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Willie Bledsoe is driving some smuggled guns to the Motor City with the hopes of jump-starting his dream of writing a memoir.

Rae, young, unmarried, and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, lost her own daughter many years earlier.

It is a stormy Christmas Eve in little Union Grove when Daniel Earle arrives back from his two-year sojourn.

What if the entire universe were the creation of alien minds? After a spaceship accident, the hedonistic human Lutt Hansen Jr., finds himself sharing his body and mind with a naïve alien.

The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a suicidal son and a defiant granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family and the grounds of their waterfront estate.

When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away.

New York City, 1978. Joey Peacock has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, feeding by night and sleeping by day in the macabre labyrinth beneath the city.

The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have enthralled generations of readers--and writers. Now Laurie R. King and Leslie S.

Decades ago, the world underwent the Change--people developed unusual powers and society fell apart.

Alan is an entrepreneur in Toronto who decides to involve himself in a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopu

History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed by the Black Death. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead?

Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, this novel reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, a village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghost-like lionesses beg

Simeon Grist is drawn into the Asian underworld of Los Angeles when two children vanish in Chinatown and the parents refuse to inform police for fear that Vietnamese hit men will do them in.

A gunslinging Taoist psychopomp, Lou might not be a normal nineteen year old, but she's too busy keeping San Francisco safe from ghosts to care.

It's 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain. Five years have passed since the murder of a young local politician, and the town's rhythms have almost returned to normal.