Debra Castaneda

The Root Witch

Devil's Shallows

It's summer, 1950. The bodies of handsome young men are discovered near an elaborate movie set in the hills northeast of Los Angeles. Each is a gruesome tableau of shocking violence.New to the big city, Robert is a reporter who needs to prove himself.Catalina is a beautiful healer, determined to keep her secrets.A chance encounter connects them to the cases, confounding police and commanding headlines. The results are as unexpected as they are horrific.But when a ghost appears, frightening the residents in the semi-rural neighborhoods where evictions loom, the dark mystery deepens and threatens them all.The truth is only one story away. If it's not buried first.

The Night Lady

Eight miles of mystery. One night of terror.

Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda.

The salt marsh at Devil’s Landing is home to a terrifying urban legend.

Adam Gray knows the old stories about the Slough Devil, the missing children, and the mutilated animals. But the naturalist and wilderness survival expert doesn’t believe in monsters. Not even when a tourist on his boat sees a strange creature in the tidal channel and captures it on video.

When Adam moves into a controversial housing development next to the marsh, shocking new evidence emerges, and it’s not long before he’s confronted with a series of horrifying and unexplained events.

It takes Christina, his feisty new neighbor, to get him to believe something lurks in the slough. Something disturbed by the new community.

When a massive storm maroons the residents, Adam and Christina find themselves trapped and tested in a fight for their lives.

The Devil's Shallows

Following the clues is as deadly as ignoring them. "It grabbed hold and kept me turning the pages until I finished." Goodreads review Samantha Reyes finally gets up the nerve to ask what's on her mind: is spontaneous human combustion behind the shocking deaths of teenage girls in her small town of Hillside? After the school newspaper editor blurts out the question at a news conference, she follows a trail of hot clues ignored by police. But she can't work fast enough. Another girl burns to death, and now a shadowy figure is stalking her best friend. All roads lead to a creepy old mansion with a dark past. Samantha suspects something sinister still haunts its creaky halls, looking. Looking for more victims. To solve it, she and her friends must summon a long-forgotten phantom, catch it on video, and send it back to wherever it came from. "I totally devoured this....the Box in the Cuts was a total page-turner for me." Goodreads review "Once I started this book, I could not put it down." Goodreads review "The characters are so lifelike and realistic, and I felt like I was right there with them." Goodreads review "Samantha was believable, relatable, and reliable." Goodreads review The Box in The Cuts is the first book in the Surviving Hillside trilogy. The second book, The Fault in The Cuts, releases August 1.

A Supernatural Mystery

The Box in the Cuts

Surviving 'til graduation just got scary.The week between the last day of class and high school graduation just took a shocking turn for Samantha Reyes. Her great-aunt from Mexico shows up and makes a startling announcement: It's time for Samantha to learn the long-forgotten history of the Reyes family in Hillside, and what it means to be the direct descendant of a bruja.But Nilda's appearance in town stirs up old supernatural forces. If Samantha wants to stay alive long enough to graduate, it's going to take more than a crash course in the old ways of magic to rein in the reawakened spirit.Her journey takes her to the deepest part of The Cuts, the woods she hoped to avoid. And this time, Samantha will be tested as never before.

Surviving Hillside Book 3

The Cave in the Cuts

Seven teenagers. An 8.1 earthquake. One angry ghost. Earthquake swarms and strange visions-everyone in the small Northern California town of Hillside is on edge. After the shocking events of last fall, Samantha Reyes just wants to finish her senior year in peace. But that's not happening. Not with the return of an evil ghost, a massive earthquake that isolates her devastated hometown, and a torrential rainstorm that hits at the worst possible time. Alone without their parents, Sam and her friends must pull together to survive the quake and figure out how to banish the reawakened witch once and for all. "The Fault in The Cuts" is Book Two of the Surviving Hillside supernatural suspense series for young adults.

Surviving Hillside Book 2

The Fault in the Cuts

Los Angeles, 1952. When her father is attacked under mysterious circumstances, 22-year-old Trini Duran must return home to Chavez Ravine, a neighborhood mostly abandoned after the government sent letters to residents demanding that they leave.Only two hundred stubborn holdouts remain.While the Mexican American community fights to save their homes, they face a new threat that is even harder to combat than the politicians who want them gone.Trini discovers the city and the supernatural have joined forces against her old neighborhood-monstrous creatures emerge at night, terrorizing the holdouts.Trini, a handsome community organizer, a healer with dubious skills and a ragtag group of fighters, take up arms against the elusive enemy.But to stop the demon invasion, Trini must decide how far she's willing to go to save the place she once left behind.

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