Books with title Mystery of the 51st Star

In the most fast-paced Taylor Kelsey mystery yet…Taylor is kidnapped and thrown aboard a helicopter. After several unsuccessful escape attempts, her captors sedate her, and when she wakes up, she finds herself in the middle of a living nightmare: a mansion where one of the bedrooms looks exactly like hers, where pianos play at random, and where twenty chefs appear in the kitchen from seemingly nowhere. Moreover, all the doors and windows are boarded and locked, and there is no way of escape.Then, she receives a message that if she doesn't escape the house in thirty minutes, she'll die. And that's only the beginning...Enter if you dare, but be prepared for a wild ride.

Alexis: West and I are officially working together. West and I? Yeah, I still can't get over that. But he's not as bad as I thought. In fact, I think I might sort of like him. Too bad my blackmailer is complicating things. They know too many of my secrets--some of my darkest secrets--and they're using them against me. If I don't find out who it is and fast, they may end up destroying my life. And West's. West: Alexis is finally starting to trust me. And I'm excited about that. I really am. I just wish I could track down this blackmailer. I also really wish my life wasn't falling apart right now. But when my mom reveals a dark family secret, I'm left struggling not to break apart.

​​​​​​​Alexis: West and I are officially working together.West and I? Yeah, I still can't get over that.But he's not as bad as I thought. In fact, I think I might sort of like him. Too bad my blackmailer is complicating things. They know too many of my secrets—some of my darkest secrets—and they're using them against me. If I don't find out who it is and fast, they may end up destroying my life. And West's.West:Alexis is finally starting to trust me. And I'm excited about that. I really am. I just wish I could track down this blackmailer. I also really wish my life wasn't falling apart right now. But when my mom reveals a dark family secret, I'm left struggling not to break apart.Books in The Alexis Files Series:1. A Truthful Kiss2. The Start of a Mysterious Mystery 3. A Truthful Kiss4. Title TBD (coming soon)

Archibald Hunter was spending his annual vacation in Cruden Bay, Scotland when he sees two women and a man walking abreast. Suddenly, he has a vision of the man carrying a coffin and the two women walking behind. Just as suddenly, he sees the three walking normal again. As this was happening, Archie was being watched by an old woman, Gormala. She had seen Archie's shocked look at what he had just seen and tells him that he has the gift of "Second Sight". According to Gormala, both he and she are Seers, and she proposes an alliance to solve the centuries-old "Mystery of the Sea." Archie discovers a chest full of old documents he believes contain a coded message revealing the location of a lost treasure of the Spanish Armada. And then there is Marjory, the beautiful American girl Archie saves from drowning. Who is she, and why is she being pursued by a vicious gang of criminals and the American Secret Service?

Excerpt:I had just arrived at Cruden Bay on my annual visit, and after a late breakfast was sitting on the low wall which was a continuation of the escarpment of the bridge over the Water of Cruden. Opposite to me, across the road and standing under the only little clump of trees in the place was a tall, gaunt old woman, who kept looking at me intently. As I sat, a little group, consisting of a man and two women, went by. I found my eyes follow them, for it seemed to me after they had passed me that the two women walked together and the man alone in front carrying on his shoulder a little black box—a coffin. I shuddered as I thought, but a moment later I saw all three abreast just as they had been. The old woman was now looking at me with eyes that blazed. She came across the road and said to me without preface:“What saw ye then, that yer e’en looked so awed?” I did not like to tell her so I did not answer. Her great eyes were fixed keenly upon me, seeming to look me through and through. I felt that I grew quite red, whereupon she said, apparently to herself: “I thocht so! Even I did not see that which he saw.”

The Mystery of the Sea, a mystery novel by Bram Stoker, was originally published in 1902. Stoker is best known for his 1897 novel Dracula, but The Mystery of the Sea contains many of the same compelling elements. It tells the story of an Englishman living in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who meets and falls in love with an American heiress. She is involved with the intrigues of the Spanish–American War, and a complex plot involving second sight, kidnapping, and secret codes unfolds over the course of the novel.Archibald Hunter, a young Englishman, is passing his leisure time near Cruden Bay in the small Scottish village of Whinnyfold when he has a vision of a couple walking past him, carrying a tiny coffin. Archibald also notices a strange old woman watching him. Later, he finds out that his vision has come true, and a child in town has died. Archibald encounters the bizarre old woman again on the seashore; this woman, who introduces herself as Gormala MacNeil, knows that Archibald saw something out of the ordinary.