In depicting the past lives of New Zealand born Kate, Soldier Sailor Lover Slave represents a unique deviation from traditional memoirs. Spanning time and space, the novel recounts nine individuals whose compelling stories connect through sorrow. In Soldier...
"Celebrated for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day and The Death of the Heart, Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction. Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories,...
"Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up - and definitely not the infantry. But now that he's in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from...
"A heart-shattering loss leads to a world-altering discovery... Every bureaucracy has a rhythm, even the Department of Extraterrestrial and Alien Defense (D.E.A.D.). Dr. Greg Schorn has gotten used to that rhythm: go on assignment, take down a...
"Survival is just the beginning. The real battle lies in the stars. In a world turned upside down, Dr. Maeve Leander and Captain Chris Garrigan entrust the safety of Alvie, the triplets, and their growing band of fugitives to Tilda Watson. With dangerous...
"Earth's fate hangs by a thread as aliens and humans clash in a cosmic ultimatum. Maeve Leander and her group have found a temporary sanctuary thanks to Adam Watson, but their respite is overshadowed by looming threats from both terrestrial and...
"Ryan Kaine is on the wing... When alleged murderer, Melanie Archer, is violently assaulted and left for dead by unknown attackers, she reaches out to the only organisation who might be able to save her life, The 83 Trust. But before Ryan Kaine is willing to...
"Ryan Kaine and Lara Orchard's trip to Denmark for a combat medic course takes a sinister turn when Lara becomes the target of a vindictive fellow student. Meanwhile, back in Norwich, their young associate Danny Pinkerton faces off against a ruthless loan...
"Ryan Kaine is on the hunt... Setting out to teach an abusive husband a lesson, Danny Pinkerton quickly finds himself surrounded by a crime family that stretches back to Gyor in Hungary. Outgunned and outnumbered, Pinkerton turns to his closest friend, Ryan...
"Ryan Kaine is On the Lookout... The net is closing. In an age of facial recognition and constant electronic surveillance, Kaine is struggling to keep a step ahead of the world's security agencies. When a child, orphaned by flight BE1555, needs The 83 Trust's...
"Ryan Kaine is on the defensive... Kaine, a wanted man on the run, receives a mysterious text with an address and the terse message: 'Help them'. When unscrupulous men try to force Greek restaurateurs, the Constantines, out of their business and their home,...
"It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla's life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally....
"In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high...
"Blood work - That's what Terry McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Eight weeks ago he was a dead man, but now someone else's heart is keeping him alive. Then a newspaper report of his brush with death brings him an unwanted visitor. Graciela Rivers...
"Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation - he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Now, McGlue wants one thing and one thing only: a drink. Because for...
"In the fourth and final chapter of the series, Bailey's planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, but doubts are wracking her mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon, or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana, and be...
"Imagine 'Monty Python' writes horror... Welcome to the wonderfully horrific world of Bizarro - that dark, forbidding corner of the horror genre where absolutely anything goes and one may delve into the farthest recesses of the authors' warped imaginations....
"After a betrayal that sent their marriage into freefall, Hannah and Sam are desperate for a fresh start with their eight-year-old daughter Lily--and where better than picture-perfect Owl Cottage in beautiful Cornwall. But something about the holiday home...
"Meet Lord Doyle, although he is not a Lord at all. He is a fake; a corrupt lawyer who has spent a career siphoning money from rich clients. And now he is on the run, determined to spend his last days gambling away the money in the decadent casino halls of...
"The moment Charlotte Vintage walks into his club, Tariq Asenguard's blood is set on fire. The ancient Carpathian had given up hope of finding his lifemate, but now he will do anything to make Charlotte his own. What Tariq doesn't know is that Charlotte is...
"'In wartime,' Winston Churchill wrote, 'truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.' For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-- a history professor named Alfred...
"In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as...
"Combining stories from ebook story collections 'Short Shockers One' and 'Short Shockers Two', and with never-before-seen new material, this is a story collection you won't forget. From a woman intent on revenge, to a restaurant critic with a fear of the...
"A Brighton gangster is on trial for conspiracy to murder, following the death of a rival crime family boss. As the jury file into Lewes Crown Court, twelve anonymous people selected randomly from fifty, there is one person sitting in the public gallery...
"Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck of his life. He's beginning to lose big style. However, taking his teenage son, Mungo, to their club's big Saturday afternoon football match should have given him a...
"THE SUFFERER--A prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition. THE LISTENER--Detective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities,...
"Cream cakes, cucumber sandwiches, apple tarts and... poison? Lady Swift is trying to plan the menu for her wedding, until murder strikes in kitchens across the village! Lady Eleanor Swift's marriage to dashing Chief Inspector Hugh Seldon is just days away....
