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2015
NEXT TOP MANNEQUIN
What could possibly go wrong during a two week modelling course at a prestigious modelling company?
A lot!
Twelve year old Delany Jane Chester and her best friend, Macy Compton, have won the prestigious Top Modelistè Fashion and Beauty Agency two week summer course competition. Two whole weeks of fashion, fun and beauty blitzes, and they cannot wait.
But things start to happen and they give Dell the chills, especially when walking the hallway of mannequins, a long red glossy hallway with twenty-five very real and very lifelike mannequins that look exactly like the past twenty-five graduate winners of the course.
Their eyes follow Dell wherever she goes and nightmares soon arise, sending her into sensory overload. Something is very wrong at Top Modelistè and she sets out to prove what it is…but will that be the biggest mistake of her life.
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2015
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
CINDERFELLA AND PRINCESS CHARMING: WITCH HUNTERS
What do you get when you mix a lonely princess, an orphan boy coming of age, and an evil stepmother together?
A Right Royal Tiff!
Princess Charming is a lonely young princess preparing for her eighteenth birthday ball and yearning to be free, yet on the day itself learns a horrible secret only her parents could tell her.
Cinderfella, a lonely but newly titled young Baron orphaned after the death of his father, refuses to play by his evil stepmother’s rules and decides to go to the ball after all.
Madame Neila, the evil stepmother, wants only two things in life, her dead husband’s fortuitous estate and Princess Charming, and she will stop at nothing to get both of them.
When secrets are kept and secrets are told, years of martial arts training comes in handy for Cinderfella and Princess Charming when they find out what the evil Madame Neila is really up to.
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2015
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
WWW.BADLUCK-YOUREDEAD.COM
You really don’t want to end up on the www.badluck-youredead.com death list, because it could be the end of you!
Jordan Belmont is an ordinary fifteen year old in an ordinary high school who studies hard and achieves excellent grades. Until the day one of his classmates ends up dead and a mysterious new website suddenly appears on everyone’s social media radar. A website that not only shows a horrific video of his classmate’s death, but also has a death list, a list where you can add anyone from your school that you want murdered.
As the body count quickly climbs and the police have more suspects than clues, Jordan’s best friend Mike is drawn deeper into the bizarre murders, digging into the nether regions of the internet to find information the police don’t have. He’s become addicted to checking the site every second of every day, and finding the killer.
But Jordan, who doesn’t have one single social media account and only uses the internet for his higher education, surprises Mike with how much he already knows about the murders and the killer…and that puts them both in harm’s way.
Have Jordan and Mike found the Free Ridge High serial killer, or has the serial killer found them?
DETAILS
For children aged 15 years plus due to some adult language
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2015
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
THE BONES OF WRATH: CHANGES
Changes; things we cannot stop no matter how hard we try…
Phropheticus Mothimus: An ancient shaman story of a hybrid moth man creature told by those who’ve seen it, those who’ve become it, and now young Davey is about to find out exactly what it’s like.
Alien Master Cook: Best friends Darcy and Jennifer enter the Trifest Children’s Master Cook Masterclass Cooking Competition along with ninety-eight other hopefuls. As the field narrows weird things start to happen, and when it comes down the last two standing, Darcy and Jennifer find out what the real prize for winning the competition is.
The Dead People: Adam wakes up in a cold and isolated underground bunker. How did he get there, who brought him there…and more importantly, why do they want him and everyone else dead?
Rat Finks: Mike, and his kid brother David, are new in town and out to get to know the local kids. But the local kids are disappearing and it all has something to do with sundown and melt in your mouth chocolate chip cookies…
Hu-Bot, I am: Science has come a long way with prosthetics for humans, but Sam is worried about the new robotic versions and the doctor behind them. Can he bring the secrets and lies to light before the new robotic world destructs around him?
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2015
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
ONE BONE: ANTHOLOGY 1
ONE BONE: Anthology 1 is the paperback version of the above four e-books. It is the only time you will get them in paperback…at this stage.
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus (but does contain the 15+ www.badluck-youredead.com so parental discretion is advised)
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2016. Reprinted 2018
PRICE: $14.99 US / $18.99 AUD
2016
THE ORPHANAGE
Penelope Black has lost her parents and is being unceremoniously dumped into the cold, grey and forbidding old Kingsmere Orphanage.
