Jessica Cranberry

The Darkest Lullaby is an anthology full of suspense and horror. You'll not want to miss this heart-pounding collection if you loved Survive the Night by Riley Seger, works by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, or American Horror Story.Six authors come together to bring to life thrilling and heart-pounding horror stories of nannies and their wards, creating something unsettling that will haunt the reader long after they've finished reading A governess is plagued by nightmares of her own death each night-but are they mere dreams? Atrocities of the past collide with the future for a nighttime nanny. Secrets surrounding a castle are murderous for a caregiver. A failed witch's apprentice must take up her late aunt's babysitting shift at a terrifying house. For one babysitter, discovering the truth about a local house, and her ward, comes with a hefty price. An unsuspecting young woman gets more than she bargained for when she takes on a nannying job... for a doll.Your new favorite hair-raising thrill awaits.

Maeve Drakos and Hazel Fischer continue their college journey, moving back to the city and starting the peace officer training program at the community college. They pick out their first apartment, and everything seems awesome. Until they meet the neighbors.Members of Oakley University's men's lacrosse team live in the big house behind them. After many late-night parties and several instances of vandalizing the girls' apartment, Maeve has had enough. She decides to confront them on their own turf. Except while there, she discovers team secrets far darker than broken windows and spray-painted walls. Yet they all insist it's nothing-just tradition. The captain's a nice guy; they're all good guys. Yeah, no.Maeve thought she and Hazel were supposed to be the perfect team-in more ways than one. But when she approaches Hazel about reporting the guys, Hazel doesn't necessarily see what's happening next door the same way. And she's hardly ever home anyway, because she's been spending loads of time with her friend Doug. All this leaves Maeve doubting herself and questioning everything she thought she understood so clearly their freshman year.Yet there's no time to figure anything out before Maeve and Hazel find themselves embroiled in another murder mystery. Who has time to care about a crush when there's a rotting corpse in the basement?

For Hazel, an introvert with a knack for people watching, campus life is awkward and hard and...lonely. That is, until she starts to let her guard down around her roommate, Maeve-who's fun and has a wicked flair for drama. Could there be more than just a friendship here? Maybe. But Hazel has a lot of family trauma to work through before figuring out the other big parts of her life. For now, she's just happy to have someone to talk to.All seems to go well until a night in the Trap-the university's green space-leads to a tense encounter with some drunk guys. When one of the guys ends up dead, Hazel is implicated, and she and Maeve set out to solve the crime before police can connect either of them to it. But how can two amateur sleuths put together a solid case to hand over to the police in time? By following the campus online diaries, that's how.Set at the beginning of the internet age, people are just starting to share all their deepest, darkest secrets via the World Wide Web, yet the assumption of online anonymity may be a critical mistake. As the perpetrator posts their criminal diary for public consumption, Hazel and Maeve scramble to use technology to piece together the murderer's identity. Can they hack their way out of becoming suspects? And if so, could they ever go back to their boring majors?