McKenna Cooke's Books
Author of the Little School of Horrors Series
Book 3 out now
I’ve always been enthusiastic about great writing, and couldn’t be happier to have turned my passion into a thriving career as a professional Author. With digital and online technologies continuing to disrupt the print industry, it's important to provide an accessible place where I can connect with a wider audience. Here you will find samplings of my work, ranging from published stories to more personal pieces, which I invite you to explore and enjoy below.
About the Author
I originally wrote Little School Of Horrors when I was just fourteen years old. I picked up the old, ratty notebook when I was digging through my old belongings my sophomore year of college at Northern Arizona University, and decided it had potential. College graduation, new love, marriage, a pup, a move to seattle, and ten years later, the series is finally, bittersweetly complete.
Book 1
**This a thriller/mystery/romance novel for teens and young adults 15+ due to violence and language.**
Everyone I know – and people I don’t—think my best friends and I had something to do with our English teacher’s death. People we thought of as friends. Peers. Teachers. Our parents.
And who knows? Maybe we did. Maybe we were the reason why the psycho pedophile Mike Adams was stabbed thirteen times in his kitchen. But did we do it? No.
Still, it sucks being treated as though we did. Can you really blame us for starting fresh at a boarding school? It was our only chance to get away from everyone who blamed us, especially our parents. And yeah, I get that it looks like we are “running away” which might be construed as suspicious, but WE DIDN’T KILL ANYONE.
Besides, being around hundreds of new faces means making new friends. And maybe stirring up a new romance. And gaining the trust of the people who actually care about us.
We need every person on our side that we can get, because there is someone out there that knows who we are, knows where we came from, and knows what we did. And it seems to me like they want to end us.
Book 2
**This is a thriller/mystery/romance novel for teens and young adults ages 15+ due to violence and language**
The brother of the boy I am crazy about tried to kill me. It wasn’t a dream. I wasn’t just trying to get revenge on him by saying so. Tim tried to drown me in the woods outside of my school, Briansdale. I survived, but what does that mean for me? He is still out there. He still wants me gone. Is he willing to go the great lengths to make that happen?
Now I have both him and Tiffany to worry about, on top of practicing for my dance concert, getting Jayden to ask me to Homecoming, finishing my endless and ever-piling homework, and maintaining a social life. It’s almost too much for me to handle. Thankfully, I have my best friends— and some new ones— by my side, and I am this close to getting Jayden to be my boyfriend. I have a lot of secrets though, and they keep multiplying by the hour. Is Jayden going to accept the fact that I am unwilling to fully let him in? Or will I be carrying too much baggage for our relationship to endure?
I can pretend my life is normal all I want, but I know that is far from the truth. I just have to find a way to get through it all. I don’t want any more secrets, any more lies, and any more putting people’s lives in danger.
I will get my life back.
Book 3
**This is a thriller/mystery/romance novel for teens and young adults ages 15+ due to violence and language**
THE FINAL CHAPTER...
Laura's kidnapping was the last straw. We are done running from Tim Roberts. It is time to fight back. I don't care what it takes. I don't care what I lose, as long as its not the people I love. Besides my family, friends, Jayden, and Sam, nothing else matters.
Sam wants in. Not just in as my boyfriend, but in all the way. He wants to risk his own life to help us. And unlike Jayden, Sam has never doubted our story. He believes us, so why is it so hard for me to accept him?
And why does Jayden keep showing up in my life when he made it painfully clear he didn't want to be apart of it?
And why does the new front office lady look so familiar?
And why does my relationship with Amber and Ellie seem to be changing for good?
We know time is running out. We know there will be blood. We know there will be lives lost. We know this horror movie that is our life has to have an ending. We just have to hope it's a happy one.
He looked baffled.
"Don't look at me like that. You want nothing to do with me, right?" I asked.
"That's not true."
"If that wasn't true, then wouldn't our relationship be a little different right now?"
I wanted him to feel remorseful. I wanted him to bring up Sam and be jealous.
"Malorie, there is so much shit going on right now. I'm overwhelmed, I’m confused, I’m sad, and I’m fucking worried as hell."
I regretted saying anything. "I know."
He stepped closer. "I know you know. I'm sorry."
There it was. He was finally apologizing.
But it was too late. He had to know that. I couldn't go running back to him every time that he decided I should.
I waved it away. "It's okay. Everything that's happened... me and you. It's all so complicated. We don’t need any more of that in our lives right now.”
He was silent a moment.
It was deafening.
Then he spoke. "Maybe you’re right.”
Little School of Horrors - Resolution
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