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Wiser Now tells the story of a single woman whose poor judgment leads her to become involved with a man whose priorities diverge sharply from her sheltered upbringing.

The famous are descending on the town of Happy Rock. This time, the stars are not of the screen but of the page. The Happy Rock bookstore, I Only Read Murder, is hosting not only an author festival but a murder mystery festival, with six of the biggest names in crime fiction. New bookstore majority co-owner and former TV star Miranda Abbott loves nothing more than the idea of hosting literary luminaries. Little does she realize the authors are bringing their egos, their professional jealousies, and their personal grudges along with their books.

After seventeen years, Aston has found his long-lost wife and daughter. But his dream becomes a nightmare when he learns his wife has remarried and made a life with Eugene, her new husband. When his teenage twins are discovered to be immune to plaguer bites, they are kidnapped by a pirate warlord in a move to consolidate his power. Aston is frantic to save his kids, but needs Eugene's help to do it. Can the rivals work together to save their kids, or will their mutual enmity sentence their children to a life as lab rats in the murky waters of the shattered Afterworld?

When their helicopter is shot down in the Alaskan wilderness, Li Yuan and Eugene are captured by a sadistic warlord. They are taken to an arena, where they will be forced to fight plaguers in gladiator-style events. Eugene won’t stand a chance in the arena. In an effort to keep him alive, Li Yuan strikes a perilous bargain with the warlord. In the chaos of the helicopter crash, Aston manages to escape. Desperate to save his captured family, he sets out on foot to free them from the warlord’s vicious sport.

Shy and deaf, 23-year-old Claire Deveraux has worked hard to land her dream job as a foreign service officer at the US Embassy in Paris. Yet her idyllic life is shattered when she finds a woman lying on the restroom floor dying from a gunshot wound. The dying woman utters three words to Claire and conceals a thumb drive in Claire’s pocket. The items are keys to the location of proceeds from a bank robbery. The killer, certain Claire now has sole possession of those items, must find her, recover the code words and the drive, then kill her before she can solve the puzzle and recover the money.

Linda Kelleher, or Lilou, faces a dilemma. She is a regular Pittsburgh girl, growing up in the beautiful Shadyside neighborhood. She looks up to her older sister, tries to meet her mothers expectations and loves to study math with her father. Only something is never quite right. No matter how hard she tries to lead a regular life, the world of sorcery and magic has a claim on her: Lilou comes from a powerful family of witches.

Lilou is a witch. Now what? Having been initiated into the craft by her French grandmother, Lilou returns to Pittsburgh without a plan. Magic is of little help when dealing with a divorce. Nor does it help in her everyday job as an accountant. The only lifeline to her magical abilities is Josh, Lilou’s house-elf or a domovoy, as he likes to be called. Josh leads Lilou on a journey of self-discovery and helps her understand the parallel universe of household helpers.

If you try to ignore it for too long, magic might just catch up with you. What happens when everyday life collides with the generational memory of witchcraft? Lilou learns it the hard way. After choosing accounting over witchcraft, Lilou is finally at peace. She earnestly leads a normal life: she is a wife, a mother, and an ambitious employee at a prestigious firm, trying to break the glass ceiling. Only the occult is all around her. During a moment of crisis, Lilou meets a domovoy, a hobgoblin who lives in her home and claims to protect her from harm.