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With their own ship and freedom, life is sweet; until Dace disappears and Jasyn learns the truth about their new copilot. Everyone wants Dace. Commander Lowell wants her in the Patrol. The Targon Syndicate wants her head. But when she's kidnapped, it's by mistake. She isn't the one Luke wanted. If he finds out she isn't Miya Daviessbrowun, he won't hesitate to kill her. It's up to Jasyn to rescue her, even if it means giving in to Lowell's demands.

Pursued by the Targon Crime Syndicate bent on revenge, the Patrol intent on recruitment, and the Sessimoniss who want their god back, the last thing Captain Dace needs is a handsome copilot with romance on his mind. It isn't Dace's fault she leaves chaos everywhere she goes. She didn't know Belliff, the company who hired her to courier sensitive materials, is a front for the Targon Crime Syndicate. Now Targon is after her for stealing their shipment of smuggled goods.

Ten science-fiction and fantasy stories of mystery, romance, space travel, and magic to tickle your funny bone and entertain. Taste an array of different worlds and characters as imagined by Jaleta Clegg.

Ready to feel the chills running down your spine? Wait, that's just the green gelatin monster from one of the stories in this collection of very silly (and a few not-so-silly) horror stories. Vampires, werewolves, demons, mummies, and zombies compete with evil little Shirley Temple look-alikes and their collectibles, centerpieces and church women, cops and monster hunters, for your laughs. It's a light-hearted take on the horror genre.

Paltronis wasn't the one who started the fight, but she was the one who ended it. She also ended her career with the Patrol. Until Tayvis, an officer, shows up and offers her a chance to prove she's not a complete screw-up.

The early morning phone call was disturbing enough. Two murders in the mercantile downtown and it looked like some freaky kind of serial killer. But Tess's day really turns on its head when she receives unexpected help from the FBI - Fairyland Border Investigations. Her killers aren't ordinary cultists or asylum escapees. They're worse, much worse. Insane redcap gnomes won't stop killing until the whole world is painted red in blood.

Three short stories that explore human emotions and experiences. "Letting Go": If you could keep your loved ones forever, would you? Susan must choose whether to watch her mother slowly fade away or preserve her. "Regret": When Lawrence Winkley invents a machine that removes regret, he unintentionally changes the course of history. "Have You Seen Tarum?": Kimberly has given up hope of having anything more in her life than her grandmother, until crazy old Mr. Jeffries asks, "Have you seen Tarum?"

Stranded on a primitive world, betrayed by her crew, facing death at the hands of the natives, hunted by drug smugglers, Captain Dace has one hope of survival - convince the Patrol agent trying to kill her that she's innocent. But on Dadilan, no one is innocent.