Haunted
Christina C. Jones
Within the bounds of complacency, there exists a boring,
beautiful sort of peace, and Khalida has found it. Welcomes it, in fact. A
nice, comfortable life, with a great job, a good, albeit on and off again
boyfriend, a great relationship with her younger sister... She has nothing to
complain about.
But that's only if she ignores the sense of unrest that has haunted her ever since she could remember, overshadowing her ability to connect in love. Only if she glosses over the fact that she’s leaning more toward a permanent off switch when it comes to Travis. Only if she tunes out her way-too-old-for-make-believe younger sister's sudden insistence that some things are a little suspicious when it comes to the details of their past.
But that's only if she ignores the sense of unrest that has haunted her ever since she could remember, overshadowing her ability to connect in love. Only if she glosses over the fact that she’s leaning more toward a permanent off switch when it comes to Travis. Only if she tunes out her way-too-old-for-make-believe younger sister's sudden insistence that some things are a little suspicious when it comes to the details of their past.
A month ago... Everything was fine. But now — and suspiciously timed with the
entry of sexier than possible Aram Duncan into her life — unexplained
hallucinations have Khalida questioning if maybe there’s something
other-worldly happening around her. But all of that nonsense... Psychic
abilities, immortals, time manipulation, mind control.... None of that really
exists... Right?
AngelBorn
L. Penelope
Maia
It's hard to be normal when you see the dead everywhere. So
I gave up. I just focus on staying out of their way. But the guy haunting my
roommate is different. He's impossible to ignore, and now other people can see
him too.
He says my roommate is the only one who can save him from an
eternity of torment. But one night he follows me into my nightmare and rescues
me from my demons. Now he's all I think about. This must be what it's like to
fall... for someone who can never be mine. Caleb
A lifetime ago, I found my soulmate in the human world. But being angelborn means I don't have a soul. When I lost my one true love, I lost my future and my freedom. Now, I have a second chance -- she's been reborn and I must gain her love again or serve out the rest of my eternal sentence alone.
But this time I am a fugitive with powerful angels hunting me, and I'm running out of time. You only get one soulmate, and mine isn't the broken, scarred girl, who sees what no one else can. She's a distraction I can scarcely afford -- but I'm unable to stay away from her.
Anna Dressed in Blood
Kendare Blake
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the
dead.
So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely
murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious
and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and
their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the
murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.
Yet she spares Cas's life.
Slow Dance in Purgatory
Amy Harmon
The hallways are empty, the school day long over, the din of
lockers and youthful laughter have dissolved into silence. It's as if the very
walls are waiting. And then through the intercom a song starts to crackle, the
soundtrack of a forgotten life. And the band begins to sing - "Lovely
Maggie falls for Johnny, a boy no one else can see. Heartthrob Johnny, 50s bad
boy, trapped for eternity. Lonely boy and lonely girl, unsolved mystery. Maggie
and Johnny, only high school sweethearts, because Johnny can't ever leave. Do
wop, Do wop.."
In 1958, a rumble goes down outside the brand new highschool in Honeyville, Texas. Chaos ensues, a life is lost, and Johnny Kinross disappears. But in 2010, someone finds him. Orphaned at the age of ten, 17-year-old Maggie O'Bannon finally finds a permanent home with her elderly aunt in a small Texas town. Working part-time as a school janitor, she becomes enmeshed in a fifty-year-old tragedy where nothing is as it seems and the boy of her dreams might vanish when the bell rings.
This volatile and mismatched romance is doomed from its
start, as Maggie struggles to hold on to yet another person she is destined to
lose. Secret love and hushed affection are threatened by outside forces,
resulting in a desperate race to keep a secret no one would understand. Deeply
romantic, funny and tender, Slow Dance in Purgatory captures the heartache of a
love story where a happy ending might be decades too late.
The In-Betweener
Ann Christy
Emily’s life is death. In the two years since nanites
started wiping out the population, she’s sent a thousand deaders and
in-betweeners to their deaths. Between fighting for her life and hiding in a
tiny, windowless office at night, she’s just trying to get one more day of
life.
The nanites were supposed to give humanity longer and
healthier lives, cure diseases, and make the world a better place to live in.
Instead, they divided humans into three groups: humans, deaders, and the
flesh-eating in-betweeners. At eighteen, Emily thought life would be different.
Dating, college, and maybe giving her mom a few reasons to worry were the plans
she had in mind. Now, she talks to herself and smashes heads with her favorite
sledgehammer.
Everything changes one bright morning when one of the deaders
at Emily’s fence isn’t a deader at all. He’s an in-betweener different from any
she has seen before…and he has a message. If Emily can muster up the courage,
she might have a chance at life after all.
Sleepy Hollow: Rise Headless and Ride
Richard Gleaves
JASON CRANE just turned seventeen years old.
He's a STAR WARS fan and a history geek. He doesn't believe
in ghosts or the afterlife. He doesn't believe in psychic powers or tarot
cards. He doesn't believe in the HEADLESS HORSEMAN. But SLEEPY HOLLOW will change all that. Because Jason Crane has a heritage to claim. Jason Crane has a Gift to discover. And Jason Crane has an old enemy who will RISE HEADLESS AND RIDE.
I am pretty excited to read these books! Of course I am not limiting myself to these 6 but I thought it would be fun to read horror/paranormal books in honor of Halloween.
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