What will it take to put the past to rest? Professional genealogist Melissa Grantham receives an invitation to visit her family's ancestral home Ashleigh Manor. From the moment she arrives life-like dreams & visions haunt her. The spiritual connection to a medieval young woman & her forbidden lover have her questioning her sanity but Melissa is determined to solve the mystery. Jake Precy owner of a nearby cottage has disturbing dreams too but it's not until he meets Melissa that they begin to make sense. He hires her to research his family's history unaware their lives are already entwined. Is the mutual attraction real or the result of ghostly interference? A haunting love story set partly in the present & partly in fifteenth century Kent. Christina Courtenay won the 2012 Best Historical Romantic novel of the year award (Ro NA) for her novel Highland Storms. ...

When journalist Laurie Forbes turns up on Beth Ashby's doorstep minutes after Beth's husband political high-flier Colin Ashby has been arrested for murder neither can even begin to guess the shocking repercussions that have just been triggered in both their lives. Beth attempts to escape from her shattered life by throwing herself into the kind of reckless high-living that seems destined for disaster while Laurie finds herself being threatened terrorised & even taken prisoner for what she knows. As the dangerous truth draws closer Laurie realises that if she is to save Beth from those already preparing to destroy her she must put her trust in hated rival journalist Elliot Russell & face up to a ghost from the past. ...

When identical twins June & Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with anyone but each other & so began a childhood bound together in a strange & secret world. As they grew up love hate & genius united to push them to the extreme margins of society & following a five week spree of vandalism & arson the silent twins were sentenced to a gruelling twelve-year detention in Broadmoor. Award-winning investigative journalist Marjorie Wallace delves into the twins silent world revealing their genius alienation & the mystic bond by which the extremes of good & evil ended in possession & death. ...

Silent Voices is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series -- which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn VERA. When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym she wonders briefly if for once in her life she's uncovered a simple death from natural causes. Then Vera spots ligature marks around the victim's throat -- death is never that simple.. . Vera revels being back in charge of an investigation again working with Sergeant Joe Ashworth to find a motive. While Joe struggles to reconcile his home life with the demands of the case death has never made Vera feel so alive. The duo investigates the victim's past & discovers a shocking case involving a young child. Probing the secretive community they try to stop a killer in the present who can't seem to let go of the past.. . Also available in the Vera Stanhope series are The Crow Trap Telling Tales Hidden Depths & The Glass Room. Ann Cleeves' Shetland series (BBC television drama SHETLAND) contains five titles of which Dead Water is the most recent. ...

Suez Egypt. Its 1953 & the Canal Zone a strip of land vital to Britains access to transport fuel & trade is being put under pressure by local military forces. Hundreds of thousands of British troops are sent to defend our interests in Egypt & their casualty levels suppressed. Reluctant ex-RAF radio operator Charlie Bassett finds his services are required for Queen & country again. Before he knows it hes been drafted -- & hes not quite certain for what. Sent for weapons training & practice parachute jumps the only thing that keeps him going are the bevy of beautiful women he encounters along the way.. . After a hair raising journey via Malta & Cyprus -- neither welcoming an extra British serviceman
- Egypt initially seems far from being the land of pleasure & excitement that hed hoped for. Then a face from the past comes back into his life -- bringing nothing but trouble with her. Under fire from both friend & foe Charlies sense of adventure is awakened once more as he discovers that Egypt is a land of opportunity for the enterprising mind -- & Charlie is nothing if not enterprising.. .
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Discover the modern versatility of the classic silhouette. The bold lines & strong contrasts of the silhouette are no longer limited to flat two-color portraits to be hung on the family room wall. In Silhouette Style silhouette designs take on color dimension & the 21st Century. Nanetta Bananto teaches you to bring papercuts to life in more than 40 projects incorporating her beautiful original designs. Create tea-light lanterns gift boxes cards paper dolls & fashion accessories using papercut designs in themes such as sea life animals flowers & fashion. The book
Includes:: Step-by-step instructions for 21 stylish projects & more than 20 variations easily created using the same techniques & designs Tips & techniques on how to cut designs either by hand or using an electronic die-cutting machine A CD-ROM containing all of the cutting design files needed to create the projects plus bonus designs to expand your creative possibilities Pull out your scissors or electronic cutter & develop a passion for silhouettes as you create art gifts home decor & more! To read the pdf files on the CD-ROM included in this book you will need Adobe Acrobat. To read. eps files you will need a software program such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel DRAW. You may need to convert. eps files to the correct format for your cutting machine according to the machine manufacturers instructions.
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Olly Moss has quickly become according to Slashfilm one of the most in demand & influential pop culture artists today". For his simple but brilliant first book Olly has put his own twist on the Victorian art of silhouette portraits. While this gorgeous gift volume might look as if its from the 1890s its pages contain todays favourite cult characters from movies TV comics & videogames." ...

France 1861. When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France Herve Joncour (a young silkworm breeder) has to travel overland to distant Japan out of bounds to foreigners to smuggle out healthy silkworms. In the course of his secret negotiations with the local baron Joncours attention is arrested by the mans concubine a girl who does not have oriental eyes. Although they are unable to exchange so much as a word love blossoms between them a love that is conveyed in a number of recondite messages. How their secret affair develops is told in this remarkable love story. ...

The first in a multi-generational trilogy by mega-seller Penny Jordan is set in the decadent world of the silk industry. Dangerous liaisons... Skeletons in closets...A scandalous web of lies & deceit... The Pickfords are just your average family. 1920s Cheshire. A time of great glamour & decadence high living & loose morality. A time where anything goes
- & does. Amber Vrontsky is the heiress to the wealthy Pickford dynasty presided over by the formidable Blanche. Obsessed with social climbing Blanche wants nothing more for her granddaughter than a titled husband
- a prize which she herself failed to secure despite her immense wealth. But free spirited Amber is intent on forging her own artistic career with the silk she loves so much. Unable to disobey Blanche however she moves to society London to become a debutante
- & enters a world of illicit affairs drug-taking gambling lavender marriages... From the lavish decadence of society London to the opium dens of the Far East the chic boutiques of Paris to the Nazi-controlled streets of Berlin Silk spans the depravity & the glamour of this tumultuous time. Spoil yourself with this dazzling decadent treat by international multi-million-copy selling Penny Jordan
- the ultimate read for fans of Danielle Steel & Penny Vincenzi.



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Revenge Mariah Bowes thinks that being alone & penniless is the worst thing that can happen to her but then she becomes the innocent victim of a horrifying act of revenge. Deception Daniel Thorpe is consumed with guilt it's his fault that Mariah endured such a terrible punishment he'd never realised the terrible consequences his affair with the beautiful Lily would bring. Will he ever convince Mariah to trust him again? Secrets But for Mariah there are further horrors to face truths to uncover. Not least the terrible secret that her father Ezekiel Bowes successful iron master & respectable member of the community is determined no one will ever discover. ...