Dave Snider is on a mission. Since I met him, his mystery friend and the ravens have taken an interest in me. I'm not part of his mission, am I?And if I am, then what help can I give?It all comes down to one late night in the deep desert, when the coyotes howl.

Veracity's the personal assistant of her thirty times great grand uncle, the thousand year old astronaut. It's not such a bad gig, earning her the social and financial credits to live her life the way she wants.But then someone decides it's not fair that Jasper should live so long and takes steps to find out why. They harass and kidnap Jasper and it falls on Veracity to find and rescue him. Nobody's listening to her though. Nobody thinks this actually means anything.What is...

It's the end of the world as we know it, and we don't feel fine.Mollty Cook wants to escape he island before the volcano blows them all to smithereens. Rowan wants her to come and sight see some bridge, like nothing was happening.How will she escape the old city before the volcano blows? Will there be a seat on the plane in time? Will there be any boats left to leave on? Will all the grabby people leave her alone until she gets to safety? Can she get across the city while a...

Pearl Waidler works from home, if you could call a repurposed hotel room home. It's not much, but it's what she has, sharing with her very significant other, Nicky Lightfoot. They make do with what they earn or can scavenge, including an old coffee table that serves as handy flat spot, kitchen table, dining room table, or office desk.At least until it starts feeling her leg...What's a woman to do, when the furniture propositions her and won't take no for an answer?

Eugene has a broken spring. Without the spring he has no water. Without the water he will have to sell his home and go elsewhere.His buddy Eddie offers to lend him some of his children to see what they can to in digging the spring out in hopes of bringing back the water. Maybe they can help him get his rain harvesting project set up too.With Eddie's children's help, they get the well cleaned out. Thanks to the miraculous Teecee, who breaks into the water table and refills t...

Axelander is lost. He is broken. He wanders. He speaks to things that don't talk back. The voices in his head shout and call. They are familiar, but he can't grasp them and they are gone, like a breeze through the grasses.The little girls who come to him, with bandaged heads, are leading him somewhere, he does not know. But they are a force that can't be denied, so he goes where they lead, to their home.And then the door opens wide...A psychological study of someone...

Darcy Sisto is the leader of her wolf shifter pack. Hers is a successful pack, with mahy members and about one pup a year. Peach Tree Den has a delicately balanced truce with the local deer shifter herd, Tall Pine Herd.That goes out the window when two of Darcy's teenaged bitches run down the son of the Old Buck of Tall Pine Herd and rape him, which violates the truce. There's only one way to answer this insult, and so Darcy takes that step, even is if costs her two breeding female...

That Dog was mad. Now he is wrong. He is dangerous. He is not just screaming at Chosen, he is threatening everything Chosen holds dear. And then he attacks his own family, which is even worse. Chosen knows he can't deal with this on his own, so he calls on his family to help him resolve That Dog's problem. Will he save That Dog, or will he have to kill That Dog to save two families?

For all things, there is a place and time. But trouble is coming on the wind, and it's all aimed at her one and only daughter. Gaya must identify the threat and deal with it before it destroys her beloved Park and everything around it.

"[A] drool-inducing, photo-heavy cookbook . . . [Klivans] guides even the least confident baker to a cocoa-dusted kitchen and full-on chocolate ecstasy." — Publishers WeeklyThere are enough people out there obsessed with chocolate cake to warrant an official holiday: National Chocolate Cake Day, January 27. Beloved baker Elinor Klivans, author of the best-selling Cupcakes! and Cupcake Kit, has dedicated her new cookbook to the stuff of chocoholic fantasy: c...

The Lakeside Festival is this weekend, one of Stephanie and Stell's best times to make enough money to pay for the next month. Except that the new Park Supervisor has turned them down for a permit, forcing them to look elsewhere for a venue. And then the Cosmic Artifact starts having fits or seizures or something, which just absolutely ruins the rest of Stephanie's day. Ruins two days, actually. How will Stephanie and Stell pay their rent and resolve the Artifact's problem?

In this collection you will meet a youth on the cusp of his manhood, and someone he meets along the way; find out what a rat and his person will do to protect their home against strangers; discover why it's so hard to leave when you can't find the door; visit citrus hell in search of a lost man; receive a note no one remembers writing or delivering. Ever have one of those days?