The weirdness continues.... Thanks to a "magical transplant" from inter-dimensional enforcer Sebastian Kess, Hailey Parrish can transform into a hawk. When someone begins dismembering hikers along the Appalachian Trail, Sebastian, and Hailey's main squeeze Alex Sunderland, make use of her feathery talents to pursue the killer. Unfortunately, like most things in Hailey's life, there is nothing ordinary about the assignment. Their target turns out to be maddeningly elusive, they rescue a stray dog that makes a sewage treatment plant seem pleasantly fragrant, and stopping the murders turns out...

In the future, no one leaves finding their soul mate to chance. Cormatron International is the world leader in bioprinted Life Companions, made-to-order based on the unique neuro patterns of each customer. The completed units are the perfect match, even if they possess qualities the client never realized they needed. Except Emma Jamison isn't clicking with her LC, and she wants some modifications. Assigned the task of placating the company's first unsatisfied customer, staff scientist Jonathan Greenlee finds himself inexplicably attracted to Emma, despite having an LC of his own.

Still reeling over his brother's death, Alex reluctantly assumes his new role as crown prince of Alenquai. Meanwhile, Hailey finds the constraints of life as his fiancee, well, constraining. Along with a lack of privacy and the grueling demands of a humorless protocol aid, her future mother-in-law just might be trying to drive a wedge between the not-so-happy couple. If that isn't bad enough, something more sinister is afoot, forcing Alex and Hailey to put aside their differences to solve a ruinous mystery. Special Deceptions, the fifth book in the Coursodon Dimension series, combines...