Michael McDowell

16-year-old Margaret Larkin is found murdered: tied to her own bicycle and drown in the Styx River where her parents died in an accident ten years before. Her murderer, wealthy and insane Nathan Redfield, believes he got away with the crime. But soon he begins to see not only the ghost of Margaret, but other watery spirits that pursue him. The fever of a guilty conscience? Encroaching insanity? Or has Nathan inadvertently awaken the sinister and vengeful spirit of the river itself?

Lena Shanks raised herself from disgraced and impoverished early widowhood to the hub of a criminal web in New York City's infamous Black Triangle. Now an enemy from her past has unwittingly set into motion the destruction of Lena's family and her livelihood, but Lena has the power, resources, and cunning to finally seize her long-overdue revenge.

His shirt is black, jeans are black, and shaggy black hair falls into his eyes. And when Gavin looks up at Delilah, the dark eyes shadowed with bluish circles seem to flicker to life. He lives in that house, the one at the edge of town. Spooky and maybe haunted. Something worse than haunted. And Gavin is trapped by its secrets. Delilah and Gavin can t resist each other. But staying together will exact a price beyond their imagining.

Ariel Silverman is a normal girl, making plans for college, when her mother revels she has breast cancer. On top of this Ariel is still recovering from the loss of her best friend, Jeni, who vanished without a trace on a school trip to Berkeley. This event has closed Ariel's heart and changed her forever. As she tries to adjust to college life in a new city, Arial cannot let the mystery of Jeni's disappearance rest and finally takes the now-dormant investigation upon herself. Ariel's journey will take her into a world of astonishing beauty, sexual discovery, and danger. In an old house in the Berkley hills she will meet three enigmatic and seductive strangers who make her feel fully alive for the first time since she lost Jeni. But there is more to these three than what meets the eyes, and through them Ariel will face a chilling choice and unravel just what happened to her missing friend.

On the crest of the worst flood that Perdido, Alabama has ever seen, the mysterious Elinor Dammart is rescued from the topmost room of a flooded hotel. Soon Elinor marries her way into the powerful Caskey family, where she brings them wealth and prosperity...but also animosity and death. Blackwater tells the story of fifty years of the Caskey dynasty, and how the Perdido River seems to run eerily through the family's fate.

"When the rain comes pouring down Mrs Farmer has no choice but to let the farm animals inside with some very funny results. She ends up with dogs in the kitchen, pigs in the laundry, cows in the dining room, sheep in the sitting room & hens that lay eggs in all sorts of surprising places. When the water recedes she sends them all back outside ... but not for long. A delightful story about finding companionship in unlikely places."--Provided by publisher.

To spite her new daughter-in-law Elinor, Mary-Love Caskey throws her support into building a levee that will halt the course of Elinor's beloved Perdido River. Elinor knows that the river is a force to be reckoned with, and that its wrath can only be appeased with bloodshed.

In the tiny town of Pine Cone, Alabama, Sarah Howell's handsome young husband Dean is injured by a faulty rifle, rendering him blind, mute, and motionless. Now Sarah is forced to live with her vindictive and controlling mother-in-law Jo, who blames the entire town for what became of her boy. When a spree of gruesome fatal accidents spread around Pine Cone, Sarah suspects the culprit is the strange amulet that Jo gave away as a gift. Sarah enlist her friend Becca to hunt down the amulet before it kills again.

Calliope "Callie" Dakin is a very special little girl: she can hear the whispers of the dead. When her father is murdered on Callie's seventh birthday, Callie is left alone, penniless, and on the run with her vain, vicious mama. The two take refuge on a tiny island off the coast of Pensacola, in an isolated bed-and-breakfast run by Merry Verlow, who seems to know more about Callie than Callie knows about herself. As Callie grows into a teenager, she comes to understand the secret conspiracy that has guided the course of her life. Now that conspiracy intends to use Callie's powers to their own ends. If she ever wants to be free, she must finally solve the mystery of her father's gruesome death.