As if losing her parents wasn’t bad enough, she now has school lessons for eight hours a day, lives with five other girls in the one room, shares a bathroom with twenty-five more, and the one thing that worries her most is living with boys across the hallway. But those things are the least of Penny’s problems.
For the school, run by the mysterious Dr Livè and his henchman Grosvenor, has had ten children mysteriously disappear and then reappear, except for two who never came back, all by the time she even arrives. And they all look like they’ve been drugged out of their minds, ending up sicker than when they first vanished into the nurse’s room.
There are secrets and lies and mysterious times at Kingsmere Orphanage and Penny’s new friends Alex, Alistair, Alfred and Adrian are determined to find out what’s going on. Even if it means they’re next on the hit list of Dr Livè’s suspected illegal drug trials. Except what they find out is happening is far more deadly than they could have ever imagined.
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2016
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
HANTEL AND GRESEL: FOOD CRITICS
We all know the story of Hansel and Gretel, right? But do you know the story about Hantel and Gresel?
Once upon a time in some weird German black forest cake land lived twins called Hantel and Gresel. They were poor, starving children, but after being sent into the forest for food by their mother they were starving no more, for they had found the motherlode of all food.
Sure it was built in the style of a house…
And sure a lonely old woman lived there…
But surely she didn’t mind sharing with two starving children…?
Needless to say, she soon put Hantel and Gresel to work to support their newly acquired sugar addiction and that’s how they became the world famous food critics they are today.
Ah, their long life was oh so good…and fattening…and sweet…until they found out about the deep dark secret curse being kept from them…
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2016
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO’S THE DEADEST OF THEM ALL?
Getting inside the old Dolby house on Fourteenth Street has been a prize for teenagers everywhere.
So Dallas Howard and his mates, Jett, Louis, Marchone and Zayne find the courage to explore the old Dolby house by night, determined to see for themselves if the house is as haunted as others say it is.
They think it’s all a load of hooey and find nothing in the house until they discover an old mirror in a hidden sub-basement. Dallas thinks it’s awesome, the others think it’s creepy, and Dallas takes photos of it to study later. Yet those photos hold a secret to a long forgotten horror that happened centuries ago in the old Dolby house; a secret so horrific that Zayne is affected by it and hospitalised.
Can the others find out what’s going on and discover the secrets held by the mirror and deal with the devil once and for all?
DETAILS
Due to the nature of this book it is only appropriate for teens 15 years plus.
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2016
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
THE BONES OF WRATH: HAUNTED
Haunted; inhabited or frequented by ghosts…
The House: There hadn’t been a house at the end of the street for decades, but suddenly, within days, there’s a house there, at the end of Damo’s street. Lot 666. How did it come to be built so fast? Who could have possibly done it? Or what…could have done it? And why did all those weird things happen when you went inside?
Sister Madly: Jessica Blakefield was a normal kid doing normal things when the dreams began. Dreams of someone calling her name…dreams of someone telling her to do things… But who was it making Jessica do the things she did and what did they want with her to the point of putting her in the hospital? And who is this person called Elizabeth?
23: Mel and Andrew Bates are two normal kids on holiday with their parents. They’re at a seaside hotel with a little old lady at the front desk and a weird big brute of a guy as the porter. When weird things go more than bump in the night they need to find their way back to the here and now, and not every other decade their room is sending them too. Room 23 is not normal, and they plan on finding out why.
He Who Opens This Book: There’s a weird house on Fourteenth Street that everyone says is haunted. But Mickey thinks it’s a load of rubbish, until his teacher takes his entire school class there as a lesson. The house is completely empty, except for a centuries old book that Mickey mysteriously trips over in the basement. What is the book about and why is it so hard to open? Mickey doesn’t know but he plans on finding out, the only problem is…the book wants him to.
The Haunting of Tiki Island: Danny, Mark and Elsa are on a lovely cruise with their parents to Tiki Island where they plan a week long holiday full of palm trees, tiki idols and a live volcano. But the workers disappear at midnight, and the volcano glows during the night and erupts, shaking the island and scaring the guests. Curious, Mark and Danny investigate the mysterious caves and floating tikis that seem to be haunting the island…
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2016
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
TWO BONE: ANTHOLOGY 2
TWO BONE: Anthology 2 is the paperback version of the above four e-books. It is the only time you will get them in paperback…at this stage.
