From Donald Wells The author the Taken! Series, Blue Steele & Caliber Detective Agency The Taken! Alphabet Series - 26 Original Taken! Tales Twenty-six short stories that take place in the Taken! universe. A book of thrills from A to Z

From Donald WellsThe author of The Taken! Series, Blue Steele & The Caliber Detective AgencyGame Over! - Parker & Knight - Book ThreeIt's eight months later as we join Rick Parker & Joanna Knight at Taggart's grand reopening.The bar's new owners, Timothy Hearn and his wife Rachel are flying high.Parker is also living the good life as his relationship with his girlfriend has never been better.However, Rachel, his jealous ex-wife and her conniving husband, Hearn, have plans for Parker, plans that will tear his life apart.Unfortunately for them, the past has come to call, and the Hearns will need Parker's help just to survive.This is the third, and of course, the last installment of the Parker & Knight Trilogy.

From Donald WellsThe author of The Taken! Series, The Reynolds Family Saga, Blue Steele, Caliber Detective Agency & MonstersMurder! - Parker & Knight - Book 1When beautiful, nineteen-year-old Tiffany Grace is found murdered inside the house next door, Detectives Rick Parker and Joanna Knight are brought in to investigate.What they find is a tangled web of love, lies and infidelity between the homeowners, Alex and Mandy Kent, and their young neighbors, murder victim, Tiffany Grace, and her handsome brother, Steve.As Parker wades through the Kents' marital woes, he also has to deal with his own, as his marriage comes to a close.Did Alex Kent kill Tiffany, a young woman he lusted for deeply?Or did Mandy Kent kill her, to keep her from her husband?The truth is even more twisted than Parker and Knight could have imagined.

From Donald WellsThe author of The Taken! Series, Blue Steele & The Caliber Detective AgencyHomicide - Parker & Knight - Book TwoWhen a missing person turns up dead, Parker & Knight are called on to solve the homicide.The victim, Charles Woolley, was a manager of the local bar & grill named Taggart's.Before long, Parker & Knight find that murder isn't the only crime they need to solve, and are soon risking their lives to learn the truth.In the meantime, Parker, who is fresh from a divorce, finds himself growing more attracted to a young Taggart's waitress named Heather Jones, even as his past intrudes on the case.In the end, death claims another victim and it's left to Parker & Knight to pick up the pieces. 

Fifteen critically acclaimed and best-selling authors gather to spin stories set in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, tales filled with desperate dragons and cruel elves, honorable demons and fickle gods, wild magic and the sharpest of steel. Step inside the imaginations of master storytellers Jay Lake (John W. Campbell award-winning author of Green), Alan Dean Foster (The New York Times best-selling author of the Spellsinger series), Kevin J. Anderson (international best-selling author of Star Wars and Dune novels), Mike Resnick (Hugo and Nebula award-winner for “Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”), John Shirley (Bram Stoker award recipient for Black Butterflies), Sarah Zettel (Philip K. Dick award winner for Bitter Angels), and many more. Experience Dungeons & Dragons alongside the most brilliant and beloved fantasy writers of our time, and discover a whole new dimension of fantasy adventure.

Katharine Palmer has found happiness with her lover, the lovely Lady Helena of Wiltshire, and delights in her work as a blacksmith. Though all seems well for her and Helena, Katharine harbours feelings of envy and indignation toward Helena's callous husband, the Earl. When she finally is no longer able to contain her anger and it boils over in public confrontations with well-placed nobles, she finds herself in a most tenuous position. Shall love conquer the machinations of men, or will Katharine carry to the grave a secret which could cause great upheaval for all England?Invidia is the second volume in the three part series Impurities.

When Heidi has trouble making friends at camp, she discovers that courage can be even more powerful than magic!Heidi can't wait to go to camp with her friend Lucy, but when they get there, Lucy's camp friends from last year make Heidi feel unwelcome. At first Heidi uses her Book of Spells to help her win their friendship, but in the end she decides to be brave and ask the girls why they don't like her. Heidi is surprised by their answer...and by the time camp ends she has made two new friends!With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

Someone has a crush on Heidi Heckelbeck! Can she figure out who it is--with a little help from her Book of Spells?The Brewster Science Fair is approaching, and Heidi and Stanley are busy working on their project. But when Heidi finds treats in her cubby and her desk, she realizes that she has a secret admirer! Who can it be? Heidi starts to investigate, and she eventually turns to her Book of Spells for help. Will she discover her admirer's true identity? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne’er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family is forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy. But the question remains: which friend of the family is the father of Sharon’s child?

This funky, rude, unpretentious first novel traces the short, funny, and furious career of a group of working-class Irish kids who form a band, The Commitments. Their mission: to bring soul to Dublin!

Donald West, psychiatrist and criminologist, published a book arguing for tolerance at a time when gays in the UK were social pariahs and legally criminals.Now, over fifty years later, he can write openly as a gay man describing his simultaneous pursuit of a secret, fraught love-life and a precarious professional career. In investigations of the paranormal, researches into the roots of delinquency, studies of sexual crime and of society's response to sexual abuse, he advances some unpopular ideas. Although influenced by his life among a sexual minority, he tries to reach his objective, evidence-based conclusions. His stories of forced secrecy and threatened exposure reflect difficulties of the past that have not completely disappeared in supposedly more enlightened times.

Betty Longstreet, a prominent client of John Mariner, a Blanco, Texas, lawyer, is brutally murdered and robbed. Mariner is hired to handle the estate, but to probate the estate, Mariner must make sure that the murderer is not one of the beneficiaries. Because of Betty's tumultuous lifestyle, the list of suspects is long. Bob Hauffler, the Blanco County Sheriff and a friend of Mariner, heads up solving the murder with Mariner's help and with the help of Mariner's retired policeman buddy, Larry Wagner. Along the way Mariner's life is threatened but eventually the team pieces together the complicated reasons for the murder and the people who did it.