Jane Ross has just been shanked with a ball point pen. Who knows why? So here she is, in the emergency room, waiting to get a ball point pen extracted from her innards.Surgery goes well. The neighbors, not so much. The nurses, slightly better, even is they do make her do her breathing and belly exercises.Then they hand her off back to prison, where things are pretty much he way they are. *shrug* It's prison. What are you going to do?Trial, yeah. Pretty much the same...

It's the end of the world as we know it and we... don't feel fine.Something blew up and set the house on fire, and Rafael and Ada must fight the fire and escape, somehow.Outside, the whole neighborhood looks to be in the same condition their own house is in. There is no place left to go, but go they must.Will they make it to the end of the street?Or will they drop dead in the middle of the street?And what about their neighbors?

It's almost Meggan's birthday and she's looking forward to the pretty new dress, the cake her Dad made or her, her friends and grandparents celebrating with her...Except for those stupid squirrels who keep eating the bird seed Dad puts out for the birds. If it weren't for that stupid squirrel, Arthur wouldn't be bugging her about finding his Mamma!But he does. He comes to her at all the wrong times to ask for help. Meggan has no idea who his Mamma is, or where he lives. He ...

Pearl Waidler works from home, if you could call a repurposed hotel room home. It's not much, but it's what she has, sharing with her very significant other, Nicky Lightfoot. They make do with what they earn or can scavenge, including an old coffee table that serves as handy flat spot, kitchen table, dining room table, or office desk.At least until it starts feeling her leg...What's a woman to do, when the furniture propositions her and won't take no for an answer?

This ranch house in the middle of nowhere was a godsend, as Roger Thompson and Elena Mercado had no idea where they were or how long it would take to get there. These kindly people took them in, offered them a place in the hay barn--the house was full--and fed them breakfast.Thankfully, they get back on the road, but it's not as simple as all that...

Leona Norris and her co workers, Oona Doose and Erick Erickson, are fighting the good fight, bringing awareness and responsibility to the world, or trying, at least. Young Emo Shunt has inherited a considerable estate with all that entails, along with an entire town depending on him. Problem is, he's doing good to take care of himself, much less someone else.Ridiculous name or not, Bally Hole is a nice little place, with interested and involved people. it's the end of the school ye...

Darcy Sisto is the leader of her wolf shifter pack. Hers is a successful pack, with mahy members and about one pup a year. Peach Tree Den has a delicately balanced truce with the local deer shifter herd, Tall Pine Herd.That goes out the window when two of Darcy's teenaged bitches run down the son of the Old Buck of Tall Pine Herd and rape him, which violates the truce. There's only one way to answer this insult, and so Darcy takes that step, even is if costs her two breeding female...

Eugene has a broken spring. Without the spring he has no water. Without the water he will have to sell his home and go elsewhere.His buddy Eddie offers to lend him some of his children to see what they can to in digging the spring out in hopes of bringing back the water. Maybe they can help him get his rain harvesting project set up too.With Eddie's children's help, they get the well cleaned out. Thanks to the miraculous Teecee, who breaks into the water table and refills t...

Axelander is lost. He is broken. He wanders. He speaks to things that don't talk back. The voices in his head shout and call. They are familiar, but he can't grasp them and they are gone, like a breeze through the grasses.The little girls who come to him, with bandaged heads, are leading him somewhere, he does not know. But they are a force that can't be denied, so he goes where they lead, to their home.And then the door opens wide...A psychological study of someone...

Dave Snider is on a mission. Since I met him, his mystery friend and the ravens have taken an interest in me. I'm not part of his mission, am I?And if I am, then what help can I give?It all comes down to one late night in the deep desert, when the coyotes howl.

Jane's up for a promotion, or maybe just a raise, that would let her afford more than the basics. She just has to complete this project, work together with the office queen bee and her acolyte, and save the company.Problem is, Carey more interested in schmoozing and Marisol has to technical expertise to speak of, which leave Jane to do everything. Including killer workouts, not enough food and expensive shopping.Will Jane keep her sanity and save the day? Or will she have t...

Every day is a jewel: most are flawed, some are perfect, but every one is precious.If you think nothing ever happens around here, you'd be sadly mistaken. Between escapee heifers, runaway children, morning staff meetings, trips to the (sort of) big city, and interrogations by the county attorney, small town life is pretty exciting. I barely have time to stop and catch my breath!