Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon the seer Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez -- but he has only days before this magical artefact is lost to him forever. Meanwhile the forces of the Empire are mustering for their next great offensive. Stenwold & his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the enemy soldiers are on the march again conquering everything in their path. & if they cannot hold them back before spring then the hated black & gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year's end. & should the Shadow Box fall into the hands of the power-mad Emperor then nothing will save the world from his relentless ambition. ' This is not your regular run of the mill fantasy world' Graemes Fantasy Book Review.com 'A unique voice in the fantasy industry & this book is a great addition to an epic & complex story' Walkerof Worlds.com ...

Fighting Fantasy co-creator Ian Livingstone OBE brings the world's original gamebook series
- 30 years old in August 2012
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November 1940. I.A. Serebin a writer from Odessa & former decorated Hero of the Soviet Union is on his way to Istanbul following a cryptic letter from a former lover. Ostensibly there on official business for the International Russian Union an emigre organisation based in Paris he is drawn into a clandestine world of international spies & political players. With war in Europe drawing nearer Serebin is recruited by the British secret services
- his mission to stop the export of Romanian oil to Germany. In a race against time Serebins journey will take him from the glittering salons of Paris to the back alleys of Bucharest & the Black Sea ports in a covert operation to staunch the flow of oil the precious blood of victory.
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One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza Italy. Shortly before her disappearance Elisa had met Danilo Restivo a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting womens hair on the back of buses. Elisas family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughters disappearance but he is protected by local big-wigs: by his Sicilian father by a doctor with links to organised crime by a priest who had vices of his own. Years went by & Elisas family could find only false leads. 2002 & Restivo is now living in Bournemouth. In November that year his neighbour is found murdered with strands of her own hair in her hands. Once again the police are at a loss to pin anything on him. Its not until 2010 when Elisas decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing that the two cases are linked & Restivo is finally dealt with. Blood on the Altar" combines a gripping true crime case with Jones deep understanding of Italian culture
- the impunity it offers to the powerful
- he so expertly demonstrated in his bestseller: " The Dark Heart of Italy"."

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1857. On the LNWR train to London a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley conman thief & murderer has one last ace up his sleeve
- a beautiful & ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover including cold-blooded murder. When the Railway Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck learns that Oxley his arch nemesis has escaped black memories of their shared past leave him no choice but to do his duty whatever the cost. With the faithful Victor Leeming at his side Colbeck must use all of his skills to track his elusive enemy. But could he have finally met his match?
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How far will Rose go to keep a promise? The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimirs Academy was the deadliest ever in the schools history claiming the lives of many. Even worse the Strigoi took some of their victims with them
- including Dimitri. Hed rather die than be one of them & now Rose must abandon her best friend Lissa
- the one she has sworn to protect no matter what
- & keep the promise Dimitri begged her to make long ago. But with everything at stake how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most?


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Solange Drake will not claim her birthright; she will not be queen as vampire tradition dictates. But change always comes at a cost.. . Possessed by a vengeful twelfth-century witch Solange commits heinous crimes against the vampire tribes that she pledged to empower. Motives are questioned. Trust is broken. The treaty between the Drakes & the Helios-Ra is under threat. Solange must escape the folds of memory & time & fight for the fate of the royal crown
- & win. Her destiny & her heart depends on it. The deliciously dark & dramatic finale to the much-loved Drake Chronicles series.
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The discovery of an unidentified decomposed corpse in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult & dangerous case. Set against the backdrop of the 3000-year-old city of Catalina in the shadow of Mount Etna Blood Rain" finds Aurelio Zen at his most desperate & driven." ...

Clones Rachel & Theo now live thousands of miles apart. They keep in touch but things just aren't the same. When Rachel discovers that evil scientist Elijah is still working in secret for a section of the government & about to murder Daniel she sets out to rescue the little boy but her plans backfire with disastrous consequences. Across the Atlantic Theo becomes suspicious when Rachel misses their weekly internet chat. He discovers a report online saying she's killed herself & travels to Scotland to find her certain that she has been kidnapped. A clue leads him to Elijah's mysterious clinic where the sinister Aphrodite Experiment is underway. But what is Elijah really planning? Why does he need to track Rachel down so badly? & will Rachel & Theo be able to pay the ultimate ransom that he demands? ...

Set at the time of the Russian Revolution the end of a centuries old dynasty the rise of the Bolsheviks sent shockwaves around the world. This is the story of one man who was there. Its real history
- about the riches & excesses the glory of the Russian nobility Nicholas & Alexandra their haemophiliac son Alexei notorious Rasputin Lenin & Trotsky who ruled from palaces where the Czars had once danced till dawn. The man was real too his name was Arthur Ransome. He was a writer accused of being a spy perhaps even a double agent & he left his wife & beloved daughter & fell in love with Russia & a Russian woman Evgenia. Fictionalising history & blending it with real life part i is told as a fairy tale. Wise & foolish kings princesses enchantresses (characters more suited to fairy tale than reality) wishes & magic Russia with its vast cold plains & mighty cities its riches & poverty all play a part in the downfall of the Czars & rise of the new order. Part ii is about betrayal
- Ransome the spy bleak & threatening. Part iii is a love story a fairy tale ending
- of Ransomes love for his daughter Tabitha & for Evgenia.


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