A Thin Place
After her mom skips town, sixteen-year-old Morgan is eager for a fresh start. What she gets instead is a crumbling house at the edge of the woods, a lonely town, and a weird blue door in the basement that opens into nothing at all. While her dad and older sister settle into Wolf Creek with ease, Morgan isn’t so lucky.
Aside from the bullying at school and the family upheaval, something else is stirring at the edge of her world. Her fascination with the blue door in the basement spirals into an obsession. Unseen figures watch from the trees of a wild forest that shouldn’t exist. The boundary between reality and something far older begins to thin. Through it all, Morgan has made a promise: I will protect the door. What she faces are forces that feed on fear, grief, and isolation.
But the greatest threat of all lies beyond the threshold of a place where the rules of her world no longer apply.
Never Too Old
A picture book depicting murder by squirrels reads more like a joke than a case for private investigator Alec Craftwood. But Alec is hooked when his former partner and the world’s greatest detective, Olympia Lenore Dread—known simply as Old—accepts the job.
This surprises Alec, because Old is dying of cancer.
Alec travels to a lonely manor on Lake Superior, determined to support his friend. A blizzard strands Alec, Old, and gathered guests. When murder strikes, Old is unmoved, content to heckle the others. Taking the lead to see justice done, Alec goads her into action.
Trapped with a killer, Alec balances deciphering clues and wrangling his ailing friend, all while wondering why this investigation doesn’t feel like old times.
