Following a string of disastrous house-sitting assignments & an equally troubled personal life Thea Osborne is understandably apprehensive about her latest commission: a wintry month in an isolated house with only an assortment of animals including her loyal spaniel Hepzie for company. With the summer lushness of the Cotswolds turned icy grey Thea spends her first few days exploring the beautiful hamlet of Hampnett meeting some of the locals. But then the weather turns extreme & so do events. When she stumbles across a man lying dead in a snow-covered field Thea finds herself once again at the heart of a mystery. ...

The young men who flew with RAF Bomber Command in World War Two were a complex mixture of individuals but they all shared the gift of teamwork. A crew of seven may have comprised all non-commissioned men & some crews included commissioned officers but not always flying as pilots. The outstanding fact was that each man relied on every other member of his crew to return from each mission safely. This book contains ten intriguing reminiscences of bomber aircrew; some were pilots others navigators flight engineers bomb-aimers or gunners. They flew as both commissioned or NCO airmen.. Understandably a common problem was that of coping with fear. Many former aircrew hold that anyone who claims to have felt no fear on operations is either lying or has allowed the years to blank out that fear. But there are a few who do maintain that they never felt afraid. For the majority though handling fear was something to be worked out by the individual. Some hit the bottle others womanized to excess; others tightened the gut & bit the lip; or drew the curtain & focused upon the plotting table or the wireless set. The passing years may have silvered what hair remains dulled the eye that formerly registered on the merest speck; lent a quiver to the hand that once controlled the stick penciled in the track manipulated the tuning dial set the bombsight tapped the gauge or rotated the turret. & yet for all the attributes of age their irrepressible youthfulness shines through. ...

Meet Alex Hoffmann: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars it is a system that thrives on panic
- & feeds on fear. & then in the early hours of one morning while he lies asleep a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia & violence as Hoffmann attempts
- with increasing desperation
- to discover who is trying to destroy him
- before its too late...



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The silent snow-covered streets of Oslo are a perfect scene of Christmas tranquillity. But over the tolling of bells for the last Sunday of Advent a black note sounds. A boy's body washes up near the shoreline of the city's Aker Bridge. His corpse is bloated by the water almost unrecognisable. Nobody has even bothered to report him missing. One week later the bishop of Bergen is found stabbed to death on a deserted street. Eva Karin Lysgaard is a popular public figure a sixty-two year-old grandmother: why was she on a lone errand in the deserted city on the night before Christmas? Johanne Vik criminal researcher & police profiler is called in to untangle the motivation behind the bishop's murder. But with her husband at the head of this increasingly high-profile investigation Vik's association with the case is under intense scrutiny. & why does Lysgaard's shocking death lead her towards the sad death of an unknown boy? ...

Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing doesnt want much
- just to be free & to find the perfect guiltless zipless sexual encounter.
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The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job
- even if he wasn't entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was
- & Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce. When she didn't arrive home at her usual time he thought she'd probably gone to the mall to hang with her friends. When she didn't answer her phone he began to worry. When she didn't come home at all he began to panic. & when the people at the motel said they had no Sydney Blake working there & never had he began to see his life going into freefall. If she hadn't been working at the motel every day what had she been doing? Something she couldn't
- or wouldn't
- tell her own father about? To find his daughter Tim doesn't need to simply track her down
- he needs to know who she really was & what could have made her step out of her own life without leaving a trace. Only one thing has him convinced the worst hasn't already happened: the fact that some very scary people seem just as eager as he is to find her. The question is: who's going to find her first?




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Since the earliest days of the Great Crusade Sanguinius
- angelic primarch of the IXth Legion
- was ever among the closest

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In 1699 William Milmullen took his six pupils to the lakeside but only he returned after a creature rose up from the water & devoured the six boys right before his eyes. The whole town was shocked & terrified by the tragedy. Many were now too frightened to go out on the lake to fish & the town's economy was under threat. William Milmullen recovered from the shock of what he'd seen. He named the creature ' The Mourn' & declared himself ' Mourner'. He took upon himself the responsibility to appease the creature by feeding livestock into the lake & vowed his family would forever be responsible for the safety of the town & that every Milmullen son would take the mantle of Mourner at the age of 16. This novel is set in the present day & nobody believes in monsters anymore. These days the town is somewhat embarrassed about its monster stories & to many the Milmullen family is a bit of a joke. The family however have held onto their duty believing that if they forsake the creature it will rise from the lake again. Tim Milmullen turns 16 in a week's time. On his birthday he will become the 13th Mourner. But Tim doesn't know if he wants the role. For one thing all the kids at school tease him calling his father crazy saying Old William back in 1699 killed the schoolboys himself & made up the story. & Tim's biggest problem is that he doesn't know if he believes in the legend or not. How can he dedicate his whole life to something he has never seen? ...

In our universe a Cardassian sleeper agent called Iliana Ghemor was once surgically alltered to resemble & replace Bajoran resistance fighter Kira Nerys. That plan never reached fruition & the fate of the agent remained unknown -- until now. Robbed of the past sixteen years & on the brink of madness Iliana Ghemor is back with a vengeance. She has already made one attempt on the real Kiras life & now the Deep Space 9 crew must somehow must stop the false Kira without derailing the delicate flow of history that must unfold if two universes & countless others are to survive. ...

After saving his brother Jacob Reckless faces death from the fairy's curse burning in his heart. In search of a cure he returns to the Mirrorworld where he is reunited with Fox a beautiful shape-shifting girl. He has one more chance: a golden crossbow with the power to both save & destroy life buried in a dead king' tomb beneath an invisible palace. Jacob must cross continents ace monsters & men
- including a dangerous rival
- & learn what it means to stay alive.

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