Book Three in the Ford's Crossing Mystery series. Retired teacher Alex Matthews has already tangled with two serial killers in the past year and is more than ready to return to a boring life of walking the dog and vacuuming up pet hair. She certainly does not want to deal with threatening notes and neighborhood burglaries. Even worse is the suspicion that her good friend's next door neighbor may be hiding a heinous secret. Is Alex a magnet for mayhem and murder?

Fifteen-year-old Abby Johnson's world changes the moment a drunk driver kills her parents a week before Christmas. With no family or friends to take her in, Abby is put into foster care. The place is noisy and filled with strangers. Abby is confused, angry and determined to escape. Then she meets an elderly neighbor who befriends her. The only problem? The eccentric old lady is said to be a witch.

Rebecca Donne lost her father in a tragic accident when she was only five-years-old. Now, ten years later, her mother has remarried. Her stepfather, a college professor and writer, plans a month-long vacation at the beach, jokingly calling it their "honeymoon," and wants the whole family there, while he works on a novel. Everyone is excited. Everyone, that is, except Becca. Ever since her father's boating accident, she has had nightmares about being under water; about drowning. A month on a barrier island, off the coast of South Carolina, is the last place she wants to be. Because if she...

Fifteen-year-old Lucy Elliott's family has just moved to Seattle from Atlanta. The middle-child of seven adopted siblings, Lucy is at her wits' end. She is not happy about relocating to the rainy port city on the northwest coast of Washington State and misses her friends and her old school. Even worse, she is bored to death. So, when her little sister is frightened beyond reason by a gargoyle-like face, looking out of an upstairs window in a neighboring house, hidden by a tall fence, Lucy is curious. With nothing else to do, she may as well try to solve the mystery. The only trouble is, some...

Someone on the island is breaking into houses, killing pets, and hurting innocent people. The authorities are on the case, but sixteen-year-old Aggie Callaway and her best friend, Babs Butler, aren't convinced they are giving it their all. Determined to find out who is behind the nightmarish events, the girls do a little sleuthing on their own--never dreaming that the very individual they are seeking is watching their every move.

Junior year is a blast until Kristy's best friend is caught shoplifting and Kristy along with her. Jessica gets off with a reprimand and a few hours community service. Kristy, although innocent, gets sent to her mother's widowed friend in Gettysburg, PA. Barbara is sweet but her mother-in-law, Claire, is something else. Suffering from Alzheimer's, the elderly lady is a handful. What's more, she claims to walk, talk, and even dance with ghosts. Kristy chalks it up to the woman's condition until a series of bizarre occurrences disturbs her complacency. Are there such things as ghosts? Kristy is...