Ben Keller knows most of the secrets and sins of the people of Omaha, Nebraska. Growing up in the seventies as a not-quite-Catholic kid in the very Catholic Omaha, Nebraska, Ben Keller bookmarks his world through the music of Sting, the wisdom of Warren Buffett, and the Nebraska Cornhuskers. His neighbors and family anchor him in-what he had thought was-a normal childhood, laced with a suspected boy-stealer, a creepy creek, and a neighborhood witch. After years of helping his single-mother in her basement salon, Ben stumbles into owning his own shop, the Vanity Insanity, a salon with...

GHOST AND GRAMMAR ARE THE LEAST OF HER WORRIES Human bones showing up on the campus of the high school where she teaches have newly divorced Annie Day feeling rattled, both at school and at home with her four-year-old son. The ghost in her attic now seems mundane compared to the haunting bones creating a citywide panic. Bone after bone appears at the school, and Annie soon finds herself in the wrong hall at the wrong time. Annie stumbles into an ominous underworld of threatening notes and a stalker. Even her father's cowboy stories and the cowboy spirit of the students in her second hour...