"An attention grabbing and keeping book. This is the first book that I have read from Aimee." Pat From the author of Best-selling Kindles, "Angelica, You Have Chosen Well," "My Name Is Not Saul" & "The Satan Seduction. "A PARANORMAL MONSTER APPEARS THROUGH A PORTAL SNATCHING AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY, FLEEING THROUGH A PORTAL. IN ONE SPLIT SECOND, THE CHILD IS GONE. THINGS HEAT UP WHEN ONE WEEK LATER, IT RETURNS FOR A SECOND KID. NO ONE BELIEVES THIS SINGLE MOTHER'S ACCOUNT, SAVE AN INFAMOUS CRIME JOURNALIST SUFFERING FROM BOREDOM, AIDEN JENSON. AND THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS. After digging into this case, and remaining at single mother Grace's house, the kidnappings occur every Thursday. One by one, her children are taken while they sleep in the night. Aiden soon discovers the mysterious pattern and seeks the help of a well-renown doctor. Aiden realizes the only way to find the missing children is to enter the gateway. (Thank you! DISCLAIMER 11-17 should have parental consent. Blessings readers!)

Charlaine Harris and Rachel Caine enter a shadowy world of demons and angels in "Dark Witness" while Sarah Rees Brennan, Cassandra Clare, and Holly Black look at three weird sisters who face challenges beyond magic in "Sisters Before Misters." Sarah MacLean and Carrie Ryan explore the exquisite agony of eternal love in "She, Doomed Girl," and "Welded" by Tom Piccirilli and T. M. Wright offers an unsettling vision of an evil that infects and destroys lives. Mixing the ordinary--parents, teenagers, lovers--with the extraordinary--angels, demons, serial killers--these captivating and vivid tales delve deep into the shadowy, unexplored realms of the imagination.

Carter is a quiet and melancholy dreamer with a sensitive disposition, prone to fainting during times of emotional stress. But he can also be courageous, with enough strength of mind and character to face and foil the horrific creatures of the Dreamlands. Randolph Carter is an antiquarian and one-time student of the Miskatonic University. Based on clues from various stories, he was probably born around 1874 and grew up in and around Boston. At the age of nine, he underwent a mysterious experience at his great-uncle Christopher's farm and thereafter exhibited a gift of prophecy. He is the descendant of Sir Randolph Carter, who had studied magic during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Sir Randolph had then emigrated to America and his son Edmund Carter later had to flee the Salem witch-trials. Carter also had an ancestor involved in one of the Crusades, who was captured by the Muslims and learned "wild secrets" from them. This volume contains all of H P Lovecraft's stories about Randolph Carter.

Seventeen-year-old Randy is a witch, a natural born witch. Only, she doesn't know it, until she and her mother are killed in a car crash. But when Randy comes back from the dead, she has recollections of an experience in the "in-between" where she is told about the witchcraft that runs in her family. Desperate to find out more she visits her mother's sister, who may be the only key to unlocking this hidden door into another world. This is just the start of Randy's journey into some of the amazing powers she possesses and those around her, including her friend Daniel to whom she is hopelessly attracted. However she is also confused about her feelings for the mysterious Ethan who has traveled back with her from the in-between seeking her help. While the love trio alone is plenty to deal with, Randy's powers also make her susceptible to evil forces, some of which are a lot closer to her than she realizes. As Randy, her aunt, Daniel and friends battle these forces, lives, love and friendships are ultimately tested. And sadly, it may not be until she loses everything that Randy finally works out with whom her heart truly lies.

The Wolf Leader by Alexandre Dumas The Wolf Leader is set around 1780 in Dumas' native town of Villers-Cotterets, and is supposedly based on a local folk-tale Dumas heard as a child. The story concerns Thibault, a shoe-maker, who is beaten by the gamekeeper of the Lord of Vez for interfering with the lord's hunting. Afterwards he encounters a huge wolf, walking on its hind legs like a man, who offers him vengeance; Thibault may wish harm on any person in return for one of his own hairs for each wish. To seal the agreement, the two exchange rings. As a result of this bargain he also finds himself able to command the local wolves, and hence gradually gains the reputation of being a werewolf. Thibault's first two wishes kill the gamekeeper and injure the Lord of Vez. The wishes turn two hairs on his head long and red, as do his subsequent ones, which, though equally successful, also backfire against him in unexpected ways, leaving him scorned and hated by others in his community.