The Silver Sphere

The Silver Sphere
Title: The Silver Sphere
ASIN: B00AAJUSWQ
Published: December 6, 2013
Shelby Pardow never imagined she could kill someone. All she wants to do is hide from her troubled father... when she is teleported to awaiting soldiers on the planet Azimuth. Here she is not a child, but Kin to one of the six Aulic Assembly members whom Malefic Cacoethes has drugged and imprisoned. He seeks to become dictator of this world (and then Earth by proxy).

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29 September 2013

A LIFETIME BURNING

A LIFETIME BURNING
Title: A LIFETIME BURNING
ASIN: B006VOL2WE
Published: January 14, 2014
Looking back over a turbulent lifetime, Flora Dunbar recalls an eccentric childhood lived in the shadow of her twin, Rory, a musical prodigy; then early marriage to Hugh, a handsome clergyman twice her age. Motherhood brought her Theo, the son she couldn't love, but in middle age she finally found brief happiness in a scandalous affair with her nephew, Colin. Now Flora Dunbar is dead. But it isn’t over. The spectre at the funeral is Flora herself, unobserved by her grieving family and the four men who loved her...

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30 June 2012

 

Lying in Wait

Lying in Wait
Title: Lying in Wait
ASIN: B0055T772K
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Published: anuary 7, 2014
'He could just see himself, in a year or so, going back home with his pockets stuffed with cash and his Da, Zach and Ma welcoming him with big smiles and open arms. It would be that grand he could hardly wait.' But when Malachy Flynn finds himself mixed up with the Conway family in Dublin, he realises that making money isn't always easy - or legal. Then there's gang boss, Brogan. No-one messes with Brogan. Ever. Northumberland farmer Tom Oliver prefers the company of married women, but time’s running out for him when his new dairyman moves to Netherwell Farm with his dangerously attractive wife and her pretty younger sister.

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Thomas and the Tiger-Turtle

Thomas and the Tiger-Turtle: A Picture Book for Kids
Title: Thomas and the Tiger-Turtle: A Picture Book for Kids
ASIN: B00KC8FG7C
Published: May 13, 2014
Author's Twitter: @jonno_go
When Thomas finds a talking turtle in his yard, he's amazed and surprised, especially when the turtle insists, "I'm not a turtle. I'm a tiger!" After a visit to the zoo and a fun chase, the turtle--or is it a tiger?--discovers an important truth and makes a fast friend.

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Bloodtrail

Bloodtrail
Title: Bloodtrail
ASIN: B007BDM2LY
Published: January 9, 2014
Tired of his life and weary of his sins, Joseph Casey places himself in the hands of medical researchers as an object of study. A 400 year-old-vampire in the power of mere humans, he asks for one thing in return: help in finding his 14 year-old-daughter, who he has not seen in over 150 years. Credible, intelligent, and savage, BLOODTRAIL is a novel of love, lust, science, and intrigue. It transports the vampire fable to a new level of believability as it challenges the myths and legends and brings the genre into the here and now. From a slave ship run aground in 1635 to the secret laboratories of the Proteus Trust, from Chicago’s Field Museum to northern Arkansas, from the Colorado high country to the mountains of Austria, it is a gripping novel of surprising humor, tender moments, and merciless brutality. Travel the BLOODTRAIL with viable science, compelling characters, and crisp dialogue. But be careful. Something really is out there.

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Gaspar The Thief

Gaspar The Thief
Title: Gaspar The Thief
ASIN: B007T9I7I2
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Published: January 6, 2014
Follow the adventures of Gaspar, a freelance thief who stubbornly refuses to swear fealty to the Thieves' Guild. Cursed with a special affinity for calamity and mishap, and a talent for snatching defeat from the brink of victory, our hero blunders from one misfortune to the next, yet somehow always manages to survive to tell the tale. Accompanied by his long-suffering companions - Hubris, a spellbroker who refuses to pay his dues to Wizards' Hall; Marna, a feisty thiefess with a quick tongue and a quicker temper; and Drune, a mischievous wight with an unusual magical ability - our unlikely hero encounters looming retribution and imminent catastrophe at every step.

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The Sun’s Companion

The Sun's Companion
Title: The Sun's Companion
ASIN: B00988FNC0
Categories: ,
Published: January 14, 2014
It's 1935. Tamar Fell has no family - or so she's been told - and she relies on the friends she makes as she's dragged from lodging house to lodging house by her mother - the reckless, beautiful Sadie. Then Tamar meets Anna Weissmann, exiled from her own family by European politics, and they forge a friendship that will last through bereavement, failed love affairs, internment, betrayal, and the dislocations of war.

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Henrietta The Dragon Slayer

Henrietta The Dragon Slayer
Title: Henrietta The Dragon Slayer
ASIN: B004P8K292
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Published: January 5, 2014
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She's a legend at 17, but only Henrietta knows the price she paid for her fame … and it was much too high. From the Winner of the California Fiction Writer's Book Contest comes this thrilling adventure of a young warrior on one final quest … against an opponent she swore never to face again. Henrietta, the legendary Dragon Slayer of Bleuve, can't face the thought of another kill. She's lost family, friends and home on her rocky road to fame. But when the young warrior is summoned by a King to retrieve the Dragon Stone from the last dragon in existence, she can't refuse--her mentor lies dying, and the healing stone is all that can save him. This quest will be her most harrowing of all, for it means facing mysterious assassins, the dreaded choppy sea, and all with a misfit band--a young witch, a jester and a surly knight. And at journey's end, someone must die … the dragon, or Henrietta.

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Vine: An Urban Legend

Vine: An Urban Legend
Title: Vine: An Urban Legend
ASIN: B07H45PVQB
Published: September 28, 2018
Amateur theatre director Stephen Thorne plots a sensational production of a Greek tragedy in order to ruffle feathers in the small city where he lives. Accompanied by an eccentric and fly-by-night cast and crew, he prepares for opening night, unaware that as he unleashes the play, he has drawn the attention of ancient and powerful forces.

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