Haunted – Kobo eBook

The house next door is haunted. Billy swears it is. Mark Madzin doesn’t believe a word of it he’s been sneaking in and out of that boarded-up house since he was five, and in ten years he’s seen plenty of ghost hunters but never a single ghost.

Then one night Mark jumps out of the shadows at four kids with a chain in one hand and an axe in the other an axe and chain he doesn’t remember picking up. The kids run out screaming, grey-haired and mute with terror, and Mark has no memory of what he did.

The next day, a sky-blue gift box appears on the old wood stove, tagged “To: Mark Madzin From: Your Other Loving Family.” Inside are brass knuckles, handcuffs, leg irons and a whip and a note that reads only: “You will need these.”

Then Mark meets Maggie.

At home, things are stranger still. His mother keeps setting only two places at the table. His parents leave for vacation without saying goodbye. Old friends look right through him, like he isn’t even there.

Mark is determined to find out what is happening in the house next door and what happened to him a year ago, in the file labelled MGM, hidden in a box under his parents’ bed.

Haunted is a short ghost story with a twist that changes everything you thought you knew about the boy next door.