After losing her fiancé to mysterious and untimely death, a grief-stricken woman refuses to accept a world without him. She performs a forbidden wedding ritual, binding herself halfway between life and death, and summons a psychopomp to serve as her guide. In exchange for a chance to see her beloved again in Arcadia, a serene, pastoral afterlife, she must escort wandering souls to their final rest.

Ever since Sarah was eight years old, she has seen the eyes in pictures blinking at her. As she gets older, the frequency of these sightings increases. She spends years trying to understand why.

A group of workers want to quit their morally terrifying job and escape their scary boss to avoid possibly ruining the few remnants of their normal lives. 

Noemie wants to find a way get her obsessive boss to let her go, along with the other coworkers who want to leave. Unfortunately, that means either, negotiating, or killing the professional killer. 

When Nadia agreed (was coerced) into this speed dating thing, she had thought that it would just be another wasted afternoon away from her laptop, a brief distraction from her deadlines.

A private investigator is forced to investigate the murder of someone he helped get to drug rehab and make something of himself. His investigation leads him to two candidates for mayor, an oil company, a computer tech company, and veterans of the Gulf War.

Two police detectives investigate a murder at a pawn shop.

Mark Culpepper works at Southwestern City College as a tutor. One of his clients graduated but is brutally gunned down in front of his friends and family in the front lawn of their home. Now he becomes a target, and the alleged gunmen are the sons of the owner of a company that makes drones, Terence Rosenbloom, a known racist. Why is he the next target, and is Rosenbloom himself involved?

Theodore Scultz works for a computer retail store. He has been asked to install a computer system that runs the bank's security system. Just as he finished installing the system, bank robbers come in and not only rob the bank, but they take Theo and his female friend hostage.. How will the two of them be able to escape?

Kendall Jacobson was a former NFL running back and former pro-wrestler. Now he has joined the American Secret Intelligence Organization. His mission: prevent a former Army lieutenant, who was a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, from using a war game to take over the world.

There was something, however, that was telling him death wouldn’t be the worst fate in that lake. The light of it all, the eeriness that place held, it was strange. Hostage to his own confusion, he glanced around. The flapping had to come from someplace near, he could hear it as if it were right beside him.