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Carved from ice with blades of fire, the rigidly feminist state of Serenia breeds heroes. Unimaginably perfect, Amara the Magnificent, the legendary Ultimate Warrior is their greatest.Five years since Amara’s mysterious disappearance, her daughter, Maryan, str... read more
Kathy is going to die. All that’s left to do is prepare for the end.While waiting for her chemotherapy session, a woman called Janie approaches Kathy, offering a revolutionary treatment for cancer. Janie pitches the cure like an expert and what does Kathy have... read more
From the bestselling author of Plague: Part one of the Sulham Close series.Pete rubs his hands together and waits for midnight. Neil tightens the noose around his neck and jumps from a stool. Kellie collapses to her knees, making the sign of the cross, even th... read more
Dabby’s Daddy is being deployed again, so the family packs up to move to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Luckily for Dabby, her good friend, Rhiannon, lives there, too. Dabby discovers that Fort Campbell is a pretty good place to wait for Daddy to come home.
There’s a new fairy in the land of Once upon a time...Once upon a time there were three little girls who didn’t want to keep their room tidy. Once upon a time there was a fairy who felt toys should only belong to children who would take care of them.Once upo a... read more
Dabby's dad is in the Army. Dabby and her family have to move a lot. She misses her dad. She misses her friends. Her dad finds a way to remind her that she's always in his thoughts.From the Dabby Project and Dabby Project UK
The Reluctant Angel and other stories is a collection of six short stories covering many aspects of life, told in a light-hearted way. Tea/Coffee breaks with this book will make you think as well as smile, some told from a Christian perspective on life, the un... read more
We met Casey and Harry aboard the Aqua as it sailed from Venice to the Greek islands. Now immerse yourself in true love, seduction, sumptuous foods and the romance of the holidays.Follow these favorite Aqua characters to the mainland where you’ll join them for... read more
Step aboard the Aqua as it sails from Venice to the Greek islands and immerse yourself in true love, exotic locations, seduction and sumptuous foods.Mediterranean Nights is the second book in this series where you’ll meet Agata Sjöberg, who has a difficult tim... read more
“One of the best books I've read in long time and I read a lot of books. The characters are fully developed and you feel like you've known them in another life. I can't recommend this book strongly enough. Amanda S. Jones has created a masterpiece.” - J.A. Chu... read more
In the summer of 1978, a naive young man left school with a few mediocre qualifications, no real ambition, absolutely no idea what he was going to do next, and a job in the Royal Navy wasn’t even on the radar. As for his knowledge of the Navy, the author had o... read more
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>EPISODE 4<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<BIANCA WOULD KILL FOR JAGGER, BUT WHO WILL END UP DYING FOR HER LOVE?Bianca's hate for Alberto grows, her need to avenge what he did to Jagger now all consuming. But will her actions lead to endangerin... read more
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>EPISODE 3<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Frano is stripped bare, both emotionally and literally, in this explosive follow-up to Episode 2.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>EPISODE 2<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<FATHER MICHAEL IS COMING TO SUPPER. WILL IT BE JAGGER'S LAST?Jagger’s erratic behavior is concerning Frano, but not as much as the threat the Donatelli family bring. They want Jagger and will continue ... read more
I didn't see it coming, didn't realize how different everything would be within the space of a month. I would fall in love with one man, I would kill another, and I would lose my body, my mind, my soul - my freedom to them. I was an operative, a strong woman, ... read more
To trust is to get hurt, to be loved could end in death.Everyone sees Ash as the toughest of the Rata brothers, the tall, tattooed man who is untouchable. But not many know of his past, of a tormented youth, which almost saw him take his own life. For ten year... read more
