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While jogging off duty along the riverfront, Val discovers the dead body of a teenage girl—and ignites a manhunt for a serial killer. Based on her follow-up research, the Clayton, CT police department links the girl’s murder to at least four others in the past year—all drowned. All barefoot. All bearing the same strange, fresh tattoo. Val wrangles a coveted spot on a high-profile task force dedicated to finding the killer, nicknamed by a muckraking blogger as the “Shoeless Schoolgirl Slayer.”

One city ruled by technology. One township losing its magic. One reluctant witch could bridge the divide… or bring ruin to them both. Jade thought she could run from her tragic past. She thought she’d left magic behind. When she learns her aunt was murdered, she has no choice but to return to the magic that betrayed her. Facing her fears, becoming coven leader, and discovering who killed her aunt, all seems too much to face. It’s a good thing she’s not alone.

The Walking Dead has happened for real! “Somebody attacked Archie and that somebody had to be a zombie because last time I checked, the dead didn’t wake up, stinking of putrefying flesh and try and bloody eat you. Not even in Glasgow.” And so begins Emma and Scott’s battle for survival against the things they dub dead bastards. Teaming up with self-proclaimed zombie expert Kenny, who works in Glasgow’s last video store, macho man Mustafa from the newsagents and mystery man Doyle they face a battle to survive the flesh eating hordes rampaging through Scotland.

One-legged barmaid Kirsty is in a heap of trouble after she kills one of gangster Jimmy McPhee’s enforcers with a stiletto heel to the head after he gets a bit too handsie. Now she’s on the run from the gang boss who loves to torture his victims before he kills them, with a safe-load of cash she stole from him and a hot gun. And she has company—a choirboy barman Jamie who just happens to be the only witness. She needs to survive long enough to spend the cash.

Born to the daughter of a billionaire heiress and the orphan son of a fisherman, Elena Rose walks the line between her father's wild artistry and her mother's upper-class persona. Now on the cusp of her own culinary career, she is in her freshman year at a prestigious boarding school. The yearly competition brings out the best from her class, namely all the children of famous alumni. This includes her beautiful, gifted cousin, Prayikina.

Hot pink hair can't hide you from high-tech hitmen. A timid and lonely sixteen-year-old girl hides from bullying in her dream world of dashing master spy dolls, blue-haired Katy Perry Barbies, and pink Hello Kitty dresses. And she hacks her way across the Net behind the avatar of a six foot four hunk with the handle Cowabunga Dude. A presidential video falls into her laptop and puts her pink paradise in peril. When the clandestine worlds of hacking and military technology collide with her secret crush, she faces the toughest decision of her young life.