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Daniel takes on Gibbets Hollow as part of his paper round. It doesn’t worry him that this lonely lane is supposed to be haunted. He doesn’t believe in ghosts anyway. But he soon discovers that there are some strange people living in Gibbets Hollow and when one of them is murdered – stabbed with a pitchfork, Daniel is convinced the police have arrested the wrong person. With the help of his pal, Tim, they endeavor to unearth the real killer - but they are treading a dangerous path.

Emma and Lucy experience the chance of a lifetime. Emma has won a competition to spend the weekend with the hottest new boy-band around, Street Wise. She and her friend, Lucy fly to France on the band's private jet with their chaperone. They meet the gorgeous band, they watch the concerts, they go backstage. It's all brilliant - until something deadly happens. Can you solve the murder before it's too late. Are you an ace detective?

There's something sinister in the attic. It creeps in when no one is looking. Everyone says the noises Katie can hear is bats, but then everyone seems to be lying, hiding some dark secret. And why has the attic door been bricked up? Everything has changed for the worse Katie realises when she's forced to stay with her granddad and cousin Vanessa at the old bake-house. He is just a frightened shadow of himself while Vanessa, who used to be such fun, is spiteful and unpleasant. She even looks different – Gothic and macabre. There's rumours of vampires.

Megan Miller doesn't believe in ghosts or in reincarnation but that soon changes after moving to a new city and a new school. It starts with feelings of déjà vu. Vague feelings at first that remain annoyingly just out of reach. Then the flashbacks start - memories of ancient times and fragmented dreams of when she had been called Celeste. Then comes the haunting. After visiting the old bombed out cathedral, Megan believes some dark ominous presence is haunting her, following her, whispering in her ear. And always the same question, where did you hide it?

A vicious burglary goes horribly wrong - the elderly victim is killed and one of the burglars is injured. In the detached house next door, Julia is preparing to leave her husband. He has let her down for the last time and her bags are packed. Taking their eight-year-old daughter, Lucy, from her bed they set off in the fog. But on this cold, dark night, fate steps in and these strangers collide. When Vincent and Nash abduct the mother and daughter, and take them to a derelict house, the situation takes an even graver turn.

Paul finally has his life back on track. After losing his wife, Helena, in a horrific car crash, he has found love with Sally and moves into her country cottage near his old childhood home. As a former high-ranking Naval Officer, Paul now works as Head of Security at MI5. He has no memories from before he was ten years old. An accident left him in a coma for 9 months. But was it really an accident? Soon Paul starts to have flashes of childhood memories, all involving his childhood friend, Owen, and a terrifying witch-like woman who lived in the woods whom he and Owen used to taunt.

In the centuries-long conflict between the empires of Egypt and Hatti, the young princess Istara is taken hostage by the King of Hatti to secure the loyalty of her father, the King of Kadesh to the empire. Soon her new life in Hatti's glittering capital becomes all she knows. Bound in blood before the gods to Hatti's unwilling crown prince, Istara, now Hatti's queen-in-waiting, learns she will never be loved.