From the No. 1 international bestselling author of BARED TO YOU & REFLECTED IN YOU (Crossfire trilogy) A HUNGER SO WILD is the second red-hot paranormal romance following the sizzling A TOUCH OF CRIMSON. If you fell for Gideon Cross wait until you meet the men who really are out of this world... Elijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans a rare Alpha whose skill for the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality. When the lycans revolt Elijah becomes both enemy & coveted ally in the conflict between vampires & angels. Vashti is the second most powerful vampire in the world a lethal beauty with a path of devastation in her wake. She approaches Elijah with a proposed alliance...and discovers his vow to avenge his closest friend with her death even as his passion demands her surrender. Their enmity soon erodes beneath an all-consuming desire. But as war looms each must decide where their loyalty lies
- with their own kind or with the enemy lover they can no longer live without...
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The morning after
- the drilling headache the waves of nausea the paranoia the guilt the shame
- yes its the dreaded HANGOVER.

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Nick went head down finning desperately to catch the swirling body which tumbled like a leaf in high wind. He had a fleeting glimpse of Bakers face contorted with terror & lack of breath the glass visor of his helmet already swamping with icy water as the pressure spurted through the non-return valve. The Chiefs headset microphone squealed once & then went dead as the water shorted it out. Robbed of his wife & ousted from his huge shipping empire Nick Berg is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his opportunity. When his arch-rivals luxury liner is trapped in the tempestuous Antarctic Nick stakes all to pit his powerful salvage tug the Warlock in a desperate race against time & the elements.. . ...

As one of the most ancient in the Argeneau clan Cale Valens has given up on finding a life mate. His friends & family however have not. In fact they believe they've finally found his perfect match. Getting them together however requires one little white lie.. . Alexandra Willan is in a panic. Her restaurant is due to open in two weeks but her chef just walked out. Then a highly recommended replacement arrives an impossibly handsome culinary genius who sends electric tingles racing through her body.. . Except he can't cook. In fact Cale hasn't eaten real food in two thousand years. Yet he's determined to prove to Alex his prowess in the kitchen.. .and elsewhere. Because never has he hungered so for any mortal woman. & not just for a taste of her but for the whole delicious feast! ...

1991 in Hong Kong & the colony is preparing for Chinese rule. Geoff Howells a government-trained killing machine is brought out of retirement & sent there. His brief: to assassinate Chinese Mafia leader Simon Ng. Howells devises a dangerous & complicated plan to reach his intended victim
- only to find himself the next target.. . Patrick Dugan a Hong Kong policeman has been held back in his career because of his family connections
- his sister is married to Simon Ng. But when Ngs daughter is kidnapped & Ng himself disappears Dugan gets caught up in a series of violent events & an international spy ring that has spun out of control.. .

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Fom the author of The Glass Palace the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich exotic saga set in Calcutta & in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks. It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself & separates into thousands of wandering strands. The result is the Sundarbans an immense stretch of mangrove forest a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea. It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghoshs new novel. In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland & every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later. Dense as the mangrove forests are from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. There is a terrible vengeful beauty here a place teeming with crocodiles snakes sharks & man-eating tigers. This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator. & it is into this terrain that an eccentric wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society of all races & religions & conquer the might of the Sundarbans. In January 2001 a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment & the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society. ...

Against all odds 17-year-old Gene has survived in a world where humans have been eaten to near extinction by the general population. The only remaining humans or hepers as they are known are housed in domes on the savannah & studied at the nearby Heper Institute. Every decade there is a government sponsored hunt. When Gene is selected to be one of the combatants he must learn the art of the hunt but also elude his fellow competitors whose suspicions about his true nature are growing. ...

Following in the tradition of Clive Cussler & Matthew Reilly Andy Mc Dermott takes us a roller-coaster ride in search of the legendary Atlantis. Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she hasfound the location of the lost city of Atlantis andnow she wants the opportunityto prove her theory. Someone else though wants her dead! With the help of ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase & beautiful heiress Kari Frost Nina faces a breakneck race against time around the world pursued at every step by agents of the mysterious & murderous Brotherhood of Selasphoros. From the jungles of Brazil to the mountains of Tibet from the streets of Manhattan to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean the hunt for Atlantis leads to a secret hidden for 11 000 years which in the wrong hands could destroy civilization as we know it... ...

On the night of 1 May 1945 Martin Bormann head of the Nazi Party Chancellery & private secretary to Adolf Hitler fled Fuhrers bunker into the ruins of Berlin. His subsequent disappearance became the source of countless rumours & wild speculation over the years even including a theory that he had been kidnapped by the son of Churchills doctor & Lt Commander Ian Fleming author of the James Bond books & had spent the rest of his life in quiet retirement in the English Home Counties! In The Hunt for Martin Bormann Charles Whiting examines over 50 years of rumours claims & counter-claims to uncover the real fate of one of the most hunted men of the twentieth century. Charles Whiting wrote his first novel in 1953 aged just twenty-six. He went on to be the worlds most prolific author of military books; he has sold in excess of three million in the UK alone & his collective works number around 200. Charles also lived abroad for thirty years working in German chemical factories US fashion companies newspapers magazines universities
- as an associate professor & lecturer
- & spent a long spell in the US army. He died in 2007.

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A warleader of the renegade Alpha Legion the demon prince Kernax Voldoriuss reign of terror has bled across the stars leaving billions dead. Captain Korsarro Khan of the White Scars Chapter is petitioned to hunt down & destroy Voldorius. Tracking the beast doggedly for over a decade Korsarro Khan finally drags Voldorius to battle on Quintus a world that has totally fallen to the Alpha Legion. Now together with their Raven Guard allies the White Scars must combat an entire planet if they are to slay the daemon prince. ...