A psychic medium with performance issues, a priest with questionable work ethics, and a vengeful traffic reporter are just a few of the crazy characters that you will run across in this crazy collection of Mark and Jeff's hilarious monologues.

They came in peace, unfortunately the good folks of Little Lump, Texas didn't get the memo. They're really embarrassed, especially Gertie who managed to shoot down several of the alien's space ships with her holy land-to-air rocket launcher. Little did she realize in doing so that she would be unknowingly creating a far bigger danger for Little Lump that could spell doom for them all. To her and everyone else's disbelief, undead Japanese snow monkeys are slowly approaching the town and now...

A hilarious tale about the small town of Little Lump, Texas and what happens when aliens show up without warning. Is this the end of the world as they know it? Not if Gertie and the customers of Aunt Gertie’s Gas ‘n Sip have anything to say about it. For them, it’s time to praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, because they are determined not to go down without a fight.

FBI Profiler Pierce Quincy and Officer Rainie Conner return in a baffling cold case in this short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner.A young woman is found strangled in the stairwell of a college library, only her sneakers missing. With no physical evidence, no signs of sexual assault, and no witnesses, all the police have to go on are the three men who were in the library with her: her boyfriend and two campus security guards...a...

“I was hooked by the end of page one and laughing out loud by the middle of page two.” — Lark SusakA fun fantasy mystery starring Brenda — a reluctant medium — and Brian — a Vigilante Demon with an impish sense of humor.Brenda Steele has a problem. A Vigilante Demon wants her to use her powers to find murdered spirits and help him track down their killers. But Brian doesn't just catch criminals. He likes to play with them first, setting elaborate traps where the goal is to ...

From Jacquelyn Mitchard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the “suspenseful, otherwordly, and nearly impossible to put down” (People) story about an unlikely hero whose life is transformed when he rescues a boy with an extraordinary gift.Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami, former police officer Frank Mercy pulls a little boy from a submerged car. Not qui...

An astonishing memoir that "demonstrates the true meaning of family" from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark, detailing the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s and (Chicago Tribune).As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd ple...

An inspiring collection of birth stories by a charming midwife.Each time she knelt to “catch” another wriggling baby—nearly three thousand times during her remarkable career—California midwife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy and the world makes way for one more. With every birth, she encounters another woman-turned-goddess: Catherine rides out her labor in a car careening down a mountain road. Sofia spends hers trying to keep her hyper...

Risking It All for Her Boss by Sharron McClellanHeroes for Hire: Big Risk. Big Reward. No Regrets.When High Risk Securities (HRS) agent, Eva Torres, botches an undercover job by failingto rescue both of the kidnap victims she was sent to retrieve, Quinn Blackwood—her formerlover and the man who broke her heart—pulls her and one of the victims out of harm's way.As a penalty for her sins, she's offered the dull job of escorting a...

A Work Out StoryWorking out is a daily routine for Dan, who meets his friend Lonnie at the gym to lift weights. But breaking a sweat takes on a whole new meaning when Dan sees Gene, a professional bodybuilder, in the mirror. Dan knows it's a lost cause: he's forty and nursing a broken heart, nowhere in the same league as gorgeous Gene.Then at the gym the next day, Gene asks Dan if he can work out with him. A bet wins Dan a smoothie and conversation...

“Ian rode beside me and I watched him as we crossed the long, deserted highway. If he could have faith in me, then I could have faith in myself. I could be the woman this club needed. I had saved our lives that morning. The only question was whether I'd be able to do it a second time.”Right from the start, Wind Riding is an action-packed story of motorcycle romance done right. When the leader of the club goes down, it's up the former members to find a new way of doing busi...

Slow-burn MM | Psychological | Neurodiverse | SurrealEvery day, Daniel Schroeder breaks his father's heart.The two of them have always been close, which makes it all the more difficult to break the daily news: the last five years were nothing like Big Dan remembers.They're both professionals in the memory field--they even run their own memory palace. So shouldn't they be able to figure out a way to overwrite the persistent false memory that's wreaking havoc on both ...