Only Tania can help her friend Madelaine who is not able to rest despite being dead these last 300 years. But what does Madelaine mean by 'look in my cup'? When Tania glances inside the silver cup is empty. Is there more than one way to look in a cup? Ghosts, messages, revenge - there's more than one king of haunting.

Something is wrong with Cheshunt. Nathanial feels it the moment he arrives. It is not the model neighbourhood it appears to be - strange things happen, despite the curfew. And soon Nathanial learns that his presence is no accident. As the dark calls its own, so does the light draw its champions, and Nathanial finds he must confront phantoms from his own past in his battle to stop the Gathering and its creator....

Camped out in the Maine woods, the Hardy boys get a real jolt when they glimpse Joe's old girlfriend, Iola Morton. Can it really be the same girl who was killed by a terrorist bomb? Frantically searching for her, Frank and Joe are trapped in the lair of the most diabolical team of scientists ever assembled.

When Frank and Joe are invited to join their Uncle Hugh for lunch, the main course turns out to be a bizarre kidnap plot. After a violent scuffle, Uncle Hugh is whisked away, and the boys suddenly find themselves in deep trouble with a government espionage team.

Jerry Renault, freshman, honest and straightforward, is singled out as a potential non-conformist by Archie Costello, leader of the Vigils. For this high school Mafia, public victimisation is the name of the game and absolute control is gained by humiliating fellow students into conformity through initiation tests devised by corrupt Archie. When one of the masters enlists the help of the Vigils in a fund-raising event, it becomes terrifyingly clear that Jerry hasn't a chance.

The Alpha Box came to Asha when she was in despair and so too was Joss whom she met under the Dark Arches that day. Asha is beautiful, remote; living with her aunts, Asha is cut off from her parents to whom she could never be perfect enough, Whilst Joss has been forced to move homes by what he sees as his mother's selfish whim. Asha, Joss and the Alpha box become inextricably linked. Is the box malevolent? Is it haunted?

Home that year for sixteen year old Janet was a ten-by-ten shed without heat, water or electricity, to be shared with Aunt who dared to think a lone woman could farm successfully where even strong men had failed. Then there were the animals - the Afghan Rug who was a kind of cow, Bob the horse who declined to pull the plough, and Wamba the duck who was a dwarf. To say nothing of the neighbours, like the Pig Boy and Mr Deems and the alarming Fenmortons. It was a year of flood, fire, gales, loss and gain, and a great deal of growing up.....

Sarah has nightmares, Huong is threatened, Miki longs to follow her dreams, but she might destroy the dreams of those close to her, Lacey is haunted by memories, Halil's father disappears, the daughter of Ta-wha risks darkness and wild animals for a taste of freedom.

Where is Biff Hooper? The Hardy's friend secretly went off to survival camp in Georgia - and never came back. But before leaving he did tell Joe. So when Orville Brand, the camp director, claims Biff was never there, the Hardy boys suspect foul play.

Early in the 21st century, Joseph Peek turned into another person. Now, eighty years later, journalism student Aldo Frewin discovers who that person was - and why he's now living as Jarom Woodruff, aged sixteen, in a troubled Mormon cult in remote Tasmania. For members of this cult, the End of the World is imminent, and the Rapture awaits. For Aldo and his uncle, time is also running out. They need to know - will Jarom die as Joseph died before they uncover the truth? Has a genetic experiment changed the course of history?