When 12-year-old Jan Travis is kidnapped along with her world-famous, wealthy friend, the kidnappers demand something other than money.

When 12-year-old Jan Travis is kidnapped along with her world-famous, wealthy friend, the kidnappers demand something other than money.

When 12-year-old Jan Travis is kidnapped along with her world-famous, wealthy friend, the kidnappers demand something other than money.

A man who lost his daughter clones her to see her face once more and keeps her existence a secret from society. Amelia, tired of being kept inside and hidden from the world, start chatting with a guy named Ryan on her phone. But once she escapes from her father to see Ryan in person, she discovers he isn't the sweet man she has gotten to know but a fearsome mafia boss who plotted to kidnap her all along. Because Amelia is the daughter of Ryan's greatest enemy—her father. Ryan is adamant to never let anyone close to him again, not after he tragically lost his wife and daughter. He is convinced love would only get in his way and cloud his mind. Loving someone is a weakness. But what happens when you start falling in love with the person you swore to despise?

DEATH DID NOT THEM PART… Eight-year-old Courtney Kramer is a very special child. But her mother doesn't know it. In fact, beautiful divorcee/ex-model Frankie Kramer hasn't a clue why moving back into her California house is really a very deadly mistake. But the people watching Courtney know. They recognize right away that little Courtney is one of them … a member of the cult of the demon D'Nau. In her small body her grandmother's soul has already begun to live again. She wears the sacred amulet and feels all the dark, unholy powers it confers. Now she doesn't need her meddling father anymore. Or Tom, her Mommy's boyfriend. Or even Mommy. Because she has thirteen new friends. So maybe it's time that Daddy … and Tom … and Mommy must die.

Rural Mexico is the setting for this fast-moving comic adventure story about a team of journalists who set out to investigate a rumored rebellion and film the infamous Fiesta de Santiago Apóstol in the Indian village of Huatepac. American journalist Lee White, his partner Checo Rivera, Lee's filmmaker daughter and her cameraman/boyfriend, and villagers Felipe and Elena Piñeda are objects of scorn and suspicion to Lieutenant Campos, a rapacious military bureaucrat, and Sam Cooke, the American soldier of fortune who is in the business of crushing the rebellion that's drawn Lee and Checo to the Sierra. "A wonderful yarn that succeeds in taking the reader on a journey of suspense, compassion, and desire for justice. Anyone who has had guns aimed at them by federales or soldiers will recognize the frustration of not having a gun to shoot back. Anyone who has listened to the ethnomusicological cacophony that distinguishes rural fiestas, or witnessed the matanza of a pig, or felt and smelled the intestinal agonies within 'the fatherland of diarrhea,' or fallen in love in the Mexican hinterland will feel at home in this book."-Jack Loeffler, author of Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey