Bøger af Peggy Gardner

An unsolved crime . . . When eleven-year-old Clio's WWII-correspondent mother dumps her at her great-aunts' mansion in Southern Oklahoma, Clio embroils herself in a decades-old mystery of missing women. Three missing women . . . Transported from freedom in New York City to the rigid guardianship of great-aunts, the precocious Clio sets about solving the puzzle of disappearing women, a problem that no one wants to discuss. A desperate scheme . . . An admirer of the ancient mapmaker Ptolemy, Clio maps her own war against a serial killer, unmasking suspects and long-held secrets, as she tries to understand why her mother fled her childhood home and left her with two odd aunts in a strange world.

When fifteen-year-old Jenny Hatchet escapes from a forced "Celestial Marriage" in the Land of Nod, she finds temporary refuge on a reservation with the eccentric and charming Earnshaw family. Stricken with guilt for leaving her mother and little sister in a polygamy compound, Jenny faces new emotional problems. She's attracted to both Healthcliff Earnshaw and her rescuer Josh Barnes-life-long best friends. As Jenny searches for a long-lost uncle who might help her rescue her mother and sister, death strikes on the reservation. Land of the Bong Tree leads Jenny to a new understanding of the value of family and friends, but her independent nature sets her on a dangerous path in this second novel of the Land Trilogy.

Werewolves, zombies, and vampires don't frighten fifteen-year-old Jenny Hatchet. A new polygamous stepfather, Gomer Obadiah Darken, who has tricked her mother into marriage, terrifies her. In this young adult trilogy, Jenny must pit her wits and skills against a cabal of fanatics who take underage girls as brides in "celestial marriages for eternity." After the sudden death of her father, Jenny's world changes in a shocking way when she, her younger sister, and her beautiful, hapless mother are lured away to a bizarre compound in northern Idaho. Exceptional at math, running 10K races, and trained in electrical work by her father, Jenny concocts a desperate plan to fry the saints as she devises a way out of the electrically charged fence of the compound. The Land of Nod, the first of the Land trilogy, ends with Jenny's escape to a nearby reservation where her romantic interest, Josh Barnes, also a captive in the compound, leaves her with an unusual family and more mysteries to solve.