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A life-changing event has brought Yana back to the archaic primordial essence of her being. This mental retreat has dulled Yana’s former understanding of the world, and now she has to relearn everything from the very beginning. The world appears to her as simultaneously familiar (Yana’s feminine grown-up nature) yet also fresh, bizarre, ironic, and often completely illogical (Yana’s new child-like, back-to-the-core nature).

Spoiled teenager Jenny Halpen's parents were against her going on a cruise, but her doting uncle thought it a fine graduation gift for his niece. Before Jenny has a chance to enjoy the voyage, the Cassandra collides with a meteor shower, and her escape pod is separated from the others. Landing on an uninhabited world might not be so bad if Jenny's pod-mates were human, but they're poodles—and not just your garden-variety poodles, either. They're the telepathic royal family of Canaris, and they're of the opinion that Jenny is now their servant, existing only to protect and serve them.

Heart on Her Sleeve is the story of a patriotic American college girl who steps up to run her father’s war plant when he is hospitalized by saboteurs. Not long after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and US entry into the Second World War, the government realized the draft would seriously deplete the country’s entire workforce, including entry-level labor, skilled trades, office staff, and management. The only possible replacement was to be found in the ranks of the nation’s women. But for women to join the workforce, major changes would have to occur.

Kidnapped at 16, Maggie O’Bannen returns home after seven years to be reunited with her father. No longer the idealistic girl she once was, her return is meant to help put her demons to rest. Instead, it sets in motion a series of events that will put her on a collision course with trouble, and this time, Maggie has no qualms about speeding towards it. Discovering who was behind her abduction is just the beginning. Murder with no apparent motive and no suspect soon brings her under the scrutiny of the local sheriff.

Bugged! begins at a college reunion in a moldering mansion in the midst of an isolated swamp. Howard Banks, accompanied by his daughter Karen, is looking forward to seeing his old college chums when his car stops dead. After he gets out to see what the trouble is, hundreds of insects swarm over him and strip the flesh from his bones. Ronald Reid, owner of the mansion, begins to grow concerned for the Banks when hours pass and they fail to arrive, so he sends his butler to look for them.

The Cardiff Giant Affair is set in 1869 Syracuse and features a happy mélange of medicine shows, con games, "brawling canawlers", high society, and murder, with two highly spirited women and incidental glimpses of P. T. Barnum. All this is interwoven with the splendid true story of the Cardiff Giant hoax.

Following hot on the heels of his rescue of Carmel's mayor from the ship Wicked Joe in Monterey Noir, Barker once again finds himself in a hot mess of danger and intrigue. From an encounter with the disturbing Easter Bunny Man at Pacific Grove's famous Lover's Point to a diabolical plot by the homeless denizens of Deadrent Kingdom, trouble is never very far from Barker and his collection of loyal canines. And mystery has a way of following this strange man who deliberately chooses to live in the margins of society.

Columbine Pepper Drugget's background wasn't one that equipped a young woman to manage a motel worth a million dollars, or cope with rude guests, jewel thieves, an unscrupulous competitor - or even the attentions of a brassy but oddly attractive lawyer. She had spent her life so far as an assistant to her aunt at Miss Cordwainer’s School for Girls from 5-to-10. What she knew about the world was limited to the novels of Jane Austen and such bits of knowledge as the pupils possessed.

Morocco Jones challenges the Mafia in a-kill-or-be-killed novel of murder, molls, and mayhem. The Syndicate made a big mistake when they murdered Chris Shane because Shane was the man who had saved Morocco from torture and death at the hand of a despot's most savage secret agent back in Eastern Europe during the war - his best friend and the man to whom he owed his life. No bunch of gun-happy gorillas could scare a guy like Morocco.

“Find someone else to satisfy your needs!” When her husband complains about her constant sexual demands, MILF Lauren Gordon is hurt. She's never strayed outside the bounds of her marriage. But now that she has permission, she unleashes her libido on her gorgeous girlfriend next door, the UPS delivery man, and anyone else who strikes her fancy. But, when her husband comes home to find her gang banging her son’s buddies from college, he realizes he’s made a huge mistake. He wants his slutty wife back. But, once you’ve freed the genie, you can’t put it back in the bottle.

