Kiowa County Public Library District

"From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness thriller that will teach you to trust no one. There are eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run. When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, the small group is forced...

Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura's charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.

Two children find an abandoned house deep in the woods. With peeling paint, broken windows, and personal items of the former tenants remaining, they wonder who once lived there and where they might have gone.

It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet David―charming and unreliable, he seems to have appeared out of nowhere. David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy and Peter and complicates...

Like countless others in 1931, Samuel Wortham lost his job. And he lost his wife's inheritance, their home, and much of his self-respect. Samuel, his wife, Julia, and their two young children hitchhike from Pennsylvania to Illinois in hope of work. Caught on the road by a sudden storm, the Worthams take shelter in an abandoned farmhouse out of desperation. Feeling oddly at home, Julia insists on finding the owner of the property, despite Samuel's...

Ella has moved to the spooky town of Windy Hollow to live with her Great Aunt Raven. She is kept busy by a series of odd jobs arranged by her mysterious aunt. Postmaster Silverton asks for Ella's help delivering packages. She is surprised to see an abandoned house on her route. But when she returns the following morning the package she dropped off yesterday is gone and in its place is a cryptic note for the next order! --Provided by publisher

A house sits in a field under the ever-changing sky. For a while the house was full of laughter and children and the sounds of lives being lived under its roof. And then, for a long time, it was empty and quiet. New people came to look, but they always left. Will anyone come to stay?

On the top floor of an abandoned tenement, Harry struggles to complete the novel he has been writing for almost ten years. Then Willie, a black militant wannabe writer, moves into another part of the building to work on his own book.

"Single mother Kayla Johnson embarks on a journey to Pennsylvania in search of her daughter's biological father. But when a storm forces them to turn in to an abandoned home in a small Amish community, Kayla must come to terms with her past disappointments and her distrust in God. Widower Silas Miller has always dreamed of owning his own property. So when Minister Yoder vacates his home and moves out of state, SIlas is thrilled to be caretaker...

Wages of sin: When beautiful college graduate, Sue Walker, inherits a mysterious house in the countryside, she and her friends decide to make it their destination for a weekend getaway. Upon entering the long-abandoned home, they unwittingly release the dark secrets of Sue's forgotten past-- memories that have lain dormant for years due to a childhood trauma she suffered at the age of nine. An evil presence of a twisted preacher still lingers there--...