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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1989
  • Latest Book:
    March 2010
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Full Series List in Order

Miranda Barnes

1 - Walk of the Spirits (Apr-2008)
2 - Shadow Mirror (Mar-2010)

The Unseen

1 - It Begins (Aug-2005)
2 - Rest in Peace (Aug-2005)
3 - Blood Brothers (Jan-2006)
4 - Sin and Salvation (Mar-2006)

Multi-Author Series List

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Aug-1992)
The Harvest (Apr-1997)

Hot Blood

Stranger By Night (Jul-2005)

Book List in Order: 29 titles



  • A summer of sun, sand and murder. Kelsey's summer should have been paradise: An invitation to rich and famous Beverly Island, complete with sun-drenched beaches and three gorgeous lifeguards on duty. But Kelsey's summer is the opposite of ...



  • Dressed to kill Martha knew there was something evil about the house she was moving into. If was so cold...and creepy. And it wasn't just the house that was giving her a weird feeling. Martha was sure someone was following her... watching her ever...



  • Revenge is no joke On their way home from an April Fools’ party, Belinda and her friends mistakenly cause a horrible accident. Fearing they’ll be on the hook for murder, they flee the scene and vow to keep silent. But weeks later, Belinda’s ...



  • FEAR THE DAY. BEWARE THE NIGHT. EXPECT NO MERCY... The victim of a car accident in the Ozark hills, Pamela Westbrook awoke to find herself in the care of the Whittakers, a quaint, hard-working family whose farm was miles from the nearest neighbor....



  • Kate will do anything to be the teacher’s pet An aspiring horror writer, Kate likes a little scare. When offered a spot at an exclusive weeklong writing conference, she jumps at the chance to go. After all, it’s taught by William Drewe, the ma...



  • Left in the care of her strange uncle Jake--the proprietor of a tourist attraction called "Dungeon of Horrors"--seventeen-year-old Darcy Thomas experiences a very real horror when she is stalked by a vampire...



  • Was it an accident -- or was it cold-blooded murder? Why was Marissa so scared? What was she trying to say when she fell through the ice and drowned, leaving her sister Ryan McCauley floundering in a sea of guilt? Ryan's haunted by the feeling tha...




  • What is the secret of the bayou holds? Eternal life…or hideous death? Meg Dalton had been uneasy since the first moment she arrived in the back bayou country. Being volunteer nurse to the shriveled husk of a dying woman she hardly knows is bad e...






  • HE'S EVERYWHERE...WAITING JUST FOR HER! Trish smiles into the dressing-room mirror, admiring herself in the gorgeous white dress. Unknown to her, someone else is watching. He knows she is smiling just for him. His soft, strange voice whispers her ...



  • Drawn to her ancestral home, a young woman uncovers a dangerous legacy Olivia always wanted to be part of a big family, but all her life it’s been only her mother and her. As Olivia grew into a young woman, her mother’s erratic behavior turned...



  • “BEWARE OF THE ONE WHO HIDES, WHO WATCHES IN THE DARK!” Before Jenny Logan even entered the forbidding castle -- a replica of the Worthington’s ancestral home in England -- a terrified stranger warned her away. Was the warning real -- or ju...



  • All Robin wants is a part-time job. A friend has invited her on a Florida vacation that promises to be the trip of a lifetime, and Robin needs money for airfare. The ad on the school bulletin board is irresistible: “Get Rich Quick,” it promises, ...



  • FINAL ASSIGNMENT After the nightmarish death of her parents, Marlee Fleming was starting over - a new school, a "happy life." But her new friends Tyler and Noreen acted strangely when they saw the locker she'd been assigned. They said ...



  • HORROR HOTEL Glanton House was Carolyn Baxter's new home, the haunted island retreat her widowed mother was determined to transform into an inn. As if in answer to her prayer, tall raven-haired Joss Whitcomb appeared at their door and offered...



  • BEWARE THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS The phone and the radio were dead, but they'd already heard the news: a mass murderer was on the loose. Hannah and her younger sister Meg were miles from the nearest neighbor, trapped in a raging blizzard, home...



  • BOOK DROP It was after hours. Kathleen was preparing to close the library when somebody returned five grisly books about death. One was slashed. All were overdue. Then Kathleen found the bookmark with the deadly warning. Now people close to her...



  • SUMMER VACATION ISN’T GOING VERY WELL… Lost on a dark country road, Gayle and her best friend Stephanie are hit by a truck that was following them without any lights. But their damaged car was only the beginning… What happened to Aunt Pat...



  • Meeting handsome actor Byron Slater after winning a contest, Miranda Peterson enjoys the attention of the media and the glamour of Byron's world, until she stumbles on the private actor's deadly secrets. Original....






  • NEW SCHOOL. SAME ASSIGNMENT. Something's wrong in Sunnydale, California...something more than the usual bad hair day. As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world to find them where they gather and st...



  • HAUNTED HOUSE On a whim, Emma Donovan bets her twin brother, Charlie, that she can spend the entire night alone at the spooky, abandoned house next door. The place is seriously creepy, but she's determined to overcome her fears and prove her ...



  • Lucy hates her life. After her mother's tragic death, she's sent to live with relatives she's never even met, in a sleepy little town that couldn't be more different from her home. Her aunt is cold and silent, and Lucy's cousin isn't exactly friendly...



  • Hot Blood

    After Dark, Everything Changes... Sweetness grows sinister, innocence curdles into corruption, and nothing is as it seemed by the light of day... Watch in fascination as a heartbroken technophile tries to win back the girl of his cyber-dreams, ...



  • Out walking alone one rainy night, Lucy becomes convinced that someone -- or something -- is following her. Spooked, she ducks into a cemetery to try and lose her stalker. Panicking in the darkness, she slips and stumbles into an open grave -- only t...



  • Still stalked by an unseen force and plagued by unspeakable visions, Lucy feels she cannot carry on for much longer -- especially now that Byron, the one person who understood what she was going through, is dead. No one else believes her. She is stil...



  • Lucy knows there must be something, somewhere, that can tell her why she was chosen to see the terrible visions; why she feels the shadowy presence all around her.  But what?  Could the explanation lie with the mysterious stranger claiming ...



  • Too many deaths and too many terrifying visions have taken their toll on Lucy Dennison. She wonders if she can trust anyone or anything anymore. In the chilling finale to The Unseen quartet, Lucy comes face-to-face with the force that has turned her ...



  • When Miranda Barnes first sees the sleepy town of St. Yvette, Louisiana, with its moss-draped trees, above-ground cemeteries, and her grandfather?s creepy historic home, she realizes that life as she knew it is officially over. Almost immediately, th...



  • Unsettling. There's no better word to describe Miranda Barnes's ability to hear the cries of the dead, feel the wind move her hair when they run by, and -- dare she look into a mirror -- see the reflection of a ghostly woman behind her. There's only ...





Award-Winning Books by Richie Tankersley Cusick

The House Next Door
2005 Virginia Readers Choice Award -- High School


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richie Tankersley Cusick has published 29 books.

Richie Tankersley Cusick does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Shadow Mirror, was published in March 2010.

The first book by Richie Tankersley Cusick, The Lifeguard, was published in August 1989.

Yes. Richie Tankersley Cusick has 2 series.