Charlotte was looking forward to her holiday in the sun. Two months on a remote tropical island with her rich, handsome boyfriend: who could ask for more? She is more than a little surpised, then, when she arrives to find that the island isin fact a vast correction centre
- the Training Grounds
- presided over by a sworthy & handsome figure known only as the Master. But greater shocks are in store, not least Charlotte's discovery that she is there not as a guest, but as a slave.. .

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With her mother dead & her father currently in prison awaiting trial for her murder, a pregnant Frankie is blamed for the tragedy & forced to live with her wideboy fiance, Jed O' Hara, in a trailer on his parents' l&. Frankie struggles to adapt to their gypsy way of life, but when her daughter, Georgie, is born, things go from bad to worse. Jed's mother is a loud, brazen, domineering woman, who has always yearned for a daughter herself, & she begins to take over her baby granddaughter. Meanwhile Frankie's family & friends know that Jed is cheating on her, but blinded by love & a sucker for his charm, Frankie refuses to believe them.

Then one day the unthinkable happens. Sick to the stomach at her discovery, Frankie for once sees Jed for what he really is. She realises that the man she loves is not only heartless, but also violent & dangerous. Petrified for the safety of herself & her family, Frankie plots the ultimate revenge. But can she actually go through with it?

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With her mother dead & her father currently in prison awaiting trial for her murder, a pregnant Frankie is blamed for the tragedy & forced to live with her wideboy fiance, Jed O' Hara, in a trailer on his parents' l&. Frankie struggles to adapt to their gypsy way of life, but when her daughter, Georgie, is born, things go from bad to worse. Jed's mother is a loud, brazen, domineering woman, who has always yearned for a daughter herself, & she begins to take over her baby granddaughter. Meanwhile Frankie's family & friends know that Jed is cheating on her, but blinded by love & a sucker for his charm, Frankie refuses to believe them.

Then one day the unthinkable happens. Sick to the stomach at her discovery, Frankie for once sees Jed for what he really is. She realises that the man she loves is not only heartless, but also violent & dangerous. Petrified for the safety of herself & her family, Frankie plots the ultimate revenge. But can she actually go through with it?

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With her mother dead & her father currently in prison awaiting trial for her murder, a pregnant Frankie is blamed for the tragedy & forced to live with her wideboy fiance, Jed O' Hara, in a trailer on his parents' l&. Frankie struggles to adapt to their gypsy way of life, but when her daughter, Georgie, is born, things go from bad to worse. Jed's mother is a loud, brazen, domineering woman, who has always yearned for a daughter herself, & she begins to take over her baby granddaughter. Meanwhile Frankie's family & friends know that Jed is cheating on her, but blinded by love & a sucker for his charm, Frankie refuses to believe them.

Then one day the unthinkable happens. Sick to the stomach at her discovery, Frankie for once sees Jed for what he really is. She realises that the man she loves is not only heartless, but also violent & dangerous. Petrified for the safety of herself & her family, Frankie plots the ultimate revenge. But can she actually go through with it?

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It is 1943. British SOE agent Captain John Lockhart is in Crete, fighting with the Resistance. Captured by the Germans, Lockhart faces a stark choice, between death & betrayal of his country. Concealing his true motives, Lockhart makes a bargain: in return for the life of his imprisoned wife, he will work with the Germans. When his mission is revealed, Lockhart is stunned. He is to lead a unit of the Waffen SS made up of British fascists & renegades culled from POW camps: the British Free Corps, Lockhart takes comm&, but he has an audacious plan to free his wife & other innocent victims of the war ...

Three friends, three lives, one location: San Francisco. Lydia wants to transform an intellectual book store owner into the sophisticated lover of her dreams; vivacious socialite Molly meets her match in journalist Harker Trevane; & Cassie
- a professor of literature
- finally starts exploring her true Sapphic desires. Blending fairy tale themes with contemporary situations, The Transformation is a dazzling story of three women who find themselves at a sexual crosswords in their lives. Exploring thier sensual selves in the most liberated of American cities, the friends discover things about themselves- & each other- they never knew existed.

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When Jamie Blair, twenty-four, unemployed, & back from the trenches, took lodgings at Larcom Street in Walworth, he had no idea he was walking into a trap. The house was owned by Henry Mullins, big, burly, & a hard drinker. Henry made life hell for his four stepchildren who looked half-starved & frequently got bashed. Seventeen-year-old Kitty was the one Jamie felt most sorry for. She took the brunt of Henry Mullins' bad temper whilst trying to protect her sisters & brother. When Mullins suddenly died
- in somewhat suspicious circumstances
- Kitty realised they could be in trouble. If she wasn't careful the authorities would take the younger children away
- split the family up. She wasn't having that, not after all they'd gone through, & nice, kind Jamie Blair was the one to save them. Too late Jamie found himself with a ready-made family & a stubborn & fiery young termagant called Kitty who was determined not to let him go.


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Johnny worries when his grandfather doesn't return home from checking his trap line. The elderly Indian has packed ample supplies on his snowmobile, but has stayed out far too long in the plummeting temperatures of the Alaskan winter. Only readers know that he has caught his leg in his own trap, several feet from his supplies, & is unable to free himself. Chapters alternate between his predicament, & Johnny's failed attempts to raise concern among his family. As the old man progressively uses every technique he knows to stay alive
- from creating a rabbit snare from a shoelace to fending off wolves with a newly made cedar spear, this suspenseful page-turner shows that the old man's survival is a race against time.
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