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus (but does contain the 15+ mirror mirror so parental discretion is advised)
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2017. Reprinted 2018
PRICE: $14.99 US / $18.99 AUD
2017
THE HOWLER
*to be read first before Shadow Walkers and Faded*
It’s Halloween week in Belmont, Australia, and Sam Almaw and his best friend Elliot Gunfield have been going to the local movie theatre’s fright night weekends, watching five horror movies in a row every Saturday and Sunday in preparation for the big night.
One Sunday, Sam and Elliot hear a howling coming from the river near Elliot’s house, and that’s when things change, especially when Elliot suddenly becomes sick and winds up in the hospital.
Their high school’s annual Halloween costume party, on the fateful night itself, brings a frightening occurrence. A beast-like creature, the height of man and the width of a car, batters down the gym doors and terrorises the students and teachers through one hellish nightmare before taking to the streets. And then Sam and his dad disappear, and Elliot ends up back in the hospital along with everyone else.
But what is the creature and where did it come from? Was it conjured like Beetlejuice and the Candyman, or is it an ancient Egyptian myth that’s far more sinister?
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2017
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
SHADOW WALKERS
***to be read after The Howler and before Faded***
Elliot Gunfield has been in a coma for a month since that fateful night on Halloween. The night The Howler came into their lives and destroyed all he knew…including him.
After waking, he finds that he’s different. He feels 1083 years old, that he’s lived a thousand lifetimes, and he’s running out of time. He doesn’t know why, just that he is. His dreams are haunted by bony creatures and hands pulling his heart out of his chest, and he finds out what happened to his best friend, Sam Almaw.
With only two weeks of school left for the year, Elliot returns to find he is now the freak of the school. It seems that dying has left him with an unnatural eye colour, so different to his usual dark brown. The fiery amber of his glowing eyes freaks everyone out, especially Gretchen Merryweather, his arch nemesis. But why can’t he stop staring at Gretchen, and why does his shadow look messy and black?
Elliot finds that death came with an unexpected visitor and that visitor is here to stay unless he can do something about it. And when he finds out what he can do he doesn’t believe that’s the only way. And it all has to do with Gretchen…
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2017
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
FADED
*To be read third after The Howler and Shadow Walkers*
Gretchen Merryweather had felt the brunt of fellow schoolmate Elliot Gunfield’s wrath and paid for it with her life.
After that fateful night of Halloween when The Howler came into their lives, and with the end of the school year fast approaching, Gretchen suffers serious repercussions thanks to Elliot’s actions.
He was trying to get rid of his Shadow Walker and in the process, took Gretchen for his prey. But she paid his fare to the other side and came back with her own creature in tow.
What has come back with Gretchen to terrorise her dreams and her life? It’s something that sends her to the hospital on her death bed and seems to be sucking the very life and soul from her body and making her fade away.
By turning to the one person she knows can help, Elliot, can Gretchen find out what it is that’s taking her life before it’s too late?
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2017
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
THE BONES OF WRATH: GHOSTS
Ghosts; souls of the deceased who don’t believe they are dead
Ghosts of Op Shops Past: Michelle is being made to volunteer at the local op shop by her mother. She meets the other volunteers, has encounters with weird people, and finds an amazing sequinned jacket. But when it’s time to go and say goodbye she discovers that some of those volunteers don’t actually exist…
Ghosts on a Plane: Sarah and her brother Pete are winging their way to London for a European holiday. It starts off with the pilot telling everyone to say hello to the ghost on board which they excitedly go in search of, only to discover there’s more than one…
Ghostwriter: Sam West inherits a creaky old typewriter from his grandmother when she passes. After it’s cleaned and fixed up he decides to use it, after all, he’s wanted to be a writer for years and had told his grandma all about it. But when the typewriter types by itself and leaves messages for him, especially one very bad one, Sam realises it’s not such a cool thing to inherit after all.
The Ghosts of Heartland Hospital: The brand new Heartland Hospital is open for business, and Tommy Ward is front and centre as one of its new patients. Being in hospital is nothing new for Tommy, he breaks a lot of bones and gets into a lot of scrapes. But when the kids in his room are taken away to the “mental health” ward and don’t come back, Tommy goes in search of the story of Heartland only to discover the hospital is not so new after all…
Ghosts in the Shadows: Michael and his class are spending the week before Christmas at Camp Shadows Lake, where they swim, canoe, and roast marshmallows around the campfire. Everything is going swimmingly until Derek, one of the counsellors, tells a ghost story that has them leaving the light on when they go to bed. The only problem with the camp is the ghost story actually comes true…
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2017
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
THREE BONE: ANTHOLOGY 3
THREE BONE: Anthology 3 is the paperback version of the above four e-books. It is the only time you will get them in paperback…at this stage.
