Hedges Moved Last Night: Creep Street #10

Twelve topiary animals guard the maze. This morning there are only eleven.

Amara Beckwith is eleven years old, extremely sarcastic, and completely done with plants. Her dad is a groundskeeper, so her whole life smells like gasoline and grass clippings. She has seen every hedge, lawn, and flowerbed in town. None of them have ever tried to eat her.

Then Dad takes the biggest job of his career: cutting down the hedge maze at the abandoned Ashgrove Estate, at the dead end of Creep Street. Behind the rusted gate stand twelve topiary animals carved from hundred-year-old yew. A stag. A bear. A hare. A hound. Amara counts them. Her plant-obsessed best friend Otto counts them too. Twelve. Definitely twelve.

The next morning, there are eleven.

The empty base is still warm. Hoofprints are pressed deep into the gravel, and they lead into the maze. Because the missing animal isn't missing at all. It's waiting in the green corridors, somewhere in all those turns and dead ends. And every single time it catches something, it grows a brand-new shape out of leaves and branches. A shape that matches exactly what it caught.

Amara has hedge shears, a head start, and a friend who can identify every shrub on the property. She thinks that's enough to win.

The maze is patient. The maze is hungry. And it is still one animal short.

Inside this book:

• A monster made of leaves that hunts by growing
• A hedge maze that rearranges itself after dark
• Short punchy chapters and a cliffhanger every few pages
• A smart-mouthed heroine who fights back with garden shears
• A final page that will make readers check their own backyard

Perfect for kids ages 8-12 who love scary stories, reluctant readers who need a book they can actually finish, and classroom or school-library shelves that need something with real bite. Written in easy, fast-moving chapters at a grade 3-6 reading level.

Every Creep Street book is a complete standalone story. Start anywhere. Read them in any order. Just don't read them alone.

CREEP STREET - 125 spine-tingling standalone novellas for readers who like their bedtime stories with teeth.

Welcome to Creep Street. Watch your step.