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In Volume One of this series, we introduced pulp fans to four original pulp heroes by today's leading writers of pulp fiction. Now, we proudly present the second installment and another brand new quartet of fresh and exciting heroes cast in the mold of the classic adventurers of the past.

Eighteen-year-old Eddie believes finding a girlfriend will solve his loneliness. He has always been shy around girls and, because of his self-doubt, he has never dated. He has spent his teenage years in his bedroom by himself, watching TV, listening to music, and looking at his baseball cards. But when he meets April and her family everything changes. Eddie's love for April and his desire to break away from his past completely blind him to the serious problems with April and her family.

Nick Leach made a big mistake and recounts the fatal steps that possibly ends the perfectly good relationship he has with sexy young Brandy Hudson. The two connected in the gym one day and soon became friends due to Brandy's forward nature and sassy attitude. After becoming intimate in public twice, the young couple decide to test their luck in a public pool where they stand the greatest chance of getting caught.

Nick Leach is a young stud just coming out of a string of bad luck when he meets sexy young Brandy Hudson. Normally, he'd keep to himself and ignore most people. But Nick becomes drawn to Brandy's outspoken and open nature. When their relationship escalates to an intimate encounter in the local gym, their relationship blossoms. Feeling adventurous, Brandy pressures Nick into an impromptu road trip to an unknown destination.

Sparks fly after weeks of hitting it off, when Nick politely invites Brandy to join him for a post-workout soak in the gym's hot tub. With no one around, Brandy seizes the opportunity to have her way with the hot young stud. But, will they get caught doing something they shouldn't? And will their friendship be the same after this spontaneous encounter? Can timid Nick truly handle the wild and crazy Brandy?

Sometimes you just need to be forward to get exactly what you want. After a tumultuous relationship split and a serious injury, Nick finds it hard to cope with all of life's adversities. He's already an introverted guy who simply wants to be left alone to mope in peace. But a chance encounter at his local gym opens his eyes to a new world.

As Wade Hampton's phobias almost render him housebound after a swift break-up, he decides to move from Arizona back to his hometown in California. Once there, Wade meets Sophia Syros. He is immediately attracted to her, but a severe panic attack on their first date almost does Wade in. A relationship forms between the two from opposite upbringings and Sophia agrees to help with his affliction from panic attacks, depression and impending agoraphobia.

Sagen Cross finds herself at a loose end on a forced vacation with nothing but time on her hands. She makes the split second decision to drive home for Christmas, but little does she know fate has something else in mind. When she picks up an unexpected passenger, Gabriel Hammer, it doesn't take long for Sagen to discover that he needs her help. But when life take a couple of unexpected turns, one can't help but ask, who really needs who?

Imagine a world without money, a world where everyone is biologically connected to a computer in order to survive and The Foundation determines your "Timeline" by how much you contribute to society. Detective Cole Sands lives in that world and is oblivious to any other. Until, that is, he is tasked to investigate the suspicious death of an old man and his investigations lead him into an underground world.

One day during his ninth-grade speech class, Kelly Daniels's outlaw, soul-surfer father appears at school unannounced and pulls the boy from class. Speeding down the freeway, Daniels's father admits that he has been involved in a crime, but he does not remember how it happened. He'd been up for days on cocaine and booze, he explains, and the next thing he knew he woke up in jail with a bad feeling.

Katherine is a dissatisfied wife who wants to make over her husband. She goes into counseling with a psychologist named Dr. Richards in the hopes of getting helpful hints on how she can make her husband sexier...but instead the psychologist flips the script on her and convinces the prudish wife that she is the problem...the doctor then seduces her and sends her home to her husband a changed woman.

Jim Beard's original occult investigator, Sgt. Roman Janus, returns in a second all-new collection of suspenseful adventures. Or does he? At the end of the first book, Sgt. Janus: Spirit Breaker, our intrepid hero mysteriously vanished into another realm never to be seen again. Now, almost a full year later, a dark-haired beauty, with no memory of her own identity, suddenly appears and begins assuming Janus' role in seeking out troublesome poltergeist and laying them to rest.

Recently divorced and out, David is ready to learn the ropes of the gay dating scene, but he doesn't know where to start. Making changes in his life, he joins a new karate class while he's at it. A rising MMA star, Hunter has been traveling from dojo to dojo, both learning new fighting skills and earning his keep by making guest instructor appearances. But his recent Alexandria, Virginia post is turning tits-up. He's in the way of his host's cramped family, sleeping in the truck is uncomfortable, and his new MMA buddies still don't know his name.

A college psychology professor in Austin has apparently murdered almost his entire class of 35 students. Five students have survived, although they remember nothing. Chase, a cop who is a local hero from catching the "Sorority Killer" a few years earlier, is on the case. He's trying to locate Bill, the professor's teaching assistant who has disappeared, especially now that it seems he's still assisting - by killing off the remaining five students. It's a race against the clock to find Bill, and the visits to Professor Holland in jail aren't helping anyone but him.

Situated in the rural back country of Edwardian England is an old, mysterious house whose unique owner earns his living as a Spirit-Breaker, a hunter of ghosts. A former military veteran, Sgt. Roman Janus has devoted his life to aid those haunted, both emotionally and physically by obsessive wraiths whose spirits are still anchored to our world.

In 1989 Karl Blaine and his wife Fiona traveled to Nepal to climb Mt. Everest with their college friend Zachary. Only Zachary came back alive. Two decades later, in 2009, a French climbing expedition discovers Karl's frozen remains. Of the five man party who finds Karl, only the Sherpa guide makes it down alive. He brings with him a whooper of a ghost story no one can believe.

Mark is the first detective on the scene when a dead body has washed ashore on the beach. He identifies the man as his old childhood friend, Brian, and he suspects suicide until another childhood friend is shot to the death nearby. With two homicides to solve, he attempts to unravel the riddles left behind by his two old friends as he tries to make sense of where and how their lives went wrong since their childhood.

Scarpete Stories is set in southern Alabama. It is the tale of A. J. Waters, a man whose life has spiraled so out of control and disconnected that he creates a fictional detective to first moderate, then inhabit, and finally subsume that life. The detective, Scarpete, is left to try and find some explanation for the necessity of his existence. With nothing but a bundle of scrawled pages on a series of legal pads, Scarpete investigates the life and death of the author who created him.

Fifteen years ago Sam Dunne was the lead guitarist and singer for the popular rock band Gin Sing. But Dunne's bandmates, Eddie Shay and Danny Barton, kicked him to the curb and went chasing after rock stardom without him. Dunne now teaches English literature at a community college. He's let the past go and learned to accept things as they are. Then he turns the radio on one morning to learn Shay has been murdered: shot to death in his private home studio. Soon the police start focusing their attention on Dunne as a "person of interest"....

After a three-year search, the CIA has finally captured the head of a terrorist cell in Yemen, Ameen Asal. CIA Agent Cole Parker is offered five minutes alone with Ameen, the man who killed his fiancée. For a man trained to kill, Cole's choice is obvious. Unfortunately, life is never that simple. An agreement, approved by the President, has been made to secretly trade Ameen for three high-profile American hostages. Cole must decide if acting on his revenge is worth the lives of three Americans.