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They’re coming with pea shooters this time. But it’s not what they’re shooting with that’s important. It’s what there shooting at that will thrill the crowd.

Joe describes his weird and remarkable sexual history.

The dreams have come to warn her. Now Violet must not let the men take her away from beloved husband and beautiful home. The only way to stop them is to take the evil from their bodies.

Missy’s new manager at her new job is talking about her “skills.” He’s not saying what those skills are. But when he has her show up at a party for young men the research base is trying to recruit, Missy knows what to do.

In Fault Lines and Latte Love, Sienna Carter, a passionate geologist, is on a hike when she discovers an intriguing rock formation, possibly linked to the region’s seismic history. After the hike, she heads to the local coffee shop, The Daily Grind, where a chaotic encounter with a mischievous cat named Shadow results in her being drenched in coffee. The cat’s owner, Ethan, a coffee shop owner and barista, apologizes, and they share a playful exchange. The unexpected event leaves Sienna amused despite the mess, and she agrees to help Ethan wrangle Shadow in exchange for a free coffee.

This book began not as a story, but as a whisper. A whisper that grew in the silence between moments. Between hospital corridors and the hum of machines. Between questions no one dares to ask out loud—“Where is God when we are lost?” “Does anyone hear us when we cry without sound?” And then I saw him. Not in the flesh, but in the spirit of every soul I’ve ever met who felt misplaced in this world—those who have survived wreckage, not just in the sky, but in the heart. Those who have learned to speak through silence, who walk among us carrying stories carved in scars instead of words.

The nerds have brought revolution and now control the planet. Now no one goes hungry and everyone has their basic needs met. Machines do most of the work. Life is pretty good for everyone. But being a nerd overlord still has its perks. Ten of the smartest will get to compete in 9 rounds of games. The prize is the beautiful Nasha.

There are stories that entertain. There are stories that teach. And then… there are stories that remember. Niwaka: The Child of Wind and Spirit is one of those rare stories. It does not shout to be heard. It listens first—then speaks in the quiet places of the heart. It comes not with grand explosions or fairy godmothers, but with snow, silence, feathers, and firelight. In a world that moves fast and forgets often, this story invites us to pause. To feel. To return.

Quarterback Theo Maddox was supposed to be recovering from a season-ending injury, not dodging lint rollers and modeling sweatpants that cost more than his first car. But image rehab comes with strings… and apparently, a feline. Designer Isla Montgomery has built her brand on clean lines, sharp boundaries, and zero distractions. So when her minimalist fashion campaign is hijacked by an injured football star—and his opinionated tabby cat—her carefully controlled world unravels faster than a bad hem. Theo’s charm? Infuriating. His cat?

These women are hot. These women will do anything to win. The husbands will watch. Can Kendra make it through another round? Will Caleb be pleased?

It’s been a month of living rent free, and it’s time to visit the apartment supervisor again. But this time he’s got more to offer than last time, so much that Missy really wants to repay him. It’s a tall order, but she has some ideas.

When Eva decides to investigate the secrets of her family tree on Halloween, she has no idea what she will discover. What is the secret of the large Oak tree with the lightning bolt scar. What happened at the Dunstable Hospital in the late 1960's that caused it to vanish forever.

When Will returns home from university, he discovers that everything has changed—except for his feelings for his brother's best friend, Marcus. Recently, Marcus has come out as bisexual, and with this newfound confidence, he is starting to see Will in a different light. However, Oliver, Marcus's best friend, believes Will should be off-limits by default.

Evie Dunn, a young, teenage girl, finds her normal life disrupted by the presence of a giant spider on her window. When it comes out that the spider isn't just an abnormal size but has, in fact, evolved at a heightened rate alongside all of the other insects in the area, panic spreads.

London, 1308. “All I need is a plan!” So says Oswald of Harlech, a misplaced Welshman in the heart of London. Besides his trade as a tinker, he also robs houses, cuts purses, plays a crooked shell game, and has a way with the ladies. But this time, caught in the act of robbing a house, he is blackmailed by the scheming Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe into stealing the Crown Jewels from the impenetrable Tower of London.

On November 11, 1943, the Nazis invaded Cansano, forcing its two thousand inhabitants to make a tough decision—fight and be killed or sent to a POW camp, stay behind as servants to the Nazis, or move into the unforgiving mountains of Abruzzo while the Nazis used their village as a home base. Giovanni Ruscitti's family chose the latter and spent the next few months living in horrendous winter conditions in the rugged mountains. When the war ended, they returned to a village so ravaged by the Nazis that, today, the town has less than 200 citizens and remains in a dilapidated state.

Cocktales and Nibbles is a collection of 12 stories, ranging from the shortest such as "Lite in the Sky", which was my first story written in 1973, to the lengthy "A Universal Threat", written in 2017.

Since losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has reinvented himself as an investigator for hire known as the Tracker. But his reputation will once again be put to the test with his latest case. Jacob of Provençal, a Jewish physician at the king's court, is missing a set of documents that he claims contain the power to bring forth a dangerous demon. Meanwhile, it seems a monster has already been unleashed on the city. Vulnerable street children are being abducted and murdered, their mutilated bodies the only clues left behind.

Former knight Crispin Guest is now known in the streets of medieval London as the Tracker—an investigator who can find anything and anyone. What begins as a straightforward case of murder turns complicated when Crispin realizes that the victim was an important courier in possession of a holy artifact—an object so valuable that its absence could start a war between France and England. Surrounded by possible suspects, Guest will have to use his wiles to navigate both the exclusive halls of King Richard's court and the hardscrabble streets of fourteenth-century London.

Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla’s necklace and the disappearance of Peter’s brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it’s too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all? Drawing on urban art and local history, Finding Mighty is a mystery that explores the nature of art and the bonds of family.