This book contains some sex, but those sections are marked if you wish to skip. It is a slice of life and coming of age adventure involving ancient artifacts, food, school, travel between universes, creepy mysteries, and alien intelligences.
A new town, a new school, a new home. Sam is almost 16, and as he helps his Dad paint the new house, a 200 year old mansion picked up cheap at auction, he discovers disturbing things about the previous resident, and evidence of a hidden treasure. But, that i / (Reviews)
When an unlucky small-time thief gets caught in-between powerful forces beyond his control, can even the blessing of Lady Luck herself be enough to save him - or transform an indifferent petty criminal into a reluctant hero? An unusual story of Silver-Age crime noire and super-heroines. Starts slow... no sex until later chapters / (Reviews)
When Matt Preston plays poker with the guys, all bets are off. When the owner of the houseboat he won gets murdered, Matt's checkered military past puts the target on him. Walking a thin line through Seattle between the cops, a beautiful stranger, the lovely girl next door and hidden enemy, Matt has to wonder if he should have taken that bet...
The Powerborne Series (1) Ral Sutton, a college freshman with an unconventional secret, stumbles onto a murder as it happens. Detective Stanfield, a grumpy detective perplexed by this murder along with the eleven others, hopes this witness will help him put away a vicious killer. It's a world where people are born with astounding powers and deadly intentions. Ral must learn to control his abilities so that he can save not only himself but also those closest to him.
An unhappy man just had his girlfriend break up with him. She wouldn't tell him why. But now she's back in a really odd sort of way. And he's off on an unexpected adventure with her, one he isn't sure he wants. But he wants her, and the adventure is part of the package. No direct sex, but lots of talk about it now and then.
This is the continuation of Joe's adventures. The deeper mystery of the treasure and previous occupants of this address will be revealed. Note: Chapter 3 of this story deals with Slavery. The N-word is used by a slave speaking of other slaves. If this offends you then don't read this chapter.
Tragedy struck Mark at a young age, leaving him with a heart full of unspoken words and a future shrouded in uncertainty. Raised by his aunt, he navigated the choppy waters of adolescence and eventually found a semblance of normalcy in a mundane, predictable routine.
College, part-time job – even his social life, an endless cycle of bad dates and even worse pickup lines - It wasn’t exciting, but it was safe. Familiar.
But fate, it seems, had other plans.
The University of Chicago plans to sequence DNA taken from the Shroud of Turin. But before they can, a sinister agent steals the sample. Our intrepid heroes from The First Deadly Sin, and the Big Short, are hired to get it back. Joey and Kelley chase their quarry to a remote citadel in the Alps, where they find that they ain't seen nothin' yet. Read on and see how Joey and Kelley with the help of the Red Dragon and her genius teenage hacker daughter Brooke, save the world from impending doom.