Teen Reads

Natalie Cushing was a lovely young woman in her early twenties who was cheerful and worked for her family's greenhouse in Panguitch, Utah. Her parents were in their senior years and depended on her help to carry on the business. Because of this fact, it didn't leave her time to date or have much of a social life. The month of May had arrived and along with it a winter storm which had delayed the timeframe to plant flowers. Natalie and her driver had just delivered a large order of spring plants to The Home Store when a new forklift driver in his hurry to unload the pallets didn't secure one...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: THE GRIM REAPER: Ellen is left alone with Grandpa on his deathbed when he believes the Grim Reaper has come to take his soul. WANTED: SOMEONE TO KILL: He has "kill someone" on his bucket list and answers an ad that may provide a victim. COMA: He awakens from a coma with amnesia two years after a fatal automobile accident has taken everything from him. AN EYE FOR AN EYE: Bobby seeks revenge on a group of elite female classmates who caused his friend to commit suicide ...

Eligible men are scarcer than hen’s teeth on the oyster farm… Harry McPherson is on a mission: find a husband for her mother. Writing to a Boston restaurant critic seemed like a good idea at the time. What could possibly go wrong? Mona Ingram is the author of over forty sweet, clean romances full of hope, inspiration and happily ever afters. For a complete list of Mona’s books, visit her website at www.monaingram.com

It had been a little over a month since Maggie Benson had attended the Masquerade ball. Something very unexpected happened when she left for a moment and was on her way to the ladies' room. She encountered a handsome masked man who immediately said, "Hello Magnolia. I've been wanting to talk to you all night. I thought you would never leave your friends so I could tell you how much I admire you." "Who are you?" "You'll find out when the time is right." And then he bent and kissed her. It was a delightfully mysterious kiss. Not too gentle and not too rough. The kind of kiss you want more of ...

Love potions – the ultimate romantic dilemma! To sip from the elixir of love or to offer it to someone you desire. For one unfortunate soul, it took a sinister turn. I'm Glinda, a witch whose wand occasionally strays off-course. With a track record of magical mishaps, I've shied away from love potions. Turns out, I'm in the minority. Daisy Sanchez, our local enchantress, crafts high-end, personalized love potions without any guarantees of success. Regardless, one customer was far from enchanted with the results--and killed her. The pressing question was who? Thankfully, our sheriff ...

How far would you go not to age? Would you commit murder? Well, someone decided to. Welcome to Witch’s Cove, where the strangest of cases occur. Murder often abounds, but so does time travel, shifters, and evil warlocks. When the elegant Alexandria Coronado asks for my help in finding her pink pearl necklace that was stolen from the Magic Wand Hotel, I had no idea it would involve murder, scuba diving, and a massive empire. Because our sheriff suspects magic is involved, he is willing to join forces with the Pink Iguana sleuths. That’s where I come in. Hi, I’m Glinda Goodall, and ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The horrors include: IT LURKS ON THE MOUNTAIN: Three hunters are missing and bloody body parts of headless torsos have been found at Widow’s Peak. Is there really a hairy monster on the mountain or is Bubba Rexrode up to his old tricks? FALLING: A woman fears her unfaithful husband may try to kill her for her inheritance and solicits the services of a hit man to kill him first POWDERPUFF: A couple and their dog seek refuge on a desolate mountaintop when zombies run amok in the city where...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: THE FEUD: After twelve years of truce between two feuding families, Jasper Stump is missing and a beast is devouring people in the woods. CATS: The police are sent to investigate the home of an elderly woman with a houseful of cats who has not retrieved her newspapers for four days. BEDTIME STORY: Cindy is waiting up for her daddy who went out to get something for tomorrow morning’s breakfast. ANOTHER DAMN DAY IN VEGAS: Two detectives have a particularly grisly ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: HOMICIDE MAINTENANCE: A detective goes into the homicide cleaning business after he learns about the obscene fees businesses pay for the service. BAD APPLE: Two brothers, different as night and day, reunite after one spends fifteen years in prison while the other prospered. THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: A billionaire’s heir falls madly in love with a woman he sees as the most beautiful in the world while others see something markedly different. CANCELED: A traveler on ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: SOMETHING IN THE SKY: Strange things happen to two college students on Lovers Lane after a meteor cuts a path through a nearby cemetery. THE TOASTER: The City of Baltimore appropriates funds to move Edgar Allen Poe's gravesite to a new mausoleum. LORD OF DARKNESS: Fred finds a large box on his doorstep with a horrific looking ebony statue inside that terrifies him. He abhors scary things and takes it to the city dump for disposal. THE METEOR: Newt is awakened when a...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: THE VAMPIRE KILLER: A man claims the iconic rock star he killed with a wooden stake was a vampire not a man. NEVERMORE: A billionaire builds an island paradise for his family when the zombie apocalypse has wiped out most of humanity. WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN: Little demons land on Earth during a meteor shower. ASPIRATIONS: A new student tells a blind date about all the things he plans to do in his life. SOMETHING IN THE CAR: Jasper and his wife Nancy are the victims ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: JACK IN THE BOX: Harold fixes up old houses and sells them for a nice profit. That is, until he bought the dreaded house on Elm Street. THE SECOND VIRGIN BIRTH: At midnight on Christmas Eve, a nun rescues a baby left on the chapel steps in the freezing cold. GRANDPA: The zombie apocalypse has begun and Grandpa is near death in the next room. TATTOO: Bad things start to happen after Marla picks a ferocious black panther for the free tattoo she won. THE JACK THE ...

