There's an urban legend that's been circulating for years about a driver that doesn't take you where you want to go, but where you need to be. One morning before daylight, Cenicienta stepped into his cab! Once inside the taxi, she skims the newspaper and reads about the increased bounty on the bandit plaguing the neighborhood. Wishing to escape her slavish life, the burglar's bounty seems appealing, and she becomes interested in catching him. The cabbie stops in a lonely alley, insisting it's where she is destined to be. She hesitantly disembarks, intending to catch another cab further up the road, which disappears as soon as the cabbie speeds off. Thereupon, Cenicienta stumbles upon a drawing of her six-year-old self with a note hinting at a secret treasure and also chances upon the handsome Robert Warren, who is quite taken with her. Cenicienta begins her search for the bandit at the Magnificent Seven Balls, the place of his intended thievery. At the balls, she meets Robert Warren, whose stepfather, Sir. Henry Moore tries to steer him into the arms of the young Elle Anderson, his deceased best friend's daughter. Robert meanwhile gets caught up in Cenicienta's life. The two grow closer and sparks fly. Cenicienta, in her pursuit to solve the mystery of the midnight bandit plaguing her town's elites, discovers a most sinister plot that wrought a terrible wrong upon someone very dear to her, and which threatens her relationship with Robert. Will she be able to help right the terrible misdeed and save her relationship with Robert, thereby changing her entire life?

Sally Justice is a magnet for trouble-not trouble that gets you detention, but trouble that gets you killed. With friends Melody and Jenna, she learns Jenna's boyfriend, Wes, was murdered outside Coast Watch, a group protecting seabirds and their old-growth habitat along the Oregon coast. Police detective Ferretti question Jenna. Sally knows him through her father, Randy, an insurance investigator. Dad runs Justice Investigations out of offices below their flat in the Vic, the sprawling theater complex Randy inherited and manages. Sam seems to dismisses Wes's shooting as random violence against Coast Watch, but later, a clue leads Sally to loggers in Waldport.

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My name is Terry Smith. That's Detective to you, if you're an ass... and, today, I probably think you are, so hedge your bets. You see, my partner and I have been assigned a case that I feel is Batman Hell and I am forced to be a very poor Bruce Wayne. On April 1st, a fat guy in a spandex suit and a jester hat showed up on a traffic cam, pullin' a simple prank that created a lot of chaos in the city. The press immediately dubbed him, "The Jester". It's now my job, along with my partner, to catch the guy and put a stop to him before he before he starts to get dangerous.