"A vengeful band of Irish clansmen slaughtered everyone in Macha's small coastal village and encouraged by the bombastic rantings of a delusional Catholic priest, they've now come for her. In fear for the life of her unborn child, she flees with nothing but...
"In a quaint village in the Peak District, murder is brewing... Violet Brewster is settling into the quiet life in Merrywell. The last thing she needs is to get mixed up in a police investigation... When a snazzy tearoom opens at the local garden centre on...
"A birthday trip to Bonn sees amateur detective Atalanta Ashford drawn into the scandalous will of a wealthy grandmother during a scenic cruise down along the Rhine. But growing tensions lead to a sudden and shocking death. Facing suspicion all around,...
"Sophie isn't going to let a little thing like divorce stop her from flying to New York to see her family. Mike isn't going to let a little thing like losing his wife stop him from flying to New York for work. The one thing they both know for certain is that...
"Two sworn enemies. One inconvenient truce. When the beloved Duke of Severn is murdered, rumours are that Henrietta - his young and scandalous wife - was behind it. Especially once she goes on the run! But Henrietta is not alone. Theo Hawke, her sworn enemy...
"Lina never wanted children, but now there are two lines on the test. Where does she go from here? Lina Solanki is pregnant and newly orphaned, living with her in-laws in their opulent Dubai villa. While her husband fails to make concrete plans to find their...
"Friendship never ends... Four women. Annie has brought her three best friends and their families together for a long weekend away in a gorgeous seaside Airbnb. It should be idyllic - sun, sea, sand, cocktails and laughter. One shocking secret. But below the...
"In this quirky ride through Brooklyn, an idealistic young woman shares her earnest joy with her Uber clients, her cranky father, and the Wall Street hotshot who started it all. Joybird Martin--an Uber driver with cheerfulness to spare--desperately wants to be...
"It is summer. Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on reality and a hunger to connect with the mother who abandoned him. His therapist, Martin, also faces challenges, including his adopted daughter Olivia's...
"At Sunny Pines Retirement Community, where the 'Sixty-Two and Better!' share their golden years, secrets abound. Some scandalous, some haunting, and some dangerous. For Birdie Allen, a retired business owner and grandmother, her secret is the only thing she's...
"Not everything is down to Fate but, when it comes to love, the right people must collide to keep the world running to plan. Immortal cupids, known as Apollo agents, spend their afterlife matching up pre-destined couples to sign off their daily quota. Love...
"After her twin sister, Chiara, goes missing at a mom-fluencer weekend, Adrienne Shaw will find her no matter what it takes. They mayhave been on the outs, but no one comes for her sister and gets away with it. It's been a year, the authorities have no...
"For the last six years, the four chaos princes of Lusteros have been in search of a mate to share - one woman who is fated to be the balancing anchor to their infinite power. To find their match, they hold the Choosing Ceremony, bringing together the most...
"When Genevieve Grimm's mother dies, she's left with questions no one can answer - until she receives an invitation to Enchantra, a cursed palace in Italy, frozen in time and shrouded in strange fruit. So when the hostile and sinfully handsome Rowin Silver...
"A lake with mysterious properties. A town haunted by urban legend. Two women whose lives intersect in terrifying ways. Welcome to Soap Lake. When Abigail agreed to move to Soap Lake, Washington, for her husband's research, she expected old-growth forests and...
"From the frigid regions of the Zemni Fields, born in the very heart of the Dwendalian Empire, come three fairy tales told to children on cold winter nights. Plucked straight from Exandria, this illustrated storybook is fit to grace any archmage's library....
"The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom struggling under the weight of family obligations. Fred is a novelist who can't write, maybe because she's lost faith in storytelling itself. Jude is a recovering corporate lawyer with her own story to...
"An electrifying debut about a nonbinary corporate burnout embarking on a road trip from Chicago to Arkansas to find their conspiracy-theorist father, who has gone missing... The newly nameless narrator has rejected the gender binary, has flamed out with a...
"In the hills of Appalachia, there once existed a land ruled by a king and queen. Inspired by memories of African kingdoms, a community of formerly enslaved men and women grasped freedom on mountain land they owned. But freedom doesn't always last forever....
"Till death do us part... Luke Whitney is stabbed to death. His wife Anna confesses after she is found next to his lifeless body. But if she did it, why can't she confirm any of the details of the crime? As police dig into the circumstances, they learn that...
"The old ways are dying, and a mighty empire is reaching out across the sea. Britannia, 42 AD. The wild island at the fringe of the known world is in chaos. Cunobelin, High King of the Britons, is dead. His heirs, warrior princes Togodubnos and Caratacos, have...
"Collecting two decades of remembrances from China's premier literary caricaturist, these short stories offer bite-sized misdeeds committed by Nanjing's underground literati. Freed from family duties, the 'boys' spend their nights freewheeling and trying their...
