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A cop, a pig, and a serial killer walk into a bar. Seal Island is home to a moonshine making billionaire, a pot growing fisherman, a celebrity flower child, a handsome romance writer, a sex addicted realtor, a womanizing pub owner, a cop, a pot-bellied pig…and a serial killer. The island is serene and remote. It is only accessible by boat. The residents like it that way, until those with the deepest and darkest of secrets start dying in the most bizarre of ways.

Seal Island is home to a moonshine-making billionaire, a pot-growing fisherman, a celebrity flower child, a handsome romance writer, a sex-addicted realtor, a womanizing pub owner, a cop, a pot-bellied pig…and a serial killer. The island is serene and remote. It is only accessible by boat. The residents like it that way, until those with the deepest and darkest of secrets start dying in the most bizarre of ways.

When a group of teens decide to camp out with their horses at a haunted cabin in the woods on Halloween night, they unravel a mystery and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

The ghost of Sir Lancelot helps Jessie and her unicorn friend, Gus, stop a dragon from destroying the Great Plains and even time itself. Jessie discovers how to release the power of the magical Karkadan horn to do good, and Gus finds the courage to live up to being the son of the unicorn king.

Sgt. Betty Bruce is having a bad day. Three bizarre deaths and a confession that isn’t a confession…A severed foot in a sneaker that her pot-bellied pig won’t give up...Her dead boyfriend willed her his house…and she has been told to stay out of the way of Chief Inspector Tom Powder. Chief Inspector Tom Powder’s day isn’t much better. The key to solving the cases hides within the pages of Tiffany Hyde-White’s strange novel, The Dastardly Mr. Deeds. In the end, it is up to Betty to unravel the mystery, no matter the cost.

This is a charming, hankie-waving Christmas classic for girls who love horses, ages 8 and up. Teased by the local kids for being a city girl and an amputee, Hannah Storey feels alone and isolated, just like the old mustang she sees on the way to and from school every day. Hannah vows to save the pony the local kids have cruelly nicknamed Frostbite from freezing to death or being sent to slaughter, but events spiral out of control. Will Hannah be able to save the pony?

A cop, a pig, & a sorcerer know all that glitters is gold. A sorcerer’s hidden stash of gold… A pot-bellied pig and a Jersey cow with a nose for trouble… A no holds barred treasure hunt… A retired RCMP Sergeant and her partner, a drug sniffing German shepherd afraid of crowds, determined to preserve law and order on an island where no one takes any guff including the blind old lady who just got flashed and the young mother bothered by a ghost in the attic. That one choice, made by a pot-bellied pig in the heat of the day, the decision to choose Milk Bones over beer, triggered a ...

If you love unicorns, princesses, enchanted forests, and adventure, you will love this inspirational short bedtime story for kids and adults of all ages. In a land of ice and snow, a princess and a unicorn go in search of the person who placed a curse upon their kingdoms. Who has cursed her kingdom? Why are all of her subjects asleep including her parents, the king and queen? Why is there no color in the world except for her red cloak? After months of being alone, the Red Princess decides to do something about it so she goes in search of answers only to stumble upon a unicorn who is also ...

Gertrude finds a new buddy in Betty’s new partner, a drug-sniffing German Shepherd named Champ, who is terrified of crowds and loud noises. Solve the mysteries behind the bizarre deaths of the very bad poet Eliza (“Lizie”) Bone, mystery writer and island slut Tiffany Hyde-White, and flower child Summer Rivers in Murder Most Fowl.

A blind girl and a Haida boy struggle to survive after being shipwrecked on opposites sides of a desolate island on the West coast of British Columbia in the middle of winter.

Who is the real killer: the man who wears a dead man's face, the ghost in the shadows, or the man you trust with your life? In "The Thin Line of Reason", everyone wears a mask! Sgt Bill Lancaster is still mourning the death of his friend and partner, Ben Moore. He jumps at the chance to catch Moore's killer, Josef Stein, but events go horribly wrong. Unable to believe that Stein is dead, Bill turns to his sister for support, but the beautiful Sarah Lancaster is battling her own demons. Sarah is not only dealing with her eccentric mother, but her employer's unwanted amorous advances and the ...

A wonderful trio of short bedtime stories for unicorn lovers and dreamers: Gus, The Flood, and The Unicorn King.

No phones…no running water…no electricity… As the float plane flew away… Leaving me stranded with a total stranger…In the middle of nowhere…I thought… Shit! What am I doing out here? It was my job…ten days in and four days out…sometimes. It was 1980. I was a city kid who wanted to save the whales, the trees, basically, the world. There was a boy with one leg running across the country. I had no idea what I was getting into when I went to work as a timber cruiser working on remote fly-ins in northern Ontario. Horny moose, ball lightning, way too friendly skunks, bears, ...

It is a comedy of errors when two bumbling kidnappers kidnap the wrong women in this sequel to The Silver Spurs Home for Aging Cowgirls. Will they get what’s coming to them or will they find out messing with a felon’s fiancée and fiery mistress is more trouble than it is worth? Throw in four rascally seniors, a donkey race, an irate felon, a double dealing coyote, and a run for the border with a cool three million in the back of a pickup truck, and you’ve got a roller coaster ride of laughs and adventures. Haven’t read the first book? Don’t worry, you can read this story as a ...

Linda desperately wants a new barrel racing horse and talks her father into taking her to the local livestock auction in the hopes of finding one there, but when she sets eyes on the beautiful, and very pregnant, palomino filly named Easter, all dreams of barrel racing fly out the window. All too quickly Doc Martin becomes a regular visitor to the McCloud family farm, leaving Linda's father to wonder just what he'd done. When Mother Nature enters into the mix, hope comes in an unlikely form.

This collection includes a trio of holiday stories for the horse lovers in the family: One Frosty Christmas, The Great Pumpkin Ride, and A Filly Called Easter.

When a visit by the three little pigs the day before Christmas leaves the reindeer with the swine flu, it is up to Jessie and Gus to convince Gus' father, the unicorn king, to help save Christmas, especially when doing so means breaking one of the unicorn's most sacred laws.

Gus the Unicorn takes young Jessie on an adventure to meet Father Time inside the Great Veil and Noah just moments before the Great Flood. Jessie learns what happened to the unicorns and why we don't see them in the world today.

Young Jessie Farrell is always being left behind. When she gets lost in a corn maze on Halloween Eve, she is befriended by a unicorn named Gus who takes her on an adventure to meet the Spirit Bear who guards the pumpkin patch from a pumpkin-stealing rat.

This politically incorrect laugh-out-loud tale will leave you wondering just what your grandmother is up to when you aren’t around. It starts off slow as you get to meet the Montana family, and then all hell breaks loose when the ladies arrive. If you loved the movies Blazing Saddles or Weekend at Bernie's, you'll love this tale. Stay tuned for more adventures with this crazy gang. Thanks to fan requests, the series will continue in 2021!