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The setting is central Wisconsin during the Great Depression. Like most towns, the inhabitants of Chandlers Bend are hanging on, making due with what little they have, waiting for the day when prosperity returns. Once a hub of robust rail traffic, now it simply became an X on the map--the interlacement of two railroads, further split by a state highway. Those who stayed either lacked the good sense to leave or the resources to do so. Then one day a stranger arrived, like the arid wind of the Great Depression, and changed the town forever. Because, a town without tales ceases to survive.

Frank Fitzsimons, a literary agent, convicted of a crime he has no knowledge of - only its punishment - struggles to find purpose. His assigned mentor, Dasha Kozar, has invitingly warm lips and the cunning of a black window spider. Partnered out of edict, their function is to rework news for the governmental agency known as the Central Consortium within CanAmerica. A dystopian society formed when Canada was united with the United States after the Great Upheaval, it is governed under the premise that "Science is Truth".

The Wabele is a tale about twin boys, who unknowingly unleash evil into Door County, Wisconsin, while playing with a ritual mask from the secret Poro Society of West Africa. They become both target and bridge for an evil spirit, who sadistically assumes the persona of a clown, Mister Devlin. He is determined to seek revenge upon the Coast Guard lighthouse keeper and Door county for past wrongs.

Two hapless small-time crooks cross paths with a Milwaukee Mob boss leading them into a Victorian time-warp that has unforeseen consequences.

On October 12, 1967, British European Airlines Flight 284 left Athens, bound for Cyprus - it never arrived. Mysteriously destroyed, the British government did not explain why, only saying it was due to sabotage. Despite pleas from family members of the victims for more information, the British government sealed the records until 2040.

A former Jesuit novitiate turned New York City detective, Mike Martel, receives a late-night assignment to investigate the murder of an investment broker killed during a Zoom dinner meeting. The group, formed during their high school years, called itself The Lucky Seven. As the pandemic winds down the group has their final meeting. Now successful and prominent in their professions, include an artist, a concert pianist, a college coach, an architect, a chemist, and a mystery writer, each claiming air-tight alibis, yet a killer is among their number.