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It began with temptation and ended in bloodshed. The police ask private detective Ronan Mezini to investigate murders in the polyamory community, where "sexperimentation" spills over into violence. Mezini is afflicted (and in many ways gifted) with synesthesia-condition that makes his senses cross over in complex patterns. His distorted visions are a low-level superpower, providing astonishing insights as he tries to find the killer.

First Magus Brent Rogers of the US Army stationed in Afghanistan is ordered to return home on furlough. Considered a war mage, he is trained to find enemies at a distance, to blow up their bombs, and to alert his men of danger. None of this is needed in the city of Worcester, his hometown. Brent has to learn to relax, to not see threats in every corner, and to let his family welcome him home. But if he relaxes his vigilance for even a second, who knows what could happen.

Private Investigator Shelby McDougall is out for revenge. Repeated miscarriages have caused Shelby's marriage to disintegrate. Financial ruin lies ahead. A cheek swab sent to an online ancestry service turns up a surprise child: Shelby’s genetic offspring - found in the misty ether of the internet. The only way Shelby can hang on to her shredding sanity is to take things into her own hands and, once and for all, locate and apprehend Helen Brannon - the woman responsible for hijacking her fertility...and her future. As Shelby closes in on her target, the stakes get higher and higher.

It was supposed to be an easy jaunt to observe the stick-like aliens of Deep Valley Universe. But Ansegwe - perpetual student, aspiring poet, and scion of the (allegedly criminal) Varayla Syndicate - well, he just has to ruin everything. As everyone knows, Ansegwe may have sensibility, but he’s not long on sense. When a weird, twitchy little creature attaches itself to him, Ansegwe violates every protocol in the handbook to save its life. Finding himself in all kinds of trouble, Ansegwe needs to make some serious life changes, starting with that complicated family of his.

When Marlene Bumgarner and her husband moved to a rural plot of land in 1973, she thought of herself as simply a young mother seeking an affordable and safe place in which to raise her child. By the time she left the land nearly a decade later, she had written two books and a weekly newspaper column, served as contributing editor to a national magazine, a college instructor, and a sought-after public speaker. Her natural food store The Morgan Hill Trading Post was the first one in her community.

The man who would beat the devil isn’t a hero, but a ruthless madman. Running from his dark past, former Duvalier hit man Charles Redmond is forced to take sides in a battle that has been raging since Exodus: Between a power mad magician named Silas Alverado and Sammael, the Demon Prince of Liars. When Charles’ beloved Voodou is threatened with extinction, he must wager his life between pure evil and the man who could destroy the world.

Following the sudden death of her domineering partner, Lisa Hardrock begins to discover how little she really knows about the life she's been living for the last seven years — and the man she was living it with. As she confronts the secrets and unpaid debts her partner left behind, Lisa also begins to investigate the mysteries of her own life by beginning to write. Begun as a journal for her daily thoughts, her blog ends up going viral.

Seagn Conway is tired of her veterinary practice - the same entitled pet parents, the same dogs and cats, and maybe the occasional lizard or snake, now bore her to pieces. When a traveling carnival with a farm animal petting zoo comes to town, she discovers all the animals are depressed, malnourished, and neglected. Seagn knows she can do a better job of taking care of them than anyone else there, so she purchases the animals, their cages, and their transportation with the purpose of following the carnival around, presenting the animals in their natural habitat.

Shelby McDougall’s past is behind her. Almost. It’s been five and a half years since Shelby put her infant twins up for adoption, and she’s finally on track. Back in Santa Cruz, California, she’s sharing an apartment with her brother, Dexter, and in her second year of criminal justice studies. She’s landed her dream job as an intern to local PI Kathleen Bennett. And her stone-cold love life is heating up. Then, a late-night phone call puts Shelby’s perfectly ordered life into a tailspin.

Surrogate mother Shelby McDougall just fell for the biggest con of all: a scam that risks her life...and the lives of her unborn twins. Twenty-three-year-old Shelby McDougall is facing a mountain of student debt and a memory she’d just as soon forget. An ad in Rolling Stone for a surrogate mother offers her a way to erase the loans and right her karmic place in the cosmos. Within a month, she’s signed a contract, relocated to Santa Cruz, California, and started fertility treatments.

When 10-year-old Tyler signs up for a Saturday afternoon treasure hunt sponsored by the city’s Parks department, he discovers much more than he bargained for. His beloved Granny had begged him to register. She said he’d meet new kids, see some new places in Santa Cruz, and spend an afternoon outside, away from the computer. Tyler agreed, believing that when the day came, he’d be back with his mom.

One truth about parenthood that I've learned is that there will come a time when your children will ask you difficult, and perhaps even uncomfortable, questions for which they expect you to have the answers. It's also true that we often find it difficult to deny our children the things that they most desire, like freedom.

The nascent goddess Desiree meets the Egyptian archangel Joseph while ghost-busting the myth of Saint Patrick. Aided by her psychiatrist Sanantha Mauwad, Desiree discovers she is a pawn in a revenge quest that Isis has been planning for thousands of years. Once again, gods and demons war on Earth with our heroes fighting not just for survival but justice.

Never trust magic...or the people that hire you. Fern Fatelli dives back into her job as a "trapper", and is hired to kidnap a girl away from an abusive household - only to find that she’s delivered the child into a far greater danger than she could have ever imagined.

How far can you genetically alter someone before she becomes someone else...before she loses her soul? A breakthrough in human cloning leads to unspeakable evil. Psychiatrist Sanantha Mauwad is back, helping a world leading geneticist recover a four-month memory gap in which his wife was killed and his daughter was left in a coma. But, as she unravels the mystery, she finds nothing and no one are as they appear. Cutting-edge science and ancient cults collide in this tale of too much power driven by too much passion.

In this story, a man, who had led a less-than-perfect life, finds out that it’s never too late for redemption.

The tales collected in this audiobook will make you think, question, and wonder! Explore the past, future, and triumphs of the human soul. Among the stories included in the collection are: A rescue mission in a combat zone on a hostile planet becomes something more. A young girl, searching for the parents who abandoned her, discovers that some answers only lead to more questions. A young boy learns that it takes more than superpowers to become a hero. A man who had led a less-than-perfect life finds out that it’s never too late for redemption.

A young girl, searching for the parents who abandoned her, discovers that some answers only lead to more questions.

How many times, she wondered, had she woven together cloth that his sword had then torn apart along with the flesh underneath? The year is 1136, the place Tropèa, a walled sea town in Southern Italy during the Norman domination. Kallyna d’Àrgira, a master of the arts of the loom who can turn the world into silk thread, is pledged in marriage by her father to Raimo Trani, a man she hates.

You can tell a lot about a person by looking at the people in their life - Mike LeBonte is no exception. Who is Ritter, and why is he so important to Mike? Who is the Grey Man in the Atheneum? And what is Chevalier to the Rosicrucians? Did Reverend Greene really escape? Whatever happened to Becky? Also included in this collection is the first case that Grimaulkin has with his new apprentice, Ash. Re-enter the world of Grimaulkin, where magic is real.