adventures that will test their creativity, their imagination, and their courage. Find out how Calista and Skyler solve the mystery of the old purse, snare the person who has been trapping little animals in Creepy Hollow, discover the truth behind the man in the park, and help their friend,...

Everything changes when you're thirteen When they were in sixth grade, Calista Snipe and her best friends, Skyler McCray and Tabitha Tyler, narrowly escaped being kidnapped by Flash and Joint, two subordinates of crime boss, Wee Willie Sturgis. That horrific event is behind the children as they now prepare to enter Parkington Junior High. They soon find that the junior high school presents its own set of challenges and hurdles. Four elementary schools send students to Park Junior. The kaleidoscope of new faces, seventh and eighth grade students, is at first overwhelming. In addition to the...