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2018
PRICE: $14.99 US / $18.99 AUD
2018
I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE
*to be read first before Knock, Knock…Who’s Dead? and It Creeped at Midnight*
Blake Williamson wants him and his friends to become the new One Direction, but Melissa, a scowling stepmother who wants nothing to do with her stepson, banishes Blake and his friends to the attic with the warning; If he wants to sing and dance, he must clean out the attic and use it.
Spending hours cleaning and dusting, Blake discovers long-lost treasures and photos of happier times just a few short years ago. And then a strange thing happens…
A hole emerges through the adjoining wall, and unable to contain their curiosity, Blake and his friends peer through, only to find very strange things indeed…
An ominous green glow emanates through the hole and they see arms and blood flying through the air. But Blake’s not sure if he’s seeing things or just not being told the truth…
All he wants is for his mother to come back to him, and the neighbours say they can make it happen, but they want his stepmother in return…
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2018
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
KNOCK, KNOCK…WHO’S DEAD?
*to be read second after I Spy With My Little Eye, and before It Creeped at Midnight*
After a menacing warning, Blake Williamson has been told he will get his dead mother back within the week, that she will knock three times and then three more. It also means his wicked witch of a stepmother, Melissa, will have to die in her place.
Not that he cares. He hates his stepmother and wants her gone. His mother is the only woman he wants in his and his father’s life.
But nagging doubts about his mother’s accident and death are leaving him cold. Melissa had told him something just before she fell down the stairs that prompted Blake’s suspicions to rise up, and now he has a driving need to look into Melissa and her past. And he finds it all right, a past she wants buried and hidden forever…especially after what she did to get what she wanted…
A past that finally catches up to her when she answers the door…
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2018
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
IT CREEPED AT MIDNIGHT
*to be read third after I Spy With My Little Eye, and Knock, Knock…Who’s Dead?*
Blake Williamson’s stepmother is dead, and his mother has come back to them. Back to confront Melissa and all she knew.
But things aren’t as clear-cut as they seem and Detective Hanahan has his suspicions. When Blake challenges his dad with the truth about Melissa, in front of Hanahan, Michael has no choice but to take a backseat while the detective works it all out.
What really happened that night three years ago when Adalind died?
Hanahan is on the case, and he solves the mystery with the ominous warning to Michael on New Year’s Eve. And then, as the clock starts striking twelve, there are three knocks on the door…
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2018
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
THE BONES OF WRATH: MONSTERS
Monsters; the things we fear most aren’t hidden under the bed
Croc-O-Jaws: Billy Daniels and his family are holidaying at Lake Kirriwaka, the bluest of blue natural lakes, but it holds a long dead secret that’s been spewed from the pits of the earth that only the locals know on an intimate level.
Godjira: While playing it up at Japan’s newest theme park with his twin brother and parents, Dustin Hooper soon finds out what hell on earth actually means when the depths of ancient Japan spits out a creature not seen in centuries.
King of the Castle: Rose and Ricky Thorn may be of rich English decent, but that doesn’t stop them getting into trouble and discovering the secret their great-great-grandfather, Professor Theseus Vessor, discovered nearly two hundred years ago on the family’s very own private island.
Arach No Phobia: Mike and Bobby Codsworth may be twelve year old geniuses, but their love of all things eight legged has gotten them into the biggest trouble they’ve ever been in. Until they come up with a genius level idea to capture the Queen.
Oh, Yet I Did: Ben Watkins and his family are off to find the menace who has been wreaking havoc in the local town of Yarrumburra. The mayor has called in his family to find out what or who is responsible for the town’s crime spree, and Ben and his cousins soon find something more supernatural than a human…
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2018
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
FOUR: ANTHOLOGY 4
FOUR: Anthology 4 is the paperback version of the above four e-books. It is the only time you will get them in paperback…at this stage.
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2019
PRICE: $14.99 US / $18.99 AUD
2019
TRICK OR TREAT
It’s Halloween, and the students of Richmond High are out trick or treating. And, as usual, Robbie Colbert has gorged on his favourite Reese’s chocolate, making him sick to his stomach and annoying his friends no end.
