Brett is contemplating his upcoming sixty-fifth birthday when his life is suddenly ended in a horrific car accident. As he begins the transition from Earth to the afterlife, Brett receives a visit from his English spirit guide. When Ashley presents him with a choice to either stay in the hereafter or return to Earth, Brett must make an agonizing decision without knowing what awaits him. Brett, who was adopted at birth, chooses to return for one reason: he wants to find the biological family he never knew. With help from his spirit guide and records, Brett locates a living set of twin siblings and learns why his mother gave him up for adoption. When his DNA results mysteriously lead him to a different biological sister, he soon discovers she is dying and has no contact with the twins. Determined to solve the DNA mystery, he reaches out to her. Unfortunately he is about to make an even more alarming discovery—someone wants him dead. But why? In this exciting tale, a man cheats death to search for the biological family he never knew and soon discovers that someone is out to kill him.

Emily was a happy, bubbly little girl until events took a tragic turn one summer night in Galveston, Texas. Suddenly her mother and sister are dead and Emily is left dying in the swamp while the murderer calmly drives away. Emily’s life is spared when she is found and rushed to hospital with critical head injuries. The killer is tracked down, tried, and convicted. In the months to come Emily appears to recover fully, but there remains a deeper, unhealed injury. Emily and her father settle back into a comfortable life before fate strikes another sudden blow and Emily is left alone. Sorting through the personal effects of her father she discovers his darker side. She learns from a diary that he had plotted a bitter revenge against the murderer and his family. Emily makes a solemn vow and retrieves the gauntlet her father dropped. As a series of unfortunate deaths begin to occur in the convicted man’s family who could have suspected that they were being committed by such a young, charming, and educated woman? Even if they suspected they would never catch her — but things are not at all what they seem.

Felix Oddessa is a dark man with an even darker past. He longs for the future that was brutally taken from him. As he starts to think that the ghosts of the past are always there and the curse that has tainted his blood will remain forever; until, he meets Julia Feindish a woman on a mission to find her sister that was taken from her two years ago. Is he willing to give up everything to help her and open the doors to his heart and his home? Julia Feindish has come to New Orleans, looking for her sister that went missing at Mardi gras two years ago. She meets an old friend that shows her the darker side of the city. He introduces her to some of his friends who band together to help her find her sister, but is she willing to find more and walk into the doors of the dark mans' home?

While teaching on a swanky cruise, wordsmith Jaine Austen soon discovers that her all-expenses-paid trip to the Mexican Riviera comes with a high price when she is faced with blackmail, a sleazy British dancer, eccentric passengers, and murder.

Emily has a joke for you: What's deliciously satisfying and best served cold? _ Revenge! Our poor, unsuspecting readers will be subjected to an education in the fine art of revenge from the mini queen of mischief, Emily. But for now she'd prefer to be referred to as "Her Royal Revengenator," okay? Anyway, this issue also contains the third chapter in the ongoing serial "Dead Cat Walking," an all-new guest artist, and lots and lots of vicious, vengeful revenge.