Westwood, Chris

Fourteen-year-old Jack North finds himself literally drawn into the frightening world of what he thinks is a new virtual reality game.

A stranger comes to a depressed English mining town, bringing changes that first delight but then threaten teenaged Jules and the other town inhabitants.

Sixteen-year-old twins, Nick and Tony, always envious of each other's talents, reveal, in alternate chapters, their differing perspectives of their sometimes complicated relationship.

In an alternative London, thirteen-year-old Ben Harvester is recruited by the Ministry of Pandemonium, a secret organization responsible for shepherding lost souls to the afterlife, but soon learns there is another, more sinister soul-hunting organization that now considers him an enemy.

A letter from a dating service links eighteen-year-old Leigh with the mysterious deaths of two other college students who seem to have had the life drained from them.

Having immersed herself in the books of horror writer Martin Wisemann, Joanne is shocked when the hideous monsters in their pages come to life and begin haunting her days and nights.