But he doesn’t let that stop him from entering the house at lot 666 on Derbon Street. Yes, that house. The house that every man and his dog avoids regardless of what day it is. Puffed up with bravado, Robbie decides to enter the property in search of more candy.
When he doesn’t return, his best friend, Pete Wells, goes in after him, and when he doesn’t return, Jasmine, Anna, Bella and Kyle seek help. Finding none, they reluctantly go in after their friends.
Then the nightmare begins…
A twisted game of trick or treat, starring a dancing pumpkin, a chocolate- gorging hell beast, and an old man who just wants it all to end. And with round after round of questions the children must answer correctly to stay alive, the night continues to turn from one horror to the next.
Can they make it out alive, or will they be gorged on like one of Robbie’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2019
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
ALL HALLOWS POSSESSION
The students of Randolph High are on a Halloween night excursion to All Hallows, a small town in the middle of nowhere, as part of their studies. As they learn the history of the town they find out someone is making that history come to life.
As in a real-life headless horseman who may or may not be Jebadiah Jacobus Hallows, the town’s forefather and creator, who comes bolting down the road on his jet black, smoke snorting, red-eye-flaring steed, and holding a head in his hand which may or may not be his own.
And that’s not the only thing that frightens the students. A satanic symbol keeps popping up everywhere, there’s a ghoulishly twisted tree with a dead man hanging from it, and a curse that has the whole town under its spell.
Can the teens figure out who’s reliving the three-hundred-year-old curse and break it before anything else happens? Like their untimely deaths?
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2019
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
THEY RISE ON A BLOOD MOON
Flynn Jefferson’s father has hooked up with Casey York’s mother, who also happens to be their history teacher. With home life being hard for Flynn, he gets into trouble for punching a fellow student, so their parents decide to take them both away for a break. Refusing to go unless their friends can come too, they grumble the whole way, with the trip leading them to the small town of Eagle Ridge where they meet a grizzled old man who has quite a story to tell. About a plague of zombies rising on Halloween night. Which also happens to be a blood moon…
Ignoring the story, they settle into their cabin and soon find strange symbols painted under their beds, on the window shutters, and on every store window in town. But it’s the odd wooden box that Casey finds that leads them down a very dark path of discovery.
With the girls enamoured by Chatan, the local artist and campground manager, it’s up to Flynn and his friends to find a way to defeat the monsters that have risen in the night. But they may just need Casey’s help, especially when they find out she’s intricately woven into the creatures’ pasts.
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2019
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD
THE BONES OF WRATH: HORROR
Horrors; fears that aren’t always as bad as they seem…
Blood Donors Wanted: There’s a monster on the prowl and the local townspeople refuse to walk alone at night for fear of having their throats ripped out. Dr Acula needs his personal supply of life-saving fluid stocked up and needs to make the townspeople trust him enough to give him what he wants. A personal donation…
Dance Night Fright: Westwood High is having its yearly Halloween Dance Night and Brooke Bonefield is confident she’ll be crowned Halloween Queen to Bradford Jennings’ Halloween King. But when the recently deceased decide to spend the night dancing away, it’s not Brooke who’s taking home the crown.
Don’t Scream It’s Over: Banshees are known for their wailing and screaming, so when Eugenie gets her first sore throat in her entire one hundred and three years of life, she freaks herself out, and freaks out further when Dr. Ghoulash informs her that she’s losing the one thing she requires most…
Don’t Feed After Midnight: Ryan Lennon has birthday money burning a hole in his wallet. So when he and his friends go shopping they find a quirky little present in a quirky little shop off a quirky little lane. When the store owner dictates that the rules for the toy must be strictly adhered to or the end of the world will follow, Ryan assures him they will be. But then Ryan never was good at following rules. Will his present cause the end of the world, or is it a case of Jurassic proportions?
Who’s Your WerePuppy?: Randy Bantleroy’s family have opened their castle to tourists to pay for the renovations they can’t afford, but if Randy can find the much talked about Bantleroy treasure, then his family will have all the money they could possibly want and more. But when Halloween arrives, Randy finds there are more secrets in the family than just a long-hidden treasure guarded by a dog…
DETAILS
For children aged 9 years plus
PUBLISHER: ROYAL STAR PUBLISHING
YEAR PUBLISHED: 2019
PRICE: $2.99 US/AUD