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The Diamond Caper Synopsis:

Nothing exciting EVER happens in the tiny town of Alamo, Texas. But that doesn't stop feisty fifteen-year-old Crystal O'Mally from dreaming of becoming a top notch detective, just like her hero. She gets her chance when her dad, the local jeweler, is accused of stealing the town's treasure, a giant pink diamond. However, things quickly get out of control as clues don't add up, the suspect list grows rapidly, and a mysterious shadow always seems to be one step ahead of her. Throw in an overeager "helpful" eight-year-old sister, Emma, and a cute guy who insists on tagging along, followed by a best friend suddenly keeping secrets, and Crystal starts second-guessing her career choice.

However, she's soon in a race against time to find the real culprit before the town plays judge, jury, and executioner with her father. Can she get to the bottom of the caper before he's thrown in jail for a crime he did not commit? Or has her career stopped before it even started?

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Anything but a Diamond Synopsis:

Fifteen-year-old Crystal O'Mally never thought her detective career would take off with a bang, literally. No sooner does she wish to solve a case NOT connected to diamonds, a local rancher approaches her with a baffling case. A saboteur has been stalking him for over five years, intent on blowing the family ranch to smithereens. Horses are stolen, cows stampeded, and workers injured. No matter where the rancher moves or what he does, the saboteur always manages to wreak havoc.

Crystal's a little more cautious to take this case and for good reason. There are more clues than she can shake a stick at, the suspect list is longer than she is tall, and the man who hired her is acting...well...odd. One minute he wants her to solve the mystery. The next he's pushing her away and acting mysterious. Why? What is he hiding? And how does the vanishing woman fit into all this?

With Emma once again tagging along and the sisters nearly getting blown up in the process, the two hurry to get to the bottom of it before it becomes the last case they ever solve.

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Houston, We Have a Problem Synopsis:

A typical summer break for fifteen-year-old Crystal O'Mally quickly turns less than typical when she's kidnapped and found less than an hour later only a few blocks from where she went missing.

Clues? What clues? Suspects? Oh, at least one diamond-stealing gang and a deranged saboteur, all in jail. The police are stumped, and so is Crystal. To get her mind off it all, she helps her mom and little sister, Emma, preserve the town's oldest hotel, which contains a sordid past.

It soon becomes evident that people, both living and nonliving, aren't happy about the preservation committee. Equipment goes missing, scaffolding is destroyed, and vicious rumors about Crystal's mom are spread faster than a Texas wildfire. Between an aggravating councilman, a vanishing woman, a dead bride, and the hotel's original owner come back to bother them, Crystal is constantly looking over her shoulder. Has the hotel's past come back to haunt them? Why does counterfeit money keep popping up all over town?

And even though he's never around when the chaos occurs, how does the Houston Blaze's top reporter always know what's happening? It's all befuddling, and on top of it, Crystal still has to solve her own haunting disappearance.

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Redeeming Fire Synopsis:

Is that how Emily's eyes looked in her final moments? Crying out for help that wasn't coming? Grief and guilt have haunted police officer Jay Preston since the tragic death of his wife and daughter in an accidental house fire five years ago. The fact he was unable to save them makes it even worse, and he considers himself unredeemable. However, he has to face the past when he responds to a house fire and finds there's a child trapped inside. He tries to wait for fire and rescue, but they won't make it in time. Forced to make a split-second decision, he enters the home and is instantly overwhelmed by guilt and the terror of reprising his previous failure. Just when he's about to give up, his wife and daughter appear. But...they're dead. He chalks it up to smoke hallucinations, yet, the pair won't leave him alone. Will he find the child in time? Or will the ghosts from his past make him repeat history all over again?

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Curse of the Dragon's Flame Synopsis:

Consider yourselves cursed by the dragon’s fire' was a message siblings Justin and Nathan Hoffman didn't pay much attention to. Especially since their father was a police detective, those 'threatening notes' were a dime a dozen. But when their dad is almost killed in a supposed hit-and-run, and further attempts are made on his life, the twins wonder if there's more to this note than meets the eye. Warning messages with flame-spewing dragons start appearing all over town, and peoples' lives are thrown into complete chaos. Is there really something to this curse? Justin and Nathan don't waste time finding out, especially when they become the dragon's next victims.

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The Day Please Slept In Synopsis:

Day after day, Robbie's words line up, waiting for their turn to be used. However, no matter how patient he is, Please never gets his turn. One day, Please decides not to join the line of other words, but rather stay in bed. However, that's the day Grandma comes over and her rule is, "If you don't say please for what you want, then you won't get it." What's Robbie to do when he tries, but can't say please? Will he ever be able to say it? Will Please rejoin the line or stay in bed forever?

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