Cherry blossom lipstick: check Smokey eyes: check Skinny jeans: check Dead kid in the mirror: check For sixteen year old Mattie Hathaway, this is her normal everyday routine. She's been able to see ghosts since her mother tried to murder her when she was five years old. No way does she want anyone to know she can talk to spooks. Being a foster kid is hard enough without being labeled a freak too. Normally, she just ignores the ghosts and they go away. There's a little glitch this time. The ghost she sees is her foster sister, Sally. Everyone thinks she's just another runaway. Mattie knows the truth, though-she's dead, murdered. Foster kids look out for each other and Mattie feels like she has to help Sally, but she can't do it alone. Against her better judgment, she teams up with a young police officer and together they set out to discover the truth of Sally's disappearance. Now the killer has set his sights on her. It becomes a race to see if she can find the truth before the serial killer finds her.

Maria Moore is clairvoyant and frequently uses her gifts to help with paranormal investigations, one of the cases she helped on made her famous and now she's world renowned, which has it's upsides and downsides. This will go over the many investigations she assists with, and the team she eventually becomes a part of.

Having grown up together, Rob and Kathryn have been close friends but things become a little different once strange dreams start plaguing their sleep. They soon meet a team of people that share an array of abilities and use them to try and figure out the mysteries behind paranormal activity; be it, ghosts, the undead or all manners of creatures in between. Warnings: - This story WILL contain sensitive topics such as; depression, suicide, death, blood/gore, religion and so on - This story WILL contain some strong language - The story may not be updated regularly as it is written whenever I feel like doing so and everything that is written is off the top of my head - This story has no clear end point yet... it may not be a happy one... One last note: I welcome any and all CONSTRUCTIVE criticism that will help me refine my methods of writing. Please be kind though.

Sixteen year old Kait Lenox has a reputation as the weird girl in her high school, mostly because of her ex-best friend turned mean popular girl, Ariel, but maybe it has a little to do with the fact that Kait has a hobby crashing funerals. At one of these, Kait is outted by the most popular guy in school, Ethan Ripley. Yet, instead of humiliating her for all the world to see, he asks for her help, and Kait finds herself entangled in a murder mystery. Not only is the thrill of the mystery exciting, but more importantly Ethan knows her name! A little sleuthing is well worth that!

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After ending a bad relationship, Sara is just looking to start a new life, in a new town, under a new name. All she wants is a simple life, to be left alone for awhile, and for her crazy stalker ex to not find her. Everyone says this house she purchased is haunted but she's confident there are no such things as haunted houses. She hopes. Samuel has spent the last three hundred watching from the sidelines of existence. Trapped by witches in old Salem for his power, he's resigned himself to a life of enslavement, never hoping to be freed. Until this strange woman moved into his house. There was something about her. Maybe he could find a way to convince her to free him so he could finally take his revenge on the descendants of the coven that trapped him and regain his powers.

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Acadia Peirce is about to get married to Tom Anderson and her friends decide to bring her to Vegas for a bachelorette party she will surely never forget. But desaster stricks when she gets a little too drunk and marries internation super star, Hunter Willis.