Dollhouse
Anya Allyn
Language: English
Pages: 292
ISBN: 1475034725
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A dark, Gothic, Young Adult Mystery. ~*~ Four teenagers chance across a mysterious, crumbling mansion in the depths of the mountains. - One of them is about to vanish. - One of them is lying about what they know. - None of them will escape the fate awaiting them in the terrifying Dollhouse beneath the old mansion--a world of nightmarish horrors and insanity. ~*~ Six months ago, fifteen-year-old Cassie Claiborne reluctantly moved from her home in Florida with her social worker mom. In her new home--a remote, mountainous Australian town, Cassie meets new friends--Aisha Dumaj, Ethan McAllister and Lacey Dougherty. For the first time, Cassie falls in love. The only problem is that the boy she falls for is her friend, Ethan--and he and Aisha are already an item. When Cassie goes on a school hike to Devils Hole with her new friends, she tries desperately to keep her feelings for Ethan secret. Aisha disappears on the hike without a trace--with the police believing she was murdered. When Cassie, Ethan and Lacey return to the mountains to search for Aisha--Cassie begins to realize she never really knew any of her friends. Everyone has their own secrets. She discovers the stranger lurking inside everyone she thought she knew. The darkest secret of all waits beneath the old mansion in the mountains--a secret from which there is no escape....
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
jean pocket. The three of us stepped wordlessly inside—we'd come too far not to. Our combined torch light barely penetrated the darkness. I just made out the sketchy outline of a rounded rock ceiling and walls, spearing down into a winding passage. My foot slid on something that was not rock—something rubbery. I bent to snatch it up. It was one of those gel phone cases. I turned it over. My heart dropped through my chest. The pop-art image of John Lennon in tiny round glasses colored the back of
nauseous—the dancing worsening it. Jessamine sat in her chair with her dress fanned out, fingers laced. “Don’t forget to courtesy before you leave the floor.” With the dancing over, we changed from our gowns—then assembled in the kitchen for dinner. We dined on cold spaghetti and bread that Sophronia had baked. Jessamine took servings of food personally to Ethan. I hoped that meant she was soon to let him go free. Free, I thought, was a relative term. We returned to the warmth of the
better by morning. I’ll have Raggedy fetch a cold cloth for her head.” The doll ambled heavily out of the room and Clown took up position by the exit. “Jessamine, please,” I pressed. “She needs a doctor.” “There are no doctors here. We’ll just have to make do.” Aisha shook her dark locks of hair. “We can't just make do when someone's that ill.” “I don’t like the insistence of you girls at this hour. We’ll deal with it in the morning.” Raggedy handed a dripping wet cloth to Jessamine.
kitchen. My fist curled around the teapot handle. Shaking, I poured the liquid into a cup and lifted it to my lips. A small object lay under the table. Philly's headless bear—the only thing she'd brought in from the outside world. Was it day out there in the world? Night? Stop remembering that world, Cassie. You don't belong there. The smashed-open hole in The Dark Way wormed into my head—an ugly wound in the wall, with wind like blood flowing out. I pictured Jessamine crawling through the
point, the situation becomes very dire. At the point we're at with Aisha, it's gone past dire. The case has been upgraded from Missing Person to probable homicide. We're doing our best to apprehend whoever is responsible for harming Aisha. But we need the help of the public and we need the help of Aisha's friends." I nodded, sure that his eyes were burning a path inside my skull, probing for answers. I knew the police were almost certain Aisha hadn't been taken off the mountains, or hadn't