WARNING: Rated R18. Contains sexually explicit content, both M/F & M/M.Dante Rata learns what’s Behind the Lens in this explosive sequel to Behind the Tears.Dante has a problem with sex – he gets way too much of it. Women want him, force themselves upon him, f... read more
These are the real-life teenage diaries of Marita A. Hansen written between 1988 and 1993, where boys, sport, boys, and family, and boys are her major priorities, and did I mention boys? You will either cringe or laugh out loud as she blunders her way through ... read more
THE BOOK EVERY TEENAGER WILL WANT...to hide from their parents.A group of high school students deal with sex, love, bullying, family and betrayal. (Edgy YA)Life is turned upside down for Ash Rata and Tiana Lilu after they skip school to take their relationship... read more
Life on the rough side of New Zealand.In this South Auckland neighbourhood where gang culture, drink, drugs, sex and violence is already a way of life, a vicious attack on a teenage girl sparks a ripple effect of revenge and fury. Live the carnage through mult... read more
Imprisoned for brutal crimes against his wardens, Fly was taken from his planet Itor and transported to an uninhabited world alongside other criminals. Full of mutiny, anger and a desire for revenge the transportation was never going to be successful and Fly b... read more
On a Mediterranean Island run by mafia, the Santini brothers are fighting a war against the Landi family, who are targeting their loved ones. After his fiancée is murdered, Ricardo, the eldest of the brothers, starts spiraling out of control, his violent natur... read more
When Anna’s husband of twenty-five years leaves her, on Christmas morning, without warning or explanation, her safe and secure world collapses. Can Anna leave the past behind and make a new life for herself?
Being pregnant with the Antichrist is one thing… but carrying the hitch-hiking demonic reincarnation of your husband's brutally murdered crazy ex-girlfriend is another. Having given birth to half-human twins, only one of which should rightfully be hers, mother... read more
International best-selling author SAFFINA DESFORGES (writing as STEVIE JORDAN) & the creator of the wonderfully dark and disturbing, 'Birdy' KAREN OSBORNE bring you...INDIGO KIDS: Seven special children - one mission. Through time and space, a group of uniquel... read more
International best-selling author SAFFINA DESFORGES (writing as STEVIE JORDAN) & the creator of the wonderfully dark and disturbing, 'Birdy' KAREN OSBORNE bring you...INDIGO KIDS: Seven special children - one mission. Through time and space, seven uniquely tal... read more
International best-selling author SAFFINA DESFORGES (writing as STEVIE JORDAN) & the creator of the wonderfully dark and disturbing, 'Birdy' KAREN OSBORNE bring you...INDIGO KIDS: Seven special children - one mission. Through time and space, seven uniquely tal... read more
International best-selling author SAFFINA DESFORGES (writing as STEVIE JORDAN) & the creator of the wonderfully dark and disturbing, 'Birdy' KAREN OSBORNE bring you...INDIGO KIDS: Seven special children - one mission. Through time and space, seven uniquely tal... read more
Dark and Twisted Tales is a collection of five short stories: The Knowledge: A bus driver of old, he see's all and hears all. But what secret is he hiding Jagged Edge: Casey has been severely wounded. She does not want the police involved, but why? Evil Eye: S... read more
Volume 2: A collection of five short stories A Mother's Work - All she craves is a bit of piece and quiet, time to relax, but she gets more than she bargains for Coma - Her husband is laying in a hospital bed, on the verge of death, but she refuses to leave hi... read more
A collection of five short stories Living With Jack - She was addicted to Jack, her nemesis. Knowing her husband realises the truth about Jack, she makes a final promise to him which she cannot keep. Her addiction to Jack ultimately destroys her life in more w... read more
A story of violence, betrayal, deceit and despair. But Not Forgotten is the harrowing and gruesome story of fourteen year old Sarah Young who is cruelly ripped from her family and held hostage for six years by a woman who commands Sarah to call her mother. Fol... read more
The Other No 10: Set in contemporary London, Jo Jacobs’ debut novel is a raunchy romantic romp told through the eyes of four characters: Salacious Sadie needs a rich guy to fund her expensive lifestyle and is more than happy to use her considerable sexual prow... read more
