Ira Marcks – författare

Aspiring engineer Suzy Hess is invited to the famous Underlook Hotel, domain of the reclusive horror writer Jack Axworth, in the mountains above her hometown of Estes Park, Colorado. Suzy thinks she's there to tutor Jack's son, Danny, but instead she finds herself investigating a local curse that threatens the landmark hotel.With the help of Elijah Jones, an amateur filmmaker who thought he'd been asked to make a film about the so-called King of Horror; Rena Hallorann, the hotel's caretaker; and Danny, who knows more than he's letting on, Suzy sets out to solve the mystery at the heart of the Underlook, one that holds the town of Estes Park in its grasp. With only a week to save the hotel-and the town-the friends find themselves racing against time to uncover the shadows of the past.

Summer has begun on Martha's Vineyard, but Gayle isn't interested. Not in the working at an ice cream stand. Not in softball, since she broke her arm on a bad play and hasn't seen her team since. Not even in Shark!, the big Hollywood movie being filmed on the island. All she wants to do is help her mother open their long-planned ice cream stand. But because of Gayle's hospital bills, they don't have the money to do even that.Enter Maddie and Elijah, Gayle's new friends and her ticket off this cursed island. With their help, Gayle schemes to win a youth film contest and use the prize money to get the ice cream stand up and running. But those plans quickly go awry as their movie uncovers a long-dormant island mystery and the friends' very reasons for creating the film irrevocably shift.

Hidden passages, secret societies, and cryptic conspiracies . . . at this school, a failing grade is the least of your worries. Rose was just trying to get into her school science club—on her own terms, without the help of her famous scientist of a father. All she has to do is convince the club leaders that alchemy is a serious science. But when her attempts to capture video evidence lead her and her best friend Elijah to a mysterious night school rumored to dabble in alchemy, they stumble into an ancient conspiracy involving a phantom snake, hidden codes, and the fabled guardian of the Golden Fleece. As Rose digs deeper, the line between myth and reality begins to blur. With new friends at her side, she must navigate secret passages, alchemical puzzles, and dangerous truths before the night swallows her whole.