From author Patricia Crumpler...

 Recently divorced Jennifer Hughes starts a new life by buying an adorable Victorian house in the small town of Livonia. Along with the house’s furniture, she gets the spirit of the original owner, Miles Hampton, a turn-of-the-century detective. Miles resents new owners disturbing his nether-rest, so he tries to make Jen leave. Quirky and stubborn, Jen stays. She and Miles negotiate a compromise allowing them both to reside in the house they love.

Now fully awakened, Miles explores the town he once lived in and can’t help solving a few crimes. Jen reports the criminal activity to Lee Ferguson, the town’s attractive and available detective, who acts on the information. Charmed by Jen, Lee can’t accept that she got her tips from a ghost, but he tolerates the notion she’s psychic.

 Beautiful and reckless, Princess Aril-Ess is exploring a wild and unknown region of her planet, Cronanta, when her airship is attacked. Her life changes dangerously when she is captured and sold as a slave to the handsome and fun-loving Tim-Ell, Crown Prince of a distant nation. Aril-Ess has never bowed to anyone and doesn't intend to start now, but slowly she is drawn into the intrigues that now surround her. What changes can she make in Tim-Ell's life and what will change in her own life?

 Teacher Emma Whitstone, reserved and quiet, works with deaf children while yearning for a family of her own. Charles Strong Manning is an outgoing, self-assured attorney. They couldn’t be more different, but their incredible chemistry leads to love, marriage, and a family.

There is more to Strong than meets the eye. In addition to his successful consulting law practice, he also has a dangerous and clandestine second job—one that could jeopardize his family. To protect Emma from worry, Strong does not tell her that he is the leader of a four-person undercover rescue operation. When one of those missions goes terribly wrong, and lives are lost, Emma suspects her husband is involved in something mysterious and violent.

One of Strong’s team-members wants Strong for herself and will do anything to get him.  Finding Emma in a vulnerable state, the woman feeds Emma horrifying information about Strong. Emma takes her children to a place she believes is safe from her husband and the double life he leads. But is any place safe? Is Strong the monster she’s told he is, or the man she fell in love with? Or something entirely different?

Strong leaves no stone unturned and finds his wife and children. Can he convince Emma to trust him again? Will love be enough to heal their wounds? He has never failed a mission. Can he rescue his relationship?

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In Victorian England Teacher Alexina Poole resigns herself to spinsterhood until a  long-forgotten marriage contract comes to light. Peyton Woodleigh is a  high society recluse who is content to work his land until he too learns  of the marriage contract. Starry-eyed Alexina seeks a loving home and  family, but Peyton must marry her or forfeit his property and assets.

Alexina  falls in love instantly, but Peyton resists the charms of his new wife.  When a thief endangers the valley’s future, Alexina offers a solution.  She and Peyton bring their unique apple brandy to London. Despite its  resounding success, their relationship becomes more distant and  strained.

Then Nature hurls another blow to their  beloved valley. When their marriage and lives lay in shambles, help  comes from an unexpected quarter, providing answers to long-standing  mysteries. Together, Peyton and Alexina overcome the obstacles to find  love together in Fate’s Sweet Passion.

Vivian Wexler investigates a recent rash of suicides on the planet Sorasol, so peaceful it doesn’t have a word for suicide.

As she uncovers an evil alien scheme behind the puzzling deaths, Vivian gets more than she bargains for. Dodging death from an alien underworld, mafia-like aliens want control, addicting her with a mind-body enhancement substance delivered by a small slug-like creature. Their plan backfires. Now smarter and stronger, the improvements offered by the slug opens the door to solving crimes in the galaxy. In Vivian’s quest for justice, is there anyone to help her? Torn between the good she gains from the addiction, and the fact she is addicted, she has to make some life changing choices.

Award-winning author Patricia Crumpler offers a dangerous romp through the galaxy dodging death and weaving through amazingly weird elements. Irresistible and compelling.

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If you were sentenced to death, wouldn't you jump at a chance for life? Even if that reprieve meant leaving Earth to live on a  spaceship full of freaks, the hideous survivors of a DNA altering  plague?

Arlen Rowell took that chance and found the freaks were a finer stock of folks than the ones who shunned them from  their home planet.

On the ship Benevolence, Arlen  found integrity, courage, danger, and...love. Then he found a way to  contact the other nine Freak Ships with the idea that 50,000 freaks  could seek a planet to call home.

Dana Blake, a tough trial lawyer, is accustomed to winning. But she has lost at love and the heartbreak is ruining her life. In desperation, she consults a fortune teller, the mysterious Char-Mer, who has the reputation of mending damages from a shattered heart. Dana heeds Char-Mer’s advice and recovers happily.

But that isn’t enough for Dana. Being the driven seeker of facts that she is, Dana coerces Char-Mer to divulge the secret of the cure. This leads Dana on a worldwide hunt, brushes with myths and curses, and a one-night stand with a very sexy merman.

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During the Cold War, two spies find themselves locked in a familiar story, with equally familiar consequences.

A detective must decide how far he's willing to go to stop a monster, even if it includes unleashing another.

A heartbreaker gets his comeuppance when the worm turns, Have you ever heard of people eating zombies, and grey men bemoan the fallout from children's stories.

This is but a taste of the tales within; tales of individuals who live just outside the margins of real life, folk whose lives, by choice or by chance, occupy erratic orbits and doomed trajectories. Follow their paths in this anthology of 12 stories packed with action, humor and the bizarre."

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Set in East Tennessee, this anthology contains works from members of the Etowah Writers' Guild. Nonfiction, fiction, sci-fi, humor, and horror provide something for everyone. Cannibalistic grannies may have you second guessing those missing neighbors while the deep European roots of the Appalachian folk hide an ancient danger on isolated hiking trails.

Hauntings, which range from humorous to downright dangerous, cast an eye towards local graveyards and unsolved murders as mischievous ghosts and ghastly bank robbers wreak havoc. Bewitched nursing homes, summer camps with nefarious secrets, and a mysterious hotel from the past will set a chill down your spine. Black cats and Halloween outings provide humor, while local encounters with devil dogs and the legendary Wampus Cat make for apprehensive walks in the dark. Strange lights in the sky, aliens, and an invasive force seeking a place of its own rounds out this wonderful collection.

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