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Born to human parents, Max has never seen another Kawokee. Hungry for acceptance, he steps out into a world where he is seen as a dangerous animal because of his foxlike appearance and the virus he carries. Encouraged by finding a friend, he ventures into a public place and is almost killed. The incident thrusts him into the social spotlight where he becomes both villain and a hero. Between these violent titanic forces, he must fight for the right to belong.

Humankind have spread to the stars, but so far, the only other intelligent being discovered is a primitive fox-like race called the Kawokee. Sixty years after their discovery, humanity is being inundated by a virus that originated from the Kawokee world. Jasmine Char believes the cure lies within the native culture. While other scientists look for a chemical solution amidst the growing fear and political landmines, Jasmine has her own reasons for finding a cure.

When a dying millionaire hires Lucius Anoraq to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Anoraq finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

In case his blue eyes aren't enough, Lucius Anoraq carries a gun. He wouldn't be caught dead in a pure breed show, but one wrong move and he'll be a blue ribbon corpse. Follow Lucius as he sniffs around Hollywood in the first four volumes of the series.

Playing protector to a runaway puppy-faced poodle, Kaiser Wrench trades barbs and lead with crooked politicos, snarling hoods, and a sex-hungry female.

Raul Timberland was Mr. National Average until he hit rock bottom. Now he has an impulsive space monkey as copilot and a man-eating lizard for a security officer, and his criminal girlfriend could crush every bone in his body. Trapped on a disabled space station, can this group of oddballs elude a band of robbers willing to kill anyone who gets in their way? Or will the outside of the nearest airlock be the last thing they see?

Ele'ana and her squad of cybernetic soldiers are escorting a long haul space freighter to the outer rim planets. She can't tell the captain what they're carrying, or why saboteurs are trying to stop them. The assignment is challenging enough without a saboteur aboard ship. The medic is half-blind. Her explosives expert is a sociopath. The interrogator suffers from dementia. Her own sanity is stretched to its limit as her desire for the cantankerous captain wrestles with reality.

Everything comes too easy to nightclub owner Gabriel Tanner, aka Emerald, as if his life is a dream. His recurring nightmare of a futuristic world where he is murdered seems more real. A beautiful cybernetic assassin who knows the truth comes into his life. Is she his savior or here to finish the job?

Erased from the system, Adam can’t hold a job, have a bank account, or own a house. His digital identity is gone. He doesn’t exist. When a good friend is nearly killed while investigating an accident that should not have been possible, the evidence points to a serial killer who uses technology as a weapon. With the police running at their wits end, Adam decides to track the killer. But can he stop them in time, or will he get caught in the crossfire?

Private detective Kaiser Wrench is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead. A beautiful, seductive tigress is one of the suspects. As he follows clues, the body count rises.

Elir son of M’iva has dreams of rising above his station in life as a wanderer. When Elir is hired as a secretary to an eccentric old man, he winds up immersed in a twisted web of half-truths and insanity. A creature that is both healer and killer roams the night. Trapped and alone on a primitive planet, with her technology failing, can Diamond protect herself from a vengeful noble, while still shielding her heart from a passionate young suitor? With no access to the link and people dying, will she lose her sanity and become a demon of legend?

When the Eurasian Blue Tit and former Belgian inspector Odysseus Vizard is called on by a deer and old friend, Captain Russell, to solve a murder at a manor house, it takes all his genius to sort out the litter of suspects. A French villa during the season form a fatal encounter where deer keep being found dead on a golf course and a decades long secret holds the key to keep a lovestruck buck from the guillotine. Back in the English countryside, Vizard’s attempt at retirement fails when a blackmailer decides the local beavers need eliminating.

Josephine Chattoway, recently sold into marriage by an absent father, is escorted by her bohemian Aunt Sylvia to meet her erstwhile suitor. Along the way, she discovers the visions which have made her doubt her sanity for so long are real. They are also the key to unlocking powerful ancient protectors which will stand between a demon and countless innocent victims.

Despite his deformities, Inspector Wlady Strath is the best. But in the middle of a case, an unidentified creature kills his only suspect. Strath and his investigation are soon caught between government security forces and insurgents. Wanting to protect his family, does the Inspector dare trust a strange woman who speaks a language only he can understand? Or will she lead him to his death?

The Safe Haven Reserve was supposed to be a place where the remaining tribes could live in peace. But the new head of the facility has turned it into a concentration camp. When Wynd and his classmates stumble across a band of the planet's displaced natives, Wynd gets ideas on how the tribes can escape the facility.

On her way to a martial arts convention, Danielle Kane's plane crashes on an island in the Bermuda Triangle with cities trapped in time. She is furious to learn that on this island teetering on the brink of civil war, women are chattel. The 16th-century Spaniards want to lock her in a tower. The 14th- century pirates want to enslave her. The Inca Indians would worship her as a god. The World War II soldiers aren't sure what to make of her. None of them are ready for a modern woman.

Kaiser is a dangerous tiger to call friend. But, if you're murdered, he will avenge your death. Join him for his last four cases.

Two missing wives—one rich and one poor. One of them may have gotten a divorce and married a gigolo, and the other may be dead. Lucius Anoraq’s not sure he cares about either one, but he’s not paid to care.

Lucius Anoraq is hired by a wealthy Pasadena widowed emu with a mean streak to find a missing daughter-in-law who stole a gold coin worth a small fortune. Only things don’t quite add up until Anoraq discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and exploitation.

Lucius Anoraq is about to give up on a completely routine case. That is until he ends up in the wrong place at the right time and gets caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, a fortune-teller, corruption, and multiple murders.