In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond classmate. Their furtive passion, along with Callie's failure to develop, leads Callie to think that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this takes us back in time to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers and one rare genetic mutation set in motion the metamorphosis that would turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real - a hermaphrodite.

When newspaper editor Jamie Swift suddenly finds herself minus a fiance and with a major case of the hots for her silent partner, millionaire Maximillian Holt, any bit of unpredictability goes right out of the window. Someone's unhappy with Max's recent business deal. Dangerously unhappy. Before she knows it, Jamie's hotfooting across state lines to help Max and land a story. Posing as husband and wife, with computer genius Muffin and a mutt named Fleas, Max and Jamie are in the middle of another crazy case, closer than ever to each other - and too close for comfort to the kind of people who will do anything to stop them.

J. A. Jance
Exit Wounds

Juggling the demands of family with the challenges of a job that plunges her into the depths of human depravity, Joanna Brady has learned to expect the unexpected. Nothing the intrepid sheriff has experienced, however, can prepare her for her most unsettling and chilling case yet. As she probes the macabre death of a loner and her seventeen dogs, Joanna will discover that secrets of the past can run deeper and darker than she's ever imagined.