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The Puppet Tears
Marianna Pascal discovers a secret drawer in the basement of her home – a drawer filled to the brim with hexes and spell-settings that seem in some way related to her and her partner, Samuel. She is unaware of the ramifications her discovery will have on the course of her happy existence.Lying in the core of the drawer are dolls of her and Samuel, bound and stitched together, with hair that can only have grown from her head, and clothes made from garments believed lost or misplaced. She breaks the bonds and removes the doll, and thus begins the undoing of the spells that have controlled her life and her love for the past two decades.Samuel must act fast to prevent losing everything he’s embroiled into his skewed existence, stepping further into the world of the occult than he ever has before to prevent losing everything he’s contrived into his undeserving life, but to what end?The Puppet Tears takes you on a journey inside a warped mind, a mind that long ago rejected a reality that denied it the life it craved. But all things in life must come at a price. Is Samuel willing to pay the piper?
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Tacked Up for Trouble
Kate’s past has caught up with her, and it’s closer than she ever imagined. The school bully who once tormented her is now her husband, Douglas Willard. Tough as nails and frustratingly adorable, Douglas has his own unique brand of trouble, and the law is hot on his heels.
As danger, intrigue, and even death come knocking at their door, Kate finds herself unwillingly thrust into the thick of it, all thanks to her husband’s antics. With each passing day, she begins to question the choices that led her to this point. Has she made a terrible mistake in marrying Douglas?
As the couple navigates the treacherous waters of their relationship and the external threats that seem to lurk around every corner, Kate wonders if their marriage can withstand the pressure. Will their love be strong enough to overcome the challenges they face, or will the weight of their past and present troubles tear them apart?
In this gripping tale of love, danger, and redemption, Kate and Douglas must confront their demons head-on if they hope to survive the storm that threatens to consume them both. Can they emerge unscathed, or will their tumultuous journey end in tragedy?
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Ghosts of Old
Sixteen years after brutal tyranny and rebellion plunged the land into chaos, a fragile peace reigns for those who endured the storms – survivors like Lindsay. Having finally found refuge, former freedom fighters believe the worst darkness has passed now that the Gordons’ despotic bloodline was severed long ago. They could not be more wrong.
In this false calm before evil stirs anew, a lone Gordon remains: Natasha, the last of her maniacal line. Growing stronger as complacency takes root, she patiently plots to recapture all that her forebears lost. And the key to completing her foreordained rise is Lindsay’s demise.
Soon this haven is set to splinter as an obsessive Natasha closes in while Lindsay discovers too late that the fight for liberty is far from finished. Must she marshal tattered resistance forces before a vengeful tyrant enslaves them all? Or will the cunning, ravenous last Gordon prevail to usher in darkness invisible since seeming victory? The time has come for one final clash between an emboldened dove and a ruthless scion fuelled solely by obligation to restore her twisted heritage whatever the cost.
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Tucker's Fyke
Gabriela, a product of the care system, is an independent and feisty young lady. She has a brief and innocent encounter with a complete stranger, during which she intuitively forms the opinion that this odd man is dangerous. She has absolutely no evidence, but she feels driven by her gut feeling to discover proof to substantiate her suspicions. This only serves to get her into trouble with the police for stalking, harassment, and theft. They treat her as a nuisance who suffers from delusions and, as far as possible, she is to be ignored and discouraged. However, her doggedness and determination drive her to persevere with her quest despite the opposition, only to succeed in putting her own life on the line. Can she be rescued? Or will she, in fact, become just one more hidden victim?
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Nusantara
After dropping out of university, getting a job as a storeman, doing drugs and then splitting up with his wife, Jack, in a fit of depression, joins the Australian Army and is sent to East Timor at the height of the troubles. He “volunteers” for a mission in Indonesia, where the United Nations, with help from the US Navy and the Royal Marines, are trying to rescue a group of foreigners, mostly Europeans, being held hostage by the local rebels. Jack completes his mission only to become the victim of misdirected revenge.
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Pass the Parcel
It’s 2008 and the Global Financial Crisis is upon the World … The Establishment turns a blind eye as banks shuffle toxic financial packages around the system to unsuspecting victims…
A hedge fund manager has just placed the biggest bet of his investment career. Market manipulation is suspected, but can he discover who is trying to destroy him before it’s too late?
A hard-working Mexican couple are fighting foreclosure to save their house in San Francisco.
In London, a banker discovers his employer is about to embezzle assets from his brother’s property business.
And, a rising star of British politics is being blackmailed by an ex-professional footballer. When the former player is murdered as well, the politician and his wife become key suspects.
Pass the Parcel is a financial thriller that explores the human psychology around financial decisions and how the lives of a group of people were changed beyond recognition by the financial crash.
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Payback
In the aftermath of the Horizon Life Settlement Fund scandal, Justin Kell is waiting for the trials of the Lebanese organised crime syndicate to end and for justice to be served. When unexpected events disrupt the proceedings, Kell’s world is turned upside down as he returns to face some old adversaries.
Recently established as a private investigator, his refusal to take on the case of a missing person leads to events from his past returning to haunt him, culminating in a race against time as he tries to stop a serial killer with a taste for blood.
As the two cases converge into a dramatic finale, Kell is faced with some life-changing choices.
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Relatively Distant
Relatively Distant takes us on a journey that is peppered with typical life experiences, but in unusual and challenging circumstances. The story begins in the early seventies and brings us up to recent times. The main story is centred around a family of four, and is told at different stages from their individual viewpoints. As the younger characters mature, so does the underlying theme and the story becomes more serious and dark. Sibling rivalry is at its core, but there is an underlying history that doesn’t fully reveal itself until the end.
Although the book tackles some of life’s difficulties, it is sprinkled throughout with humour that helps to balance the atmosphere. The eternal question of ‘nature or nurture’ is posed as the main characters develop and their personalities become apparent. Relatively Distant is best described as a family tragedy, wrapped up in a love story and ending in a mystery discovered.
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Snuff
The story of a boy with a dysfunctional upbringing, who faces depraved acts of violence and criminality and is saved by adoption in London and evacuation to Derbyshire to avoid the blitz of WWII.
Thirty years on the searing drought of 1976 exposes two bodies under Ladybower reservoir. What’s the connection with the spate of murders in Sheffield?
Police Inspectors Hawk and Tony D both have buried secrets of their own. Can they work together to stop a serial killer?
One suspects, but the other knows the psychopath responsible.
Both face the gravest consequences if they can’t cover up their past deeds.
Just how far will two hardened streetwise detectives go to save themselves?
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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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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 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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