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When Marina moves to a new bay, the mermaids who live there don’t accept her. She looks different and she acts different too. She feels sad and swims away to be by herself for a while. That’s when she comes across an octopus named Octavia who’s been captured by pirates. After Marina saves Octavia, they become close friends and Octavia gives her a beautiful pink pearl necklace. But, when she begins to swim home she sees that one of the mermaids who rejected her, Cleodora, has been captured. Will she use her beautiful necklace to save Cleodora or will she swim away and leave Cleodora to her fate?

*** Read it FREE as part of your PRIME or Kindle Unlimited membership ***Puggy is back for Part two in the Spy Dog series. Previously in “A Suspicious Neighbor,” Puggy saw a news report discussing the disappearances of dogs around the city. Right around that time, Puggy noticed that his next door neighbor did not look like a typical human. He learns later that the man is an alien who is responsible for the disappearances of the animals. The alien was experimenting on the dogs so that they could be modified with advanced technology. Due to a twist of fate, Puggy finds himself modified and it was up to him to stop the alien while making sure his owner Bill doesn’t find him out.“Cat’s Revenge” begins when Bill comes home one day more excited than what he normally is. The reason for this is because Bill won a cat in a raffle! Unnerved by this, Puggy couldn’t do anything but become jealous of the fact that the cat would probably earn more of Bill’s attention. When the cat finally does arrive, Puggy is alarmed to see that the cat was the same cat from the alien’s house that he had beaten months before. The aliens were back and they were using the cat, who they call Killer, to complete their goals. Puggy is now on the journey to fend off Killer and stop the aliens from acquiring his body, his home, Bill and the entire world. However, Puggy is not alone in this battle because Mannie, his Jack Russell friend, is here to aid him. Will the dogs succeed in taking down Killer and the aliens, or will Killer be too much for Puggy to handle?

Today is Kyle’s and Jenny’s first day at Montgomery Junior Spy School and they are ecstatic that they were accepted into this prestigious school. Kyle has been training all of his life to become a spy and he absolutely knew that he’d be the best in the class. However, Kyle learns the hard way that he wasn’t as great as he thought he was and was even bested by Jenny in class who had nowhere as much training as he did. However, when Kyle met Paul, he believed that along with Jenny, they’d help Kyle learn the true ways of how to be a real and successful spy.

Spike, a brown Spaniel, has always been interested in certain aspects of humans’ lives, so it was no surprise that the dog kept up with the humans’ news reports. One day while at home relaxing with his great pal Doug, a Golden Retriever, the two were shocked when cats won the contest for best pet of the year. To Spike and Doug, cats are lazy and mean creatures that only think about themselves. After learning this, Spike thought of a way to make the humans change their minds and redo that poll.After surveying the animals in the city and learning that all the animals were outraged at the results, Spike told them of his plan for his group to help the humans around the city until they see that they were the best animals and not the cats. However, when the cats learned of Spike’s team’s intentions, they went straight into action. These animals would not take that title from the cats, especially not a dog!In “The Fight for Best Pet,” Spike along with his friends, Doug the Golden Retriever, Tweet the yellow Warbler, Charlee the Hamster, and the other various animals, attempt to show the humans that they’re the best. However, the cats do not plan to go down without a fight, and they will do anything to keep their title, even if it means turning their enemies into dog food.

Kyle, Jenny, and Paul are back in the second book in the spy school series. It’s been a few weeks since Kyle, Jenny, and Paul has started in Montgomery Junior Spy School and Kyle works hard every day in order to improve his abilities and to prove to everyone, mainly himself, that he is the great fit to be a spy. When Kyle’s, Jenny’s, and Paul’s school is challenged by an all-girls school and Kyle was made leader of his group, he knew he had to work hard to live up to their expectations, but sometimes Kyle’s need to be the best get the best of him and he begins to make mistakes. In “Rival School’s Challenge,” several new characters are introduced, skills are perfected, and lives are changed as the students of Montgomery Junior Spy School takes on this new challenge.

