Fifteen-year-old SUMMER DARLING and her grandmother have left their home in southern California to fly to the rugged coast of northern Spain, following a crypticnote and pages from a forty-year-old travel diary neither knew existed. The answers to a family mystery, Grandma Pat is now certain, lie along the ancient pilgrimage trail called the Camino de Santiago.

To be honest, Summer isn’t all that interested in the journal. She’s learned the hard way to view family with suspicion and keep outsiders at arm’s length. But Summer will do anything for Grandma Pat, and so she hefts a backpack and sets out for a walk of more than 500 miles.

When tragedy strikes, though, Summer has to make a choice. Can she continue the journey alone, trekking across a country she knows almost nothing about? And will the answers she finds on the journal pages fill the aching, lonely hole in her own heart?

As she explores the sunny beaches of the Camino del Norte and the wide-open spaces of the Camino Francés, Summer will discover friends in the most unexpected places, beauty on the most difficult days, and more than a little “Camino magic.”

Fifteen-year-old SUMMER DARLING and her grandmother have left their home in southern California to fly to the rugged coast of northern Spain, following a crypticnote and pages from a forty-year-old travel diary neither knew existed. The answers to a family mystery, Grandma Pat is now certain, lie along the ancient pilgrimage trail called the Camino de Santiago.

To be honest, Summer isn’t all that interested in the journal. She’s learned the hard way to view family with suspicion and keep outsiders at arm’s length. But Summer will do anything for Grandma Pat, and so she hefts a backpack and sets out for a walk of more than 500 miles.

When tragedy strikes, though, Summer has to make a choice. Can she continue the journey alone, trekking across a country she knows almost nothing about? And will the answers she finds on the journal pages fill the aching, lonely hole in her own heart?

As she explores the sunny beaches of the Camino del Norte and the wide-open spaces of the Camino Francés, Summer will discover friends in the most unexpected places, beauty on the most difficult days, and more than a little “Camino magic.”

In this gripping narrative, trucker Ted navigates a precarious encounter with old acquaintances, a sheriff's deputy, and a duo of desperate criminals. As his trucking route takes a perilous detour, Ted must rely on his faith and wits to survive. The story unfolds in a gritty New Mexico diner and the isolated desert, painting a vivid picture of life on the road and the unexpected challenges it brings.

During a train commute, BRENT, a married suburbanite, found himself captivated by a foul-mouthed African-American woman as she talked, cursed, ranted, and muttered across their cosmopolitan landscape.

Weeks later, while once again waiting at a bar for the correct train, hoping to time a chance encounter, Brent confessed to a bartender, STAN, his irrational attraction to the stunning, blasphemous creature.

Did Brent tell all? Did Stan give worthy advice? Would Brent see the woman again? And what about Brent’s poor wife?

Bodie is single. He drafts personal ads one after another, not finding the words. He casts his intentions to the universe. A shiny car parks near him. Out steps a supermodel.

Over coffee, and from their respective tables, she talks Bodie into riding along on an errand she must run. At a ‘spooky’ mansion in the Heights, Bodie witnesses her take something.

When the woman's boyfriend wants it back, Bodie’s day goes from a happy Saturday off to a high-speed run for his live. The beautiful woman his pilot.

Even though marijuana is now legal in California, illegal patches thrive in the hills of the state. And there is competition, even feuds among their growers. Why would they not be legal, you might ask? Regulations have proven challenging to work within, and—more commonly—these folks have been tending crops for generations and know no other life. Our tale, Thunder in the Mayacamas Range, shows us the fallout during one night when two factions go to battle during a thunderstorm. Who will survive, and who will have to live with the consequences?

Blake, a Toledo, Ohio, based hitman — who doesn’t kill people — stealthily returns home after a recent job in the Bahamas?

Next day, while listening on the other end of the phone line, an old acquaintance kills Carver, Blake’s long-time friend and manager, then says he’s coming after Blake. What will the contractor do, how will he save his girlfriend Ronnie, and can they escape from Holder, the un-remorseful killer.

To make things worse, a lake-effect snow storm is blanketing the city. Blake has a stable of cars to choose from; he picks the Audi Quattro, a powerful, all-wheel-drive sedan.

Following the death of his friend, Blake’s immediate concern is Ronnie. However, Blake has prepared her for this day. He swings by his hideout-slash-home, follows his safety procedures to the max, and picks up Ronnie for their high-speed run from the city.

Will Blake, the unconventional hitman, have enough favors due to him around town to help he and Ronnie out of this terrible jam? How will he deal with Holder in the end?

Eleni is the eldest of eight children. She inherited the family apartment in Little Italy. She needs her husband of six months, Robert, to understand why she doesn't want to have children, ever.

When Eleni tells Robert about the evils her youngest brother, Daniel, has brought to the neighborhood and her family since he was a toddler, she can only hope that he will understand.

What horrible things could Daniel have possibly done to make Eleni fear raising her own children?

Two friends with storm chasing on their bucket lists rendezvous in Oklahoma. They spend a week with professional storm chasers and their other clients. The group encounters zero storms, eat crappy food, and drink bad coffee. But when the two friends rent a car for the long drive to Oklahoma City to fly home, all hell breaks loose and demon twisters chase the two men across the American landscape.

Bobby is training for his first ultra-marathon. When he spots something during a run well out of town, something not his, something of incredible value, he keeps his discovery a secret, even from his wife. A mysterious car accident and its dead driver suggests to Bobby that he should keep what he had found. Then some thugs come to town and Bobby’s world gets turned upside down.

Gemma meets the other woman, who cries on her doorstep. Gemma ends up consoling the woman, while she hatches a plan to make her cheating husband suffer and then leave him. Things don't go as planned. Gemma makes a mistake. Her husband, Darren, sees what she has done. He disables her pickup and comes for her. She runs into the night, Darren brandishing a gun and chasing her with his car. Gemma hopes she can outsmart him.

Somewhere out in those distant hills, an uncharted passage into Mother Earth: Moonlight penetrates the dark. Droplets splash in distant pools. Rats scurry. The gray light weak, foreboding, hangs in suspension like bundled out-of-focus strands of shimmering pearls. Musty, rank smells of rot and decay linger from an ancient past. Further into the rocky, gravel-strewn warren incongruent shapes; geometric, man-made forms. Wooden boxes once piled high, a random heap. A mottle of shimmering metallic colors glow through slender cracks in the dark wood. Every man’s dream of discovery.
A foolish dream—where dangers lay.