Rearranging your cheating boyfriend's family jewels isn't a crime-unless your boyfriend is an Arizona state senator and he happens to have a bullet in his chest.Caught at the scene of the crime, Maggie Mae Castro is the only suspect, and the only one who saw the senator's real killer-the skank ho he was cheating on her with.FBI Special Agent Clive Poole has been shadowing the senator's every move for nearly a year. He's wanted Maggie from afar and...

Birdie has a new pet-that no one else can see! Birdie Mae Hayes is getting a handle on her new gift: her ability to sense and see things before they happen. Then, one morning, a fluffy white cat appears at her window, making himself at home. Cute! She names him Henry. Only . . . no one else can see this cat. Just Birdie. Here we go again! Even Grandma Mae doesn't know why Henry the cat is there. But he keeps showing up, and he seems to know things...

Mae's older sister Abbie ran away from home eight years ago. Long enough that Mae has gotten on with her life, and come to terms with being her aging father's only family. So when Abbie reappears one night, wearing an outlandish outfit complete with golden axes at each hip, and explaining that she's been living on another world--where she was queen of a species of talking cats--Mae is sure her sister's lost her mind. That is, until strange and menacing...

Mae, Abbie, and Kvido have nearly escaped death countless times, but that won't stop them from taking on the Zemětřasi to rescue their father. When they stumble across Petra Stoneheart, an old friend of Abbie's, Mae starts to learn more about the unfamiliar fantasy world she's followed Abbie through and about the sister she's been separated from for years. |Continuing their quest to save their father, Mae and Abbie stumble across Petra Stoneheart,...

Still no closer to finding her father and now hurt over her separation from Abbie, Mae finds herself on her own for the first time since arriving in Cimrterén. After finding new friend Drydon, they start a booming business selling Mae's "inventions." Skateboards, yo-yos, ice cream, and popcorn-totally unfamiliar in this new world-prove to be hot commodities. Once Mae's reputation of master inventor begins to spread, her new boss (a.k.a. her kidnapper)...

Mae is preparing for her wedding to Sheriff Ben Bradley, tending to her pregnant dog, and scouting locations for the movie featuring the music of her former fiance, Noah West. Just as filming is about to begin, a man is shot on the set.

Sophie Mae, an orphan living on her family farm in Drycrop, Oklahoma, is barely surviving the dust bowl of 1935. On the verge of starvation, she stumbles across a traveling box that transports her to the Gardenia Estate, a vast property in Evenland, Minnesota, surrounded by lush gardens and plentiful food. A closer inspection of the home reveals invisible people who maintain the estate, one being a circus magician named George the Great. The enchanted...

"April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). When they are rushing to get ready for book club, they use their individual talents to get back on track."--