Staying with their aunts over the summer, Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric, set out to explore Greylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.

It is 1954 when a mental patient who calls himself Roy Rogers finds a body in the hospital record room. His investigation leads him to the murder of Marcia Weinhart. Twenty years earlier, authorities found her mutilated corpse lying on the alter of St. Adrian's Catholic Church. Roy, his friend Harry and dog Bullet move after "lights out" through the buildings and grounds of the Sunrise Mental Hospital. As they examine the case, Roy comes to better...

Even after two decades of volatile marriage, Katharine Merrill still believes she can have the life that she felt promised to her by those first exhilarating months of her marriage to Frederick, before he left to fight in World War II. But as Frederick's behavior and moods have darkened over the years, Katharine has been left to rein in his great manic passions and bridge his deep wells of sadness: an unending project of wavering hope. When Frederick's...

Nestled between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the shores of a dark, sinuous lake, is a town with terrible secrets. A secret that followed a young father home from Vietnam. A secret that haunts a housewife's waking dreams. A secret that killed three children in a forest clearing. A secret lurking in the gray waters of the lake. They all have something to do with eight-year-old Tommy Wilford--quiet, shy, strange little Tommy Wilford. And a mysterious...

Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of Victorian Britain's bestselling magazine, the Penny Dreadful. Her spine-chilling tales--concealed under the pen name Montgomery Finch--are gripping the public. One day she receives a letter from the governor of the Bedlam madhouse requesting Finch's help to investigate the asylum's strange goings-on. Every night at precisely twelve minutes to midnight, the inmates all begin feverishly...

"London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiance in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. A woman of independent means--and rather independent ways--Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life is gone. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the...

Haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe is in a mental ward when, with support from fellow patient Chase, she begins to confront hidden truths in a journal, including that the only person she trusts may be telling her only half of the story.

"Bedlam details the frustrating life of Earl Sedgwick, owner and operator of a mental institute. Earl grew up in the business and subsequently took it over despite his avowed hatred of how the business robbed him of his childhood. He runs on empty until he's triggered by a visit from his more successful friends, realizing his life has been placed in its own padded room since he took on the family business. The career that is providing everything he...

"Fearless reporter Nellie Bly will stop at nothing to chase down stories that expose injustices against women--even if it comes at the risk of her own life and freedom--in this exciting novel inspired by the true story of one remarkable woman. In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional, respectable and delicate to do the job. But then the New...

WELCOME TO BLACKWOOD INSTITUTE. HOME TO THE DANGEROUS AND DISTURBED. Brooklyn West, a convicted murderer and diagnosed Schizophrenic, is given an offer she can't refuse-attend the prestigious Blackwood Institute and complete its three-year experimental program, or rot behind bars for the rest of her life. The deal is simple. Or so she thought. Within the institute's blood-soaked walls lies a harrowing reality, painted as a medical marvel to the outside...