Isaku never asked to be the daughter of a yakuza boss, but when her parents died in a car accident when she was 5, her gangster grandfather took her in and raised her as part of the clan. After years of being avoided by her schoolmates because of her family ties, Isaku is finally ready to make her high-school debut, live a normal life, and maybe even find love...until loyal family servant and Isaku's dedicated guardian, 26-year-old Keiya, enters high school right alongside her and vows to protect her from all of the above! Now she's got a chain-smoking, pistol-wielding knight-in-shining(?)-armor to deal with, and navigating high school besides? What's a young lady to do?!

Isaku Senagaki is the granddaughter of a family of gangsters, with an overprotective guard dog: Keiya Uto, a first lieutenant who fabricates his age to enroll in high school along with Isaku to protect her from venomous insects - men. Isaku has always thought Keiya treats her like a child, but lately, he's been acting different. She begins to wonder: "Does he actually have feelings for me...?!" Can she really be with such a dangerous man? Wanting to confirm her feelings, Isaku takes action! Could their tantalizingly ambiguous relationship finally be changing?!

What happens when a girl tries to steal a dog -- but the dog steals her heart instead? I made my birthday vow: I would get Willis out of jail, no matter what. When Bean's brother gets arrested for joyriding in a stolen car, Bean is devastated. She's determined to get him out of jail by raising the bail their mom can't afford. She tries everything, from applying for summer jobs, to offering to paint summer mansions. It's at one of those old mansions that she meets a young girl named Phoebe and her giant (and very valuable) guard dog, Honey. Bean quickly hatches her plan: She'll convince Phoebe to sell Honey and let her use some of the cash for bail. But when Honey's sale takes a dangerous turn, Bean is torn between her desire for her brother's freedom and her loyalty to Phoebe and sweet, drooly, affectionate Honey. Can Bean fight for her family without betraying her new friends?

The princess in a family of gangsters... Deadbeats mustn't come near Isaku... and first lieutenant Keiya (26) fabricates his age to enroll in high school right along with her?!?! Telling her she's "too young for relationships," Isaku's guard dog accompanies her to school every day!! Keiya is bound and determined to keep all men from getting too close to her. But, little does Keiya know he is the one she wants... Keiya has always treated Isaku like a child. Yet, he asks for permission to kiss her as a "treat" if he can pass a supplemental test??! "Don't make it sound like there's hope." (Stupid moron.) Sweet with a twinge... Volume 2 of a romantic comedy where age and personal differences collide has arrived!

The princess in a family of gangsters, Isaku Senagaki… And the overprotective first lieutenant who fabricates his age to enroll in high school along with her to protect Isaku from venomous insects (men), Keiya Uto. Isaku is torn between her desire to live a normal life and the appeal of living on the edge with Keiya…! Meanwhile, the grandson of a different gangster, Mikio Tanuki has been tailing them left and right. What could he be planning?! The culture festival is finally here!! Will class 1-3’s rendition of Romeo and Juliet go off without a hitch?!

The princess in a family of gangsters, Isaku Senagaki... And the overprotective first lieutenant who fabricates his age to enroll in high school along with her to protect Isaku from venomous insects (men), Keiya Uto. Keiya is Isaku's first love... But, he still has no idea! All he does is treat her like a child... Enter Mikio Tanuki, a boy Isaku's age who also grew up as part of a yakuza syndicate. "I wanna be friends with ya! ♪" Mikio claims, but what's this sense of foreboding in the air as the culture festival draws near?!

Isaku, a yakuza family princess, just wants to have a normal life, but her overprotective guardian, Keiya Uto, poses as a teenager to enroll at her high school and protect her from vile insects (men). However, he is the only Isaku has eyes for...! First, a school trip, and then summer vacation! ☆ With the two spending more time together than ever before, Isaku only wants to know what Keiya is really thinking!! Sweet and a sprinkling of sour... Volume 3 of a romantic comedy where age and personal differences clash has arrived!!

The first in the Half-Moon Hollow series is “wry, delicious fun” (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a librarian whose life is turned upside down by a tempestuous and sexy vampire. Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children’s librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed twenty-five dollars in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that’s sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she’s mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. And thanks to the mysterious stranger she met while chugging neon-colored cocktails, she wakes up with a decidedly unladylike thirst for blood. Jane is now the latest recipient of a gift basket from the Newly Undead Welcoming Committee, and her life-after-lifestyle is taking some getting used to. Her recently deceased favorite aunt is now her ghostly roommate. She has to fake breathing and endure daytime hours to avoid coming out of the coffin to her family. She’s forced to forgo her favorite down-home Southern cooking for bags of O negative. Her relationship with her sexy, mercurial vampire sire keeps running hot and cold. And if all that wasn’t enough, it looks like someone in Half Moon Hollow is trying to frame her for a series of vampire murders. What’s a nice undead girl to do?

BEKA COOPER IS a rookie with the Provost's Guard, and she's been assigned to the Lower City. It's a tough beat, but Beka can hear the voices of the dead on the wings of pigeons, and Beka's birds clue her in to two major murderers on the loose. The rest of the Guard is busy investigating the fire opal killer, so it's up to Beka to nab the Shadow Snake.Tamora Pierce begins a new Tortall trilogy introducing Beka Cooper, a young woman who lived 200 years before Pierce's popular Alanna character. Pierce employs first-person narration, bringing readers even closer to a character that they will love for her unusual talents and tough personality.

Lonely and shy, ten-year-old May Ellen Bird has no idea what awaits her when she falls into the lake and enters The Ever After, home of ghosts and the Bogey Man.