Bøger af Patricia Bow

Nora Brooke drowned last year. Her heart stopped: long enough to leave, deep inside, a shadow of death that opened her to other shadows.Coming to Holdfast Island for remedial school, Nora finds a garden in the woods: an old, overgrown prison yard. She enters by a gate that then vanishes, glimpses a restless figure who is suddenly gone, and finds thousands of blue flowers like watching eyes.She finds friends, especially irrepressible Jack McKie. And Adam: seen in the prison ruin and met underwater while swimming, when Nora nearly drowns again. A local boy, they think, until they learn of an old tragedy. Three teens died here: Ursula stabbed, Graham hanged, Adam drowned. Triple suicide? Or murder? Adam says he loved Ursula but lost her. Now he's bound here.Questions swarm. Why does Nora sleepwalk nearly to her death? Why is Jack suddenly accident-prone, like Graham? Who haunts the prison, where the warden, Adam's grandfather, was called the Hangman? What will happen if Nora sets Adam free?

When Jessie and her friend Pete sneak into August Erasmus's lab, they mean to rescue his abused animals. Instead they find a boy in a cage. Horrified, they set him free, and Jessie promises to hide him.The strange, pale boy is August's son, Lucan. He knows he's strange. He can't bear the sun, sleeps by day, bursts with energy by night, and can only digest raw blood. Like August, he has the family disease: nothing sinister about it.But sinister does describe August's lizard-like hounds, and the grey-faced servant who haunts Jessie's dreams of her parents' death.None of it matters when she runs with Lucan under the moon. Her senses sharpen. Energy sizzles through her body. But deep down, a terrible hunger grows. She recalls how her blood mixed with Lucan's during the escape, when their cut hands clasped.Lucan finally confronts August, but who wins? And Jessie, fighting to stay human, has only Pete's loyalty and her own new powers to pit against the oldest, deadliest enemy of all.

"Drumbeats in the empty forest. No drummer: just drums. Night falls, and the drums beat, and a shadow comes creeping out of the woods... That's how the killing starts."Linnet shrugs off the lurid stories about Lynx Leap. But she's a guest in the huge, decaying house in the north woods, and it's hard not to get spooked. Especially at night, when she hears drumbeats, and voices crying. And when something stalks her in the stairwell and in the attic, with its menagerie of stuffed dead animals.Her friend Mark is chasing other shadows. He believes his beloved Great-Uncle Lot, the last owner of Lynx Leap, was murdered. Before he died, Lot tagged Mark to find the truth behind the horror stories. Horrors that really happened, scattered across time, but with oddly similar details.Digging deep, the two teens unearth an ancient crime that still has to be paid for. Lot's murder was the shock that woke the sleeping hunter. Unless they can end the cycle of death and vengeance, it's all about to happen again.

The Starry Window is an urban fantasy for young readers. Amelia, accidentally part-dragon, and her cousin Simon are after a secret that threatens both sleepy little Dunstone and the dragon world of Mythrin.Something has sickened the hidden gates and passages linking Earth and Mythrin, with horrible results. When two memoryless strangers appear in Dunstone, Amelia knows the boy is her dragon friend Ty. But who is the man with lilac eyes?Amelia and Simon trace the poison to Dunstone's new mall, where escalators are turning carnivorous, and to the grim jail and school that stood there before. The world gate in the caves beneath has gone rotten, and Simon hears a boy's voice calling for help in the passage.Answering the call sends the cousins on a journey through the one gate they fear, and into the shadow lands beyond.The Starry Window is the sequel to The Ruby Kingdom and The Prism Blade, Books 1 and 2 of the Passage to Mythrin series.

In this sequel to The Ruby Kingdom, dragon leader Mara seeks the help of Amelia and her friends to find the legendary Prism Blade, which has been hidden for millennia in Dunstone.

When Amelia and Simon take their new friend Mara's side in a war for an alien world, Amelia must spread her wings and Simon must find out how far he'll go to save a cousin who's become a friend.

No one now living can tell you what it was like to dance in the old Glimmer Lake pavilion. You will only hear what the survivors told their children: how on a warm summer evening it was a magical place, lilting with music and laughter.But that was long ago, before the pavilion's collapse took so many young lives.Now it stands derelict. Ice crusts its broken arches. On some clear nights (it's said), you can see the faces of the dead beneath the ice of the lake, their eyes glimmering up at the moon. Stella, a sceptic to her core, laughs at such stories. Until she finds herself saddled with a mission: to free three souls trapped by the events of that solstice night in 1926, when a Faustian bargain went awry. It doesn't help that her backup team are a beloved but impulsive sister and two new friends, brothers who may both be vulnerable to the effects of that Faustian bargain. And that her chief advisor only comes to her in dreams.

WIB GET OUT NOWLetter by letter, etched by an invisible hand, the warning formed across the back of the piano before Wib's eyes.People in Amstey say the old Morphy house is haunted, "has been for years. Everybody knows that."Wib, who once lived there, knows only one thing. The house is not safe. There are places in it he was told not to go: like the room of whispers in the cellar.All the rest is questions. Who are the three mysterious "sisters" who live there now? Why does the telescope in the cupola show places so far away and out of time? And the black dog that prowls the house at night, who is it hunting?Top of the list, who and what is Henry? An imaginary childhood friend, a ghost, or something stranger?None of that can keep Wib from the old Morphy house. He and Henry need each other. Henry to get free of what has him trapped. And Wib to find something hidden in the house: something stolen that he must get back, or nothing will ever be right for him again.

Ever hear of Jenny Greenteeth? That's a kind of hag that lives in dangerous pools, so the folktales say. She grabs kids by the ankles and drags them down to drown.Of course we know how stories like that get started. They were invented to keep kids from danger. You know, the bogeyman strategy. "Don't you play near that pool, or Jenny Greenteeth will get you!"Only, suppose it's not a story? Suppose it's real?Jo's fear of dark water is not just fear, it's a full-blown, stomach-churning, paralyzing phobia. Determined to beat it, she dares to swim in this forest-shadowed pool, with its ink-dark surface that never reflects the sky.Under the surface it isn't really dark, just dim and green. The surface glimmers overhead. Jo looks down. Silver minnows fan out from beneath her feet. Below them the green light fades into darkness.Deeper still, at the farthest edge of the light, a pale shape moves. Not a fish. Something larger. It rises toward her.

Loyalty to a friend brings Cally Macdonald to green, idyllic Stone Face Island. But instead of sun and serenity she finds a bitter family conflict rooted in tragedy, and a history of murder going back centuries. Despite her faith in her friend Sheila, and affection for Noel, Sheila's twin, Cally is drawn to the grim, silent adopted brother, Matthew, even though the twins seem to fear and hate him. Muddying the clear northern waters, Cally's charming ex-fiancé, Aubrey, has been hired as piano coach for Ginevra, a girl crippled by a fall from the island cliff. And the memories of Ginevra's dead mother, and Matt's vanished former girlfriend, still haunt the island. As the atmosphere of jealousy and suspicion thickens, so do the heat, drought, and threat of fire. Violent incidents: a prowler in the woods, a sabotaged canoe, a vandalized cottage, hint at approaching disaster. When the storm breaks, Cally will need all her courage and wits just to stay alive, and to save the lives of those she loves.