The eruption of Italys Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city & its people their treasures & secrets. Centuries later echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase. Beneath layers of volcanic ash lies the Villa della Notte
- the Night Villa
- once home to the captivating slave girl at the heart of an ancient controversy. & concealed in a subterranean labyrinth rests a cache of antique documents believed lost to the ages: a prize too alluring for Sophie to resist. But whatever shocking events transpired in the face of Vesuviuss fury has led to deeper intrigues
- & Sophie is swiftly sucked into their dark & terrifying vortex.. .


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Moving back through the 1940s through air raids blacked out streets illicit liaisons sexual adventure to end with its beginning in 1941 The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant & compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners
- three women & a young man with a past drawn with absolute truth & intimacy. Kay who drove an ambulance during the war & lived life at full throttle now dresses in mannish clothes & wanders the streets with a restless hunger searching.. . Helen clever sweet much-loved harbours a painful secret.. . Viv glamour girl is stubbornly even foolishly loyal to her soldier lover.. . Duncan an apparent innocent has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives & their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances.. . Tender tragic & beautifully poignant set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic & ordinary here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises & twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.
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Forty-eight hours after New York Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her restaurateur boyfriend Luc Rouget her holiday is cut short when a young woman is found murdered. The only evidence discovered on the body is one of Lucs matchboxes promoting his new restaurant in New York. Before the investigation begins Alex is summoned back home to handle a high profile case. Mohammed Gil-Darsin Head of the World Economic Bureau has been accused of attacking a maid in his hotel. As the scandal unfolds Alex finds her attention torn between preparing the alleged victim to testify & a murder case with ties too close to home. When a second body is found with Lucs matchbox
- this time in Brooklyn
- Alex begins to fear that the two cases may be connected & that uncovering the sordid secrets of the citys most wealthy & powerful could cost her & her loved ones everything they hold dear...

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Someone has stolen the worlds most famous painting & replaced it with a fake. When the mission looks impossible the world calls upon UNACO. After lengthy negotiations the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam agrees to send its priceless Rembrandt Night Watch on a tour of the worlds art galleries. Security is intensive. Even so when the painting arrives in New York it is discovered to be a fake. UNACO is immediately called into action. Agents Mike Graham C.W. Whitlock & Sabrina Carver must find out who is responsible for the brilliant forgery & most important who now has the original in his private collection. Speed & secrecy are vital. The hunt leads them to Rio de Janeiro at Carnival time where their quarry is secure in his mountain fortress high above the sea! ...

' Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die & nothing changes'. For a policeman there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except perhaps a serial killer who targets coppers & a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last the flags & barricades are rising... And the question for a policeman an officer of the law a defender of the peace is: Are you with them or are you against them? ...

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer teach his younger self how to be a good copper & change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins he's got no wife no child no future...A Discworld Tale of One City with a full chorus of street urchins ladies of negotiable affection rebels secret policemen & other children of the revolution. Truth! Justice! Freedom! & a Hard-boiled Egg! ...

In Secret Vampire Poppy is dying. Her best friend James can offer her eternal life
- as a vampire. One kiss & she sees into his
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In ' Dark Angel' Gillian is about to die. Then he appears
- Angel
- & becomes her secret prtector. She must give him absolute

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In ' Huntress' Jez Redfern is wild & dangerous & the leader of a gang of Night World vampires. But Jez discovers a shocking secret & faces a terrifying choice: she must either remain a deadly crusader of evil or fight to protect innocent mortals from her former friends.. . But can she resist her instinct for blood? In ' Black Dawn' Maggie Neely's biggest worry is leading her soccer team to victory
- until her brother Miles goes missing. Maggie must find him. Her search leads Maggie to the vampire Delos to whom she is strangely attracted. But while Delos lives Miles could be lost forever. Can Maggie bring herself to destroy him? Or will Delos get to Maggie first? In ' Witch Light' Keller is part shapeshifter part panther. She is searching for a new Wild Power. But can the dizzy human girl Iliana really be it? & then there's the dashing romantic Galen. Keller has strong feelings for him. But he's destined to be Iliana's soulmate. Can Keller keep away? Or will she break her promise & fall in love?
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A phenomenally popular vampire romance sequence
- now showing on ITV2
- from the best selling author of Night World L. J. Smith.

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