Books with author Karsten Knight

The first in a spooky new series perfect for fans of Goosebumps and The Last Kids on Earth.When Kayla Dunn’s family moves from the city to the country town of Orchard Falls, she has one dream: to grow pumpkins big enough to compete in the annual Jack-o’-Lantern Festival. Desperate to win—and beat her next-door nemesis—she resorts to planting unusual, glowing seeds from a mysterious shopkeeper.Kayla should be overjoyed when her pumpkins grow faster and bigger than she ever imagined … but her first harvest is about to become a real nightmare.Because these pumpkins are blue and veiny.Because their vines seem to have a mind of their own.And because something terrifying inside them is longing to hatch.

A spooky new series perfect for fans of Goosebumps.Kalon has always dreamed of being an archaeologist. Exploring ancient ruins, unearthing treasure—his life could use a little adventure.So when his aunt invites him to tour a lost temple on a tropical island, he can’t believe his luck. It sounds like the perfect way to spend his vacation.If only he hadn’t opened that sarcophagus. After he accidentally awakens an evil trickster, Kalon must complete three dangerous tasks by sunrise and steal from the gods themselves ...... Or take the trickster’s place in the tomb—forever.

A spooky new series perfect for fans of Goosebumps.Holly can’t wait to spend the summer at Camp Moonglow. The brochure promises swimming in a crystal-clear lake and hikes through a majestic forest.Too bad the brochure was a lie. Instead of paradise, Holly finds herself at an isolated camp in the middle of a dark, sweltering bayou. But Holly has bigger problems than mosquitoes, because nothing is as it appears at Camp Moonglow. The counselors enjoy scaring Holly a little too much. A camper disappears and nobody seems to care.And somewhere out in the bayou, a creature hungrily watches Holly’s every move …

American Gods meets Watchmen in this mythology-inspired mystery from Karsten Knight, author of the Wildefire trilogy.In a city of gods and mortals, secrets never die.The gods walk among us. Some lurk in the shadows, masquerading as mortals; others embrace their celebrity status, launching careers from Hollywood to Capitol Hill.One of them just murdered Cairn Delacroix’s mother.As Cairn sifts through the rubble, she uncovers a conspiracy two decades in the making: a cursed island, the fellowship of gods who journeyed there, and the unspeakable act that intertwined their fates. One by one, the members of that voyage are dying, and Cairn's investigations land her in the crosshairs of the rogue goddess responsible.With the help of Nanook, a polar bear god turned detective, Cairn descends into Boston's underworld of supernatural crime and political aspiration. To avenge her mother and unmask her assassin, she’ll first have to reckon with a gut-wrenching secret that will rewrite the life she thought she knew.

A spooky new series perfect for fans of Goosebumps.Holly can’t wait to spend the summer at Camp Moonglow. The brochure promises swimming in a crystal clear lake and hikes through a majestic forest.Too bad the brochure was a lie. Instead of paradise, Holly finds herself at an isolated camp in the middle of a dark, sweltering bayou. But Holly has bigger problems than mosquitoes, because nothing is as it appears at Camp Moonglow. The counselors enjoy scaring Holly a little too much. A camper disappears and nobody seems to care.And somewhere out in the bayou, a creature hungrily watches Holly’s every move …

A spooky new series perfect for fans of Goosebumps and The Last Kids on Earth.All Mitch has ever wanted is to learn how to ski. Good thing his eccentric grandfather just bought a rundown old lodge in the snowy town of Everblanc.The locals follow a strange ritual: each night, they line the streets with hundreds of glowing lanterns. At first, Mitch assumes they’re just really enthusiastic about holiday decorations.He’s about to discover that the lanterns serve a far darker purpose. Somewhere out in the cold wilderness, a sinister being known as the Shiver awakens whenever the temperature falls. And once it catches you, you’ll never feel warm again.

Every flame begins with a spark. Ashline Wilde is having a rough sophomore year. She’s struggling to find her place as the only Polynesian girl in school, her boyfriend just cheated on her, and now her runaway sister, Eve, has decided to barge back into her life. When Eve’s violent behavior escalates and she does the unthinkable, Ash transfers to a remote private school nestled in California’s redwoods, hoping to put the tragedy behind her. But her fresh start at Blackwood Academy doesn’t go as planned. Just as Ash is beginning to enjoy the perks of her new school—being captain of the tennis team, a steamy romance with a hot, local park ranger—Ash discovers that a group of gods and goddesses have mysteriously enrolled at Blackwood…and she’s one of them. To make matters worse, Eve has resurfaced to haunt Ash, and she’s got some strange abilities of her own. With a war between the gods looming over campus, Ash must master the new fire smoldering within before she clashes with her sister one more time… And when warm and cold fronts collide, there’s guaranteed to be a storm.