"After a scandalous celebrity divorce, British tennis star Nevile Strange and his ex-wife Audrey make the unthinkable decision to spend a summer together at Gull's Point, their childhood home and the coastal estate of Nevile's aunt, Lady Tressilian. With...
"For Bailey McArthur, her family and job mean everything. She runs her own floristry shop and loves spending time in nature in the pretty town of Heather Moore, whilst desperately trying to forget about being jilted on her wedding day. When journalist Zach...
"Watch out world, Artemis Owusu is entering her villain era... Artemis 'Temz' Owusu has bags of confidence, and plenty of opportunity for hook-ups; she fiercely embraces her beautiful size 26 body and expects any man to do the same. Her marketing career is on...
"Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans....
Spy and Espionage. On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. He's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas, the U.S Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumoured to...
"It is 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for many years. A pilot's life is usually short, so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously....
"It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. It also provides the stage for the display of...
"Reports of strange creatures began to be reported in the western half of the United States after the explosive incident at Area 51. In response, the U.S. government created the Department of Extraterrestrial and Alien Defense--D.E.A.D. for short. When Dr....
"Ryan Kaine is on the money... When a member of The 83 dies in an apparent accident, Kaine knows better. A faceless leader of a drug gang rules the dead man's neighbourhood and Kaine and his partner, Lara Orchard, go undercover to discover the truth. Offering...
"Ryan Kaine is on the run...A seemingly routine operation ends in tragedy when eighty-three civilians are killed in an aircraft explosion. Kaine, a highly decorated former Royal Marine, becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt; the police want him on...
"International fugitive Ryan Kaine, still haunted by the deaths of 83 civilians on flight BE1555, abandons his pursuit of exoneration to save a missing schoolboy. Martin Princeton lies dying on a Scottish mountainside, and Kaine knows he's the boy's best hope...
"Ryan Kaine is on the attack... When Angela Shafer's stalker threatens to kill her, she is forced to call upon the services of The 83 Trust. Ryan Kaine vows to deliver justice in the only way he knows how. After reaching Angela's home too late to prevent a...
"Ryan Kaine is on the outside... When the neo-fascist group The Doomsday Creed kidnap Sabrina Faroukh, Ryan Kaine gets the call. Sabrina was the IT expert who helped Kaine in his early days and as the granddaughter of an influential arms dealer, her life has...
"1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger. Billy's family is inextricably linked...
"Buck 'Buckshot' Reed is starting to think his best days just might be behind him. He's tired of the traveling life of a for-hire gunfighter, and at sixty-two, he knows the odds against him are only getting higher. As he reflects on his younger days, he...
"Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything - youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up....
"Eight years after saying goodbye to Runway, and escaping the clutches of Miranda Priestly, it seems as though Andrea 'Andy' Sachs has the perfect life. The lowly assistant is herself now tabloid fodder. She edits The Plunge, the hottest bridal magazine on...
"A university student is killed in a tragic traffic accident while riding their bicycle. When two of the drivers involved are hunted down by a sadistic killer, Grace knows that the third driver, Carly Chase, may be next. Carly, a solicitor, believes hiding is...
"The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a...
"After the four Illborn have remembered their recurring dream in full, each of them must decide what they are going to do with their newfound knowledge. On the island of Abass, Arion and Leanna must both choose between a return to Angall, and a dangerous...
"How does the opportunity ever arise for one person to alter the destiny of a world? As the nations of Angall move closer to a Holy War, the four Illborn are to face momentous challenges, while seeking answers about who they are and what their growing powers...
"Long ago, The Lord Aiduel emerged from the deserts of the Holy Land, possessed with divine powers. He used these to forcibly unite the peoples of Angall, before His ascension to heaven. Over eight hundred years later, in a medieval world which is threatened...
"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive."--Publisher.
"Judge Laura Porter fiercely guarded her privacy, and never more so than during her long-running - and long in the past - affair with disgraced quarterback-turned-private investigator Andy Hayes. Now she's missing, disappeared just hours after she calls Andy...
"Forced to start over with everything on the line--will Mina lose it all, or find the life she's always dreamed of? After her husband wipes out their savings, sells the house, and walks away, Mina is left with nothing but her teenaged twins and a broken heart....
"Julien Johnson never planned to stay in Duckinwilla Creek until Emily Dysart followed him home. With dreams of becoming a renowned city chef, Julien always expected to stay in the city. But when his father retires, leaving Julien to run the family store, he...
"This second volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected by the critic Sharon Cameron, contains 'Family Happiness', 'The Devil' and 'The Kreutzer Sonata', three of Tolstoy's unhappy-marriage stories as well as 'Father Sergius', a story of a loss of identity...
