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Lynn Chandler Willis' Wink of an Eye is a strong addition to a long list of The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) Competition winners that includes Steve Hamilton and Michael Koryta. On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda's house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who is in need of Gypsy's services. Tatum wants to hire Gypsy to investigate his father Ryce's alleged suicide. His dad was a deputy with the Sheriff's department and was found hanged in their backyard. Tatum believes his father was murdered after he went inquiring after the disappearance of several teenage girls, all undocumented immigrants. Against his better judgment, Gypsy agrees to snoop around to see what he can find. Between dealing with his now married high school sweetheart, a sexy reporter, and hostile police officers, Gypsy has his work cut out for him.

Radiant in her white satin wedding gown, Patricia Blakley was living a dream come true. At last, she was marrying the man she loved, Ted Kimble—a fellow Christian and son of a local preacher. But little did she realize her new husband had a dark side. Shock waves rocked the small, North Carolina town of Pleasant Garden when Patricia's charred body was discovered inside the Kimble's burned-out home. Soon family and friends learned an even worse truth—Patricia had died from a bullet wound to the head. Now, in Unholy Covenant, North Carolina journalist Lynn Chandler-Willis uncovers the story behind the crime. Taking readers from the crime scene to the courtroom, she delivers a passionate account of a crime that forever changed the lives of many in the small North Carolina community.

In the bayous of Louisiana, Nicolette Renee Breaux is born into a cursed bloodline a mixture of darkness and light. Her mother, Michelle, exhausted from the life-threatening birth, does not realize then that Nikki will touch many and change much. But when Nikki is three years old and she predicts the death of a family friend, Michelle senses that her daughter is different and becomes afraid. After enduring a tumultuous childhood, Nikki flows through a lifetime of highs and lows, career changes, marriages, and jealousy, and she descends into a forbidden domain where suspicions mount and bodies fall. She pursues a sexually deviant lifestyle that is dangerous and erotic leading to an underground in which no desire is forbidden. A feisty young woman, Nikki has the penchant for developing only fatal-attraction relationships. Caught between truth and a cursed bloodline, she is confronted with a choice that will determine her destiny. Nikki comes face to face with a decision that forces her to see her own demons as well as an evil so strong she may not have the strength to endure.

A chronicle of the stormy personal and professional life of the legendary but underappreciated jazz pianist, composer, and arranger

Call of Cthulhu 7th edition, second printing

Call of Cthulhu is a tabletop roleplaying game based upon the worlds of H. P. Lovecraft. It is a game of secrets, mysteries, and horror. Playing the role of steadfast investigators, you travel to strange and dangerous places, uncover foul plots, and stand against the terrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. You encounter sanity-blasting entities, monsters, and insane cultists. Within strange and forgotten tomes of lore you discover revelations that man was not meant to know. You and your companions may very well decide the fate of the world.

"A roleplaying game based on the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft, in which ordinary people are confronted by the terrifying forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. To play, all you need are the book, some dice, and your friends"--P. [4] of cover.