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Photographer Eddie Drake had expected a challenge when he joined the archaeological expedition to the lost city of El Lobo, but he was unprepared for the bizarre terrors that lurked beneath the Mexican mesa.

Charlie Ridgway is a former US Army officer turned resort bartender on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Ridgway is bored by the seeming lack of intellectual and creative pursuits in the dream vacation community. One night at the bar, he and fellow bartender Bill Hersey meet Clarissa Daniels. As Ridgway flirts with the former B-movie actress, a young thief attempts to rob the bar's cash register. Ridgway chases him across the resort and fights him, holding his own because of his army training, but the hoodlum is similarly skilled and escapes.

Basil Stark isn’t the man he once was. A reformed pirate and private detective, he walks the line between criminal and hero, living in the corners of what was once the island of Neverland, its magic slowly fading into the new world of the 1950s. But when a routine missing-persons case turns into a murder investigation, Basil finds himself pulled into a tale of organized crime, murder, unstitched shadows and dangerous espionage. With only a handful of fellow outcasts and a stubborn determination to bring a killer to justice, will he survive the many people who want him dead?

Elon, 37, alone, hungry, and desperate to hear just another voice, is determined to discover what is next for a world sunken and on fire. When Elon discovers a hidden retreat deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, he soon finds himself on the verge of regeneration, as a pack of loners band together amidst a society turned hostile and an environment turned violent. No longer must he travel alone with his shopping cart, his jug of gasoline, and rotten crabapples. Now, he has the chance to rediscover friendship and intimacy.

Out of guilt over having to take the life of his lifelong friend, Tom Elliot, Michael Gully bought his distressed house to restore it back to its original state. During his stay, he hears the howls and growls of werewolves the same way his friend had. Visitations from people from past centuries convince Michael there is an infestation of werewolves. Perhaps Tom had been right: Were werewolves on the loose?

Everyone wants Charley Ridgway to take some time off. Sure, he’s a bartender in Maui’s popular Ka’anapali resort area, but the stress is getting to him. His friend and manager Nelson recently opened his own place in Lahaina Town, and Charley is clashing with the new boss he’s been given. Add to that a visit from BJ, Charley’s beautiful former army buddy who arrives with dark secrets of her own, and the mysterious disappearance of his liquor investigator friend Ron.

HIS BEST BUDDY IS KILLED IN ACTION and Charley Ridgway has only the man’s knife to remind him of their friendship. Now the knife has been stolen by a beautiful young woman connected to a violent murder, and the former soldier wants the weapon back. Hot on the trail of the thief, Charley’s die-hard principles propel him through underworld intrigues, police troubles, and into the arms of the girl’s seductive mother.

Someone had axed Fred Hunter, The Trib's resident muckraker, and his whole family. And I was suspect #1. I'm Dan Warden, newly deposed police chief of Oregon City. It was one of Fred's columns that led to my resignation in scandal. The prosecutor needed a trophy for the next election and my head was his prize.