For years, the witness protection program has kept Gary Foreman safe from the horrors he left behind. He's got a new career and new friends, but they can never know his real name or where he comes from. But the program can't protect him from the relentless dreams of a young woman in danger. It's the same dream, night after night, and Gary is helpless, unable to stop the dream's inevitable and horrifying conclusion. The woman seems strangely familiar...is she someone from his dark past? Is she even real? All he knows for certain is that she needs his help, or she will die.

Dr. Donald Ellis lost everything on 9/11. He lost his wife and daughter in the south tower of the World Trade Center. But while others grieved, or plotted revenge, Dr. Ellis threw himself into a long-dormant research project. He traded his lab at the University of New York for an ugly riverfront warehouse in Brooklyn. What is he working on? And why does he spend every free moment at the warehouse standing by the river, staring across the water at Ground Zero? Because Dr. Ellis has a plan: he's going to make 9/11 "unhappen."

Ex-cop Frank Harper doesnt want to get involved. Harper is visiting the small Ohio town of Coopers Mill, trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter and a grandson hes never met. But he finds the town gripped in fear-two young girls have gone missing, taken in broad daylight from a busy street. And the police are coming up blank. But once Harper is drawn reluctantly into the investigation, hell stop at nothing to find the girls. And he doesnt care who gets in the way.

"Tipp Talk," a weekly newspaper column, explores life in small-town America. Covering the 2012 calendar year, this collection recounts the changes and challenges, events and activities that took place in Tipp City, Ohio. These recollections are interspersed with vignettes about day-to-day life, including thoughts on the writer's decision to shutter his downtown business and why small-town life is something to be coveted, not avoided.

"Tipp Talk," a weekly newspaper column in Tipp City, Ohio, explores life in small-town America. Revisiting Greg's insightful and often witty columns from the 2013 calendar year, this collection recounts the challenges surrounding a massive downtown construction project which closed the vibrant historical downtown shopping district, ripped up the streets, and diverted traffic for months. This controversial project proved challenging for the businesses and residents of Tipp City, Ohio.

It seemed like a simple job. Ex-cop Frank Harper is back in Cooper's Mill to spend time with his daughter and grandson, but a bone-chilling winter has settled over the small Ohio town. When a local woman asks him to make a simple delivery, it seems easy enough-until Frank uncovers a possible murder. Now he's searching for a local couple gone missing. But do the snow and ice conceal a deadly crime, one that may cost Frank everything he holds dear?

He tried to make things better...and failed. Miserably.

Ex-cop Frank Harper is battling his addictions and wondering if his missteps in a recent case caused the horrific death of an innocent family. Meanwhile, a Dayton drug task force is struggling to contain hostile street gangs engaged in a surging drug trade that is spinning out of control. When Frank steps in to investigate the family's deaths, can he avoid a desperate standoff between warring factions that may cost him his life?