When Matt Bartlett rode into Sun Dog, the last thing he was lookin' for was a new mess of trouble. Matter of fact, he was aiming to get himself a small spread and set to forgetting the brutal Lincoln County fracas he'd finally gotten away from. But, a stranger in Sun Dog didn't stand much chance of keeping peaceably to himself. Not with a pair of trigger-happy gunmen running the town, using their bullets to protect a vicious rustling racket. Especially when they had been looking for a newcomer to take the blame for it all.

Kidnapped at the age of 16, Maggie survived the fickle temper of notorious outlaw Mad Dog Frank O’Bannen for seven years. Now, he is dead, and she is about to find out that there are worse ways to live and die than as the wife of a wanted man. Frank had prepared her as best he could for what would follow, and when she leaves her prison in the hills, she has the blood of three men on her hands and knows the feel of hot lead. Maggie has Frank’s gun, her keen wits, and new friends to help her, but will they be enough to save her from the brutality of a maniac bent on revenge?

Rosarita was a sleepy little Texas border town until Lucas Brennan gunned down saloon owner Race Jago one morning. Because he refuses to give a motive or defend himself, the judge has no choice but to find him guilty of murder. While Brennan awaits execution, Kip Wakefield tries to discover a motive for the killing and finally convinces the prisoner to tell why he shot Jago in cold blood. In the last hours before his sentence is carried out, Brennan reluctantly tells the young deputy his story.

A crime reporter investigates the case of the deadly do-gooder! While Mike Lanson, reporter for the Gazette, was checking up on Clarence Proost, director of the Anti-Vice League, Proost was slain. There was a strip-tease dancer named Luzy who thought that "maybe" she murdered him. The police thought so too, but Mike didn't so he helped her hide out, hoping for the bigger story to break. All the gangsters in town didn't care who killed whom, all they wanted were the blackmail files Luzy had in hiding with her.

A sweet story about Wilbur, the cutest tractor, who faces an unknown future with patience and hope - this story features Wilbur's adorable friend Hattie, who supports him along the journey into his new home.

Miles North's father, the rugged old ruler of the Hammer ranch, had suddenly saddled up and ridden away without trace or explanation. At the same time, just as young Miles found himself in a showdown fight to hold the mighty range, a group of ornery strangers rode into the land, lined themselves up alongside Hammer's foes, and started to close in. But Miles was no quitter. He knew that even though the odds against him had doubled, there was at least one way to save his hide and his father's holdings.

Many men came to America to escape their old lives. Baron Karl Augustus Dietrich Wilhelm von Brandt was no different, though he fled his father's crimes and not his own. Easily swindled into buying a Nebraska ranch that's little more than a sand dune, the European tenderfoot is befriended by half-Pawnee Johnny Moon, a ne'er-do-well usually one step ahead of the marshal. Working together, the impoverished nobleman and the half-breed cowboy transform the ruin into a thriving ranch. Through tough times and good, Johnny Moon is there for Will, closer than a friend, trusted like a brother.

The Eradication of Vice saga continues. Flogged by his depraved wife and mother-in-law, and subjected to excruciating sexual torment by the traditionalist faction of the British Women's Association for the Eradication of Vice, Archie Duntisbourne joins his anarchist comrades in a daring raid on the Association’s secret laboratory in Wiveliscombe. Professor Reich, the Association’s chief scientist, reveals a dark secret...but can he be believed, or is his confession the product of a deranged mind?

Having survived the best efforts of the Dark Angels to kill him, Marley Fox is conscripted into the British army along with his companion, James Finnegan. The two are sent to South Africa to fight in the war against the Boers, the brutality of which swallows them up as they are thrown into battle after battle. In the midst of the war, the Dark Angels send supernatural forces against them, and old enemies from England suddenly appear and do their best to finish off the pair.

Tying the knot - with no strings attached! Who can resist love at first sight? The minute Ted saw Annie shedding her clothes on stage at The Fox’s Den, he fell head over heels for the petite, busty redhead. She had to make the first move, though, dragging him into an impromptu orgy in the Den’s VIP suite, along with technically-virgin bride Francesca, secret slut Laura, and hot black mama Chantal. Now Annie and Ted are getting married, and they’ve invited all their friends from that wild Amateur Night to the party.