Surprise Adventures #4

Two Korean War buddies, Damon and Pete, stumble upon a fortune in gold hidden beneath the ocean after meeting an old fisherman who found it in the wreck of a Japanese ship. Back home, both men fall for the same woman, Millie, and their partnership fractures as the promise of wealth and romance turns them against each other—leading them to attempt a dangerous deep-sea dive to claim their prize. What neither man realizes is that gold's allure may exact a far steeper price than either bargained for.

On Hallowe'en night in the peaceful town of Northville, strange pranks begin plaguing the residents—a horse on a porch, animals in bedrooms, unexplained chaos—and Constable Simmons sets out to catch the mysterious troublemakers responsible. As he pursues the elusive pranksters through the dark streets, he closes in on what he believes is his quarry, only to have them vanish into an old house where a peculiar discovery awaits. The constable must untangle the mystery of who—or what—has been behind Northville's wildest Hallowe'en night.

Desperate to reclaim his fading literary reputation, the celebrated author Emerson Carver has devised a ruthless scheme: he lures unpublished writers to submit their manuscripts under the guise of helping them succeed, then steals their work and publishes it under his own name. When Carver discovers Ed Dorish—a genuinely gifted writer whose work bears all the hallmarks of a bestseller—his obsession spirals into something far darker than simple theft. A tale of ambition corrupted and the lengths one man will go to chase literary glory.