"After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can't take any more tragedy. So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point - a former friend and detective colleague has...
"Crooked cross is at its heart a love story, but it is also an extraordinarily prescient account of the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany seen through the eyes of the fictional Kluger family. The only daughter, Lexa Kluger, is engaged to be married to Moritz...
"Catherine Wells was the wife of H.G. Wells and the author of short stories, poems, and of an unfinished novella, The Open Heart, a haunting study of a woman's sense of unfulfilment that adds significantly to our knowledge of early 20th-century feminism....
"Sylina has sacrificed everything for her goddess - her soul, her freedom, her eyes. Life in service to the Arachessen, a cult of the Goddess of Fate, has turned Sylina from orphaned street-rat to disciplined killer, determined to overthrow Glaea's tyrannical...
"Alix has always been on the side of the rebellion. Under dangerous war-torn circumstances, she continues her fight. But with constant threats looming, her personal relationships with Nikola - the man she was due to marry - and Drago, a lifelong friend,...
"All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his post-war career as a book editor in New York, his trips to the...
"Just friends is all that Brooke and Dylan have ever been. Except for that one night in high school, but they don't talk about that... Growing up, Dylan was the one guy Brooke could always trust. No longer the kids they once were, she's a successful marine...
"The heatwave of 1995. Sixteen years since an infamous tiger-lynx hybrid escaped a small moorland zoo and ate someone. Sixteen years since the animal was euthanised. Sixteen years for the zoo to fall into disrepair. Then sixteen-year-old convalescent Lowdy,...
"There is more to the Vine than mortals and immortals know. It reaches its branches and tendrils into realms beyond the Riven Isles. On the night Faith was born, her mother perished, but not before sending Faith to safety, in Underneath. Discovered by The Mad...
"It is 1998; Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa are teenagers, and they are making Saga of the Sorceress, a game that will change everything, if only for the three of them. Eighteen years later, Saga of the Sorceress still exists only on the scattered drives of its...
"When Jane - smart, funny, fortyish - says she's a school counsellor, people assume it's all about exam stress. If only. Her teenage clients include Vaishali, who hates the perfect curves that draw the attention of adult men; Fraser, who cares devotedly for...
"Liverpool, 1864. When Jemima Jenkins's beloved Pa passes away leaving her orphaned, she is cruelly thrown out of her lodgings and dismissed from her cherished job as a schoolmistress. Offered a temporary home with her best friend Betty, Jemima is determined...
"London, June 1759. When a charmless civil servant takes his own life, few are interested in his death. But Lizzie Hardwicke, who plies her trade in the brothels of London whilst also working as an undercover sleuth for the magistrate, can see no reason why a...
"Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for her elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life. When a mysterious stranger named Hassan appears at...
"Johnny Gomez, a custodian - or space broom - on Kilgore Station, teams up with a pair of smugglers to sell a stolen data chip full of video game avatars and finally make his fortune."--
"The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord's baby boy. But something is wrong with the child: his nails grow too fast, his skin smells of soil, and his eyes remind her of the dark...
"This collection features nine new stories, including 'Dream State', 'Clickbait' and 'The Feeding Grounds' with other popular tales, such as 'The Storymage' and 'The Way of Baa'gh' (A Sauútiverse story). The Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections...
"St Andrews, Scotland. When a woman's eviscerated body is found on the golf course close to the Fairmont Hotel, DCI Andy Gilchrist and his associate DS Jessie Janes are assigned the investigation. But the post mortem examination uncovers a shocking detail that...
"Someone is trying to kill Captain Blite, but each attempt ends in unexpected failure. All Blite knows is that a black diamond - left to him by the dark AI Penny Royal - is somehow the cause of his unlikely survival. Each failed attempt on Blite's life...
"In 1874, when Rebecca washes ashore Lake Superior with no memory, she is mistaken for the ghost of a local fisherman's late wife and haunted by a lake spirit determined to keep her memories-and steal her life. Centuries later, as Shea seeks clarity for her...
"Teenage girls are going missing across Liverpool and the police are no closer to identifying the killer. When the third victim, Kelly Stack, is discovered on the banks of the Mersey, the police have no alternative but to call for help. DCI de Silva hasn't...
"Since the death of his brother, dairy farmer George Calvert has fought to keep the family business afloat. Worried about the future but resistant to change, he refuses to face the reality of his failing farm, his elderly mother's declining health and his...
"A high society Christmas Eve wedding at a remote Scottish castle sounds like the perfect winter getaway for the three Dahlias and their partners--until a snowstorm hits, cutting them off from the mainland, and civilisation. Which, of course, is when the dead...
"When business student Lily's local football club relocates to a city fifty miles away, she's just as devastated as everyone else in her town. Determined to keep the community's love of football alive, Lily, along with her dad and football coach sister, set up...
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