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The green man

2012
Spending the summer with her antiques store-owner aunt, who has recently suffered a heart attack, Ophelia lends assistance in her once fiercely independent aunt's neglected home and store before discovering long-buried family secrets.

Revenge of the homecoming queen

2007
When beautiful, popular, and seemingly-perfect high school senior Aspen Brooks loses out to her rival for homecoming queen, it is only the beginning of a series of strange events including thefts, kidnappings, and Aspen falling for the unfashionable but endearing Rand Bachrach.

Watcher

2009
When a man resembling the father who abandoned him appears in his Toronto neighborhood, curiosity leads Porter to re-examine the past.

The Mayan mission

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2006
Alexa and Jose reunite at the ruins of an ancient Mayan temple and discover a sinister plot to sell priceless Mayan artifacts to the highest bidder that pulls them into a dangerous jungle adventure.

The falconer's knot

a story of friars, flirtation and foul play
2007
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

Death at Deacon Pond

2006
Kerri Langston, having always tried to suppress her psychic vision, realizes the talent might be put to good use in discovering who killed a victim whose body she stumbled across in the woods near Deacon Pond, but what her perception fails to tell her is that she is being stalked by someone who does not want the truth revealed.

Agent out

Fearless FBI #3
2006
Gaia Moore, the girl born without fear, is an FBI agent who searches for her kidnapped partner without the approval of the FBI.

Sam

Fearless #2
2002
Gaia, the fearless teenage daughter of an anti-terrorist agent, finds that someone wants her dead and is ready to make it happen--but Gaia wants to do one thing before she dies: have sex with Sam. If only he didn't have a girlfriend.

Rebel

Fearless #7
2002
Teenage Gaia, born without the fear gene, gets herself into more and more danger when she consistently chooses "dare" in a game of Truth or Dare with Ed and Mary, who hope the game will tell them some about Gaia's mysterious past.

Payback

Fearless #6
2002
Teenage Gaia, born without the fear gene, is unsure about Sam's feelings after their encounter in his dorm room, and when Mary is attacked and almost raped, Gaia's fearlessness becomes an asset.

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