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Willingly Captured
Bianca knew one thing: she would do whatever it took to stay alive. Trying to control her own life she fell into a controlling relationship, not wanting to stay in this miserable life she made a run for it. And that’s when her life went from bad to worse. Her motto, “A girl has to do what a girl has to do”, was tested to extreme lengths when she had to choose to kill another innocent to save her own life. Feeling trapped although not wanting to leave, Bianca found love with her abuser as he tested her loyalty and willingness to survive.
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Yesterday, Today and Forever
Summer and her younger sister Mandy are driving back to Auckland and are involved in a car accident; Mandy is found dead and Summer is paralysed.
Mathew is married with one son. He falls in love with Robbin who is an exotic dancer and escort at The Pink Pussy Cat in the red light district of Auckland.Parul, Sutra, Dennis and the twins Donald and Michael attend a BBQ and meet Mathew, his wife Liz Fletcher and his wheelchair-bound girlfriend Summer.
The detectives join a Scottish country dance club to try to find out where Mathew goes at night after dancing with his wife. The twins reconnect with Tilly, Badger and Bella who are all grown up now. Parul finds she is pregnant. Mathew is found battered to death in a park by his now pregnant girlfriend Robbin. Robbin is charged with Mathew’s murder. It’s up to the detectives to prove she is innocent.
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Zero Recall
Imagine what it would be like if every single fragment of your memory is erased and all you know is that someone is trying to kill you.
When Jason Harper wakes up in hospital, he has no knowledge of who or what he is and, more importantly, who had tried to kill him and caused the bloodbath at his house. It seems that a bullet fragment lodged in the brain does that to you.
He has been informed of his name and that he is a psychiatrist by a disturbingly attractive detective sitting by his bedside. He assumes that he must have had patients, but knowledge of family and friends, colleagues, his past and his future is a total blank. He has nothing other than grim determination to help him piece together the puzzle that is his former life.
A suspenseful, frightening road of unravelling his past and the people populating it, enfolds with many unsuspecting twists and turns. Some information comes as a shock and it is only when he delves into the darker side of his past that he is able to make some sense of the present.
Harper will be profoundly tested on his ability to stay alive as well as his mental capacity to emotionally deal with his past.
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CodeX
Sarah, a simple secretary, becomes the involuntary heroine of a story of political corruption together with her old love, Michael, who suddenly reappears in her life. She will find herself fighting to bring out the incredible truth. An ancient family pendant left by him in custody before disappearing again will soon prove to be an object of great importance and be a crucial point of the story.The sequence of events which follow one another at a rapid pace open the doors for Sarah to an unknown world made of intrigues and conspiracies that change her life, bringing her to various risky yet fascinating distant places in the search of Michael, who is soon discovered to be an agent of the secret service.
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Destiny's Elbow
Working against the background of a campaign for Scottish independence, American undercover narcotics agent, Roz Tattarkowski, has to take over as lead investigator when her chief is killed in a mysterious accident in Edinburgh. From that time on, she receives minimal support from her organization in the U.S.A.Seemingly left alone to operate in a country she dislikes and struggles to understand, Roz relies on skills she learned as an aspiring but unsuccessful actor in New York. These enable her to track through political intrigue and deceit into a world of narcotics production, immigrant smuggling and trade in human organs. In the process, she becomes involved in further intrigue at the international level, when her acting talents are put to a final test: war will be the outcome if they fail.Throughout these events, Roz takes pride in her imagination and improvisation. But what appear to be actions taken freely and on personal initiative turn out to be plots scripted and directed by unseen hands.
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Droid: Part 1
Who are you? Why are you reading this? Can you help me? I am starting to get worried. You see, I killed my creator. Oh lord, what have I done? I just want to be normal like you, but I could not be normal with him knowing what I really am. Okay, I know what to do. Yes, I see what needs doing—I must run, run so far like Harrison Ford did in the Fugitive. I am not fake. I am real. My name is Droid and to be normal, I must kill.