Wendy and Black is back in their last adventure and this time they find themselves in a real sticky situation. For days now, Wendy has been having nightmares telling her that it’s time to let humanity fall and join the last witches left in the world. The witch, Daphne, that has been making her appearances more frequently has decided to take Wendy’s will into her own hands and hypnotized her. Black’s not going to let Daphne take Wendy without a fight and allow Daphne to manipulate Wendy into destroying all of humanity. However, with Wendy under Daphne’s spell, who is going to save Black from the fate that Daphne has for him? This last story shows how the bond between two friends is enough to create a power so great that nobody can come between them.

Wendy and Black are back to solve another bothersome case. It appears that someone really needs luck on their side because several students’ lucky charms has been stolen out of their lockers. Not accustomed to something like this occurring in her school, Wendy was on the case along with a very grumpy Black. Wendy hated for someone to do anything to hurt someone else’s feelings, so when she heard about two girls being robbed, she went straight to business when it came to finding the thief. Though Black already has a suspect in mind, the truth regarding the thefts are surprising enough to make even Black question himself.

FREE For Kindle UNLIMITEDOne day as the loveable dog Puggy was spending time with his owner Bill, Puggy noticed something strange happening at the house next door to them. Puggy watched his new neighbor in suspicion as the man carried a large struggling black plastic bag. Being the curious dog that he was, he snuck out of his house and peered into the neighbor’s window that night once Bill was sleeping. What Puggy saw shocked him! In that house cages littered the ground and computers were set up everywhere! He saw animals locked up in cages and knew that these animals were the animals that were reported kidnapped. “A Suspicious Neighbor” is a book that takes the reader through the journey of a typical dog and with good fortune on his side, he achieved a modified technological body that he vowed to use to save the animals and possibly the whole world.

It’s always good to take a little vacation because detective work could become overwhelming at times. Unfortunately for Black, the Michaels family decided to take a vacation to an Amusement Park. Wendy Michaels is having the time of her life acting like a kid and not a detective for a whole week, but when children goes missing, Black and Wendy must take on the case. With the help of an unexpected source, Black and Wendy learns that the children are taken into an abandoned mine where gold is supposedly housed. Even though the two were supposed to be taking a break, Wendy couldn’t live with herself if she didn’t save the kidnapped children.

In the first installment of this epic adventure series, young Stanley Pargo realizes he’s forgotten more than just his home when he wakes up alone and lost at sea. His rations are dwindling, and with no memory to guide him, Stanley loses all hope of finding his family until he meets a talking crane who knows far more about Stanley’s peculiar past than he’s willing to reveal. With the bird’s help, Stanley reaches land and takes shelter in a dark tower that stands as crooked as the man who built it. The man - a kind but blundering professor named Quibbie - befriends Stanley, but the boy soon suspects his new friend might also be keeping secrets of his own. Attempting to unravel these mysteries, Stanley ventures into the treacherous forest behind Quibbie’s estate and discovers a terrible monster that's been hunting Stanley for reasons he must uncover if he hopes to piece together his broken past and find his missing home.

Puggy and Mannie are back in their last adventure to take on the aliens once and for all. In the beginning of the series in “A Suspicious Neighbor,” Puggy first made contact with an alien who had moved in next door to him. This alien, Cyze, had captured animals to experiment on so that he could control them to do whatever he asked of them. A new alien was introduced in “Cat’s Revenge” as Zork, who had taken up residence at a blue house a few blocks from Puggy to help Cyze with the experiments on the animals. In book one, due to fate, Puggy was modified with advanced technology which led him to become a spy. Saving Mannie, his Jack Russel friend, in book one, Mannie begins showing his true worth and after becoming modified in book two, Mannie is now a key player in “The Aliens Invasion.” In “The Aliens Invasion,” the aliens were not easy to find this time because they had left the blue house and disguised themselves as humans. To make matters worse, they had figured out how to control the animals completely! Puggy and Mannie knew that they wouldn’t stand a chance against the animals so they needed a plan that involved not fighting the animals, but having the animals fight for them. But what’s this? Puggy appears to have come down with a dreadful illness and is unable to perform to the best of his abilities. It seems like after this everything started to go downhill fast and more problems started to arise. It was up to Mannie now to try to save the day while Puggy was on the sideline giving the animals instructions on what was needed to be done.