Douglas Cobb

In Lily and PAWS: The Ghosts of Summer, Lily--the World's Most Loved Pterodactyl--her "owner," and best friend, fourteen-year-old Celeste, and the other members of PAWS (Private Army of Warrior Sleuths) Fuzzy Wally MacGee, Lucy Marmoset Higgins, and Prince Alphonse Saed, embark on a summer-long mission to save the ghosts of Arkansas from being made into an alternative energy source. When someone as persuasive as the ghost of the infamous "Bandit Queen," Belle Star visits Lily and Celeste, how can they refuse her "request," to help save the ghosts?
Reading this book, you will find yourselves transported to various actual haunted locations all across the state of Arkansas, from the Arsenal in Little Rock to one of the most haunted hotels in America, the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs. There's plenty of fun along the way, but there are lots of spine-tingling dangers and foes that Lily and her friends must face, also.
Lily and PAWS: The Ghosts of Summer is an adventure-filled, page-turning read that will have you up until late into the night ! It's a ghostly good, fun read that, like all of the novels in the series The Case Files of Lily and PAWS. Besides the paperback for $8.99, you can purchase the ebook for just $2.99. One of the great things about it, and each book in the series, is that it can be read and enjoyed as a stand-alone book, without having to read the other books in the series. The first novel, though, is Lily, Unleashed, and the third is Lily Solves Them All, and I highly recommend them, as well.… (mer)

Lily, Unleashed by Douglas Cobb is the first novel of his series, The Case Files of Lily and PAWS. There are currently two other books in the series, Lily and PAWS: The Ghosts of Summer and Douglas's most recent novel, Lily Solves Them All.

Who is Lily E. Quince, and what is Lily, Unleashed about? Though the paperback is 112 pages long, it contains over 64,000 words. Lily looks, to all intents and purposes to the eyes of most humans, like a black-and-white brindle terrier. She is, in fact, realy a pterodactyl, who uses her mind control powers to cloud her true appearance. Lily is the leader of PAWS PRIVATE Army of Warrior Sleuths), a crime-fighting organization that fights EVIL in all of its various shapes and forms.

In Lily, Unleashed, Lily, her "owner," thirteen-year-old Celeste, and the other members of PAWS have many exciting and humorous adventures fighting crime, especially against their arch nemesses, the Scarlet SNURFLES (led by the Scarlet Macaw, Frankie Sinister), and the Scarlet Mafia (headed by the Scarlet Macaw, Benny the Beak).

PAWS has three other members besides Lily. There's the Chinese Crested/rhino, Fuzzy Wally MacGee; the Great Dane/orangutan, Lucy Marmoset Higgins; and the Miniature Dachsund/Mountain Lion, Prince Alphonse Saed. They each have their own special talents, and each adds to the humor and enjoyment of the novel and the series.

The action takes place over the course of an entire year, and besides the enemies I already mentioned, Lily, Celeste, and their friends have other foes to contend with, including the evil red panda, General Yao Xing; the leader of the nefarious Guild of Assassins, the Egyptian red fox Omar Khalid Ali; evil Christmas elves and Leprechauns; and aliens who seek to take over the world. Against such foes, how can Lily, Celeste, and PAWS hope to succeed? Read this great debut novel to find out! It retails for $8.99 in paperback, or just $2.99 for the ebook version--check it out TODAY!… (mer)