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Lament For Darley Dene
Based on true events.
After the Second World War, young Ben uncovers a bizarre tale: in the 1941 Blitz, soldiers died right where his playground is now.
As events of the past slowly unfold, Ben is entangled in a series of strange, inexplicable incidents, as old secrets and long-hidden truths surface.
He is about to discover his family's dark secrets, and will have to help put to rest the horror of what happened in Darley Dene.
The Wind Guardian
With the help of three inside men, a group of extremists targets a nuclear power center with the intent to spread deadly radiation to the world.
This harsh reality is lost on security guards Cameron and Grace, who have temporarily deserted their posts for a romantic tryst. When they realize what's happening in the power plant, the two rally to thwart the terrorists' plans.
But has their renewed commitment to duty come too late?
Praise:
★★★★★ - “A powerful novel that accurately and incisively destroys the myth that American power plants are safe from terrorist attack.” - John Loftus, Pulitzer Prize Nominee
★★★★★ - “Chilling, riveting, timely. Scozzari's terrorists bring the fight to us - and we're not ready.” - Lt. Colonel Rick Francona, CNN & NBC Military Analyst
The Test
A series of nuclear attacks has left the world in a Great Depression.
Katia Wynter is a teenage girl living in a commune in New Mexico, ruled by motorcycle gangs who exchange protection for tribute. One of many kids who left their poverty-stricken homes in the town of Truth Or Consequences, Katia is searching for a better future outside the world their parents destroyed.
But when Katia meets four mysterious men at the outskirts of the town, her world is turned upside down, and she's forced to rethink her view on the world... and her future.
Praise from readers:
★★★★★ - "This story will stir up your faith, make you smile at it's simplicity, and wish for more. I have never read this author before, but if this is what he offers I will be a fan for life."
Offender Of The Faith
Just as his partner Sandra is due to give birth, D.C.I. Alex Warren is sent to lead a difficult and sensitive investigation.
Why has a young Asian girl been sexually assaulted and murdered in the home she shares with her Scottish boyfriend? Families are brought under intense scrutiny as Alex and his team look for answers.
Potential motives of racism, islamophobia, hate, jealousy and honor killing all have to be considered. But who is behind the killing... and what is the real reason?
Offender Of The Faith is a standalone novel, and can be enjoyed even if you haven't read other books in the series.
The Spooky Sponge
Annie Morton is eight years old. A bit shorter and chubbier than the average girl her age, there are two things in life that really bug her: getting out of bed, and getting a wash. She can’t stand it! The very thought of it makes her want to pull the blankets over her head every morning and stay in bed forever.
That is, until she meets The Spooky Sponge: a snotty-coloured, raggy bit of sponge that has goggly eyes and a wrinkly mouth. But this is no ordinary sponge. This one lives. Both magical and spooky, it has powers that only Annie can control.
In this book, The Spooky Sponge meets Annie’s Mum. Payback time can be fun when you have a Spooky Sponge!
The Sandman Cometh
In a cold future, Simeon Allis struggles with an existence he doesn't understand. Every decision is made for him, and his loved ones no longer have a place in the world. The State provides everything, and the Sandmen ensure conformity.
Hideous inventions, the Sandmen ensure citizens' obedience in the clinical world in which Simeon lives his lonely, controlled life.
But he is different than the others... for he has memories.
One terrible night, lost in the deserted streets of the crumbling city, he stumbles upon the hideout of those sworn to overthrow the ruling elite.
Tryzub
After Russian researchers develop a miracle cure for HIV, Trident Corporation begins the drug’s beta testing in America.
Sabrina gets tangled in an international web of intrigue, as terrorists are using the project as subterfuge for an attack on American soil. Soon after, a terrorist attack rocks Wall Street. It is time for the Nightcrawler to come out again.
But this time, Sabrina's lover Hoyt is in the thick of the action. With the war between drug cartels raging around them, can Sabrina bring the criminals to justice - and protect her fiancée?
Ogre's Lament
Spain, 1648. Fifteen-year-old Luis is different than everyone else in the small, sweltering village of Riodelgado - because he can read.
Targeted by the local toughs, who make his life a misery, Luis works tirelessly to provide for his ailing mother and young sister. Then, one day, a wandering soldier arrives to the village and everything changes.
People are murdered. Children disappear. The mayor blames an ogre, and the soldier has evidence of the hideous creature. He demands it be hunted down.
It becomes clear to Luis that there is more to the story than the appearance of an ogre. Is the mythical beast just a smokescreen, designed to keep everyone from the truth?
One Lost Summer
Rex Allen loves star quality in women.
He moves into a new house in a heat wave with few possessions apart from two photographs of his dead daughter.
His next door neighbour, beautiful Evangeline Glass invites him to one of her many summer parties, where he meets her friends and possessive husband Harry.
˃˃˃ Rex feels he knows Evangeline intimately.
He starts to spy on her and becomes convinced she is someone other than who she pretends to be. When he discovers she has a lover, he blackmails her into playing a game of identity that ends in disaster.
The Lost Shepherd
In a world devastated by corruption, Father Darcy has lost his faith. After letting down the very people he pledged to protect, he decides to take a pilgrimage across the dangerous English countryside in an attempt to find his mission again.
There, he meets men hungry for his blood. A vicious, relentless landscape. And two boys more dangerous than anything he has ever seen before. But can he save these children, or will they change his cause forever?
This is a Reacher short story set before the events of The Running Game.
The Siege of New Terra
Jules Rammis - telepath, astrobiologist, reluctant adventurer - is up to his ears in trouble again.
Big Mack, a brutal Terran leader of a pack of mercenaries, is bent on exterminating the gentle natives of planet New Terra, so Terran colonists can take over the land. Jules will need all of his Tel powers and wits to stop the mercenaries.