From the winner of the inaugural Terry Pratchett First Novel Prize comes a new satire. Celebrities are mobbing London's laser clinics as a deranged wannabe bumps off A-listers, believing he can absorb their powers and become famous by taping their tattoos to h... read more
Three fifteen-year-olds hunting for geodes in the desert and coming across a mirage of a forest might be bizarre enough. But when a woman appears in the forest and throws a golden apple into the sand before the mirage blinks and vanishes, Kree, Pip and India s... read more
In a world where Others play with mortal lives, in a hidden province that survives on the backs of abducted slaves, Isabella, one of those stolen folk, sends a message woven into rare cloth made of paper and silk, in the vain hope that her cousin will find it,... read more
BOOK ONE in the THE GISBORNE SAGA In a story where status means power and survival depends on how the game is played, two people, one a squire wronged in life and one a noblewoman, are drawn together by lust and a lost inheritance in twelfth century England. G... read more
Once Lady Ysabel Ce Courcey had thought that if she had been a trobairitz, she might have written a song about herself – her courage in the face of adversity that would have had the men and women in any noble hall sighing as they listened. Now, on the eve of t... read more
An emotive trio of stories with themes of home, from the Welsh Mountains of Snowdonia.Home Sweet Home.Only it's not always sweet, or homely. Callum doesn't do sweet. Mel doesn't do homely. Sometimes the world of fantasy is actually the right one, and the facts... read more
Al is the black sheep of his family, Kate, the good shepherd of hers. Can black and white become silver, or just a dark and dangerous grey?Alastair Black has revealed a secret to his wife in a last ditch attempt to save his marriage. A return to his childhood ... read more
A dramatic story of forgiveness, family and friendship; set in the Welsh Mountains of Snowdonia. Three couples in crisis, multiple friendships under pressure. On-off-on lovers Daniel and Tina return to their childhood town near Snowdonia. After twenty-five yea... read more
The tragedy and comedy that is Jack's life; secrets, lies and family ties.Jack Redman, estate agent to the Cheshire set. An unlikely hero, or someone to break all the rules? Wild water is the story of forty-something estate agent, Jack, who is stressed out not... read more
How can we harness the future if the past will not set us free? An emotive story of love, loss and letting go.Opposites attract? Laura Brown, interior designer and James Morgan-Jones, horse whisperer - and Midnight Sky, a beautiful but damaged steeplechaser.La... read more
"IT'S ONLY WORDS" IS A COLLECTION OF ROMANTIC AND HUMOROUS TALES BY PAM HOWES - AUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING ROCK'N'ROLL ROMANCE SERIES. PAM HOWES is also the author of: 1) THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN: (rock'n'roll romance series) 2) 'TIL I KISSED YOU: (rock'n'roll ro... read more
'TIL I KISSED YOU is the sequel in the best selling Rock'n'Roll Romance series by PAM HOWES In this 80's sequel to THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN, Jess Mellor and Nick Cantello are in love. Jess's half-brother Jon is also in love with her. Following a tragic accident, ... read more
THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN is the first novel in the best selling Rock'n'Roll romance series by Pam Howes, the original ROCK ROMANCE author. Reader comments: ***“ Very well written and you felt like the characters were your friends.*** ***I shall definitely read th... read more
Ken has left the rat-race behind and now enjoys retirement, spending part of the year aboard his narrow-boat and the remainder in Cornwall, along with wife Marion and staffie Jenny. At the age of fifteen, he left school to become an apprentice electrician with... read more
William Fairfax is hiding a dreadful secret. A name change does little to mollify the fear of discovery, and his cover is almost blown by Laura the girl he has fallen in love with, when he accepts an invitation to dinner, and is introduced to Viscount George D... read more
Hungry Eyes is the first novelette in The Cheshire Set Series by Pam Howes, the original Rock Romance author. Thirty-something Debbie is married, albeit unhappily, to an older man. When her gardener injures his back and sends his grandson, Tyler, a Patrick Swa... read more
