Sometimes book knowledge and real world knowledge don't translate. Find out the back history of THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF'S Phoenix Rayner! This collection brings together three books detailing the full story of two generations of love, lust, libraries, and letters as a reference librarian, and later the writer daughter from her own rocky relationship embark on their adventures to finding happy ever after for now. THE PHOENIX RISES features Dawn, a middle age reference librarian, gets lessons in love, lust and life when the library takes on its first intern, a young man named Stern. However, her spontaneous choices are not without consequences not just for her but generations to come. THE PHOENIX SOARS AND OTHER STORIES collects short stories that show viewpoints during the course of their relationship and how friends and family are affected. THE PHOENIX BURNS focuses on daughter Cassandra "Phoenix" Rayner, who not long after her 18th birthday is left to take care of her ailing mother and younger siblings, and turns to completing her father's half-finished novel - a spontaneous choice that changes her future to become the woman readers know in the short story "The Mystery of the Phoenix" from SHANNON MUIR'S THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF.