Joan Lowery Nixon

Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.

A collection of stories about eerie encounters in various ghost towns across the United States. Each story is accompanied by an afterword about the actual town on which the story is based.

Cary finds her life in danger when she uncovers a plot to sabotage her father's political campaign for governor of Texas.

The author recalls events from her childhood that contributed to her development as a writer.

While on vacation in Oregon, Chris and Sean encounter a meat-locker mystery
Piney Point is one of the most beautiful places Sean and Brian Quinn have ever seen, but as far as Brian is concerned, it’s not half as pretty as Jennifer Hicks. And getting to know the hotel manager’s daughter while his younger brother goofs off in the pool sounds like the perfect vacation. But when a string of thefts upset Brian’s new friend,...

After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.

In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who takes refuge with the Kelly family in Missouri after fleeing the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, by William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders.

Ten-year-old Lucy, an orphan who wants a little sister more than anything, finds a very special one in the less than perfect family which she joins.

To prove that her friend did not kill his parents, Holly enlists the help of a clairvoyant.

Old Amos Corley convinces Chris and Amy to go to the haunted island and set the ghosts to rest.