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Sons and Mothers
The year was 1939 and soldiers were about to go to war. Constance Cummings, a sixteen-year-old beautiful but naïve young girl, was taken in by a conniving and duplicitous junior army officer who was already married with a family using a false identity.
With the false promise of later marriage and following a wager with his colleagues he lured the girl into a seedy room where he raped her.
She found herself to be pregnant and in 1940 she had a baby with an unknown father. Even though she had been duped and raped this was considered to be a disgrace and the child, a boy, was taken from her without her even being aware of his sex.
Meanwhile, some miles away the offender’s real wife gave birth to a son.
This is a story of their lives from that point on. Will Constance ever meet up with her son? Will the offender’s real wife ever realise what a dreadful man she had married? Will the two half-brothers ever meet and become friends?
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Stars Aligned
When Emily moves halfway across the country to escape her abusive ex, Jason, she ends up landing her dream job and meeting her CEO and ideal man, Alex. Things are starting to look up for her and life is good. That is until she discovers Jason has followed her and is set intent on destroying everything she has achieved. She finds herself unwillingly working alongside Jason, and both under the management of Alex, who is oblivious to their previous life together. She must remain strong, out his dark secrets and protect her man to win her freedom.
But Emily has some dark, twisted secrets of her own, secrets Jason owns entirely, and Alex seeks.
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Storm Force
Matt Bradley, former street gang teen, now a tough operator with an elite mountain rescue team.
His wife Amanda vanishes in plain sight. There are no clues, no obvious motive.
With the team leader stranded in a plane crash, he must lose his emotions and focus.
His mission to find her pits him against criminal thugs working with a shadowy offshore network of killers.
Where is she and why was she targeted?
To save her, he must ‘fly blind’ against the clock in steep, remote wilderness.£3.50 -
Take Two Tablets
“If people think I’m bad, then I’ll be good at that!”
Macy Lord is living her worst life: victimised at home, vilified at school.
When novice Religious Studies teacher Mr Fairclough asks his class to re-interpret The Ten Commandments, Macy resolves, for the sake of authenticity, to break them. Blaming, blaspheming, coveting, dishonouring, lying, stealing, and worshipping shiny stuff all come easy, but then she kills – and kills again.
Traumatised by her potential parricide, Macy goes on the run: faking adulthood in London, blurring art and death in Paris, escaping undercover in Arabia, raising the bar in Brooklyn.
Pursued by a coterie of vengeful cast-offs, Macy craves her calm, cool Mr Fairclough, but having lost his star pupil, he too has eschewed education for misadventures of his own.
If nurture is absent, will nature take its course? Can Macy find redemption in the chaos of her life? And how will she ‘complete the set’ with The Seventh Commandment still unbroken?
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The 9/11 Connection
In the years since the events of The Odessa Connection, Isaac Menshive and Will McIntosh have settled into new and contrasting roles. Isaac, with his priorities firmly centred on his young and growing family in London, has taken a back seat in running the Menshive Trust, the vast and burdensome business enterprise he inherited. It is Will who oversees the trust’s day-to-day administration full-time alongside Isaac’s daughter Ruth, to whom he is becoming ever more attached.
As part of their researches, Will and Ruth discover that Isaac’s father, a university professor in New York who died under mysterious circumstances, had been working on his own ambitious project, based in the North Tower of the World Trade Center before the attacks of September 11, 2001. They call in experts to examine the Professor’s papers, including those scattered over the city when the towers collapsed, in the hope of learning more about his intentions. At the same time, Isaac’s grasping ex-wife and her two daughters suddenly come back into his life. Is this more than coincidence? Could they perhaps be in league with the sinister figures who have been harassing Isaac over the last several years?
The 9/11 Connection brings the story of Will and Isaac to a satisfying conclusion as it continues to develop the relationships between the familiar protagonists while introducing some highly colourful new characters. With the same flair for detail, psychological nuance and sophisticated geopolitical understanding as its predecessors, the novel displays an uncanny prescience about the current political situation in Eastern Europe.£3.50 -
The Alpha Portfolio
This is a story about a daughter’s search for the truth and her struggle against the silent misogyny within her family.
In the months leading up to the Global Financial Crisis, Lottie Sacramento is about to marry her fiancé Dan. She would consider herself one of life’s lucky ones. Working for her uncle’s business in the gilded world of European property fund management, Celestial has an investment track record to die for. Unfortunately, her fiancé does just that – in mysterious circumstances on a business trip to Frankfurt – and her world is thrown into turmoil.
