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Wolf's life in the wood might be happy, except for one problem. He can't control his urge to devour children who stumble across his path. His runaway desires have made him an outcast among his peers. He lives an unhappy, solitary life — until he encounters the Brothers Grimm.Wolf is thrilled to realize that in the presence of these scholars, he can speak. The Grimms take Wolf into their camp, fill him with brandy, and poke at the source of his unhappiness. When they learn the truth...

If death isn't the last stop on the train, what happens next? Are the not-quite-dead content with their lot? Or do they wish that they could settle old scores and right old wrongs, assuming they could make their way out of the underworld?When a construction project in the St. Paul neighborhood of Frogtown opens a portal from the below to topside, neighbors get a chance to find out. The undead are bent on revenge.Standing in their way are Fatman and his firecracker wife, Dor...

Wilderness tracks young Thaddeus Morley, who flees from St. Louis by Mississippi River paddle wheeler after his mother dies and his father goes mad with grief. Thaddeus is taken in by Horatio Reilly, a charming flimflam artist, who sees the territorial land grab as a chance to exploit the hopes of others.A boiler explosion hurls the boat’s passengers into the muddy river outside St. Paul. Reilly views this disaster — as he sees virtually everything — as an opportunity. He saves Tha...

Fatman and his wife, Doris, have come to a ridiculous end. A pair of bored hooligans dropped a watermelon from a freeway pass that splattered onto Fatman's car. The resulting accident sent the couple on a path to the Underworld.It's not all fire and brimstone down there. It's more like a sewer tunnel, with weeping stone walls, poor ventilation, and a host of other not-quite-deads, all trying to make sense of their new status on the life-to-death continuum.On an unpredictabl...

The conniving lawyer, Duke Black, negotiated a tough deal with the underworld's leading attorneys to free Fatman's partner, Doris, from the realm of the formerly living. Only trouble is, he double-crossed the quasi-dead and locked up the underworld in the process. Nobdy in The Below is pleased, which explains why Duke shows up on Fatman's stoop on Halloween with a knife planted in his back.Now that the undead situation includes Duke, he appears to be bent on revenge. He leads Fatma...

Invidious comparison is the phrase most often on Fatman's mind in Know the Time. His partner, Doris, has inherited mogul-level wealth from her former lover, the philanthropist and weasling lawyer, Duke Black. She's owns Duke's robber-baron era mansion, which comes complete with servants, groundskeepers, a chef and more. Fatman cannot set himself at ease in the house, or with his sudden dependence on Doris's largesse.The always scheming Duke offers Fatman an opport...

Clarissa Brimsley is long dead, but she still has work to do. Her job is to understand fully the effect her brief life had on those left behind.Clarissa can visit the past. She can watch the present unfold. She knows exactly what her subjects think. She has perfect understanding of all the dead who occupy this netherworld with her. But the future is as unknown to her as to anyone else. She has no ability to communicate with the living, or to alter the course of events.Her s...

Brutal casino boss Roberto Stiglioni already has Frank, Dean and the rest of the Rat Pack wowing the rubes in his Vegas casino. When he happens to entrap a mermaid while drowning a casino cheat, he knows just what to do: build a tank in an exclusive club and serve her up as entertainment.Left to the guidance of his own moral compass, casino detective Tom Blinder could overlook the mermaid's plight. If set free, she'll go right back to leading sailors to their doom. He can convince ...

In these three short, short stories, the God of Love, Victor Valentine, does his best to add to the world's supply of love. Or, at least, to help settle some scores. But even when managed by an expert, love remains what it always is — exciting, unreliable, heartbreaking.

The higher powers send the God of Love, Victor Valentine, to a frozen northern wasteland. His mission: spread the love.Valentine's strategy is to open a restaurant. The food and wine, the potions at Valentine's disposal, the music, the waiters — all of it is directed at inspiring libidinous feeling among the clientele. Valentine's partner in scheming is his chef, the towering and volcanic beauty, Elevana Natasha Demidova. Nats. Together they succeed too well in turning the cafe int...

“I start my story. Which, if I do say so myself, is a fine story for a Sunday drive. It’s a love story, at least up to the point that it gets tangled up in death and lies.”And so begins Father Hoven’s journey back to St. Jude and back to the memory of a time when he was “right out of the seminary and ready to set the world straight.”The young priest, however, could hardly be prepared for residents of the Minnesota community who harbored in the midst of thei...

Join bestselling authors Jennifer Crusie, Victoria Dahl and Shannon Stacey for three sexy stories about finding the one you love.SIZZLE by Jennifer CrusieBusiness takes a backseat when successful ad executive Emily Tate meets Richard Parker. He’s an accountant who’s been sent to keep her in line and under budget in her ad campaign for a sensual new perfume called Sizzle. And if Emily’s not careful, she could well melt in Richard’s hands....