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Dallas, TX, 1930. Daiyu Wu refuses to be disadvantaged by her blindness. Navigating the world with help from her faithful companions, the young Chinese adventuress celebrates life with a strong thirst for knowledge. So when she scents burned garlic in a customer’s garment, the clever laundress runs an experiment that reveals a dress doused in arsenic.

When a highly respected member of the "Little Mexico" community is killed in 1930 Dallas, all the evidence points toward Grace Pierce, wife of a local businessman and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. Grace’s son Truman turns to Daiyu Wu and her unique detective skills for help, but Dai quickly discovers that nothing about this case is what it seems. With her companion Jacques and canine bodyguard Prince Razor, Dai must navigate a family in turmoil, racial tensions, and shady business deals to find the actual killer before Truman's mother is sentenced to death.

Claudia Zimmerman smacks rock bottom then falls off the edge. Used as a scapegoat by her employers, the medical researcher travels to the fringes of known space but is shattered when she becomes a victim of blackmail. Coerced into joining a landing party to an uncharted planet, her thrill at discovering a new intelligent race turns to horror when she realizes they are to be exploited. Worrying about what they aim to do with them, Claudia tries to guard their well-being while avoiding the captain's hair-trigger temper.

Julia Xero is stuck in survival mode. After losing the only person she loved, the introverted orphan longs to escape her toxic employment for the zen of crime and trauma scene decontamination. But when she lands her dream job and is called to a bloody rooftop with a decapitated corpse, she’s horrified to come face to face with an otherworldly shark-toothed assassin.

The choice: Serve the undead or become one of them.Toshi never expected the strange visitor who one evening stepped foot insidehis master's shop. A samurai smelling of the sea, dripping on the ground,algae strung from his armor. For the first time in his life, he discoversthat monsters do roam the earth. And this one has been specifically lookingfor him.Dragged from his home and all he has ever known, Toshi must now use hisacquired skills in foreign maps to help the creatures who have taken him.Yet at every turn there are problems. There are even those seeking toterminate his very life, not ...