Chad is thrilled to take care of Miss Beane's dog, Benson, while she's in the hospital. But Chad and his friend Jeannie get more than they bargained for when they hear footsteps in Miss Beane's house and find it ransacked. They take the investigation into their own hands -- but what they find out could be shocking!

Becs is a sassy 12-year-old drama queen who strikes a bargain with her mother. She'll spend a few months away from home while her new step-family renovates an elegant old house in the country. When it's sold, some of the money will pay her fees at the same private school that all her friends will be attending.

With help from a host of diverse characters ranging from a Catholic priest to a big, black dog, a 29-year-old widowed mother of one--and private investigator--eventually unravels the mystery of a prominent doctor's life and his untimely death.

Special Free Preview! A Fire Destroys . . . A Treasure Appears . . . A Crime Unfolds . . . When Saba Khan’s apartment burns in a mysterious fire, possibly a hate crime, her Chicago high school rallies around her. Her family moves rent-free into a luxury apartment, Saba’s Facebook page explodes, and she starts (secretly) dating a popular boy. Then a quirky piece of art donated to a school fund-raising effort for the Khans is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Saba’s life turns upside down again. Should Saba’s family have all that money? Or should it go to the students who found the art? Or to the school? And just what caused that fire? Greed, jealousy, and suspicion create an increasingly tangled web as students and teachers alike debate who should get the money and begin to point fingers and make accusations. The true story of the fire that sets events in motion and what happens afterward gradually comes together in an innovative narrative made up of journal entries, interviews, articles, letters, text messages, and other documents.

"A friendship forged under a cloud of deceit, turns into a nightmare from hell! One friend was incarcerated, another friend was stabbed; leaving another friend and the courts, trying to figure out the truth behind it all! I heard the noise again, so I turned my head to see where the sounds were coming from. But my desire to solve that problem became infinitesimal to the figure standing in my bedroom doorway! I begin to panic and I tried to shout, but nothing came out. So, I turned my head away then back toward the door, but my attempt to fool myself was quickly put down; once my eyes came into focus, and the figure was still standing in my doorway! ""In a place where truth hides its face and finding it is part of the race. Those that think they know the truth; will tell, but those that know the truth; are lying!""

New York Collapse is an in-world fictionalized companion to one of the biggest video game releases of 2016: Tom Clancy's The Division from Ubisoft. Within this discarded survivalist field guide, written before the collapse, lies a mystery—a handwritten account of a woman struggling to discover why New York City fell. The keys to unlocking the survivor's full story are hidden within seven removable artifacts, ranging from a full-city map to a used transit card. Retrace her steps through a destroyed urban landscape and decipher her clues to reveal the key secrets at the heart of this highly anticipated game.

Julian and Annabella Rivera have been married for three years. To anybody who knows them they are the perfect couple; happily in love and made for each other, but Annabella has been keeping a secret. A secret she wants to keep from everybody, especially her husband. When Julian, a FBI Investigative Specialist, begins working late nights, receiving mysterious phone calls and cryptic messages, Annabella worries she may not be the only one keeping secrets. With her husband's sudden change in behavior, the feeling that she's being watched and the unexpected arrival of someone from her past, Annabella decides she needs to do some investigating of her own. When secrets begin to emerge, will she be able to handle them? Will she be able to finally confide in someone about what happened all those years ago? Or will the ugly truth be too much to handle?