It's a story as old as time--or at least ten minutes. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy loses job. Boy loses car. Boy loses mind and writes an awful novel about wizards and talking eyes. It's tragic, really...

Maggie Lennon's summer teaching break has just begun when she learns her sister, Rhoda, has suffered a debilitating injury. Maggie races to the rural Florida town of Eugenia to help, but quickly realizes she has stepped into a literal and virtual swamp of dysfunction. It doesn't take long for Maggie to turn from altruist to cynic as she battles madness and deception at every turn. When a producer for a national television competition comes to Rhoda's church to vet the choir, Maggie's other sister, Cheryl, joins them to audition. Together, the three women encounter a host of quirky and questionable characters as they weave their way through chaos, ex-cons, and conspiracies. Will the dark swamp devour them, or will the Lennon sisters survive to seek sanity another day?

In 2002, the reclusive and legendary record producer Phil Spector gave his first interview in twenty-five years to Mick Brown. The day after it was published an actress named Lana Clarkson was shot dead in Spector's LA castle. This is Brown's odyssey into the strange life and times of Phil Spector. Beginning with that fateful meeting in Spector's home and going on to explore his colourful and extraordinary life and career, including the unfolding of the Clarkson case, this is one of the most bizarre and compelling stories in pop history.

More than half of the human race is dead because of the nuclear explosions in World War Three. Pain, death, and hopelessness rule the world and crush the people left to scramble for survival. These survivors pray for an end to their suffering. Finally, their prayers are answered. Rising amid the chaos and destruction are the immortal twins, taught to survive and trained for one purpose. Three thousand years of life has taught them how to end the suffering, how to bring hope back to the world. To end the suffering, they must fight against one of their own. A tyrant who wants to rule the city with an iron fist, oppressing the people further and leaving them with no hope. The twins begin the fight alongside others like themselves so they can bring peace to the war-ravaged world. The battle they begin is one that forces them to face hardships they have never seen before in their long lives. This very battle could rip them apart at the seams. Can they restore peace to a world destroyed by its own people, or will they lose each other forever