Hautman, Pete

Ex-cop Joe Crow, unexpectedly finds himself drawn into the midst of a con man's scheme and must keep one-step ahead of a family friend bent on revenge, a group of cultists, counterfeiters, and a woman bodybuilder who wears her dead goldfish around her neck.

When Barbaraannette Quinn wins the lottery, she offers to pay one million dollars to anyone who can find her missing husband Bobby, and soon every loser and schemer in town is trying to find a way to take her money, including Bobby and his new girlfriend.

Peeky Kane, employed as a prop player at an Arizona casino owned by the Santa Cruz tribe, worries that she has crossed the line after winning a couple thousand dollars in a fixed game, but she finds herself with bigger trouble on her hands when she recognizes one of the crooks in a casino robbery, she learns her daughter has a drug problem, and the most powerful member of the tribe calls upon her to help save the business.

After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and, when he steps inside one, he is whisked away on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.

In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and three other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon from being flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a band of renegade Survivors.

Even though they are complete opposites, seventeen-year-old outcast Doug Hanson and football star Andy Morrow are best friends who share a secret that bonds them together.

Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate.

Sixteen-year-old Denn finds himself alienating both friends and family when he becomes obsessed with playing high-stakes poker with adult gamblers.

After his dying grandfather tries to strangle him, Jack Lund discovers a door that leads him fifty years into the past and involves him in events that determine his own future.

After his clothing store and apartment go up in flames, Nick Fashon finds himself homeless and accused of arson, but his luck seems to change when he inherits a pet-coffin business from his late grandfather along with a variety of bizarre inventions the old man had created.