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In Volume One of this series, we introduced pulp fans to four original pulp heroes by today's leading writers of pulp fiction. Now, we proudly present the second installment and another brand new quartet of fresh and exciting heroes cast in the mold of the classic adventurers of the past.

Eighteen-year-old Eddie believes finding a girlfriend will solve his loneliness. He has always been shy around girls and, because of his self-doubt, he has never dated. He has spent his teenage years in his bedroom by himself, watching TV, listening to music, and looking at his baseball cards. But when he meets April and her family everything changes. Eddie's love for April and his desire to break away from his past completely blind him to the serious problems with April and her family.

Sometimes you just need to be forward to get exactly what you want. After a tumultuous relationship split and a serious injury, Nick finds it hard to cope with all of life's adversities. He's already an introverted guy who simply wants to be left alone to mope in peace. But a chance encounter at his local gym opens his eyes to a new world.

Sparks fly after weeks of hitting it off, when Nick politely invites Brandy to join him for a post-workout soak in the gym's hot tub. With no one around, Brandy seizes the opportunity to have her way with the hot young stud. But, will they get caught doing something they shouldn't? And will their friendship be the same after this spontaneous encounter? Can timid Nick truly handle the wild and crazy Brandy?

Nick Leach is a young stud just coming out of a string of bad luck when he meets sexy young Brandy Hudson. Normally, he'd keep to himself and ignore most people. But Nick becomes drawn to Brandy's outspoken and open nature. When their relationship escalates to an intimate encounter in the local gym, their relationship blossoms. Feeling adventurous, Brandy pressures Nick into an impromptu road trip to an unknown destination.

Nick Leach made a big mistake and recounts the fatal steps that possibly ends the perfectly good relationship he has with sexy young Brandy Hudson. The two connected in the gym one day and soon became friends due to Brandy's forward nature and sassy attitude. After becoming intimate in public twice, the young couple decide to test their luck in a public pool where they stand the greatest chance of getting caught.

For six years, the murder of Harmony Bane has gone unsolved. A complicated Goth kid in the midst of a metamorphosis, Harmony was found gutted, hacked up, and branded with demonic symbols in the trunk of her abandoned car. After a lengthy, and unproductive investigation, her case went cold, and was nearly forgotten. Until Duke Bradley, private eye, came across it.

As Wade Hampton's phobias almost render him housebound after a swift break-up, he decides to move from Arizona back to his hometown in California. Once there, Wade meets Sophia Syros. He is immediately attracted to her, but a severe panic attack on their first date almost does Wade in. A relationship forms between the two from opposite upbringings and Sophia agrees to help with his affliction from panic attacks, depression and impending agoraphobia.

Sagen Cross finds herself at a loose end on a forced vacation with nothing but time on her hands. She makes the split second decision to drive home for Christmas, but little does she know fate has something else in mind. When she picks up an unexpected passenger, Gabriel Hammer, it doesn't take long for Sagen to discover that he needs her help. But when life take a couple of unexpected turns, one can't help but ask, who really needs who?

Imagine a world without money, a world where everyone is biologically connected to a computer in order to survive and The Foundation determines your "Timeline" by how much you contribute to society. Detective Cole Sands lives in that world and is oblivious to any other. Until, that is, he is tasked to investigate the suspicious death of an old man and his investigations lead him into an underground world.

One day during his ninth-grade speech class, Kelly Daniels's outlaw, soul-surfer father appears at school unannounced and pulls the boy from class. Speeding down the freeway, Daniels's father admits that he has been involved in a crime, but he does not remember how it happened. He'd been up for days on cocaine and booze, he explains, and the next thing he knew he woke up in jail with a bad feeling.

The most recent novel by Derrick Cutter, a novelist who, haunted by his own inner demons as a teenager, met and ran away with the girl of his dreams. Little did he know that he would soon be thrust into a world even darker than his own, filled with ritual abuse and murder, the aftermath of which may ironically prove to be good fodder for his best novel yet. In The Runaway Heart, author Derrick Cutter examines the human condition from the every-man's point of view: from teenage angst and rebellion, to love lost and found and lost again.

Katherine is a dissatisfied wife who wants to make over her husband. She goes into counseling with a psychologist named Dr. Richards in the hopes of getting helpful hints on how she can make her husband sexier...but instead the psychologist flips the script on her and convinces the prudish wife that she is the problem...the doctor then seduces her and sends her home to her husband a changed woman.

Eight years after Garrett got kicked out by his parents, a detective finds his RV home. Garrett's uncle Travis has died, leaving him a resort-town house with a coffee shop. Garrett wraps up his massage business and heads to Berkley Springs, WV. From a homeless teen to a college-educated, self-made man, he did well for himself. Despite all that, it's hard to walk proudly where so many old memories lie in ambush.

This story sells itself by inference as it goes along and relies for its context upon the clues scattered within its generalities and has as its bearing the vagaries of the human condition in confluence with life as it flows and so should not be mistaken for anything else but what you feel after listening to it.

Julian, formerly from Texas, works as a programmer in Alexandria, VA. The proximity of Washington, DC provides him with both clients and nighttime entertainment. If it wasn't for his crippling fear of heights, his life would be perfect. Cade bought a small riding stable outside of town. A training accident landed him with broken ribs, which leads to a tight cash flow. Helps comes in the form of a whole year of riding lessons, purchased for Julian by his wealthy grandfather.

A college psychology professor in Austin has apparently murdered almost his entire class of 35 students. Five students have survived, although they remember nothing. Chase, a cop who is a local hero from catching the "Sorority Killer" a few years earlier, is on the case. He's trying to locate Bill, the professor's teaching assistant who has disappeared, especially now that it seems he's still assisting - by killing off the remaining five students. It's a race against the clock to find Bill, and the visits to Professor Holland in jail aren't helping anyone but him.

On a chilly evening in fall of 1966, Annie Jean Barnes left her home in East Brewton, Alabama, to spend time at a secluded fishing camp owned by a local doctor. Less than 48 hours later she was hospitalized - beaten and abused. Within a week, she was dead. And, it would seem, willfully forgotten by the citizens of Brewton - the more prosperous area on the west side of Murder Creek - who soon came to refer to the fate of Jean Barnes as an "unfortunate incident."

After a three-year search, the CIA has finally captured the head of a terrorist cell in Yemen, Ameen Asal. CIA Agent Cole Parker is offered five minutes alone with Ameen, the man who killed his fiancée. For a man trained to kill, Cole's choice is obvious. Unfortunately, life is never that simple. An agreement, approved by the President, has been made to secretly trade Ameen for three high-profile American hostages. Cole must decide if acting on his revenge is worth the lives of three Americans.

Mark is the first detective on the scene when a dead body has washed ashore on the beach. He identifies the man as his old childhood friend, Brian, and he suspects suicide until another childhood friend is shot to the death nearby. With two homicides to solve, he attempts to unravel the riddles left behind by his two old friends as he tries to make sense of where and how their lives went wrong since their childhood.