High school freshman Sophie is desperate to grow up, and she prays emphatically to God for a change. Soon after, every single hero and villain in the world loses his powers permanently! The event is later known as 'The Fall'. Sophie finds that she has stolen every 'power' in the world and is now the center of the world's attention. She cannot shut them off, and she cannot give them back. Many heroes and villains have already died outright, and it is now up to Sophie to discover the power w...

Swimming with the fishes takes on a new meaning as our sleuths find themselves in deep water with their latest culprits. From fish tanks to aquariums, murder knows no bounds when it comes to getting revenge. Enjoy eight flopping wet mysteries from the comfort of your chair.An Otter Disgrace by Kathryn MykelThe Toledo Aquarium is reef with strange happenings.Join Katherine and Cole along with their friend Becks for another unusual case. Does an employe...

A Caterer's Guide to Halloween and Havoc by Jessica ThompsonWhen she is dragged to a Halloween party at a spooky house for the epic food, Violet never thought that mystery and havoc would haunt the party. When two people are poisoned, will Violet find the creep before the police make a terrifying mistake?Friday Night Frights by Brittany E. BrinegarSamantha Brown is a high school reporter with a nose for the truth. When she's sent to Goodnight, Texas to cover a haunted...

Snakes, Birds and Lions, oh my! Someone is attempting to get away with a crime.From poison to thieves our sleuths aren't going to be relaxing with the fishes, or will they?Slither into a zoo of a mystery with these 10 must read cozy mystery stories!

Orphaned at the age of seven and adopted by Indians, Jami Ian MacCallister grew into a man more at ease in the wilderness than among men. But when the westward strike drove him across the Arkansas Territory into Texas, he finally found himself a home—in the middle of a bloody war.Texans like Jim Bowie and Sam Houston were waging a fierce struggle against Santa Ana's Mexican army and Jami MacCallister made the perfect scout for the fledgling volunteer force. What lay ahead of them w...

It took only minutes for human history to derail in a mushroom cloud—now more than a century later, whatever destiny lies ahead for humanity is bound by the rules that have governed survival since the dawn of time: part luck, part skill and part hard experience. For Ryan Cawdor and his band, survival in Deathlands means keeping hold of what you have—or losing it along with your life.In the ancient canyons of New Mexico, the citizens of Little Pueblo prepare to sacrifice Ryan and hi...

In their darkest moments, few citizens of the twentieth century could have envisioned the firestorm that plunged the world into the chaos of a nuke-altered reality. Twenty-second-century America may not be much worth fighting for, but Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists push on, clinging to the deep wellspring of human hope that somewhere in the raw, violent frontier of a rad-blasted tomorrow is someplace they can call home.Weary, sick and hungry, the group barely survives a t...

Remo is set to teach a few lessons in hospitality at Florida's top tourist attraction, but his mind is made up. He is a free agent. No more CURE, no more trying to solve America's problems.But the nation goes into a state of shock when a Lee Harvey Oswald look-alike is nailed trying to shoot the President and Remo can't ignore the call of duty—and a sense of déjà vu. Soon, a meddling television anchorwoman and strange transformations at the White House leave him feeling that he has...

Journeying across the devastated frontier of post-nuclear America, Ryan Cawdor and his companions have unlocked clandestine knowledge of pre-Dark tech, secrets that give them an edge for staying alive, an edge augmented by an ability to fight...and win. Each day brings a new chance to find someplace to call home—somewhere apart from the grim realities of a civilization struggling to be reborn.Hunted across the southwestern desert, Ryan doesn't know who wants him dead badly enough t...

When a diabolical superfoe acquires a superlaser that uses hypercolor to control emotion, he throws the world into a kaleidoscope of deadly mood swings. CURE goes on red alert.And if things aren't black enough, a rival nation has seen the mind-blowing potential of beaming mood-altering color from satellites...and rendering entire nations defenseless.Color them crazy, but Remo and Chiun know they've got to thwart this bizarre color scheme. More than ever before they must rel...

America had barely survived the nuclear holocaust but two centuries later a new order emerges to inflict its rule on the fortified cities. Beyond the walls are the outlands, where a fragile freedom remains.Once a fearsome warrior of the new order, Kane discovers a secret that has damned humanity since the dawn of history. Now banished as an enemy of the state, he joins forces with Brigid Baptiste, keeper of the archives, and Grant, brother-in-arms and innovative weapons specialist....

Scattered remains have been salvaged from the abandoned cities that withstood the atomic onslaught at the dawn of the twenty-first century, but the secrets of pre-Dark tech buried in the mass grave of civilization are known to only a few. Possessing understanding and the unshakable will to survive, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists face each day armed and ready for the enemy called Deathlands, whose formidable power has yet to claim victory over the human spirit...In this ra...