Tensions in the Middle East are simmering when Central Intelligence Angency Director Irene Kennedy pays a visit to Syracuse University, where she hopes to recruit none other than Mitch Rapp, a student who has quickly climbed up the academic and athletic ranks. At first glance, he appears like any other smart, good-looking American college kid. Under the surface, however, a tempest rages. Tragedy entered Mitch's life a year before when 35 of his classmates, including his girlfriend...
The media calls them the Final Girls – Quincy, Sam, Lisa – the infamous group that no one wants to be part of. The sole survivors of three separate killing sprees, they are linked by their shared trauma.But when Lisa dies in mysterious circumstances and Sam shows up unannounced on her doorstep, Quincy must admit...
Gerald Stockwell-Poulter couldn’t help but feel it was extraordinary just how quickly his life had changed. One moment he was earthing up leeks in the West Sussex sunshine and the next he was rooted to the spot as Rodney Timmins from the end allotment ambled towards him, arms outstretched, blood pouring from a hole in his neck and a look in his eye which...
What will you find hiding In Dark Corners? Three sinister tales to give you a glimpse of the unexpected secrets lurking in the darker corners of life.
In Transformation Complete we discover just how far a man will go to fulfil his fantasy of becoming a vampire.
The Rocking Chair; a symbol of comfort and peace, but in this story it's the opposite as the occupant is drawn into a nightmare which promises a gruesome...
Would you live a lie to keep your child? In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child. CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve died – because she was there. She also knows what happened to the missing infant, because two decades ago CeeCee made the devastating choice to raise the baby as her own. Now Timothy Gleason is facing the death penalty, and CeeCee has...
Would you dare to follow your dream and move or retire to Italy? Stef & Nico did, although their dog Sara had her doubts. Now from your comfortable armchair you can share in the hilarious & horrendous adventures they experienced when they moved to Italy to start a bed and breakfast.
For lovers of amusing travelogue memoirs who like a good laugh.
In 1970, Lenny can no longer deny that his wife is undergoing a profound change. Despite her relatively young age, her mind succumbs to forgetfulness. Now, he goes as far back as the moment he met Natasha, when he was a soldier and she—a star, brilliant yet illusive. Natasha was a riddle to him then, and to this day, with all the changes she has gone through, she still is.
A collection of humor with a Halloween theme. Enjoy more than 175 jokes about aliens, ghosts, skeletons, vampires, werewolves, and witches. Perfect for Halloween, campfire gatherings, for telling under blankets after lights-out, or anytime you want to laugh or make your friends and family chuckle. Kids and parents can both enjoy the comedy within.
Volume 1 of the Halloween webcomic Felipe Femur & Friends. Twenty-five comics featuring the cute monsters. Follow the Halloween themed adventures of ironic monsters, including Felipe Femur the skeleton with a lot of heart, Gummy the toothless werewolf, Sunny the sun-loving vampire, and Runny the not-so-wicked witch in their town of Toonstone.
A beloved Prince beloved by all and adored betrayed its homeland the Empire with no warning. With the Empire's security along with the remaining Kingdoms at risk, they called on the seven warriors from the remaining kingdoms of the land to thwart the threat the powerful Prince posed.
Treachery and theft lead to death – and love
1940. Teresa Bichard and her baby are sent by her beloved husband, Leo, to England as the Germans draw closer to Guernsey. Days later they invade…
1942. Leo, of Jewish descent, is betrayed to the Germans and is sent to a concentration camp, never to return.
1945. Teresa returns to find Leo did not survive and the family’s valuable art collection, including a Renoir...
WHY BE AFRAID OF THE DARK?
Amy and her friends are being plagued by anonymous messages, but when a house party goes wrong events begin to spiral out of control and people start to disappear. Amy must hurry to uncover the ancient secrets of her hometown before there's no-one left to save, but something beyond imagination is stalking the night-time streets of Crooksfield, and it's not afraid to come into the light.
A man saves a little girl, and as his world changes overnight, he hopes he can save himself.
Stephen Alexander shouldn't have been there that day. He lives in her apartment yet spent the afternoon at the motel with another. Hours later he hears a girl scream, bravely intervenes, and then his world goes dark. Now millions want to know who he is-thinking he's one man-while he's sure he's another.
Have you ever given up on love?
When her boyfriend lets her down for the last time, Brooklyn bookshop owner Bea James makes a decision – no more. No more men, no more heartbreak, and no more pain.
Psychiatrist Jake Steinmann is making a new start too, leaving his broken marriage...
Born in Canning Town, in the heart of London's teeming dockland, red-headed Lily is a true Cockney in her zest for life, her natural humour and her instinct for survival.
