Felicity is responsible for Mr. Ross. After all, she did save his life, rescuing him from the hungry sea. Now he is recovering in her parents' boarding house. But who is he? What does he want? Should they trust him?

"In the spring, there are vampires in the wind... My father claims we have them this year because it was a mild winter, but he may be thinking of tent caterpillars." Chris is your average angst-ridden teenager wasting time with his friends and mooning over the lovely Rebecca Schwartz - until he starts turning into a vampire. If this were not enough, he is asked (by a celestial being called Chet) to brave the netherworld and eliminate the Vampire Lord Tch'muchgar once and for all. How much can one guy take?

Three hundred years ago Risika became a vampire. She did not welcome the change - the loss of her name, her humanity and her family. But Risika has accepted her fate and knows a sort of peace, until her past returns to haunt her. Someone is following her. Someone has sent her a message: a black rose just like the one that was the harbinger of her death so long ago. A surprising debut by a fourteen-year-old novelist. Readers won't want to miss her latest book, Demon in My View.

Caught out at sea in a ferocious storm, Munroe hauls in an unexpected catch - a baby girl. To him and his childless wife, Jannet, it seems like a miracle, a gift from the sea. Years later, when a mysterious stranger comes to reclaim this daughter of the sea, Jannet cannot let her go. Jannet's desperate love will bring disaster to the whole village, as certain as the rising tide, for the sea can be generous - or very, very cruel.

Maddie is spellbound. There has never been anyone like the dark and silent Carver in her small Highland village. His hands create figures out of the wood as if by magic and his green gaze is captivating. But Maddie has been haunted by terrifying dreams since he came, dreams of blood and death. And then the killing begins... a dark tale of love and sacrifice by the author of The Hollow Kingdom trilogy.

Cynda feels like a piece of abandoned luggage. Left behind while her mother and stepfather travel, she is no longer the centre of her father's world. He has a new wife and family to think of. When an attractive stranger arrives on the scene, Cynda is captivated by his mystery, his good looks - and his interest in her. Feeling lonely and unwanted, Cynda ignores the danger signs around Vincent Morthanos. If she cannot break free of his power, her whole family may pay the price.

They are the Loups-Garou, werewolves, magical creatures with the moon singing in their blood. But Vivian's pack is in trouble. The young wolves are reckless and out of control, threatening humans, arousing suspicion. The pack is living in a city now, hanging on tooth and nail. But there are too many people here. The risk of exposure is great. And Vivian discovers that she too has a reckless streak - she is strongly attracted to a "meat-boy", a human as sweet and tempting as chocolate. How close will she allow him to get? How will the pack respond when they discover she has strayed? Will Vivian choose blood - or chocolate?

Maddy has always been a little wild, happiest when roaming the lonely hills. The trouble begins when she finds the hills are not so empty as she thought. A mysterious creature captures Maddy's interest and perhaps her heart and soul as well. For as soon as she sees him, the rest of the world begins to fade away, to pale beside this new fascination...

Alone on the beach, "Harry... saw greyness form. A lopsided, man-shaped darkness slowly grew, apparently oozing up between the shining grains... Harry had seen, soft and dim as yet, the shadow of a man taking shape - a man standing very close behind her - and as the light strengthened from moment to moment, she now saw two more, as if the first shadow had brought attendants from the land of shade." Harry and a chaotic mix of family and friends are staying at Carnival's Hide for the Christmas vacation. A shadow falls across the celebration of high summer in New Zealand when three strange young men turn up, claiming to be distant relations. They may be human - or something else. They may be harmless - or not.

A mermaid's life is no fairy tale. Sirena's tragic love for a human will cause her endless suffering, but she cannot refuse the siren call of her own heart. By the author of Magic Circle and Zel.

Could it really be true? Are there vicious creatures in the woods mutilating human bodies? Doug is skeptical until he and his sister discover an underground warren of tunnels and a warlike race who call themselves "the Family". And you thought your relatives were nasty! William Sleator is the author of numerous novels of "edge-of-your-seat" suspense, horror and science fiction.

When Dylan's mother leaves for Egypt, his father loses it. How else could you explain his decision to join - and stop - an expedition to hunt down and kill Bigfoot on Mount St. Helens, an active volcano? Dylan suddenly feels like the parent instead of the kid. Determined to watch out for his father, Dylan goes to work on the mountain with a field biologist, keeping tabs on the Bigfoot-hunters by radio. But Dylan's new employer is not quite what he seems. He too is being watched. Strangest of all, the Sasquatch may be more than a myth - and at large on the mountain!

All her life Bridget Raines has tried to hide her true nature - even from herself. She doesn't want to read minds, or move objects with a mere thought. She just wants to be normal. Trouble is, she doesn't know how. Then Althea Peale comes to town. She too is far from ordinary. But Althea is in terrible danger and only Bridget can help. Will she find the courage to accept her extraordinary powers?

Grady Jacobs has just been offered the chance of a lifetime. He is going to Brazil to work with a world-renowned botanist growing "super trees" that could resolve the environmental consequences of deforestation. For a thirteen-year-old botanical genius, it's a coup. But all is not well in the rainforest. The research team is ignoring dead animals and other frightening changes in the ecosystem. Then Grady discovers something truly bizarre - could the trees really be talking?!

Tess has always been different, always been alone. She is a switcher, able to change herself into any animal she chooses, an ability she has hidden from everyone, even her own family, until now. Someone has been watching her, following her. Someone knows what she really is... This fascinating fantasy continues in Midnight's Choice and Wild Blood.

It all started when Kerry's little brother left his stuffed koala bear at the laundromat. At eleven o'clock that night, he tearfully asks Kerry to go on a search and rescue mission. But Ian should be asleep, and Kerry should be studying for her test, not driving illegally with her learner's permit, not stumbling into kidnapping, murder and vampires. But some nights just don't turn out the way you expect them to...

Thaniel is a wych-hunter, tracking and eliminating the spreading menace of demons from the streets of London. He lives in a night world, stalker and prey to terrifying and powerful creatures of the dark, until the night his hunting turns up something unexpected: the beautiful and desperate Alaizabel Cray. Is she mad? Is she possessed? She could be the best thing that ever happened to Thaniel, or the end of everything... Readers should also try Poison and Storm Thief.