Two years after losing his father, Mark Mitchell’s life is once more plunged into chaos when his mum decides to move back to her hometown of Trentsworth. He believes his life is over, now that he has lost the excitement of the big city. But once he meets Ben, Stanley, Albert, Susan, and Tiffany, who are known locally as The Terrors, he finds out that Trentsworth is not such a boring small alpine township after all. After a ghost appears on top of an old castle ruin, they discover that a secret tunnel system is being built right under everyone’s noses. This gets them pondering the following questions. Who would be behind such a huge undertaking? What dastardly plan requires a large network of tunnels directly under Trentsworth? How, if at all, is this related to the sudden appearance of the ghostly figure on the top of Castle Tower? Find out in The Trentsworth Terrors - The Ghost of Castle Tower

Book Two in the Trentsworth Terrors children's adventure series - Following the exciting adventure of The Ghost of Castle Tower School work, twenty-four hours, seven days a week. A child’s worst nightmare, yet Ben, Mark, Tiffany, Susan, and Albert are looking forward to arriving at their new boarding school which promises such a tedious lifestyle. Only Stanley, the remaining Terror, realises it is not a school any kid would wish to attend. He knew that they would all agree with him if the others had not watched the Kwenz Education introductory video. Something in that video made his friends into mindless slaves, and he actually knew what. He also knew, once at this new boarding school, his friends would be exposed to the same mind-controlling videos day after day, making them do what ever the school wanted. Stanley needed to work out a way to protect his friends from the hypnotising images and fast after the discovery that not only their will, but their lives are also held in the balance at The Altered State School.

The Terrors get sent to a boarding school several years earlier than expected. Soon they realise the reason for this is that their parents have been hypnotised by the school's promotional videos. But too late as they to succumb to the school's suggestions. It is up the Stanley, the one Terror left in Trentsworth, to rescue them from 24-7 drudgery

Known in Trentsworth as The Terrors, Mark, Ben, Stanley, Albert, Susan, and Tiffany investigate a ghostly appearance on top of Castle Tower, and a secret tunnel system they discovered beneath the town of Trentsworth. Who would be behind such a huge undertaking? What dastardly plan have they in mind? How, if at all, is this related to the ghost?

A Psychological Intrigue Set in Alpine New Zealand for young adults and up. Simon, a convicted serial killer of the rich, undergoes treatment at a fledgling private criminal rehabilitation firm, IVRRAC. Simon is then sent to the alpine village of Trentsworth, a town full of rich socialite women, to ascertain whether he is cured of his murderous impulses or not. During his stay in Trentsworth, Simon falls in love with his neighbour, Kyndrea, the only child of a rich widower. After a time he realises there is no way she would be able to love him due to his past. Through this anguish he discovers that the rehabilitation process has failed and he is still able to exact his revenge with dramatic and unexpected results. During the aftermath of his actions he is informed what the anagram IVRRAC stands for and the awful truth that IVRRAC has its own dark secrets and Trentsworth is not at all what it seems. "One mistake, one tiny error in that psych report, the treatment won't hold and that will spell disaster. Suicide, massacre or most likely both! I'll stay with him and watch events carefully, but I won't be held responsible."

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