Bøger udgivet af Collins Mark Books

Here be dragons ... six of them. Often mercurial, preternaturally perceptive, always inscrutable.

Come for the coffee, stay for the supernatural adventure. There's more than one way to catch a ghost, and it's never been this fun!Katy and her grandmother have always used coffee to catch ghosts. It pays the bills and keeps them in high-end beans. After her grandmother dies and a rival ghost hunter moves to town, Katy fears things will never be the same.She's right. Malcolm changes everything.When Christmas brings both strangers and ghosts of the past to Springside, Katy fears her new business, new relationship, and quiet hometown will never be the same.She's right, again.Once she uncovers long-held family secrets, Katy finds herself entangled in past and present-and on a mission to find the truth. To unravel the mystery that links her family with Malcolm's, she'll need to bargain with a powerful entity and face retribution from the necromancer community.Where Katy must go, Malcolm can't follow. She'll need to make the ultimate sacrifice. To save Malcolm, Springside, and everything she loves, Katy will need to give them up forever.Coffee & Ghosts is a cozy paranormal mystery/romance told in a series of novellas. The Complete Coffee and Ghosts contains all books in the series and is perfect if you like quirky stories that are a little bit scary, a little bit romantic, and a whole lot of fun.

Secrets-like war-have their own casualties.MacKenna's mother died when she was a baby, a casualty of the first Gulf War. Now seventeen, MacKenna has spent her life navigating the minefield of her dad's moods, certain of one thing: she is destined to follow in her mother's combat boots. But when she pursues an ROTC scholarship, she finds herself at war before even enlisting.Her father forbids her from joining the military, inexplicable considering he'd raised her to be a "warrior princess." MacKenna turns to her grandmother-who arms her with an ammo crate containing her mother's personal effects from the war. Hidden in the crate's false bottom is a journal, one her mom stashed there hours before her death.While MacKenna untangles the secrets of her parents' tragic love story, her own life unravels. Dad's behavior becomes erratic, her best friend grows distant and even hostile, and a boy from her past returns-with a life-threatening secret of his own.If ever a girl needed her mother, it's now.The pen might be mightier than the sword, but are a mother's words strong enough to slice through years of hidden pain? Can those words reach through the battlefields of the past to change MacKenna's future?

Sometimes staying silent is the biggest lie of all.Sophomore Jolia does the one thing no one expects from the girl who has perfected the art of keeping quiet.She joins the speech team.Jolia can't confess the real reason-not to her best friend, her new teammates, or even to crush-worthy rival Sam who offers to coach her in secret.Keeping quiet might be the easy way out, but when what Jolia doesn't say starts to hurt those around her, it might just cost her a best friend, her spot on the team, and even Sam.But she isn't the only one with a secret. It's going to take words-her words-to make things right.If only Jolia can find them.