What if the president of the United States was the leader of a murderous motorcycle gang? Dive into a world where treasure hunts become deadly, houses are set aflame, and motorcycle gangs are connected to a Civil War-era homicidal leader. After a mysterious treasure hunt at the O’Neill’s ancestral home in Sterling, Illinois goes horribly wrong, Jim O’Neill takes his two children, Adrianna and Jay, on a getaway to Chicago. Seemingly leaving both the treasure hunt and the Quant motorcycle gang behind, the O’Neills embark on a quiet family vacation in the windy city. As Jim’s ...

Feeling that life is unfair when her father is killed in the front lines of France and she has to live with her relatives on a western farm, 12-year-old Susanna Stanson runs away to the city. She decides that all will be well when she reaches her old home, but a severe snowstorm interrupts her trip.

A charming tale of love and enchantment

Aunt Clara made the best chocolate chip cookies in the whole world! When asked what her secret to such delicious cookies was, she would always say, 'LOVE', of course! She was constantly delivering plates of delicious cookies to others and loved every minute of it! Aunt Clara was in her 30's now and the rest of the family thought it was time that she should be married and settling down with some children of her own. When the subject would come up, she would always laugh and say, "Would you like another chocolate chip cookie?" ...and seemed to manage to change the subject. Unbeknown to Aunt ...

Lillian Maxfield was not sorry to see the Christmas holidays go on their merry way until next year. In fact, she was feeling like 'Scrooge' herself these days! Everything that could go wrong seemed to be going wrong, which explained her short irritable disposition. It all started a week ago when her dear mother fell on the driveway, breaking her leg in several places. Her mother was a single parent, and together, she and her mother worked hard to keep their little household going. Now that the holidays were over, Lillian had been laid off from her Christmas job, and her job working at the ...

Paige felt like she was living a terrible nightmare. Her father had lost his job and instead of having turkey and all the trimmings for Thanksgiving dinner, they had a frozen chicken and basic vegetables. There was no pumpkin pie...and there would not be any black Friday shopping! Things were definitely not back to normal when Paige left for school on Monday morning with a sack lunch her mom made. She had always bought a hot lunch with all of her friends and wasn't sure how she was going to explain her way out of that situation! If that wasn't bad enough, she found out in concert choir that...

If Devin Mack can’t actually fight his father, he’s going to fight everyone he can find on the football field.

It's all here! Everything you need to go to Heaven, your true home. Read this book and discover for yourself the four key steps followed by everyone that we now know is in Heaven, people like St. Peter, St. Paul, the seers of Fatima, Padre Pio, and others. To follow in their footsteps and go to Heaven yourself, all you have to do is model your life on theirs. In other words, by doing what they did and not doing what they didn't do, you can virtually guarantee yourself of going to Heaven. If you've ever wished you had a map or a system that would lead you straight to Heaven, now you do! ...