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Emily’s tranquil domesticity with new husband Cyrus is interrupted when she is called to Hong Kong in pursuit of a vanished agent.

Robert Pendleton is a chemical genius with a fertilizer worth a fortune to whoever controls the formula. Not surprisingly, the Bank, his notoriously exclusive backer, wants to keep an eye on its investment. But so does the CIA. And the Chinese government. And a few shadier organizations. So when Pendleton disappears from a conference in San Francisco, along with all of his research, Neal Carey enters the picture.

Juan Cabrillo's first adventure with the Oregon - a state-of-the-art spy ship disguised as a nondescript lumber hauler - takes him and his crew into dangerous waters as they try to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese.

Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result they share their small Vientiane house with an assortment of homeless people, mendicants, and oddballs. One of these oddballs is Noo, a Buddhist monk who rides out on his bicycle one day and never comes back, leaving only a cryptic note in the refrigerator - a plea to help a fellow monk escape across the Mekong River to Thailand. Naturally, Siri can't turn down the adventure.

Sean Lincoln, an ex intelligence agent turned investigative reporter is approached by the beautiful Sarah Scott, a woman with a mysterious past and a story so incredible that if true will not only alter the perception of human history, but the course of humanity’s future.

Women are being murdered on campus. Thomas Yanter can't sleep, nor can he be certain that he's not the murderer. A model student with a secret, compromised past, Yanter's life is upended when the mysterious Tami of his high-school days resurfaces in his life, her presence drawing him ever closer to the epicenter of campus violence. Then, Yanter finds a pool of blood in a hidden underground passage and black pools his memory can't recover on the nights women were murdered. Is his obsession to find the true murderer - or his own true identity? Thomas is terrified that it might be both.

Diana Atestesso has lost her daughter, her livelihood, and her peace of mind to her abusive ex-husband, Clay. Now she returns to the old Victorian mansion in the mountains where she was raised through a traumatic childhood, only to find that her ex is stalking her still. Now is the time to make a final stand. Now is the time Diana calls upon the Fire Golem.

Heroically triumphing over her abusive ex who abducted their daughter, Luna, Diana Atestesso has to rise from the ashes. What more unlikely way to do that than to team up with her lost love, Finn, to build a bar named Sacred Hearts that unexpectedly becomes a haven for “freaks” of all kinds - a gonzo journalist, a drag-queen diva, a lesbian musical virtuoso, and Diana’s mentor, Selene, who embarks on an unexpected same-sex relationship in her twilight years? But not everyone joins the celebration.