In the underbelly of the City of Splendors, a lone vigilante is sworn to rid Waterdeep of its most nefarious citizens Watchman by day, vigilante by night, Shadowbane keeps to himself as he surveys the labyrinth beneath the city of Waterdeep. It is his duty to ensure safety and order in his city, and he knows all of Waterdeep’s secrets. However, when a young woman—frightened and fleeing from unknown danger, with no idea of the hidden powers she possesses—arrives in the city, Shadowbane uncovers a secret plot, previously shielded even from his watchful eyes. When his friends start dying and the girl is kidnapped, Shadowbane must choose between the darkness and the light in his heart: to avenge the deaths of his friends, or to let the villain live to face—and possibly escape—justice. Downshadow is the third book in a series of standalone novels set in Waterdeep and the first book in the Shadowbane series.

The naked body of a young woman is found hanging from a tree on a London roadside. Scrawled across her back are the words "DIRTY GIRL." Detective Stella Mooney is faced with a murder as baffling as it is chilling. With no means to identify the victim and no apparent motive, the case is blocked, until a man is found on a bench by the river, his throat cut back to the vertebrae. And, as before, the killer has left a trademark comment: "FILTHY COWARD." Stella and her team can see there's a connection--but what? One victim is a young girl, maybe one of the hookers who work the Strip; the other, a researcher for a prominent and controversial member of Parliament. More evidence is needed. And soon enough it comes: another death; another message....

Power grid collapses. The economy nosedives. Ruthlessness rules. Will Major, Aimee Louise, his granddaughter, and Deputy Stuart succeed in their struggle to protect the families who have banded together? The cost of failure is death. Danger in the Clouds, Book 1 When the power grid collapses after a cyberattack, only Major can stop the conspiracy to overthrow the US government. The price of failure is death. Danger in the Wind, Book 2 Major sets a trap for a human trafficking ringleader. His nemesis plans to ambush Major. If Major’s trap fails, he dies. Danger on the Road, Book 3 Stuart, Aimee Louise, and Rosalie are on the road to pick up the badly injured FBI team that was ambushed. The desperate gang leader moves in for the kill.

Sometimes the only thing you can count on is change. Nothing’s been the same since Sara’s father died a year ago. Her brother Jon who used to be fun is turning into a bossy, boring grown-up who tries to act like he’s her dad. She’s got the worst teacher in sixth grade. Millie her best friend is not in her class. Awful Adam Quigley is! That means, he’ll chase and torment her for another year. Could it get any worse? Yes! Worst of all, her mom is dating Adam’s father, Dr. Quigley, their new dentist. Barbecues and baseball games with Adam and his family especially his sister Laurel are hardly Sara’s idea of fun. She’s got to stop her mother’s romance. Will Sara go through with her plans? Or will she find the Courage to accept the changes in her life?

The Avatars in Seattle stumble upon the journals of past Avatars, and Parker starts reading the story of Rapunzel in her own words. After spending half her life imprisoned by the dark witch, Dame Gothel, Rapunzel has vowed to hunt her down so that she can cause no more harm to the innocents of the world. In her hunt, she stumbles upon the most unlikely of companions. A young house maid, Evelyn, who turns Rapunzel's life upside down by taking over her tower and her heart. Together they must hunt down the most vile black magic practitioner of their time.

Part Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow investigates a shocking web of drugs, murder, and smuggling in this gorgeously–written seventh installment in she Shamus–nominated series. Part Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow hasn't shed the sense of Koyanisquaatsi––the Hopi word for World Out of Balance, or, for Laura, the feeling that society is falling down. She's just been offered another hacker job by an anonymous client, work that would be illegal and probably unethical; her romance with policeman Nathan Brittles has lately been rocky; and her daughter has just come home with a baby, and won't tell who the father is. But soon a woman named Mary Emich, director of park events at Tohono Chul Park hires Laura, revealing that strange messages have been turning up on the park's computers––signals that something may be very wrong in the usually tranquil area. Laura's desperate need for friendship pulls her to Mary Emich––and soon deep into a case that throws her already–rocky world even more off kilter. For a dark force has entered Tohono Chul: a crime cartel that masks itself as the village and park's protector is in fact involving a hopeless town in drugs, and even worse, people smuggling across the Mexican border. And amidst a backdrop of desperation, broken trust, and murder, Laura must question even those to whom she's become close, attempting to stop a criminal enterprise that threatens to destroy an entire people.

Once Ed Buck, sports reporter, and Adam Benson, star quarterback for the Chicago Bears, played football on the same college team. Years later, they are still close friends. In New York for a game against the Giants, Benson hands Buck the biggest story of his career. Gambling on football is one of the country's leading "industries," and the mob's been forcing Benson to throw games. The quarterback has had enough. Sunday, he tells Buck, he's playing to win, and to hell with the mob. After the game, Buck can run with the story. Adam Benson never makes it off the field alive, and Ed Buck suspects his friend was murdered. Buck knows barely enough to convince a police detective to look into Benson's death--but more than enough to set the mob on his tail. As Lt. Gerry Keegan probes the tangled connections between the dead quarterback and the head of an organized crime family, uncovering drug dealing, murder, blackmail, prostitution, and double- and triple-crosses, Ed Buck and his fiancee run for their lives. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The creator of the Forgotten Realms leads readers through a rollicking fantasy adventure and murder mystery set in the city of Waterdeep Revealed in death to have been Masked Lords, three more citizens had been murdered over the preceding day and night: the Sembian wine-seller and collector Oszbur Malankar; the half-elf sorceress and artisan Dathanscza Meiril; and the moneylender, landlord, and investor Ammasker Gwelt. All of Waterdeep now knew someone was killing the Lords of Waterdeep, one by one. Yet that was about where truth ended and speculation—however plausible—began. The broadsheets were full of wild conjecture. Who's behind this? The ousted Lord Neverember? The Zhentarim, the Cult of the Dragon or some other Outland Power? The Xanathar? Some cabal of guilds or nobles planning a coup? The rumors would rage on, whether the Open Lord Laeral Silverhand did something or not. That was the trouble with rumors; once loosed, they roamed free like snarling, untamed beasts, with no simple way of stopping them. And all rumors aside, Waterdeep has become . . . a City of Murderers. Death Masks is loosely connected to the Elminster series and Sage of Shadowdale series.

A World of Others: A Fantasy By: Aaron Wickstrom and Sandor Czekus When Mayflower the fairy’s traveling companion, an aging wizard, passes away and gifts his powers to her, she finds herself alone on her quest to rid the world of impending darkness with a surge of new abilities she doesn’t understand. As she bravely continues on her journey, Mayflower encounters many new creatures of varying races and species—friends and foes alike. Can she and her new allies stop the darkness from spreading?

Sergeant Edgar Brighton awakens to find an unfamiliar woman staring back at him. As the woman begins to blindfold him, Edgar realizes he's an Eagle Down behind enemy lines.