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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...

A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts."A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I'm pretty hard to scare," raved Stephen King about Paul Tremblay's previous novel. Now, Tremblay returns with another disturbing tale sure to unsettle readers.Late one...

"From bestselling author Diane Setterfield, a new mystery as gorgeous, spellbinding and addictively readable as her blockbuster debut The Thirteenth Tale. Solstice is a time of dreaming, a time of stories and a time of magic. On a dark, misty night in the small English village of Radcot, locals gather at the Swan Inn to cap their day with drinks and lore. The 600-year-old pub is a famed hub for storytellers, but the patrons cannot know that their...

Daisy once lived amidst the mountains of Wyoming, where she found love and inspiration for her art, but devastingly lost her son. Now her daughter Sage wants to strike out on her own, to see the father she barely knows, and if possible to learn what fate befell her brother. This is all complicated by the fact that Sage will soon be responsible for more family matters than she can handle on the road to Wyoming.

Julian and Annie have only just announced their forthcoming marriage when Annies twelve-year-old son, Dan, fails to come home from school. Despite an extensive police investigation, the days turn into weeks and it is as if Dan has vanished into thin air. Over the next three years Annie refuses to give up hope that somewhere her son is alive and will one day return home. Julian, meanwhile, cant help but yearn for Annie to put the past behind her and...

When Micky Bellsong encounters disabled Leilani Klonk and her stepfather, Preston Maddoc, she finally finds some purpose in her troubled life, so when the family disappears, Micky embarks on an arduous mission to find them

"Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage's stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened...

Clodagh, daughter of Lord Sean and Lady Aisling of Sevenwaters, travels with a warrior beyond the veil to the shadowy Otherworld to confront the prince who rules there, and reclaim her baby brother--the next heir to Sevenwaters--who was stolen from his room and replaced with a changeling.

The Last Boy isthe gripping tale of Danny Driscoll, a huggable, enchanting five-year-old boy who, on a normal October afternoon, disappears from his daycare in Ithaca, New York. A search continues through the winter, but few clues come forth to explain the boy's disappearance. Then, as spring approaches without any new developments in the case, a miracle occurs... one that leaves the people of Ithaca with a new set of questions, and a mystery that...

Fleeing to Oregon from New York City in 1921, Alice James takes refuge in the city's only black hotel and helps new friends search for a missing child, hide from KKK violence, and navigate painful secrets. "The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City...