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PI Steve Rockfish's father loses part of his retirement savings in an online romance scam while partner Jawnie McGee handles the firm's newest client, who spins a tale of alleged spousal infidelity. Rockfish becomes fixated on tracking down those responsible for the fraud. Restitution is coming in the form of cash or broken bones. At the same time, Jawnie's surveillance of the cheating spouse reveals more acts of kindness than sex. Unbeknownst to the partners, each investigative path leads to the Church of the Universal Nurturing II, where the fraud is on a cryptocurrency level.

Clark Keane, sixth grade superhero Eagleboy, would do anything for his friends. Climb a way-too-high rickety treehouse? Sure. Create a superhero alter ego for Murphy instead of studying for finals? No question. Brave the grumpy neighbor’s Mutant House in the dark to find Murphy’s lost ball? Well… if he has to. So when Murphy accuses Clark of being a bad friend because of one teensy joke, Clark is outraged. Shots fire, balls fly, and friends pick sides. No treehouse is safe from the feud. But friendship might not be the only thing in danger. Strange things have begun to happen on Oak Street.

In a place like Las Vegas, people can find themselves in complicated situations with difficult and dangerous people. Chance Hardway is a debt collector, bounty hunter, assets-recovery specialist, and anything else needed—if the money is right. He’s a retired Green Beret, a former police officer, and a man who knows how to deal with difficult people his way, the Hardway.

The tranquil waters of Harper's Landing hide an ancient evil.Jim Burch, Sheriff of Harper's Landing, must solve a deadly mystery in his once-quiet town. Animals and pets, a visitor, and many children have been killed under mysterious circumstances. Sheriff Burch loves Harper’s Landing; the townspeople help each other through the good times and the bad—bringing food, lending a hand, and showing up for each other.

The enormous aliens known as Gimfa attacked the planet Lewa, and the Guardians thought they took them down. But instead, the aliens established a beachhead on the colony world and are readying a larger army to eliminate humanity once and for all. First Earth and now Lewa… unless the Guardians can stop them. More of the advanced Guardians are in development and may be ready to stand alongside Vortex Stingray and the others as the Galactic Alliance joins humanity’s effort to clear Lewa of the Gimfa.

New alliances and of course new betrayals are at hand as the tectonics of the black ops world shifts and rumbles. Who is working for who, who is hunting who, and will have the decency to simply shut up and die? Our favorite misfits must avoid being strangled and stabbed (and run over, and shot, and blown up, and, well, you get the point) in this latest cloak-and-dagger escapade. Can the pugnacious pair emerge from the intrigue in one piece? Dive into another adventure with the world's most dysfunctional duo, where murder, intrigue, and a stolen Pomeranian are just the tip of the iceberg.

Pain and Agony are two madcap masters of mayhem, but even they need friends. What are friends for? Companionship, support, and a helping hand when your luck is down. But the cost of friendship becomes something altogether different during their latest escapade. If you aren't going to help when things get rough, then what are you but a traitor? When longtime allies are at odds, and enemies new and old close in, the answer has lethal consequences.

Vietnam in 1968 is a hotbed of turmoil and death. Some as a result of the war, others not. Some are planned assassinations yet to happen. A C-130 transport aircraft flying close to the DMZ crashes in deep jungle. The aircraft was carrying a squad of army CID experts on a confidential mission to investigate rumors of a planned assassination of the Saigon president, yet the investigation ended when the crash resulted in the deaths of all aboard.

If no good deed goes unpunished, what will a lifetime of doing Uncle Sam's dirty work cost a person? Pain and Agony have hardly cemented their new partnership as "investigative problem solvers" when SISTER comes poking around and raising all kinds of hell. Accusations flying left and right, the dysfunctional duo are back at it. But can they solve a murder, a kidnapping, and a matter of national security, all in the space of one week? Murder, mayhem, and a societal meltdown are all in a day's work for our pair, but to top it off, they get hit in the room and board department.

