Books with title The Midnight Castle

"Look for us when the moon is new. Look for us, but keep your distance. We're the Midnight Men, and the prey we're stalking could be you." In the private eye business, mistakes can be fatal. Just ask Amos Walker.First, he pulls his gun on a man he thought was a member of a group of potential truck hijackers. Even goes so far as to fire a round at the suspicious driver to make him step from his car. Only trouble is, the guy - Van Sturtevant - is a cop. Then, after Sturtevant is crippled in a shootout with a gang of black militants, Walker -- figuring he owes the cop for letting him off the hook -- offers his investigatory services to the officer's pretty, blond wife, Karen. At no charge. If Walker had been paying attention, he would have seen the warning signs. But now bodies are going to start piling up, with politicians, private eyes, and members of Detroit's Finest on the giving and receiving ends. Yes, mistakes can be fatal. And if Walker doesn't watch his back, the next one will definitely be his last....

A deep, raspy voice whispered, "The midnight curse has been passed on to you!" Thus begins a frightfully wacky adventure that will have young readers turning every page in spine-tingling anticipation. Lacey and her twin brother, Charlie, are visiting England to find out if they inherited anything from their reclusive uncle Jonathan, but before long, Charlie realizes he might not have inherited anything but the family curse. It's a bad one -- he'll shrivel up and die unless someone ventures to the attic to face a malevolent spirit. Curse removal is a complicated game involving a gothic cast of shifty characters. The twins sure have stirred things up, and the clock is ticking on Charlie's curse. Can they finish what they started?

Peta Jones is an ordinary girl struggling with the loss of her father, an army hero who died in mysterious circumstances. When she receives clues that he may still be alive, but noone believes her, she embarks on a dangerous rescue across the crystal-clear waters of the Mediterranean to a clifftop castle, home to a billionaire in exile. Soon Peta discovers that what some people will do for money, she will do for truth and hope.

Would you buy a horse Peck o' Trouble?Peck o' Trouble is a high-strung race horse that won't settle down. Ben Darby is a boy from an Idaho ranch who sees some good in Peck and convinces his uncle Wes to loan him enough money to purchase the anxious horse. The trouble is Peck may have to learn how to walk again before he's ready to run, and Ben only has one summer to train him, race him, and resell him. With a race horse that's afraid to race and a loan he can't afford to pay back -- guess you could say Ben Darby is in a peck o' trouble.

An exquisite Maine Coon cat, Midnight, must now coexist with a young domestic short hair cat, Noah. His playful and naïve antics become a little more than what Midnight can bear. Noah's continued attempts to gain acceptance cause the two cats and their colorful friends, Stanley and Rooney, to embark on an exciting and dangerous journey. As a result, they are forced to form an unlikely alliance and wind up forging unforgettable friendships.

With poetic language, Doherty creates an enigmatic bedtime fantasy. Every night a boy and his dog awaken to see the midnight man who "comes riding through the town on his midnight horse with it's hushing hooves." The two follow the stranger through the streets of town to the moors, "the end of the world," where the man rides off and leaves them sleeping on the ground. Next, the moon ""peers at them and cries,"" then returns them to the bedroom where the story began. There boy and dog awaken once again, thinking they see the "winking moon" and hear the ""midnight horse"" before falling back to sleep until morning. Lovely as many of Doherty's metaphors are, they leave lingering questions. Readers never know if the midnight visitor is good or evil; seductive though he is, he abandons the child and dog on the moor. The moon's tears also suggest the pair is in danger. Yet Andrews's colored-pencil illustrations depict a velvety world in which the child and dog seem safe--until they reach the vast moors at the edge of the world. The artist portrays just a hint of facial features on the ghostly midnight man, and creates no relationship between the nightly apparition and his followers. Unlike the Sandman, the eerie midnight man may well keep readers up at night.