India Hill Brown

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Stand Alone Titles

The Forgotten Girl (2019)

Official Description

On a cold winter night, Iris and her best friend, Daniel, sneak into a clearing in the woods to play in the freshly fallen snow. There, Iris carefully makes a perfect snow angel-only to find the crumbling gravestone of a young girl, Avery Moore, right beneath her.

Immediately, strange things start to happen to Iris: She begins having vivid nightmares. She wakes up to find her bedroom window wide open, letting in the snow. She thinks she sees the shadow of a girl lurking in the woods. And she feels the pull of the abandoned grave, calling her back to the clearing…

Obsessed with figuring out what’s going on, Iris and Daniel start to research the area for a school project. They discover that Avery’s grave is actually part of a neglected and forgotten Black cemetery, dating back to a time when White and Black people were kept separate in life-and in death. As Iris and Daniel learn more about their town’s past, they become determined to restore Avery’s grave and finally have proper respect paid to Avery and the others buried there.

But they have awakened a jealous and demanding ghost, one that’s not satisfied with their plans for getting recognition. One that is searching for a best friend forever-no matter what the cost. The Forgotten Girl is both a spooky original ghost story and a timely and important storyline about reclaiming an abandoned segregated cemetery.

The Girl in the Lake (2022)

Official Description

Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents’ lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she’s not.

Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake… no thanks. On top of that, she just failed her swim test and hates being in the water-it’s terrifying. But her grandparents are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim, especially having grown up during a time of segregation at public pools.

And soon strange things start happening-the sound of footsteps overhead late at night. A flickering light in the attic window. And Celete’s cousins start accusing her of pranking them when she’s been no where near them!

Things at the old house only get spookier until one evening when Celeste looks in the steamy mirror after a shower and sees her face, but twisted, different… Who is the girl in the mirror? And what does she want?

Girl from the Ashes (2026)

Official Description

They are determined to figure out what’s going on — but to make matters worse, Carter keeps getting blamed for the creepy events! People think he’s the one setting the fires! But Carter and Gianna are becoming certain that these are no normal fires… Something terrible once happened where the library now stands, and someone’s trying to send them a message about it.

Carter and Gianna are in the library to start their research when the lights flicker and a stack of books falls off a shelf — what’s going on?! Everywhere they go, spooky things continue to happen, going quickly from weird to downright dangerous, until a few days later, Carter’s notebook bursts into flames in the middle of class!

Carter tries his best — he really does — but he’s always getting in trouble at school. Still, he’s determined to ace his history project, and luckily, he gets to partner with his BFF, Gianna.

Can these best friends dig into their town’s past and stop the strange occurrences before they get any worse? If they’re too late, their whole town might go up in flames…

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