With the outbreak of World War II, husband George goes off to fight for King and Country and into the close-knit East End community bursts Kasie, a Dutch seaman who quickly falls for Lily's bright curls and ready smile. His romantic ways make Lily go weak at the knees, and although she sticks by her husband...
Can a black sheep ever return to the flock? Find out in this emotionally intense tale from a spellbinding Irish talent.
Accompany the Lambert sisters on their unforgettable journey – fans of Anita Shreve and Rosie Thomas wll be spellbound.
When 15-year-old Cathy Lambert runs away from her Dublin home, she is scared and pregnant. Settled in New Zealand with her new son Conor she believes the secret she carries will never be revealed…
Rebecca Lambert was eighteen when her...
'My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it.'
Lydia Fitzsimons lives in the perfect house with her adoring husband and beloved son. There is just one thing Lydia yearns for to make her perfect life complete, though the last thing she expects is that pursuing it will lead to murder. However, needs must - because nothing can stop this mother from getting what she wants ...
Archibald "Arch" Stan was a local cop in Midian, Tennessee that was good at his job, good at being a husband, and exceptionally good at hiding his disappointment at not being able to figure out what was missing in his life that made it all seem so empty.
Lafayette Hendricks looked like a drifter, a broken-down hitchhiker blown through Midian on the prevailing winds. When Arch catches him in a fight on the town square, though, things...
“In the months that followed I watched His Holiness working on a new book . . . I began to think that perhaps the time had come for me to turn my paws to a book of my own . . . one that tells my own tale . . . How I was rescued from a fate too grisly to contemplate, to become constant companion to a man who is not only one of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, but who is also a dab hand with the can opener.”
Not so much fly-on-the-wall as...
Caelum Quirkes a middle-aged schoolteacher. Students at Columbine High School generally respect him and turn to his wife Maureen, the school nurse, when in trouble. When he has to return to his home town for the funeral of his beloved aunt, Maureen promises to join him the next day - but she goes to work that morning, and that’s when the shootings happen. She hides in a cupboard, unable to see what’s happening, but listening to the students being taunted, then killed.
Life can...
Musings on life, the universe and Food by a small black and white cat as told to the Skinny Man and Noisy Woman
Fluffy Ratbag is a small black-and-white tomcat (or rather, ex-tomcat as he points out with an understandable degree of bitterness. Not that he's bearing a grudge or anything). He lives with the Skinny Man and Noisy Woman and is pleased to pass on his Wisdom to his fellow felines in the form of the celebrated Fluffy Ratbag's Guides for Cats and his Worl' Famous...
Meet Isla Morgan. Once upon a time her life was pretty much all about writing songs and being the adored girlfriend of super-hot popstar Nate Jones. Now she’s broke, single and stuck on the road trip to hell with her acid-tongued grandmother and a photographer who’s distracting her for all the wrong reasons.
Still reeling from the humiliation of being publicly dumped by Nate in favour of glamour model, Ruby Wright, Isla retreats to the sanctuary of her parents’ home to hide...
Two Syndicate World star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships controlled entirely by artificial intelligence. Geary knows that the warships were developed by his government to ensure security, but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance. Now Geary must track the A.I. ships to their secret base in the Unity Alternate star system and end the conflict—at any cost.
Rachael Leben's violently possessive ex-husband, Eric, hideously mangled in a freak accident, is dead. But his body has disappeared from the city morgue.
Now someone, or something, is watching Rachael. Calling her. Stalking her. And though no one will believe her, she knows who it is; that his walking corpse is a grotesque mockery of life, and his brilliant, warped mind, once again 'alive', is seething with jealous rage, seeking an unspeakable revenge.
An innocent family finds itself completely helpless against the sudden onset of supernatural activity in their quiet rural home. A knife embedded in a kitchen cupboard, crockery smashed by invisible hands, and blood-chilling growls emit from thin air. Described as one of the best documented cases of such activity, this book will stay with you long after you have finished reading it.
Revenge. It’s all I've lived for. Revenge against those who stacked the cards against me from the start. But I’m changing the deck now. I’m getting even. Born to a vampire, I wasn’t supposed to survive—but I did.
My name is Cassidy. Cassidy Edwards. And I’m the first of my kind.
The Job: Trapping a sixteenth-century Scottish Highlander of a vampire who just might be seduction itself.
Charlie made his way into the living room, jumping on the sofa. He put his feet up on it as well, despite what the grown-ups told him.
They had gone out for the day. He had watched as they got in the car and pulled away, making sure they were gone before he started.
Charlie called all his friends and waited for them to turn up. One by one they appeared, banging and scraping on the door.
Charlie went to let them in and realised the flaw in his plan. He was just a dog and couldn’t open the door.