Violette Smythe thought grief would be the hardest thing she ever faced. After her husband's death, she finds small clues, including a metal coil toy, that refuse to let her rest. Her tender attempt to preserve memory spirals into something far more dangerous when the Slinky evokes visions of jungle warfare and a massacre that left David the lone survivor.As Vi follows the breadcrumbed trail from attic trunks to dusty military files, her gentle coastal town reveals a darker archite...

Discover new and uncharted worlds as the authors of Unknown Realms weave tales of time travel, mystic portals, alternate dimensions, and undiscovered landscapes.

When a virus is unleashed on the Department of Defense's computers, programmer Marshall "The Worm" Fenwick is certain he'll be blamed. After all, it's an act of cyber-vandalism worthy of a man with a history of hacking, a false accusation that Marshall's never been able to live down. Marshall knows he didn't do it. It had to be someone else at ApplCart, the virus protection company he works for. Marshall can arrest the damage and escape going down for the crime himself if he can find—and f...

As if besting a deadly witch wasn't hard enough, Gretel and her brother Hans find running their fledgling company, Grethans Exterminators, even tougher. When a gentleman rancher complains about a bite sustained by one of his prized Angora goats, Gretel's certain a common canid predator must be to blame. But, a job's a job, so she takes on the investigation. Then Hans falls victim, and Gretel realizes she's up against a far more lethal perpetrator, one that has not only doomed her brother b...

A high-voltage lightning strike transforms an ordinary robot vacuum cleaner into a formidable crime-fighting machine with a touch of old-school justice.Infused with the spirit of Eliot Ness and his legendary Untouchables, this unlikely hero embarks on a mission to clean up the city's mean streets. But when he faces off against a pair of merciless drug dealers, he quickly learns that the fight for justice is no simple sweep-and-scoot operation.Aided by a tri...

Her warrior's heart yearned for more and found her destiny among the stars.

Humane frontier trapper Gilda Lachs knows the worth of a life that's small, scrappy, and stubborn. When The Ranch's hands steal a baby bear to sell to Otis Waltoon's traveling circus, her quiet work of relocating raccoons turns into a rescue mission. Tired of watching animals starved, burned, and broken until they obey out of fear, Gilda can't stand aside.With an unlikely alliance that includes a reluctant saloonkeeper, a scandalous chanteuse, and talking animals who know the fores...

Dragons are real! Timmy Glass has seen them his whole life, and everyone thought him crazy.After years of neglect and ridicule, Timmy's life takes a wild turn when a tear in the fabric of the universe lands him face-to-face with his worst nightmare…and his biggest dream.And he's not alone. Alongside his self-appointed guardian Daniel, Timmy befriends a couple of young, lost dragons and becomes unlikely friends.But alongside the thrill of discovering dragons where th...

On the road to Zen enlightenment, homicide detective Will Mansion takes a seductive detour down the path to perdition.When a bust goes terribly wrong, Paradise City detective Will Mansion nearly dies while saving his partner. On leave, Will seeks relief from post-traumatic stress disorder through Zen meditation and abstinence. He responds to the plea of the cryptic Sister Clyde to find a man missing from her soup kitchen, a man who may provide a lead to the vicious drug dealer who ...

It's February, 1993, and trucker Archie "Super Man" Harlanson is traveling to New York's Hudson Valley with misgivings. He's eager to see his girlfriend Debbie, but her elitist parents? Not so much. When he ends up at the family home, he figures the hardest part will be surviving the onslaught of relatives arriving to celebrate the birth of Debbie's nephew. That is until the US President announces his plans to hold a campaign event nearby and the town is caught up in the media frenzy. When...

Murder and mayhem in the Texas Coastal Bend by Jed Donellie and Devorah Fox. Chasing her dream of becoming an investigative reporter in San Francisco, Holly Rivera Berry has to return to her hometown of Bonafides on the Texas Coastal Bend to settle her recently deceased father's estate. She discovers that just before he died her father researched the possibility that via an old Mexican land grant the Rivera family owns The Gap, a natural channel to the Gulf of Mexico. Land speculators plan...

An ordinary work day at the western Massachusetts Sugarloaf Inn turns more chilling than the winter weather when staff member Candy Wadsen makes a gruesome discovery. Her day goes from bad to worse when Candy realizes that Detective Sergeant Dan Petrowski suspects her of committing the crime.