When Nancy shows up at a charity ball wearing the same dress as her rival Deirdre Shannon, Deirdre is furious, but the girl detective soon has more to worry about when she is kidnapped and must depend on Bess, George, and Ned to rescue her.

Portland's best private investigator Dex Parios is back and this time, the case is a real grind. When she picks up a simple assignment to escort a package of highly-prized coffee beans, Dex has no idea that she's stepping into the web of the Barista Mafia and eccentric billionaires with no compunction about using force to get the most coveted coffee around. And to top it all off, her sister is in town.

"Jessica Jones is back where she belongs ... taking on cases as Alias Investigations! But as the most dangerous book on the stands digs even deeper into the new mysteries of the Marvel Universe, Jessica has uncovered a truly startling secret. Is this case too hot for even her? Will it shatter everything she has built for herself? Can she put the pieces of her life back together ... or is it already too late?"--Amazon.com

Jessica Jones is many things: Private investigator. Defender, Survivor, Mother. But when the most terrifying villain she's ever faced come back into her life, Jessica finds herself reliving her worst nightmare. The only thing worse than being stalked by the evil incarnate the is the Purple Man... is being stalked by the evil incarnate that is the Purple Man when you have a small child! As Killgrave finds new ways to torment his former pawn, he wreaks...

"Set in a fictionalized steampunk Victorian England, a time when magic and superstition clashed with new scientific discoveries and inventions, LADY MECHANIKA chronicles a young woman's obsessive search for her identity after a mad scientist's horrific experiments left her with mechanical limbs and no memory of her past... After a young friend shows up unexpectedly on her doorstep, Lady Mechanika immediately drops everything to come to her aid. They...

"Jessica Jones, a former costumed super hero, is now the owner and sole employee of Alias Investigations-- a small private investigative firm. But dark secrets from her super hero past haunt her, affecting her relationships and happiness" -- title page.

"Meet Jessica Jones. Once upon a time she was a costumed super hero; now, she's the owner and sole employee of Alias Investigations--a small, private investigative firm specializing in superhuman cases. Jessica's life become expendable when she uncovers the potentially explosive secret of one hero's true identity. But her wit, charm and intelligence just may help her survive through another day. Thrust into the midst of a conspiracy that reaches the...

"Witty, sly, and incredibly skilled at her job, Helen Keremos is tired of the busy Toronto life and just wants to truck back to Vancouver and peace. But before she goes, she's hired for one last job, to protect the newly wealthy struggling songbird Sonia Deerfield, who's been receiving death threats and attempts on her life. With predatory "friends" all around Sonia, it's hard to tell who Helen can trust. As the danger increases around them, Helen...

Jessica has just faced her greatest fears - her most dangerous enemy - and won! Surely everything is smooth sailing from here? Nope! Instead she finds a corpse in her office - the body of a woman who came to Jessica for help years ago with a case Jessica failed to solve. And now she's being framed for the woman's murder! As Jessica reopens her investigation in hopes of bringing Dia Sloane's killer to justice, she finds herself caught in the web of...