"Redemption and grief, and the love that exists even when people are gone." —The Bookbag

Not alive. Not dead. Somewhere in between lie the Beautiful Dead.

It's been months since Darina has seen her undead boyfriend and her heart is breaking all over again. The wait is slowly driving her crazy.

All she wants to do is be with Phoenix, to feel his arms wrapped around her. But to earn the pleasure of that embrace,

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With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and soon discovers that all of the victims may have attended the performance of a stage magician who claims to be able to raise corpses and make the dead speak.

In 1889 Evaline Stoker, Mina Holmes, and their time traveler friend, Dylan are asked by the Princess of Wales to find out what happened to Robby Ashton, who may have drowned--but the reappearance of vampires in the heart of London threatens to become a more urgent problem.

An avid Sherlock Holmes fan, eigth grader, Ingrid Levin-Hill is kidnapped while investigating mysterious happenings in her home town.

After stopping a plan to assassinate Prince Albert, Aubrey Fitzwilliam and his best friend George start investigating who hired the golem to kill the prince.

"The Virals must find a geocache concealing a bomb--and the clock is ticking."--