Gabby stole Calvin's heart from the first moment that he saw her, without even speaking a word. He just knew. But he had no clue of how to truly become significant in her life. His antics left him out cold and out of a job. But now he is back. Now, he is ready. Meanwhile, Greta has married her man, is finally pregnant with their much anticipated first child and seemingly is on track to her happily ever after. Little does she know; devastation is...

Lawrence Sanders's beloved sleuth Archy McNally returns in a novel by Vincent Lardo Archy McNally, long on the other side of investigations, finds himself playing a new role when he becomes the primary suspect in a murder   Hired to retrieve a client's kiss-and-tell-all diary from her blackmailing ex-lover, Archy McNally doesn't expect the mission to go awry. He makes the exchange easily enough, but as the Palm Beach private investigator returns...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 My granddaddy, who was a moonshiner in Georgia, was the only black man I've ever met who was never broke a day in his life. He stored his jugs of corn liquor in the living room in a beat-up old refrigerator. #2 I grew up in a bootleg house with my nine siblings, and I hated it. I would go to sleep hoping that I would wake up and find myself magically living in a clean...

Superhero Mucus Phlegmball is back for his second adventure! Fresh on the heels of his defeat of the radioactive mutant squirrels, Marcus is shocked when his best friend, Chunk, shares his plan to borrow Dr. Boogerslinger's time machine to steal the answers for a math test. Fearing his buddy might flunk fifth grade, Marcus reluctantly agrees, but immediately regrets it when an unexpected power outage throws the boys off course through a wormhole...

Ambushed and left for dead, U.S. Secret Service K-9 Officer Markus York is on the mend and laying low in a safe house while his team tracks down his attacker. Even with his K-9, Ghost, for company, he gets restless and decides now is the perfect time to do some repairs around the house... and inadvertently tears open his wounds. Fresh out of a bad relationship that ended after a car accident left her with limited mobility, freelance accountant Cassidy...

Danny Siringo, who likes to be known as, Slim, his nickname, enters Paris, Texas in search of a doctor for a friend who had been horned by a cow causing a bad wound. A bad storm had come up at night with lightning, rain, and thunder causing the steers to run. Quite a few dead cows, a few dead horses from the remuda. Men wore out, cold, wet, and very surly. Slim was chosen to go to Paris and bring back a doctor. While there, Slim met a woman he had...

She spends her days designing and making jewelry. He also makes things, although he's happier with wood. Are they destined to build a life together, or will his past get in their way?MACIEI've always loved sparkly things, being a bit of a magpie when I was a kid. Hours spent combing the sand, looking for beach glass, each discovery more exciting than the last. If I was as lucky at finding love as I am, the opaque beauties that litter the beach after...

On his way home to San Diego, P.I. Patrick Kincaid takes a detour through San Francisco to check on the wellbeing of a family friend who's mysteriously been unreachable. What he doesn't expect is to be shot at before he can find out why attorney Elle Santana won't ask the police for help in finding a missing girl. Soon, he's on the run from both good guys and bad as he and Elle race to find the witness and take down a sweatshop run by a corrupt businessman...

Excerpt: "Mr. Smith, who ran a sailors' boarding-house in that part of San Francisco known as the Barbary Coast, was absolutely sui generis. If any drunken scallawag of a scholar, who had drifted ashore on his boarding-house mud-flats, had ventured in a moment of alcoholic reminiscence to say so in the classic tongue, Shanghai Smith would have "laid him out cold" with anything handy, from a stone-ware match-box to an empty bottle. But if that same...

Book Five In Masters Of Mayhem MCNova When we took down the new cartel storage area, we found someone tied up inside. I couldn't let her be killed when the building blew up, so I grabbed her quick and got the hell out of there. I don't know what she did to get a death sentence but no one deserves that.I don't even know her name but I'm glad I got her out of there. Just moment after I did…the building blew. Damn, that was close, one minute she's...