Barbara Patrick

Author Nell Phillips’ first book has become a surprise best-seller of the Christmas season. Nell’s last stop on a nationwide book tour takes her to the town of Springdale, the hometown of Emmett Turner, a young man she met over five years ago while both were junior copy editors at a New York publishing company. Nell was hurt when Emmett stood her up for a dinner date and then disappeared from New York without any explanation. As Nell is quick to admit, Emmett’s colorful, nostalgic anecdotes about Springdale inspired her to write this book that is shaping her life and especially this holiday season.

Space miners sent to stop a moon's collision course with the earth discover a hibernating creature that soon revives and starts slaughtering the mining crew.

환상가인 닉스는 수제자인 스완을 무척이나 신뢰하며 자신의 모든 능력을 전수해 함께 세상을 자신의 손아귀에 넣으려 하나 스완은 그런 그의 뜻에 동조하지 않는다. 결국 스완의 마음을 돌리려 닉스는 한 소녀를 납치하고 이를 찾으러 온 스완과 친구들은 닉스와 대결을 벌인다. 전혀 상대가 되어 보이지 않던 순간 소녀가 닉스에게 총을 쏘고, 스완은 친구들과 닉스를 단단히 봉해 땅속 깊은 곳에 묻어버린다. 그리고 13년 후... 유능한 사립탐정 해리 다모어는 보험사기사건을 해결하러 로스앤젤레스에 온다. 휴양 삼아 느긋한 마음으로 범인을 쫓고 있던 다모어는 점성술사의 집에서 온몸에 칼이 꽂힌 채 고문당하는 흑인 남자를 발견한다. 퓨리탄과 닉스란 이름을 들먹이며 흑인남자를 괴롭히던 괴한들은 유리파편이 몸에 박히고 높은 건물에서 떨어져도 끄덕 없다. 게다가 세계적인 마술사 필립 스완의 아내도로시아는 다모어에게 알 듯 모를 듯한 제안을 해오는데...

After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow agents Jimmy and Gene as they were transporting drug kingpin Raymond Manta out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Mistakenly told that his already murdered family is being held hostage, Jeff is forced to turn one-time courier for the White Hand, whose leaders are Manta and four others named Helmut Vitch, Milt Kowalski, Russ LaFleur, and Hansel Lee. After surviving a car-bombing in Las Vegas, Jeff learns the truth about his family being murdered, and he sets out to exterminate the White Hand cartel. Unofficially aided by an agent named Megan, whose mother was raped and murdered years ago, Jeff steals FBI files and begins his campaign of revenge on the White Hand cartel.

Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.

The year is 2021 AD. Women have been enslaved by a brutal army of men who survived the nuclear holocaust. Their only hope for freedom is in the hands of a nomadic band of fierce she-warriors: The Sisterhood.