Books with title Creeper Falls

Bats, rats, darkness... That's what Lacey thinks caves are good for, even at the biggest tourist trap around. While her best friend is off backpacking around Europe, lounging on the beaches of St. Tropez, Lacey doesn't see how her summer job at Rock Garden could be more dreadful.Along comes her classmate Danny, feeling the same way, until he spots her at orientation. But there's little time for nervous smiles and clumsy small talk. Instead, they are quickly overwhelmed with their first group of bratty elementary school day campers. And it only goes downhill from there...hundreds of feet underground.A storm, power outage, and worse plague the two teens as their hectic morning turns even darker, deep inside a cave that's colder and creepierthan a morgue. It's suspense around every fat man's squeeze and headbanginglow ceiling. Not to mention the famous lighted landmark, forever to be known to them as Creeper Falls.

Bats, rats, darkness... That's what Lacey thinks caves are good for, even at the biggest tourist trap around. While her best friend is off backpacking around Europe, lounging on the beaches of St. Tropez, Lacey doesn't see how her summer job at Rock Garden could be more dreadful. Along comes her classmate Danny, feeling the same way, until he spots her at orientation. But there's little time for nervous smiles and clumsy small talk. Instead, they are quickly overwhelmed with their first group of bratty elementary school day campers. And it only goes downhill from there...hundreds of feet underground. A storm, power outage, and worse plague the two teens as their hectic morning turns even darker, deep inside a cave that's colder and creepier than a morgue. It's suspense around every fat man's squeeze and headbanging low ceiling. Not to mention the famous lighted landmark, forever to be known to them as Creeper Falls.

Don't look behind you. Resist with all your power. He'll go away, perhaps, as long as you don't look. Arthur Bannister is back for another term at Shiverton Hall, where eerie events are unfolding. First, a burned stranger shows up in the middle of the night uttering dire warnings. Then a young boy disappears, leaving behind only an ancient book as a clue. And then there's that dreadful feeling Arthur has that he's being watched . . .Full of spine-chilling tales and deliciously creepy characters, this second story from Shiverton Hall is enough to make you leave the lights on at night.

Slavers have come to Crowns Peak.For Creeper, a street urchin living rough in the slums, that fact is just one more in a long list of everyday realities she has to deal with.But what if there were a better place for her, a place where she might be safe? Safe from the coming winter, from the older littles who bully her, from the king’s guards who want to take her, and perhaps even from the slavers.Creeper might just have found such a place… within the palace walls, surrounded by the very guards she has been taught to fear. But better in here than out there.Or is it?Secrets swirl within those walls, and old hatreds bubble close to the surface. Creeper will have to navigate very carefully if she is to remain safe, remain welcome.Outside the walls, however, the littles from Creeper’s old life are being snatched up one by one…

Slavers have come to Crowns Peak. For Creeper, a street urchin living rough in the slums, that fact is just one more in a long list of everyday realities she has to deal with. But what if there were a better place for her, a place where she might be safe? Safe from the coming winter, from the older littles who bully her, from the king’s guards who want to take her, and perhaps even from the slavers. Creeper might just have found such a place… within the palace walls, surrounded by the very guards she has been taught to fear. But better in here than out there. Or is it? Secrets swirl within those walls, and old hatreds bubble close to the surface. Creeper will have to navigate very carefully if she is to remain safe, remain welcome. Outside the walls, however, the littles from Creeper’s old life are being snatched up one by one…