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Surrogate mother Shelby McDougall just fell for the biggest con of all - a scam that risks her life ... and the lives of her unborn twins.Twenty-three-year-old Shelby McDougall is facing a mountain of student debt and a memory she'd just as soon forget. An ad in Rolling Stone for a surrogate mother offers her a way to erase the loans and right her karmic place in the cosmos. Within a month, she's signed a contract, relocated to Santa Cruz, California, and started fertility treatments.But intended parents Jackson and Diane Entwistle have their own agenda - one that has nothing to do with diapers and lullabies. With her due date looming, and the clues piling up, Shelby must save herself and her twins.As she uses her wits to survive, Shelby learns the real meaning of the word "family".

Thirty-nine interpretations of one word: detachmentEvery two years, Fault Zone editors challenge writers to stretch their imaginations in response to a single-word spark. This year, "detachment" has drawn forth a fascinating array of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. You'll find intriguing science fiction, laugh-out-loud humor, and thought-provoking stories drawn from real life ... alongside strike-to-the-heart poetry, lyrical storytelling, exciting adventure, and slice-of-life family drama.Featuring: Tom Adams, Doug Baird, Sue Barizon, Eva Barrows, Scott Best, Lawrence Cohn, Jo Carpignano, Tim Flood, Heather E. Folsom, David Harris, Laurel Anne Hill, Audrey Kalman, Nirmy Kang, Amy Kelm, D.L. LaRoche, Evelyn LaTorre, Lucretia Leong, Ida J. Lewenstein, Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, Ellen McBarnette, Richard E. McCallum, Patricia McCombs, Lisa Meltzer Penn, Margaret Nalbach, Bruce Neuburger, Luanne Oleas, Korie Pelka, Miera Rao, Cheryl Ray, Carol Reade, Harlan Suits, Anne Marie Wenzel, Alisha Willis, Mickie Winkler, and Nanci Woody.Edited by Kate Adams and Laurel Anne Hill.

"Sometimes people disappear into the North and are never heard from again."When her papá doesn't return, twelve-year-old Ixchel, a Maya from the Yucatan, resolves to leave home and make her way across the treacherous border into the United States to find him. Chel relies on an inexperienced smuggler and faces unknown dangers in a border tunnel.Frightened, but resourceful, she is driven by hope, love for her father, and her dream of going to school.

Private Investigator Shelby McDougall is out for revenge.Repeated miscarriages have caused Shelby's marriage to disintegrate. Financial ruin lies ahead. A cheek swab sent to an online ancestry service turns up a surprise child: Shelby's genetic offspring - found in the misty ether of the internet.The only way Shelby can hang on to her shredding sanity is to take things into her own hands and, once and for all, locate and apprehend Helen Brannon - the woman responsible for hijacking her fertility ... and her future.As Shelby closes in on her target, the stakes get higher and higher. But when Shelby finds Helen Brannon ... how far will she go?

Shelby McDougall's past is behind her. Almost. It's been five and a half years since Shelby put her infant twins up for adoption, and she's finally on track. Back in Santa Cruz, California, she's sharing an apartment with her brother, Dexter, and in her second year of criminal justice studies. She's landed her dream job as an intern to local P.I. Kathleen Bennett. And her stone-cold love life is heating up. Then a late-night phone call puts Shelby's perfectly ordered life into a tailspin. One of the twins has been kidnapped, snatched from home in the middle of the night. There are no witnesses - no clues, no trails to follow. After meeting the family, Shelby knows something is off. The adoptive parents tell her the children don't sleep, they eat constantly, and their IQs are off the charts. Against her better judgment, Shelby agrees to help. By the time she realizes she's up against something powerful, something evil, it's almost too late. As Shelby fights for her life, and that of the kidnapped child, she discovers shocking truths about herself and the children.

Surrogate mother Shelby McDougall just fell for the biggest con of all - a scam that risks her life ... and the lives of her unborn twins.Twenty-three-year-old Shelby McDougall is facing a mountain of student debt and a memory she'd just as soon forget. An ad in Rolling Stone for a surrogate mother offers her a way to erase the loans and right her karmic place in the cosmos. Within a month, she's signed a contract, relocated to Santa Cruz, California, and started fertility treatments.But intended parents Jackson and Diane Entwistle have their own agenda - one that has nothing to do with diapers and lullabies. With her due date looming, and the clues piling up, Shelby must save herself and her twins.As she uses her wits to survive, Shelby learns the real meaning of the word "family".

Man vs. Poetry: The struggle continues.Wherein the author continues his struggle with the written word in this new volume of what some might call "poetry" ... if they had low standards. You will find contained within further musings on such random topics as chickens, lumberjacks, parrots, planks, rental lodging, and how to die convincingly on stage.Compiled (or maybe "accreted" is a better word) over the course of several years, Artisanal Gibberish II: Yet More Gibberish is the culmination of six years of University and a lifetime of experiences.CAUTION: We advise against drinking anything hot while reading these poems, to avoid nasal scalding.

It was supposed to be an easy jaunt to observe the stick-like aliens of Deep Valley Universe.But Ansegwe - perpetual student, aspiring poet, and scion of the (allegedly criminal) Varayla Syndicate - well, he just has to ruin everything. As everyone knows, Ansegwe may have sensibility, but he's not long on sense.When a weird, twitchy little creature attaches itself to him, Ansegwe violates every protocol in the handbook to save its life. Finding himself in all kinds of trouble, Ansegwe needs to make some serious life changes, starting with that complicated family of his.Ansegwe may just have to grow up ... now that he's adopted an alien.

Saved by a goddess ... but only as a tool for revenge?The nascent goddess Desiree meets the Egyptian archangel Joseph while ghost-busting the myth of Saint Patrick.Aided by her psychiatrist, Sanantha Mauwad, Desiree discovers she is a pawn in a revenge quest that Isis has been planning for thousands of years.Once again, gods and demons war on Earth with our heroes fighting not just for survival - but justice.

How far can you genetically alter someone before she becomes someone else ... before she loses her soul? breakthrough in human cloning leads to unspeakable evil.Psychiatrist Sanantha Mauwad is back, helping a world leading geneticist recover a four-month memory gap in which his wife was killed and his daughter was left in a coma. But, as she unravels the mystery, she finds nothing and no one are as they appear.Cutting-edge science and ancient cults collide in this tale of too much power driven by too much passion.

The man who would beat the devil isn't a hero, but a ruthless madman.Running from his dark past, former Duvalier hit man Charles Redmond is forced to take sides in a battle that has been raging since Exodus: between a power-mad magician named Silas Alverado and Sammael, the Demon Prince of Liars.When Charles' beloved Voodou is threatened with extinction, he must wager his life between pure evil and the man who could destroy the world.Charles' psychiatrist, Sanantha Mauwad, steps into this maelstrom of nightmares, violence and insanity to help Charles find his strength. She tries to save Charles' mind, but can she save his soul?