Author: laurabickle
The dead are easy to talk to. Live people, not so much.Charlie Sulliven thinks she knows all the secrets of the dead. Raised in a funeral home, she’s the reluctant “Ghoul Girl,” her reputation tied to a disastrous Halloween party. But navigating her life as a high school sophomore is an anxiety-inducing puzzle to her. She haunts the funeral home with her parents, emo older brother, Garth, their … older brother, Garth, their pistol-packing Gramma, and the glass-eyeball-devouring dachshund, Lothar.Chewed human bodies are appearing in her parents’ morgue…and disappearing in the middle of the night. The bodies seem tied to…
From the author of THE HALLOWED ONES and NINE OF STARS comes a new novel blending the magical and the real… emerge from the past. When Di gets a job as a bookkeeper at the same mine where her father worked, she is drawn into a conflict pitting neighbor against neighbor as the mine plans an expansion to an untouched mountain.If the mining company’s operation goes forward, there will be more at stake than livelihoods or the pollution of the land: Di has discovered a dragon lives deep within Sawtooth Mountain, and he is not happy with this encroachment upon…
Truth burns. Unemployment, despair, anger–visible and invisible unrest feed the undercurrent of Detroit’s unease. A city increasingly invaded by phantoms now faces a malevolent force that further stokes fear and chaos throughout the city. Anya Kalinczyk spends her days as an arson investigator with the Detroit Fire Department, and her nights pursuing malicious spirits with a team of eccentric … eccentric ghost hunters. Anya–who is the rarest type of psychic medium, a Lantern–suspects a supernatural arsonist is setting blazes to summon a fiery ancient entity that will leave the city in cinders. By Devil’s Night, the spell will be complete,…
Seeking answers to her father’s mysterious disappearance, geologist Petra Dee tracks his alchemical research to Temperance. As murders begin to plague the run-down western town, can Petra discover the truth… or will she be next?