Peggy C Gardner: 5 books

Werewolves, zombies, and vampires don’t frighten fifteen-year-old Jenny Hatchet. A new polygamous stepfather, Gomer Obadiah Darken, who has tricked her mother into marriage, terrifies her. In this young adult trilogy, Jenny must pit her wits and skills against a cabal of fanatics who take underage...

Nightmarish events unfold in the final novel of this must-read Land Trilogy, Land of Lyonesse, an exhilarating story of a fifteen-year-old girl captured by a polygamist cult. After finding temporary safety on a nearby Native American reservation in the second novel, Land of the Bong Tree, Jenny Hatchet...

The dark and twisted past of her ancestor, Octavius Wolfe, ensnares his only living descendant in a web of century-old murders. Desperate to discover the link between recent deaths and the hasty burial of two young girls in her family cemetery, Isabella Wolfe challenges an instrument of death—hanging near her own family tree.

When fifteen-year-old Jenny Hatchet escapes from a forced “Celestial Marriage” in the Land of Nod, she finds temporary refuge on a reservation with the eccentric and charming Earnshaw family. Stricken with guilt for leaving her mother and little sister in a polygamy compound, Jenny faces new emotional...

An unsolved crime . . . When eleven-year-old Clio’s WWII-correspondent mother dumps her at her great-aunts’ mansion in Southern Oklahoma, Clio embroils herself in a decades-old mystery of missing women. Three missing women . . . Transported from freedom in New York City to...