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Following an explosive incident in New York City, Sienna Nealon is sent to Nashville, Tennessee, where a man with a strange voice power is wreaking havoc.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. For America, as the century closes, she is becoming less isolated. Her industrial might, her rising military power are pulling her ever closer into the entangled globe of nations. Her authors flex ideas and lexicons with riveting tales of this astonishing society.

Cassie Howell is a recovering compulsive liar, is on permanent grounding by her parents, has a boyfriend who's a vampire, and has just gotten into a car wreck in said boyfriend's limo while she was supposed to be at home. Whoops. How could things get worse? Well, she could get dragged into the magical land of faerie, where nobody is who they seem, and where everybody has a lie to tell. Now Cassie is trapped by court intrigue in a land where liars reign so supreme they might just make her look like an amateur at lying. What's a girl to do when everyone around you is so busy telling their own...

It's a law of physics that every action has its equal and opposite reaction. So when Sienna Nealon stirs up a geopolitical hornet's nest, her foes are going to react. And react they do. Now Sienna is forced to confront the fact she's in a war unlike any she's ever fought before. No criminal she's hunted or villain she's faced compares to what she's up against now: an enemy so immense, so huge, that even taking her best shot has left them nowhere close to defeat. And their reaction may end in her defeat.

From Million-Selling Author Robert J. Crane... Confined to their village, trapped in a dead land. How will Jasen and Alixa survive when evil comes their way? The land of Luukessia is lost. A horde of beasts known only as the scourge has ravaged the land, leaving only the village of Terreas to survive. Hemmed in on all sides by the scourge, the denizens of Terreas eke out a lonely existence, trying to survive in a land that is all but dead. Jasen Rabinn is a teenage boy trapped in Terreas but with a mind rooted outside the boundaries of his village. He longs for adventure, and when the ...

When a catastrophic event strikes Minneapolis, Sienna Nealon must make some hard choices about the people - and the home - she left behind.

The world of Arkaria is a dangerous place, filled with dragons, titans, goblins and other dangers. Those who live in this world are faced with two choices: live an ordinary life or become an adventurer and seek the extraordinary. The guild of Sanctuary is replete with an amazing cast of adventurers, wanderers and rogues. In their pasts linger secrets that define them and shape the course of their lives. For every one of them has a tale, each with something different to show - and even in the most honorable guild of Sanctuary, not everyone is exactly what they seem to be. AUTHOR'S NOTE: This...

Following the explosive, world-changing events of her last adventure, Sienna finds herself waiting in dread for an invasion she knows is coming. When it finally happens, she's left with a conundrum: participate in a shadow war to hold back the tide of chaos, or let events continue without her interference? Naturally, she chooses to participate in chaos. Enemies become allies, and new betrayals lurk around every bend. Soon, Sienna finds the world changing around her again, and this time, in spite of her best efforts...nothing may ever be the same.

When a series of bombings strikes New York City, terror rises. After it's discovered they're perpetrated by a person with powers, there's only one call to be made: get Sienna Nealon.But for Sienna, this case hits a little close to home. From the quiet neighborhoods of Brooklyn to the Upper West Side, buildings are exploding and people are dying. And unless she discovers the truth, New York may just tear itself to pieces, no bomb required.

Sienna Nealon returns to Nashville after a six month absence to find everything has gone straight to hell. Among the problems waiting for her are street gangs run amok, and after an incident at a mall, local officials are desperate for a solution to the violence. Unfortunately, Sienna's arrival heralds more violence, not less, and soon she's in a race against time to stop a gang war before the fallout destroys the whole city.

Somewhere in all the lies, the truth must be hiding... Ava Garcia was a normal student – until the day Ty Foster walked into Sunvail High school and killed eight students, including Ava's best friend. When one of her classmates is killed a month after the Sunvail High incident, it renews fears around town that the killings were not an isolated incident. Soon, Ava is embroiled in a web of silence as the town sheriff focuses his attention on her, and the school administration tries to quiet down any talk of danger. But after the killer strikes again - and again- And Ava may just be the only...

The twenty-eighth book in the explosive Girl in the Box saga, and a new beginning for Sienna Nealon.

Most people associate storms and other big weather with death - with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, time, and the nature of our surroundings. The stories in Storm have more to say than that. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving, nautical survival and cannibalism.

Cassie Howell has now survived two brushes with vampires. A typical teenager and recovering compulsive liar, Cassie figures she might have finally settled into high school life in sunny Tampa, Florida and put all her vampire problems behind her. Except for the studly vampire that's training her to fight his own kind. Because he's totally not a problem, and the vampire fight clubbing is "just in case." And soon enough, just in case comes in very handy, because Cassie's hometown in upstate New York is being overrun by the vamps that are searching for someone that sounds suspiciously like ...

In this explosive final book in the Liars and Vampires series, Cassie must end the vampire threat to Tampa before any more lives are lost - including her own.

When three workers go missing from a construction site in the backwoods of Tennessee, Sienna Nealon wouldn’t ordinarily be the first choice to look into it. An investigator with a specialty in people with powers, missing persons cases aren't really Sienna’s beat. But from the moment she arrives in small town Tennessee, Sienna realizes that nothing is as simple as she was promised. Attacked in the woods, she finds herself facing a dangerous conspiracy with roots that run much deeper than just East Tennessee. And she has to stop it…before she runs out of time.

Sienna Nealon has dedicated her life to keeping those with powers from breaking the law at will. After years of filling a prison for the powered called the Cube, a Supreme Court decision opens the floodgates and lets all of them out again. Now Sienna finds herself going from hunter to hunted as the US government turns a blind eye while the former inmates target her and her friends for death. With the attacks hitting closer and closer to home, will Sienna be able to fight back against the overwhelming odds before she – or someone she cares about – gets killed?

Sienna Nealon has spent the last several years of her life working for the US government, policing people with powers beyond those of a normal human. Now she's come to the end of her government career, forced out by the powers that be...but not before she's called to Chicago to investigate one final murder. Then another. The deeper she gets into the investigation, the more mysteries Sienna unravels, and the more questions she's left with, until what began with a killing in an alley starts to look like a threat to the entire world...

In the aftermath of the world-changing events of her last adventure, Sienna Nealon stands at a crossroads in her life, unsure of which direction to take.

Romeo and Juliet, meet Bonnie and Clyde. June Randall and Elliot “Ell” Lefavre are young bandits on the run, using their powers to commit a string of robberies along the Florida coast when they run up against the long arm of the law in the form of FBI Special Agent Scott Byerly. But when the dangerous young lovers prove to be too much for Agent Byerly, he turns to his ex-flame Sienna Nealon for a helping hand bring them down. Between the two of them, they ought to be able to give June and Elliot a run for their money. If they don't end up killing each other first.