When Devil the most infamous member of the Cynster family is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria Wetherby he astonishes the entire ton by offering his hand in marriage. No one had dreamed this scandalous rake would so tamely take a bride. As society's mamas swooned at the loss of England's most eligible bachelor Devil's infamous Cynster cousins began to place wagers on the wedding date. But Honoria wasn't about to bend to society's demands & marry a man just because they'd been found together unchaperoned. No. She craved adventure. Solving the murder of a young Cynster cousin fit the bill for a while but once the crime was solved Honoria was set on seeing the world. But the scalding heat of her unsated desire for Devil soon had Honoria craving a very different sort of excitement. Could her passion for Devil cause her to embrace the enchanting peril of a lifelong adventure of the heart? ...

In this gripping tale of passion politics & conflict King Henry II finds himself brutally betrayed by his wife Eleanor & three eldest sons when they enter into a rebellion against him. Aligning themselves with Henry's most bitter enemy King Louis of France their treacherous actions will have devastating consequences as they bring about the downfall of a brilliant man & a powerful empire. In Devil's Brood" the compelling story of Henry & Eleanor's once great love affair is explored in an uniquely vivid way. What twists of fate turn love to hatred? What points of principle & ambition cause these two icons to struggle for power leaving their family tragically divided & their turbulent marriage finished in all but name? Sharon Penman's glorious trilogy reaches its spellbinding conclusion." ...

It is springtime France's Perigord a time of beauty & calm. But not for Bruno chef de police of the small town of St Denis. A woman's body has been found on a boat bearing signs of a black magic ritual. Bruno has too much on his plate as it is
- mediating a domestic abuse case that needs careful handling & a dodgy local development proposal that seems just too good to be true. But a murder case must take precedent & the roots of this one lie buried deep in the past
- linked to a chateau above a bend in the river to the reclusive old woman who lives there & to the secret hidden in the Devil's Cave.

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Devil's Charge the second in The Civil War Chronicles Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of historical thrillers sees battle-scarred hero Captain Stryker 'the Sharpe of the Civil War' fight for his honour. ' Stands in comparison with the best of Cornwell' Yorkshire Post England stands divided: king against Parliament town against country brother against brother. For Captain Stryker scarred hero of a dozen wars the rights & wrongs of the cause mean little. His loyalties are to his own small band of comrades
- & to Queen Henrietta Maria's beautiful & most deadly agent Lisette Gaillard. So when Prince Rupert entrusts him with a secret mission to discover what has happened to Lisette & the man she was protecting
- a man who could hold the key to Royalist victory
- nothing not false imprisonment for murder ambush a doomed siege or a lethal religious fanatic will stand in his way. A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year


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The excesses of the young Marquis of Vidal are even wilder than his father's before him. Not for nothing is the reckless duellist & gamester called 'the Devil's Cub'. But when he is forced to leave the country Mary Challoner discovers his fiendish plan to abduct her sister. & only by daring to impersonate her can Mary save her sibling from certain ruin. Georgette Heyer's wonderful characters & stories made her the undisputed queen of the historical romance & an international bestseller still loved today by a huge readership. ...

Clive Cussler's astounding Devil's Gate" sees the return of Kurt Austin & the NUMA team. Deep beneath the Eastern Atlantic Ocean lies an extraordinary underwater burial ground of ships & planes... Nearby a Japanese cargo ship blows up without warning. Racing to help Kurt Austin & the NUMA team are beaten to the scene by heavily armed pirates. But when the ruthless gang's own boat explodes as they're making their escape the men from NUMA are suddenly plunged from a disaster into a mystery. Soon they uncover a scheme involving the deadly ambitions of an African dictator the creation of a weapon of terrible power a kidnapped CERN scientist & a deep-water graveyard holding a lost aircraft & its precious cargo. As a terrifying & audacious plan to bring the world's major nations to their knees is set in motion only Kurt Austin
- the right man in the right place at the right time
- can stop it. With " Devil's Gate" UK number one bestseller Clive Cussler shows us once more why he is the grand master of adventure fiction. The ninth book in Clive Cussler's bestselling NUMA Files series " Devils' Gate" is a novel that will have readers gripped right to the last page. Kurt Austin hero of previous titles " Medusa" & " The Navigator" must avert a disaster of global proportions. Praise for Clive Cussler: " Clive Cussler is the guy I read". (Tom Clancy). " The Adventure King". (" Sunday Express"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept millions of readers hooked with adventures at sea exotic locations cutting-edge science & page-turning pace for four decades. As well as the "NUMA Files" series there are also the " Oregon Files" "the Dirk Pitt stories" (which started it all) "the Isaac Bell adventures" & "the Fargo series". The other titles in the "NUMA files" series are: " Serpent" " Blue Gold" " Fire Ice" " White Death" " Lost City" " Polar Shift" " The Navigator" " Medusa" & " The Storm". Graham Brown is the author of " Black Rain" & " Black Sun". A pilot & an attorney he lives in Arizona."

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July 1943. With North Africa secured the Allies launch an invasion of Sicily & the 2nd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Rangers are in the van of the assault on the Italian beaches. Now B Company Commander Tanner's promotion has brought him fresh problems. Not only has his new Battalion Commander decided to make his life as difficult as possible but he & his men soon find themselves battling against some of the toughest troops in the Wehrmacht. In the bitter fighting that follows Tanner witnesses a new kind of warfare where the end will justify the means. Erstwhile outlaws the Sicilian mafia are supposedly on the side of the Allies but their real purpose is feathering their own nests. & it is not just the Mafia who are playing dirty. It soon becomes clear that in the quest to force Italy out of the war compromises & brutal choices need to be made
- choices where the lines between right & wrong have become horribly blurred. Forced to question the cause for which he has fought so long Tanner & his trusted sidekick Sykes find themselves embroiled in a fight that has become deeply personal where they have to use all their resolve skill & experience if they are to have any chance of survival.
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN
- OVER 9 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE THE MARK OF THE DEVIL THE SIGN OF A KILLER...A young woman
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The Bermuda Triangle has cast a shadow over Sam & Niamh Cutlers' lives since their mother vanished nine years ago. Her whereabouts remains a mystery & every year they return to the Florida Keys with their father Matt who is obsessed with solving the haunting puzzle. But Sam is bored with lazing around by the pool while his father hunts for the truth. Craving excitement he & his friend Callum borrow" Matt's boat. At first it's great fun but when they find themselves marooned in a terrifying land the boys realise they too have fallen victim to the Triangle's mysterious effects. Can they find a way home or will they be lost forever?" ...

Sam & Callum are stranded in the strange parallel world having been pulled across by the dangerous energy of the Bermuda Triangle. Now they have found Sam's mum & joined her rebel group who are trying to stop the raptor species from creating even bigger holes in the fabric between the two worlds. Sam is still desperate to find a way home but how far will he go to get there? Meanwhile Niamh is trying to uncover the truth about the boys' disappearance. Convinced that her brother & Callum are alive despite the authorities suspicions it's up to her to solve the mystery before her father is convicted of murder. ...