Books with author Kelli Owen

From the author of WHITE PICKET PRISONS and LIVE SPECIMENS...FLOATERSDetective Carly Greene was only eleven when she learned Lake Superior was a brutal beast, capable of bringing up long forgotten memories of pain and death, by occasionally releasing the bodies of those trapped beneath her waves.As an adult, Carly still despises the bodies occasionally coughed up, and the high water eroding the edge of the graveyard this year gave "floaters" a new meaning. But she could never have prepared for what else broke free to swim with those long dead.Part myth. Part monster. Older than time.Carly, along with the medical examiner and a local reporter, must find and destroy a forgotten legend in the waters at the edge of Lake Superior. Before it decides it's time to feed. And breed...

From the author of SIX DAYS and FORGOTTEN, comes a haunting story of life, death, and the struggle connecting them. -- · -- · -- · -- · -- · -- WILTED LILIESIt's not that Lily May Holloway is a broken, battered teenager recently escaped from her kidnapper.It's not that she may or may not have killed him to escape.The question on Detective Travis Butler's mind is -- what exactlydoes the death of little Tommy Jenkins have to do with her kidnapper?And why does the man behind the one-way glass want the detective toentertain Lily's tales of speaking to the dead... and being able to hear the thoughts of the living?-- · -- · -- · -- · -- · -- The story continues in Book Two of the Wilted Lily series, PASSAGES...

"The style and structure reminded me of Bentley Little at his best, and The Neighborhood is just as compulsive a page-turner as anything Mr. Little has done."~ HorrorWorldTHE NEIGHBORHOODA missing girl.A found fingertip.A puddle of blood without a body.A small town neighborhood full of rumors and imagination through the eyes of its youth. Their world is a combination of grass stains and dried mud--the badges of childhood, that often look like blood in the right light.

Local legend says it was a church. Campfire whispers claim devil worship and unconsecrated land. Old timers explain the lone grave as remnants of evil.Having watched far too many horror movies, a group of teens wander into the woods with a Ouija board, planning to play with the dead and scaring each other in the process. But the group quickly learns ghosts of the past are not the only dangers, as the present can be much more haunting.

Detective Carly Greene was only eleven when she learned Lake Superior was a brutal beast, capable of bringing up long forgotten memories of pain and death, by occasionally releasing the bodies of those trapped beneath her waves. As an adult, Carly still despises the bodies occasionally coughed up, and the high water eroding the edge of the graveyard this year gave "floaters" a new meaning. But she could never have prepared for what else broke free to swim with those long dead. Part myth. Part monster. Older than time.

From the author of SIX DAYS and FORGOTTEN, comes a haunting story of life, death, and the struggle connecting them. -- · -- · -- · -- · -- · -- WILTED LILIESIt's not that Lily May Holloway is a broken, battered teenager recently escaped from her kidnapper.It's not that she may or may not have killed him to escape.The question on Detective Travis Butler's mind is -- what exactlydoes the death of little Tommy Jenkins have to do with her kidnapper?And why does the man behind the one-way glass want the detective toentertain Lily's tales of speaking to the dead... and being able to hear the thoughts of the living?-- · -- · -- · -- · -- · -- The story continues in Book Two of the Wilted Lily series, PASSAGES...