The green house is more than a greenhouse. Seven flowers, seven colors, seven meanings, and one 37-year-old secret - the green house is the keeper of it all. Its creator, Girard Remington, is a fragile elderly man whose life was shattered by a tragedy nearly four decades ago. And when tragedy strikes again - this time to his beloved wife, Miriam - he struggles to cope.

Former FBI Special Agent Victoria Davenport is tough, smart, and gets things done. But when her husband is brutally murdered by a vicious psychopath in the Russian mob, she finds herself in a life and death game of cat and mouse with a trained killer. Fearing for their lives, Victoria and her 13-year-old son, Brandon, go on the run to escape the killer that is quickly closing in, but they can't hide forever. He gets closer to them every day, and it's only a matter of time until they have nowhere to run. Unless Deputy US Marshal Jack Monroe and his team have something to say about it.

Jake Mean never had the time to grieve his wife and unborn child. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and members of the Border Kings decided she was a liability. Months later, they walk free, the legal system failing to bring consequences to those responsible.

Chance Hardway wants revenge. His woman was wronged by the Russian Mafia, and he has every intention of hunting them down for it. But information doesn’t come free. He’s got to get his hands dirty to find the men he’s looking for, so he jumps cities, doing odd jobs no one else wants. With someone on his tail, trying to beat him to the punch, Chance realizes he’s in a different position than he’d thought, and he’s running out of time. The Romano crime family, the Russian Mafia, the Muñoz Cartel, and every law enforcement agency in and around Las Vegas is after him and the woman he loves.

After the recent revelation about Pain's former partner, the big guy's been AWOL in search of answers. Agony is not the type to mope about. She has kept the ship afloat, trusting that when Pain's found the answers, he needs he'll be back. When Pain does come back, he arrives only he can . . . in a maelstrom of gunfire, screams, and callouts to emergency services. Agony and Pain need to sort out the issues months of distance and time have created, and they need to do it quickly.

This incredible story is of a young reporter, Drew Johnson, sent to prove that the miraculous resurrection from the dead of a little nine-year-old boy was a hoax. But was it? As the story unfolds, Drew uncovers clues that lead him to a horrific conclusion. The pastor, Daniel Fisher, could be much more evil than just a huckster-much, much more. At the same time, he finds himself drawn toward the church and its dynamic message. A titanic battle ensues.

This is the story of a five-year-old boy with cancer who brought a ray of sunshine into the lives of people around him. John seemed to have an innate understanding of and ability to love. Those qualities endeared him to many, and were the driving force behind the worldwide spread of his story. Like all stories of heroes facing impossible odds, John's story deserves telling and retelling.

Jilted lovers, cheating spouses, treacherous business partners . . . All bread and butter that pays the bills for this dysfunctional Investigation team. Unfortunately, the past is catching up with one of them. Vengeance with a capital V is as rare as it is dangerous and doesn't pay. Except that is what both of them want. What choice do they have when a federal agent promises to turn the pair into his personal sock puppets if they don't comply with his game?

It’s the late 1800s, and John Ogilvie Stevenson, pastor of the Congregational Church in Waterloo, Iowa, believes women are equal to men intellectually, and superior to men morally and spiritually. During a sermon on temperance, wherein he advocates laws to shut down the saloons, he is struck by the irony that his audiences are composed mostly of women - that segment of the citizenry who cannot vote. Thus begins his campaign for women’s suffrage.

Rugen Sloane's dreary life changed the day a weathered traveler named Gordon emerged from the wilderness and knocked on his front gate. For years, the world has been plagued by roving monsters that kill anyone they catch outside the confines of their village. The fact that Gordon was able to brave the journey to Rugen's doorstep is a testament to his survival skills.

The fishing industry near Daytona Beach is crippled when the shrimp stop coming up in nets, when the trout and flounder stop taking the bait...and when mysterious black sea life begins to attack the boats, the swimmers, and the land. Can anyone escape the horror as the oceans fight back?