It's a tale as old as time: the bad boy meets the good girl. He makes a daring proposition. Then the boy gets a mysterious head injury and loses a year of his life...

The first time I meet Rickie, I don't know what to make of him. The second time we meet, he doesn't remember the six hours we spent together. Or standing me up afterward.

I'm not the same, either. I've got secrets. I've told lies. Bad boys aren't my

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Waylaid is the story of a Chinese American boy who struggles to grow up in the grip of an overcharged sexual environment. With a daily routine that involves renting out rooms to johns and hookers at his parents' sleazy hotel, the narrator loses his grip on concepts of friendship, family and childhood. As he pursues his all-consuming quest to lose his virginity, issues of race, class and sex cripple his sense of self-worth. It is a story told with...

Molly Arden was supposed to be on vacation... Instead of relaxing on the beach, the world famous fantasy writer was now screaming through space in an ancient space ship, with a secret society of supermen after her, to save a planet that wasn't supposed to exist, from a race of power hungry paradimensional invaders. Not exactly her idea of a relaxing vacation. To make things worse, the new book she was writing might have inadvertently caused it all......