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Sofia Salgado's latest case at Maloney Investigations has some pretty tempting ingredients: blackmail, male strippers, and whipped cream. When a friend of Sofia's mom finds herself the victim of blackmail, stuffy Aidan has to go undercover as an exotic dancer, much to Sofia's delight. Can Aidan make it in the cutthroat world of male stripping? Can Sofia stop her mom getting too involved? Does whipped cream have fewer calories when it’s licked from a man’s naked torso?

The audiobook comes from five true stories, with some added fiction in the story about the wasp on the ceiling and in the story about Suk's magic dry-cleaning machine. I hope these stories are unique and entertaining.

Lilley the Pizza Mouse is a country mouse born on Christmas day. She travels to the city and finds a pizza restaurant where she eats pizza cheese - lots of pizza cheese. Lilley soon finds herself in trouble. She is taken for a long scary ride back to the country where she is set free on Easter Sunday.

After narrowly escaping from Vasily’s compound, Ophelia is on the run and fighting for her life. Her first goal is to get some help; too bad she’s stuck on an island owned by Vasily. Her second and third goals consist of going back and freeing her people, and killing Vasily - not necessarily in that order. When Celtic warrior and vamp badass Irish senses something is amiss, he goes in search of the woman who has been on his mind since their first meeting. While his old friends adjust to their new lives, Irish heads off to the dangerous North Sentinel Island, in search of his woman.

When Franki Amato leaves her cheating ex and erratic job as a rookie cop in Austin, Texas, she hopes for a quieter existence at her best friend Veronica’s New Orleans PI firm, Private Chicks. But life in The Big Easy is anything but quiet. Or easy. Her furnished apartment resembles an old French brothel, and her aging ex-stripper landlady has some rather odd policies.

When Sofia returns from vacation, she discovers that her pet seagull Fred has become her greatest enemy: the paparazzi. Her former agent has dressed him with a tiny camera and created a wildly successful YouTube channel using his footage. To ensure his loyalty, her agent has been bribing Fred with caviar, feeding into his addiction and stoking a fire within his tiny bird heart that can only be quenched by more caviar.

Micaela has a big imagination. She loves to tell stories. Every night, she gathers up her toys for their bedtime story. Tonight, her cousin, Shanara, has come over because of the typhoon hitting the island. Suddenly, the power goes out! But they were ready. In the lamp light, Shanara asks to hear one of Mikay's stories. She wants to hear a scary but fun story. Before Mikay begins her tale for the night, she asks, "Are you ready?"

When Laura Sinclair arrives home, she is horrified to discover her sweet, kind husband James close to death. But this is no robbery gone wrong. There are over 200 breaks to his bones, each apparently applied carefully, symmetrically, methodically.... Laura insists that James is a man with no enemies. But how much does she know about her husband? And what secrets are hidden in the email account she discovers, filled with cryptic messages?

Girl's minds are like spaghetti and their thoughts never end. Boy's minds are like waffles and if they're thinking about one thing, they are only thinking about that.

Depending on who you talk to, the Nation is either corrupt or a necessary evil. The Sect was formed to eradicate all things vampire, or maybe it’s just their mission to protect humans. Echo has been on both sides. He was once a Watcher for the Nation, but when he uncovers an ongoing plan to kill chosen Sect leaders to force war, he is driven to make a decision he never thought he’d make. Echo becomes a Ghost, the name used for traitors of the Nation. It’s a dangerous way to leave the Nation, but Echo is sick of all the blood on his hands.

"The King" tells the tale of Terry the Tyrannosaurus. Terry has a big ego. He thinks he is the biggest, strongest, and the best. One day he learns a valuable lesson about bragging and being arrogant. Share this story with your children to teach them the value of being humble and thinking before speaking.

...there once lived a boy named Jacob, and he and his mom traveled to the Nap Land. They talked about planes, where and how high they were flying, until both fell asleep. When Jacob and his mom returned home, they brought with them a tale, and then another one, and another one...until they became Jacob’s Tales.

Ethan Sutter is good at running, but he can't outrun himself. Rootless and reckless, he prowls the country, able to abandon everything except his hated Fire Elemental power. Then he lands in Pickering, Vermont, out of gas and out of options, and meets New Age curio shop owner Gypsy Ronan, an even bigger misfit than he is. Gypsy knows Ethan is trouble. However, none of her tarot cards or tea leaves could have prepared her for their undoubtedly dangerous mutual attraction. More shocking still is the discovery that he possesses an incredible power, and he wants her help getting rid of it.

Six years ago, 10-year-old Sophie Albright disappeared from a shopping mall. Her mother, Jesse, is left in a self-destructive limbo, haunted by memories of her intense and difficult child, who was obsessed with birds. Trapped in her grief and guilt, Jesse stumbles through her workdays at a bookstore and spends her off hours poring over Sophie’s bird journals or haunting the mall to search for the face of her missing child.

Five years ago, I watched as the love of my life said, "I do," to another woman. I had to find a way to go on without him, I had something he didn't know about, a piece of him. Now he wants me back. Can I risk it again?

A young clone starts a journey that will take him to the far reaches of the galaxy. He must choose between what is best for his oppressed clone brethren and the greater good while he meets dangerous villains and reluctant heroes along the way. And who are the elusive Scream? What do they want and how far will they go to get it?

It's easy! Who hasn't ever dreamed of becoming a star? Tina, the heroine of our story, has long had this wish. Then, one day, her dream comes true. Unbelievable! How it came to be and what the future still holds for her is revealed in this satirical novel. This story was written with a twinkle in the author's eye, or to put it more exactly: things didn't actually happen this way, but they almost could have.

For parents, the onset of adolescence becomes an unexpected, even unwelcome surprise, often bringing bewilderment, confusion, and sadness. Harvard educated psychologist Carl Pickhardt offers his 30 years of experience illuminating this parental “We are not in Kansas anymore” moment. Dr. Pickhardt is a comforting and knowledgeable voice, guiding families through each stage of adolescence with effective practices to help their child achieve responsible independence.

Halloween is looming large in New Orleans, and Private Investigator Franki Amato is in a gloomy mood. Her boyfriend, Bradley, has to leave on an extended business trip, and her slacker brother is coming to town with her matchmaker Nonna, who’s determined to see a Sicilian lemon superstition bear fruit. Meanwhile, the entire city is spooked because a caped figure is targeting its blood banks. Things turn macabre when a psychic makes a dark prediction about Franki’s brother and a frat boy is found in a cemetery crypt with his blood drained.

This isn't your mother's faerie story....