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There's a special spirit that animates Deep Ellum, the most hip and historical neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. Her name is Ms. Eddy Weekes. Her pawn shop draws in the lost and the lovelorn, the talented and the tragic.She'll lend a hand when she can, but Eddy believes in free will. As she puts it, "Everybody has the right to make their own hideous life-altering mistakes." Still, if supernatural forces threaten her turf, she'll take an interest. And if you ask her for help? Well, as the sign outside her pawnshop says, she's there when you need her.Deep Ellum PawnWhat's a pawnshop owner to do? The Golden Fiddle is back again. It's left a swath of broken dreams and shattered lives in its wake, and that fearsome pack of Hell Hounds won't be far behind.Somehow the fiddle keeps returning to Deep Ellum Pawn, Ms. Eddy's shop, where music, magic, and legends intertwine in the historic Dallas, Texas neighborhood of Deep Ellum. Roots grow deep there, and things long buried have a way of showing up again. Before Ms. Eddy can end the curse's destruction for good, she must unravel the fiddle's secret.Can she fend off the Hell Hounds, get to the heart of the Golden Fiddle's curse, and protect her neighborhood before it's too late? Will she have the tools she needs, when it's time to fight an epic battle with an old, old rival? Or will the fiddle's destructive curse prevail?Deep Ellum BluesFree will is a rule she doesn't break.As the genius loci of Deep Ellum, Ms. Eddy Weeks is a hands-off goddess who won't micro-manage human affairs. She'd rather sit on the sidelines and enjoy the show. Her motto? "People have the right to make their own hideous, life-altering mistakes."But there's something different about the young blues musician Mudcat Randall.Maybe if her old friend Waylon hadn't called him to her attention, she'd have let things be. Maybe if she hadn't glimpsed something special in his music ... But Mudcat is flirting with disaster. Eddy's old adversary wants him to sign a tempting management contract, and there are deadly strings attached.When a third force enters the fray, everything Mudcat has ever prayed for is suddenly on the line, and Eddy knows the game is rigged against him. Can Eddy break through to the headstrong musician? Or will an old and tragic story make Deep Ellum sing a new kind of blues?
Too valuable to kill? Oh, but that was then.XK9 Rex was bio-engineered and cyber-enhanced to be the most perfect law enforcement canine ever created. Transmondian spymaster Col. Wisniewski thought he could turn him into the most perfect weapon.But Rex had other plans. Wisneiwski couldn't bend him to his will. The Colonel would have killed any other dog, but Rex was too valuable. Instead, Rana Station paid a literal fortune to add him and his XK9 Pack to the Orangeboro Police Department.Now Rex and his Pack are working detectives on the trail of a criminal gang that blows up spaceships - and Rana Station has recognized XK9s as uplifted sapient beings. That means it's illegal to buy them, so they've stopped paying that literal fortune. And this gives Col. Wisniewski a new license to kill.How far must Rex go, to dodge his old enemy's deadly intent and also crack the case?
Officer Pamela Gómez has big dreams. And a tiny apartment. She hopes to win a rare promotion as one of an elite corps of XK9 "super dog" handlers on the Orangeboro Police Department's forensic team, but the odds are stacked against her. Pam's never had a dog, never left her home space station, and never thought of herself as an "elite" anything. Plus the dogs are huge! Her apartment's really small. Her boyfriend secretly hopes she'll wash out, and her mother advises she abandon all hope. But she took the courses. She passed the tests, and she made the cut. Now she's a partner-candidate bound for Planet Chayko. Pam knows she'll feel awkward. She's braced to be the oddball. She never expected to fall in love. All her inner voices scream "loser!" and "fail!" Can big dreams and a giant dog take her to the other side of fear?
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