Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Katherine Hamilton's goal in high school was to escape from her dead-end hometown of Asheford, Maryland. Fifteen years later she's got a degree in hospitality management and a great job supervising every aspect of the day-to-day operations of a high-end boutique hotel on the Baltimore waterfront. Then her high school best friend asks her to come talk with the town leaders of Asheford, but she won't say why. Kate can't cut her last link to her past,...

"When a group of rich 20-somethings get stuck at a remote family mansion during a hurricane, a party game ends with a dead body on the ground and fingers pointed everywhere. As they try to find the killer among them, fake friends and real enemies have to learn who to trust--and how to survive." --container

Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently lying in a coma amidst an armada of premium machinery. The...

So begin Annie Dawson's breathtaking adventures as she leaves her home in Brookfield, Texas and drives 2,000 miles to Stony Point, Maine to settle her grandmother's estate. Ever since Annie's husband died just a year ago; she'd felt she was lacking direction and purpose. Might Grey Gables be the beginning of a new chapter in Annie Dawson's life?Just one look at the rambling old Victorian house she's inherited from her grandmother transports her back...

"The once grand house is now home to two very different families. Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children, live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown up girls, live and work on the estate and do their best to keep everything running smoothly. Social structure is vital. Everyone...

Two brothers who inherit a dilapidated yet million-dollar-worth mansion battle with its single, stubborn occupant: a tiny and tenacious mouse.

"Sophie and Joseph Argenton have survived the impossible...for now. Desperate, they travel to meet an ally at Kensington, a long-abandoned mansion that overlooks a dead town. The house offers a small hope: its original owner had dedicated her life to researching the monster that possesses Elise. Here they hope to find a way to kill the creature without harming their young friend. But Kensington is a dangerous building. Once the carriage leaves, they're...

During a family visit to a mansion his father has just inherited, Luke learns about a curse placed on the house--just in time, hopefully, to save his family from being imprisoned (or worse) inside the mansion forever.

Describes twelve mansions that are believed to be haunted, including Loftus Hall in Ireland, Borley Rectory in England, and Ann Starrett Mansion in Washington.

When timid Elizabeth's father takes her and her fearless friend, Zenobia, to his family home, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost there, and then Elizabeth learns she had an aunt who disappeared from the house years ago.