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When 12-year-old Kaira Renn listens in on one of her father’s secret meetings, she hears of strange things...Soon after, Kaira leaves the comfort of childhood and enters a place like no other: The Society for the Preservation of Magical Artefacts. In this secret world of wonders, Kaira learns how to use magic, conjuring spells, charms, and remedies. She also begins to make links between the strange words overheard on her bedroom landing and the darkness closing in on the magical society. And soon Kaira learns the true meaning of bravery, betrayal - and sacrifice.

Murder has come once more to the seaside town of Crab Cove, testing the mettle of “almost handsome” Detective Simon Grave and his “nearly invisible” partner, Sergeant Barry Blunt, who investigate a locked-room mystery with a significant twist: the prime suspects are in the locked room, not the victim, a logic-defying situation that challenges the team at every turn. As if murder weren’t enough, they must also investigate the simultaneous disappearance of The MacGuffin Trophy from that same locked room, the studio of artist Whitney Waters, famous for her stylized paintings of red herrings.

The immortals have suffered a near total annihilation throughout the world; from Miami to Paris, Cairo and Sri Lanka; throughout time and history; from ancient Biblical times, towards the Renaissance, the Dark Ages, and Modern-Day cosmopolitan cities. The immortals were dying. A gifted girl loses her parents in close succession and fights with God in between visits from the Devil. As a woman, she leaves home and discovers Vaudeville in Paris, and "la passion de la vanite".

The Peña gang ravage the Southwest, plundering and killing with impunity. Until, that is, they kill Ben Morrison’s brother for a fortune in rubies. Ben considers himself a used-up former lawman, but desperate for revenge, he calls on ex-manhunt Duel Winston for help. Duel, though, has settled into a peaceful life of ranching and is reluctant to risk his newfound happiness. Until, that is, the ghosts of his past come a-haunting, and he takes to the trail again.

Just when Clay Brentwood thought things were about to quiet down, new trouble comes his way in the form of Austin, Texas, Judge Horatio B. Tyson. The judge sends Bill McDaniel, head of the Texas Rangers, on a manhunt with two murder warrants; both for Clay Brentwood.

In the style of Poe and Seuss, these five vivid yet dark and twisted fables will send shivers down your spine. "Gwendolyn Witch" has a magic crystal that loses its clarity. "The Tooth Wraith" seeps into your bedroom window at night searching for cavities. "The Ghost of the Canyon" is the unsettled spirit of a girl from long ago. "The Playmate" is an unseen child, heard yet never found. In "Gnomes G'Lee", gruesome creatures dead set on defending their garden.

Arriving in Lancerville, John Laramie hoped to escape his old life as a man-hunter and settle down. But there he finds he’s torn between the demons of his past and hope for a brighter future when a young woman seeks his help in getting rid of a vicious outlaw. Then the Cross Gang attacks him and the young woman’s life is put in danger. But will it cost Laramie more to win than to lose in a deadly showdown?