CATHY'S CLOWN (THE FAIRGROUND ROMANCE SERIES: BOOK 1) When seventeen-year-old Cathy Lomax falls from a table at a Walker Brothers concert, into the arms of biker Gianni Kandola, the safe, secure future she'd planned for herself is about to change. The couple f... read more
THAT'LL BE THE DAY: is the prequel to Three Steps to Heaven: From the original, best selling UK Rock'n'Roll romance author, Pam Howes. For three young lads with a burning ambition to be famous, there was only one way in the late 1950's and that was to start a ... read more
Always On My Mind is the third novel in the best selling Rock'n'Roll romance series by Pam Howes. It's almost 16 years since Livvy Grant gave her five day old daughter Harley to the baby's father, rock musician Roy Cantello and his wife Sammy to bring up as th... read more
Not Fade Away is the fourth novel in the best selling Rock'n'Roll romance series by Pam Howes, the original Rock Romance author. When Roy Cantello, lead singer with chart-topping band The Raiders, had an affair with Livvy Grant, a young singer half his age, it... read more
Reader Reviews "This is a thrilling read. Highly recommended." "The plot twists and turns- that's this writer's real strength." "I couldn't put it down." "I'm hooked." Product Description In North London families are being slaughtered by a merciless serial kil... read more
Lenny’s turned his back on the past. In return for police protection and a lighter sentence, he’s grassed up his old gangland boss and he’s hoping that eventually he’ll be free to start a new life with Amanda. But the past isn’t giving up on him yet. New man o... read more
Reader Reviews "The plot takes you through a series twists and turns and keeps you turning page after page. Just when you think you've got it, another plot complication comes along and BAM! The story takes off all over again." "When I read the blurb for THE AM... read more
George Mykal Ferluci lives life quietly as a protestant priest in Philadelphia. But this is all about to change. One sunny afternoon he experiences a frightening vision of an alien world, causing him to doubt his common perceptions and world views. As he prays... read more
International best-selling author SAFFINA DESFORGES (writing as STEVIE JORDAN) & the creator of the wonderfully dark and disturbing, 'Birdy' KAREN OSBORNE bring you...INDIGO KIDS: Seven special children - one mission. Through time and space, seven uniquely tal... read more
A story of love for a city, the fragility of dreams and the resilience of the human spirit. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage to dashing Frenchman Emile Daubigny, Anna, the teenage daughter of a Russian furrier, moves to Paris with her new husband, look... read more
In this final book of The Gisborne Saga, Gisborne, spymaster and valued knight of Richard Lionheart, is forced into a fierce duel in which his wife and son are thrust round the board in a brutal game of revenge. Is it the Knights Templar who seek to avenge the... read more
Having landed Lucius Devlin - the very Devil himself - life is pretty damned sweet for Evie Stone . . . until Devlin’s jilted ex shows up. Alice Spoon is mad. She’s after blood, Evie's blood, and nothing is going to stop her. Good job Lucius is around to take ... read more
Sales’ Midas Evie Stone has the world at her feet and high places to go, until the day her boyfriend is killed in a traffic accident. Evie just knows it was not Malcolm’s time to die and sets out on a mission to rectify fate’s mistake and bring him back from t... read more
Part Two of Wild WaterThe tragedy and comedy that is Jack's life; is there a future for him and Anna, or is the past too destructive?Jack Redman, estate agent to the Cheshire set and skilled juggler of complex relationships. Someone to break all the rules, or ... read more
VAMPIRES, WEREWOLVES, AND PEACHES, OH MY! Vampires suck... But Vlad is half-human. Vlad's parents have disappeared, and his evil relatives will stop at nothing to steal his inheritance and eliminate the asthmatic "hupyre" they despise. With two new friends and... read more
From the Scottish Hebrides to the Middle-East, Displacement is a soul-searching journey from grief to reclamation of self, and a love-story where romance and realism meet head-on. Divorce, the death of her soldier son and estrangement from her daughter, leave ... read more
Top ten horror and science-fiction UK bestseller. A new strain of bubonic plague is diagnosed in London. Before it can be contained it spreads through the population, faster and more deadly than anyone could have imagined. Three weeks is all it takes to decima... read more
