When school psychologist Skye Denison investigates the death of a popular teenager who was cast as Sleeping Beauty in the school play, she uncovers some shocking revelations about prominent Scumble River citizens. And even ever-optimistic Skye knows that in this case, finding the killer won't end this tale happily-end-after...

Living under suspicion after wrongly serving time for her fiance's murder, Casey attracts the attention of newswoman Laurie, who pledges to exonerate her in spite of the machinations of an attention-stealing former prosecutor.

Includes ten traditional fairy tales in their unabridged versions.

Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a “perfect” crime committed many years before.

In search of a social life in Scumble River, Skye Denison has revently joined the GUMBettes-the ladies auxiliary of the men's Grand Union of the Mighty Bulls. Now she and her boyfriend Simon hobnob with the upwardly mobile professionals in town. But when a seemingly perfect couple is murdered, Skye discovers that success doesn't equal survival...

Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case -- unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed. Six years earlier, life was much simpler for everyone involved, especially seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer, a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered Ashley's home and murdered her father and her best friend. Traumatized and suffering from a crippling sense of survivor guilt, Ashley is ready to give up on both soccer and life until help comes from an unexpected source -- a scholarship to the Oregon Academy, an elite private school, is extended to her by school dean Casey Van Meter. The school quickly becomes a haven for both Ashley and her mother, Terri. As Ashley regains her sense of self through the school's soccer program, Terri joins a writing group for adults led by Joshua Maxfield, a former literary wunderkind who has disappeared from the bestseller lists since his second book was panned by both critics and fans. Then tragedy strikes again and Ashley has to run for her life, unaware that the key to her survival is in the one book she's afraid to read -- Sleeping Beauty. With its blend of dizzying plot twists and thrilling suspense, Sleeping Beauty shows Phillip Margolin at the very top of his form.

Princess Aurora loves being married to Prince Phillip, but lately, she has been missing her fairy friends, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. So when Phillip leaves to visit another kingdom for a few days, she has a wonderful idea: a slumber party with the fairies! But when they arrive, they think they need magic to have fun! Now, it's up to Aurora to show them how to have a real slumber party—without magic!

"Whatever you do, please Don't Wake Her Up!" When is murder not murder? Amber-Rose is the happiest person in the world. Life is looking good for her. She has just landed a well-paying job at a high-tech company New World, in a new high tech town where all the world's best brains have come together to create a virtual world of Augmented Reality. She has just fallen in love with a gorgeous guy at the company. Things look set to take off ... until her past turns up. Now, her past is back, threatening to destroy her and everything she loves and cherishes. Why is Amber-Rose afraid of her past? Surely, she can stand and fight for what she loves and cherishes ...? But Amber-Rose has a dark secret. She has been living in an Augmented Reality of her own... She is a sleepwalker. Worse, she does things whilst she is sleepwalking, bad things she dares not remember. Things she conveniently can't remember when she wakes up. Will Amber-Rose survive? Or is this the end to her promising career and blossoming love affair?

Scumble River is celebrating its bicentennial in style -- with historical reenactments, bingo, a coal-tossing tournament, and a Crazy Craft race. Serving as the guest of honor is none other than the town founder's great-great-grandnephew, Gabriel Scumble. But his visit turns out to be short-lived when Skye's students Frannie and Justin find him dead with a pickax protruding from his chest.