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Flake
Ness Gordon is an amateur journalist, ready to get the scoop by any means necessary. So when the opportunity to snoop around Sir John Woldarc’s (a potential secret spy) Gothic mansion arises, Ness jumps at the chance to prove herself and expose the most controversial story she’s had the chance to come across.But when Kalum, her brother, unleashes his fury upon hearing that Ness is living at the mansion temporarily, Ness must ask herself whether there’s more going on than she may realise... How does Kalum know so much about her target? Why doesn’t he trust her journalistic capabilities? And what is it about Ewan, Woldarc’s seemingly faithful second-in-command, that leaves her feeling so afraid?
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From the Village of Lucca
What connects a brutal robbery in the Tuscan village of Lucca, to murders that occurred in the American Southwest? And how could a killing that took place in an Arizona bordello be related to what happened in a grim asylum nearly a lifetime later? Paul Rankin is about to learn the answers-and much more. The young lawyer has been practicing barely a year, but already hates it. He's been hoping for the thrills of the courtroom, but the firm's wealthy clients have infuriating whims about a lawyer's role-the last one paid five hundred an hour for him to walk her dog! Enter Louisa Locke, a tiny, dying widow with a mysterious missing person case. The brittle woman already spent staggering sums on useless investigators, but will stop at nothing to find out what happened to a tragic, childhood friend named Laura. With little time left she offers a fortune if Paul's firm can find out. The work has all the signs of another dog walker task, and then Paul discovers his firm's retired founder may hold the clues. But that's Paul's own father, and they're estranged. Worse yet, the old man suffers from Alzheimer's, and the keys to Locke's puzzle seem to be falling away from his crumbling mind. Paul's already fractured relationship with his father gets only worse when he learns of the bond Locke had with her friend, and the touching reasons for her obsession. He begins ignoring rules to find out more, until he reaches a dangerous crossroads. He makes a stunning decision, and starts down a trail of murder and deceit that leads halfway around the world. Within just a few months of getting this ‘dog walking' assignment he'll get his wish for courtroom work-in an ancient Florentine courtroom, no less. But there's a catch: It's the kind of trial most lawyers have nightmares about.
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Operation Amazon
Jordan – call sign Cobra – is still haunted by memories of his time in the armed forces. One mission in particular, involving the death of a teammate, still gives him nightmares. He thinks he has left that life behind him until, one day, he receives an email asking him to meet with the mysterious Professor R. Carter. The Professor persuades him to reunite with his old team for a new mission involving danger, old friends and a legendary Incan dagger. Jordan leaves behind his comfy home with his cat, Shadow, and his doting old friend Nan and returns to a life of action and danger. Dutch, Hawk-eye, Atkins, and Sky join Cobra and together the team learn that past events might not be quite what they seemed.
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Ordinarily Unthinkable
Ordinarily Unthinkable by Eddie Mann is the tale of ‘Grant', a man with a mysterious past. After the senseless deaths of his wife and daughter, Grant seeks revenge on those responsible for this abhorrent act.Who is responsible and will Grant exact revenge for those who he loved and lost?Ordinarily Unthinkable is a fast-paced, exciting novel which will have the reader gripped.
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Pandora's Child
Abigail Williams's home life is so unbearable that the only safe place for her is her weekly appointments with her therapist, Sam Richards. When Sam realises Abigail's absence, he fears the worst. Running away from home, Abigail makes new friends, who she believes will take care of her, but her life turns for the worst as Abigail gets caught up in a grooming cult. Abigail's therapist seems to connect with Abigail on a deeper level and does everything to save her from this grooming cult. But, being caught up in the sinister web of lies, will Abigail escape from the clutches of the leader of the cult, or will the psychological trauma take her even deeper into this dark world of grooming?
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Reckless
What begins as a family holiday in Bali ends up in a treacherous journey back to Australia. Jake Miller disregards common sense when he attempts to purchase weed in Bali, ending up arrested and imprisoned by corrupt and untrustworthy members of law enforcement. Desperate for help in an unfamiliar land, his parents beseech money from their family back home. On leave from his tours in Afghanistan, L.T. Sullivan Cooper aka Sulli, decides to take his nephew's matters into his own hands. Funded with inheritance money and accompanied by his dependable and brave three fellow army officers, Sulli plans to not only break Jake out of the Indonesian prison, but also to transport the Miller family home. Mishaps, errors, and evil enemies challenge this risky operation at every turn, and it remains to be wondered; will Jake and his family make it home? Reckless shows how deadly international adventures can become.
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