It's no easy task, but our hero is nothing if not resourceful, and his trusty team is with him all the way.
The Siege of New Terra is a standalone novel, and can be enjoyed even if you haven't read other books in the series.
Penny Flame
Who was Penny Flame?
While researching the atrocities committed during the Apache Wars, university graduate Moneen Murphy learns of her great-great grandmother's key role in the conflict.
Tracing the relationship between her grandmother and the natives, Moneen begins a journey into the unknown. As she slowly discovers the truth, dark secrets and ghosts of the past are brought into the modern era with catastrophic force.
The story of this fateful chapter in America’s past reflects issues and events of the modern age, presented in an unforgettable, epic adventure.
Praise from readers:
★★★★★ - "Compelling and well-written... a must-read."
★★★★★ - "Penny Flame is the best adventure novel I have read in a long, long time."
The Legacy of the Marshall Cousins
1712 – Marseille, France. A greedy crook plots a heist of priceless paintings and portraits. Meanwhile, an ambitious knight changes his orders involving sacred relics.
But when the goods go missing, their plans shatter. Facing unpleasant consequences, the crook and the knight both blame their losses on the mysterious Marshall cousins.
1718 - Paris, France. Beautiful and headstrong, Charlotte never hesitates to engage in a sword fight, or a dance at a ball. But when she must choose between two young men, her lust for adventure leads her to seek the notorious Marshall cousins instead.
Her womanizing brother Henri and his arrogant friend Antoine reluctantly follow her into intrigue and danger.
The Last Hero
In crime-ridden Crystal City, superhumans are being manufactured. After Bryan Whittaker survives a personal tragedy, he decides to help save the city from the forces that killed his family. After signing up for the Hero Program, Bryan becomes Soulfire.
Years later, the products of the program are targeted by an assassin. Soulfire finds himself being accused; he's the only one strong enough to overpower the others. But is there someone else in the game?
With the corrupt Hero Factory shaken to its foundations and the future of the city hanging in the balance, Soulfire must find the real killer and bring him to justice.
One must find out why one is born, and Bryan Whittaker was born to be The Last Hero.
Best Action & Adventure - 2016 IAN Book of the Year Awards
Prisoner 4374
For more than a century, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was a potential Jack The Ripper suspect.
He was a sinister character, preying on the unfortunate souls who were forced to make a living as streetwalkers in Victorian London, and ultimately led those poor women to an untimely and torturous death. These crimes eventually branded him the 'Lambeth Poisoner'.
However, during the time of the heinous Ripper murders, Dr. Cream was incarcerated in Joliet Prison, Illinois. Over the decades, this fact alone has caused debate as to whether or not he deserves to be under suspicion of being the Whitechapel fiend. Was it possible that Dr. Cream bribed his way out of jail, perhaps using a doppelganger to take his place while secretly finding a passage to England with murder in mind?
The Girl Who Could Change Fate
Lacey is your average teenager. She goes to school, tries to maintain a 'D' in chemistry and spends Friday nights creeping on her crush on Facebook. She is ordinary except for one thing: she can change the future.
After Lacey is introduced to the Fate Changing Regime, her life turns upside down. A fanatical group opposing the FCR will stop at nothing to eliminate them. At the same time, Lacey finds herself trying - and failing - to ignore her feelings for the enigmatic Christian Angel.
When Lacey is tasked to uncover a traitor in the FCR, she must use her gift to survive… and resist the dark allure in her heart that comes with Changing Fate.
The Fifth Commandment
After Christina breaks the Fifth Commandment, strange things begin to happen - and take her away from home in Normal, Illinois.
Now, she’s back and has to tell them the story within a story, but how can she make them believe? So she had made a mistake - but didn’t all teenagers do the same thing?
The Fifth Commandment is a supernatural memoir entwined with a plot drenching with old-fashioned religious guilt, and short enough to finish in a single sitting - perhaps lounging by the pool or sitting in the garden. The novella follows Christina into a confessional and starts at what we would consider our weakest point.
The point when we first admit our sin.
Sasha
SASHA is the story of a very remarkable dog: a Staffordshire Bull Terrier abandoned close to death at the age of 6 weeks old. Rescued from a street gutter, she had the good fortune to be adopted by author Brian L. Porter and his family.
Despite suffering from a catalogue of injuries, including two broken legs and skin allergies, and eventually being diagnosed as a serious epileptic at just two years old, Sasha's story is one of triumph over adversity; of love, happiness and inspiration. Her love of life and capacity for enjoying every day to the fullest is nothing short of miraculous, and her story is told here by the person who shares every moment of her life on a daily basis, and how a disabled author and his dog have become dependent on each other.
Cassie's Tale
This is the story of Cassie: a rescue dog who was just over two years old when she joined Brian and Juliet’s family of rescues, having already had three previous owners in her short life.
The tiny little terrier soon wormed her way into the hearts of the family, and her antics and oversized attitude quickly earned her the nicknames ‘The Mad Ferret’ and ‘The Wicked Witch of the West.’ Cassie can best be described as a ‘pocket dynamo’ or, as the author puts it, “She is filled with boundless energy, and despite being fourteen years old now, she’s like a Duracell bunny without an off switch.”
Penny The Railway Pup
Penny's story is the fourth in Brian L. Porter's award-winning rescue dog series and features a tiny terrier, abandoned in a particularly cruel manner, and her subsequent adoption and life with the author and his family.
From being attacked and needing emergency surgery, to days out at the coast, chasing seagulls, and stately homes, Penny's life in Brian's pack of rescue dogs has never been anything but interesting and eventful.
Read her charming story, a welcome addition to the Family of Rescue Dogs series.