As the financial crisis unfolds and Lottie searches for the truth about Dan and Celestial, she begins to unravel a series of dark family secrets.
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The Beaumont Werewolves and Vampires' Society
A British journalist from St. Helens in England, goes to Dublin to find out why so many animal attacks are taking place. She soon discovers that a Doctor John Landis has a secret drug to turn people into werewolves and vampires. He gets his victims from the local hospital and meetings of people who have lost a loved one. Her journey to solve this mystery starts from Dublin in Ireland, to Blackpool in England, then onto the Isle of Wight and finally the Isle of Mull.
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The Bigamist
Harry Boulton, a successful consultant for a global corporation, finds himself in a downward spiral after losing a substantial sum of money gambling and being fired from his job in Brussels. The added pressure of receiving a letter from his wife in New York asking for a child only compounds his stress. With mounting debts to a dangerous loan shark known as Spider and the weight of two marriages to navigate, Harry reaches the brink of despair and makes a devastating decision.
But just as he is about to pull the trigger, fate intervenes and gives him a second chance. Determined to turn his life around, Harry takes on a new job and sets out to make amends with the two women in his life. However, when his wives unexpectedly meet in Sydney, where he has found a fresh start, the stage is set for a heart-pounding confrontation that could determine the rest of Harry’s days.
Harry’s journey is a thrilling roller coaster ride of personal redemption, filled with twists and turns that will leave readers on the edge of their seats. With a gripping plot, dynamic characters, and intense action, this book explores the limits of love, loyalty, and the human spirit.
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The Competition
Eight unlikely chefs thrust together, a washed-up TV presenter, a large cash prize and an unforgiving Northumberland landscape. Add to this a previously forgotten ghost from the past and what could possibly go wrong?
Introducing a new and daring competition that everyone is just dying to be part of. A brutal and often darkly comic tale about why chefs should never be left to their own devices. Scores will be settled, friendships formed (and lost) and all in the pursuit of fifty thousand pounds.
Will anyone live to tell the tale? Hunting and foraging for food along with plummeting temperatures and the risk of exposure, there can be only one winner.
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The Conversation Club
Centuries ago, the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten appointed a council of 22 custodians to foster the flourishing of the human spirit through the pursuit of knowledge, the advance of the arts, and covert philanthropy. Today, the London Chapter of that council is known as The Conversation Club. It is helmed by Esau Monk, who guards its activities and astounding wealth with ironclad secrecy, but its very existence and purpose are threatened from within.
60 years ago, in Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Ackerman smuggled 22 boys and a hoard of stolen gold out of the country at the outbreak of the war. Their destination: London, and The Conversation Club. Unknown to anyone but him, he has secretly substituted his own son for one of the boys and is haunted by guilt.
Now, in London, someone is carrying out brutal murders. The security services are convinced Islamic terrorists are behind the atrocities. Former FBI profiler, Dr. Ben Whisker, disagrees. He discerns something far more deadly than meets the eye. His recent fall from professional grace, however, means he is not being taken seriously. Realising that the impenetrable Conversation Club is the focus of the violence, he teams up with the Grand Master of the Club, Esau Monk, to figure out what the connection is.
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The Dark Corners – Book One
This is the story about three women, who think they are friends until one hellish night when one is raped and the other two kill the rapist and blame her. This starts an inventive killing spree, each new murder committed to cover up the previous one and to keep several steps ahead of the police. Eventually, she wakes from a coma to find out that it was all a bad dream and that in reality, they had been in a car crash that maimed the other two and demolished her face. She is given a new face and tries to get back with her friends, but they hate her and set her up with a contagious new boyfriend. Upon receiving the news that she has become contagious and will die, she wants to take them with her and sets about destroying them, only to find out that they can all be saved.
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The Dark Side of Innocence
A devastating incident turns Matthew Morgan, a caring and innocent school teacher, into a would-be vigilante. What makes him want to tackle Lawrence Tyburn and his merciless, underworld, criminal gang?
What does a woman do when she falls in love with a man and sees him bent on self-destruction? This is Melissa Reagan’s dilemma, as she becomes infatuated by Matthew. She feels his pain and anguish and comes to a terrible realisation. His obsession has no boundaries, as a need for retribution drives him to desperate measures.
Charles Rydell is a minister at the home office. Why does he make an agreement to move selected inmates to an old Victorian prison? The action is fast and furious with MI6 chasing shadows as they try to unravel an outrageous crime in the highest echelons of government. In the background is a prime minister trying to keep the lid on a scandal that would ruin her career. Two very different worlds collide with spectacular effect!
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