To cure her dying sister, Sabra Tides must race across Boston to solve a web of riddles and find a mythical flower, while a ruthless gangster will stop at nothing to get there first. Read the powerful historical mystery perfect for fans of Six of Crows, The Raven Boys, and The Da Vinci Code.A STREETWISE VIGILANTEwho will do anything to cure her dying sisterA RUTHLESS GANGSTERon a grisly quest to attain immortalityA DESPERATE FATHERwho crossed oceans to free his enslaved sonA TRAIL OF RIDDLESand the mythical treasure they all seek:THE SERENGETI SAPPHIRE

1. Every flame begins with a spark2. Every flame casts a shadow3. Every flame can be extinguishedIn this thrilling conclusion to the Wildefire saga, Ashline must preparefor a final cataclysm between the gods andsnuff out a malevolenttrickster once and for all--even if it means herown destruction.But she'll go down in flames before she goes up in smoke.

A teenage Polynesian volcano goddess fires up her search for love and family in this sequel to Wildefire.Every flame casts a shadow.Ashline Wilde is about to discover that when you're the reincarnation of a Polynesian volcano goddess, "new beginnings" are just a myth. Leaving the fiery ruins of her sophomore year behind her, Ash travels to the sizzling beaches of Miami, hot on the trail of the little sister she's only seen in visions. But her happy family reunion isn't all palm trees and paradise. A cult of evil gods-on-earth, known as the Four Seasons, has kidnapped her sister to use in its terrifying new religion. Soon, the streets of Miami erupt in chaos and violence...and Ash gets caught right in the tropical crossfire. Ash isn't without help, however. Unexpected romance arrives in the form of Wes, an Aztec god of night with his own vendetta against the Four Seasons. As memories of Ash's previous life begin to flicker into her dreams, the boundaries between ally and enemy, life and death, and love and hate all bleed together. And when a mysterious trickster from her past reappears to derail her new quest, Ash must choose between the echoes of a once-forgotten yesterday and the embers of an uncertain future. Because when old flames return from the dead, even a volcano goddess can get burned.

Renata Lake must relive critical memories from her past to fix her darkest mistakes and stop a ruthless assassin. Don't miss the twist ending of this time-bending new YA fantasy that will thrill fans of Before I Fall, Passenger, and A Thousand Pieces of You.“My last thought before the black seas consume me is to wonder what morbid twist of fate allowed a prom, a proposal, an act of terrorism, and the deaths of everyone I know to converge on the same night.”Renata Lake thought her relationship would be the only casualty of prom. Then the bomb went off.It was supposed to be a night to remember—a cruise through Boston Harbor, dancing beneath the stars. But when an explosion tears the ship apart, Renata wakes up in Patchwork, an ethereal world where all her memories have been stitched haphazardly together. In order to catch the assassin who murdered her friends, she’ll have to navigate the twisted landscape of her mind and relive critical moments from her past in search of clues. Can she uncover the killer’s identity and find her way back to the man she once loved before it’s too late?A dark, modern-day reimagining of the phoenix myth from the author of Nightingale, Sing and the Wildefire trilogy.

American Gods meets Watchmen in this mythology-inspired mystery from Karsten Knight, author of the Wildefire trilogy. In a city of gods and mortals, secrets never die. The gods walk among us. Some lurk in the shadows, masquerading as mortals; others embrace their celebrity status, launching careers from Hollywood to Capitol Hill. One of them just murdered Cairn Delacroix's mother. As Cairn sifts through the rubble, she uncovers a conspiracy two decades in the making: a cursed island, the fellowship of gods who journeyed there, and the unspeakable act that intertwined their fates. One by one, the members of that voyage are dying, and Cairn's investigations land her in the crosshairs of the rogue goddess responsible. With the help of Nanook, a polar bear god turned detective, Cairn descends into Boston's underworld of supernatural crime and political aspiration. To avenge her mother and unmask her assassin, she'll first have to reckon with a gut-wrenching secret that will rewrite the life she thought she knew.