Books with author David M Dennis

Sheppard’s Inn was a quiet senior-living facility where people spent the remainder of their golden years relaxing as they socialized, watched television, played checkers, or read a good book. Some of the young at heart spent their time reminiscing about “the good old days.” Others would just lie in soft, comfortable chairs dreaming of the future when they would join their spouses who had passed over to a place of peace, tranquility, and painless existence.All things were good at Sheppard’s Inn until everything began to change. At first, the events were subtle. The building’s heater struggled to keep up with the sudden chills that passed through the hallways. A sickening smell would seep through every nook and cranny. The lights would flicker off and on, and the televisions would go blank. But nothing was worse than the screeching sounds heard during the night—sounds not normally created in the world of the living!Adam Simmons, his father (a former police detective), and his mother (a high school drama teacher) were trying to live under the radar. They had been forced to disappear from Huntingdon Valley because of the arrest of Philadelphia’s biggest mobster. They’d had no idea what would happen when they secured jobs at Sheppard’s Inn. They certainly weren’t expecting something even more sinister and dangerous than the mob. Strange, supernatural events shook their beliefs. Items were disappearing, and people were getting sick.Adam had to push back his fears and help his parents solve this dilemma before someone got seriously hurt. If there was a ghost haunting Sheppard’s Inn, Adam would do whatever it took to expose it. Once again, he would prove that everything is not always as it seems.

Roused from his sleep, fourteen-year-old Adam Simmons is forced into a nightmare of reality. Without explanation, his father hastily packs a bag with the bare essentials and demands that Adam leave immediately through his bedroom window. Glancing back to see his father waving goodbye, Adam watches as his house suddenly explodes, apparently killing his parents. Instantaneously, Adam’s world ceases to exist. With his hockey bag and a face full of tears, he must continue his journey into this nightmare. Armed only with his ingenuity, Adam searches for answers. Discovering that he is being stalked by some very dangerous people, Adam becomes desperate and seeks the assistance of his closest friends, which proves to be disastrous: one by one, they are kidnapped. Feeling responsible, Adam persists through the arduous tasks of finding his friends and solving the puzzle that has become his life. With the aid of some odd newfound acquaintances and using skills he never knew he possessed, Adam learns that even nightmares can have a happy ending—and, yes, there is a Santa Claus!

For ages 14 and up.Fara has the kind of pain that never goes away. Hurt but from what? It is a secret. Fara is sixteen-years-old and dresses in black. She has Goth blue eyes and straight black hair and snakebites. Everyone thinks she is, weird and depressed, someone to avoid. Nothing could be further from the truth. Fara, on the outside says leave me alone, but in her heart, she says I want love. Fara St Michaels hates her room, name and life. She is not good at anything, or so she thinks!! One day while she fooled around on a MX bike, the owner of an automotive dealership noticed her talent. She competes in Motocross now. And then wow, you would be surprised on how a simple event can create such an enormous catastrophe.In the fast motocross circuit, Fara must learn to jump. And she is forced to face her greatest fear: herself. Then a horrible murder threatens her fragile hopes and dreams. They blame her. And that’s not all...a dramatic event challenges Fara’s confidence during a race against a mysterious rider in the night on a dangerous road. What happened after the break in at the automotive dealership? What is her true wish to beat the boys at their own game? Is this a conspiracy to get her off the team? Is she that good? Witness the mysterious life of Fara St Michaels and her going nowhere life doing extraordinary things.

For ages 10 and up.CAMP CATS: The Girl Who Wouldn't Eat Mice is a fur-raising and humorous ghost story.The Head Chronicler Mouse, Knib, tells the story of Lacette, Princess of the Tigers, who did not eat him for dinner.Set in an enchanted forest near the creepy White Bone Lake, the beautiful Lacette Gordon attends Camp Cat. When the high-minded ten-year-old refuses to act like a conventional cat, she is transformed by an evil spell and sent off to rescue an injured, impossible to find, dark bird.Under the spell of the powerful Whistling Goddess, Lacette is cursed to meet friends and is forced to be social. How horrible. She will have to accept help from a troop of comic mangy marauders who have taken a liking to her despite her unsocial attitude and being a tiger. Two of the followers are mice and this cat refused to eat them too! Oh how unheard of!She slides into a lower world of warring ghostly birds and ghoulish cats. After her encounter with Thunder, a moody boy swamp-cat-prince, Princess Lacette's heart races for joy, but he is her enemy. He wants to kill the bird she must save.As self-reliant as this Princess thinks she is, her beliefs are quickly tested at a ghostly trial where she must defend the enemy and risk losing her new friend Thunder.In the mean time, her furry followers are in the blood covered claws of death... What will she do?Knib, Head Chronicler Mouse.

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Sixteen year old Amanda is having the worst summer ever! She found out she's the key to the freedom of a world she didn't even know existed, she saw memories so dark and gruesome she wanted to cry, she nearly got eaten by a huge jungle cat, and she saw the ghost of someone's dead husband. But wait...there's more! Now, she's learned that the guy she's supposed to defeat has a rogue Emajian, hidden in some corner, waiting to kill her.

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