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Life has not been kind to Charlotte Harding. Orphaned, impoverished and plain-looking, she depends on the charity of relatives who take her in when she has nowhere else to go. In their London home, she meets the rich and handsome Viscount Stanton who is promised to the beautiful heiress, Miss Powell. Charlotte is smitten with him on first sight, but the Viscount barely notices her except to note her unprepossessing looks and shabby dress.

First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles.

They’re rugged and powerful intelligence agents with a desire for sexy, feisty women. As one, they’re unstoppable. Together, they’re INVINCIBLE. He’s a hard-ass rancher with big secrets. She’s a city-slicker with big dreams.

Recruited solely for his reputation in cyber intelligence, Luke Frankland is meant to lend his name to a cyber start-up venture, host clients, and build up the sales value of the fledgling company. However, when he is targeted by a new type of social engineering, he quickly realises that all is not as it seems in the high-tech world of commercial intelligence gathering. Thrust into an environment where corporate advantage means multi-million dollar contracts, he discovers that some within the firm will stop at nothing to protect their share of the profits.

Evicted from vigil and faced with the impending descent of demons, Morgan Locke and his companions must unravel all the mysteries that are barring them from the salvation of their country and their world. Can they unbind the curse and free the magic to the hands of their allies before the dead rise again? And in the aftermath of that epic battle, what will become of the world they've always known? The adventure doesn't end when the last sword is swung. There is a great deal to be done.

Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing Vitruvian Man comes from a description by the ancient Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, who wrote the only major work on architecture or engineering to survive from classical antiquity.

Daniel Stanton has been blessed with everything. He is charming, confident and handsome—and heir to the great Stanton fortune. At age 24, he has had his fair share of amorous adventures with women, as well as one tantalising experience with a man, leaving him wondering about his sexual inclinations. Those questions are quickly answered when he first meets Ambrose Cranshaw, his grandfather's estate manager. He wants the man, and what he wants, he usually gets. Not this time though.

Oliver Twist meets The Crimson Petal and the White in this devilishly funny, emotionally charged tale of finding a new path in life after a great fall. William Dempsey rose from a life of thieving and prostitution to be the personal plaything of the Marquess of Argyll. Then a betrayal sees him returned to the rough streets of London without patronage, his West End apartment, or a place among the ton.

Cain, after killing his brother Abel, is cursed, destined to wander the Earth as a pariah, but blessed with immortality, incredible strength and miraculous self-healing abilities to protect him from his many enemies. Pursued down through the ages by the Romans, Nazis, CIA, and many other kings and despots eager to harness his talents, he finally comes to the attention of the Illuminati, a powerful and insidious organisation run by Samuel Carson, a man who will stop at nothing including murder and the sacrifice of his daughter, whom Cain loves, to obtain ultimate power in Eden.

Warning! This story is an adult free zone. Why? Because it is simply too scary, or too horridly disgusting, for most adults. We know this is true. Kids can handle it. Usually. Adults can’t. Mostly. This is a folk tale for children, set once upon a time, in a place not so far from you. Meet the schoolboy Hunch - the village hunchback. Hunch lives in a small village surrounded by a tall forest. All the parents always tell the children, "Don't go in the woods!" When the children ask why, the adults always say, "Because strange creatures called Things live in there"!

What begins as an idyllic new society built for the freedom and equality of all who walk on four legs quickly becomes a nightmare. The cleverest animals take on more and more control while the hard working common animals are manipulated into doing all the work. Best intentions are twisted by the lure of power, and no animal is immune to the terrible consequences of its corrupting influence.

Georgiana returned to Pemberley fresh from a highly successful London season, yet unmoved by any of the young men who lined up for introductions. Then, out of a terrible storm, there arrives a young French count with the face and address of an angel. Is this the one for which her heart has waited?

Incredibly rugged, inexplicably intelligent, and indisputably handsome, these former military commanders and CIA agents are invincible. For the first time, INVINCIBLES TEAM TWO books 1–3 are available together in one boxed set!

Give me a problem and I'll fix it. That's what I do. The trick is remaining calm and preparing oneself for any eventuality. But even I failed to anticipate my former boss, Malcolm, crossing an ocean to bribe me for my help. He insists I'm the only one who can fix his problem, but I had an excellent reason for leaving that job in the first place and putting an ocean between us. Its hard to keep the big picture in mind when you're secretly in love with your boss. And even harder when he's about to be crowned a king.

The young bodybuilder found himself alone in a strange city, homeless, where he knew no one. Would he survive the concrete jungle when all his pleas for help fell on deaf ears? The alien world Will visited every night in his dreams had its own perils too. He must find the blue orchid he had placed on the dead girl’s chest before he had pushed her body into the lava flow. He had been told that the flower couldn’t perish in flames, but would he be able to find it? Would he find the narrow path to his love? Would the blue orchid melt the ice in her heart?

Book one of Will's story, Sleeper Chronicles. When young bodybuilder, Will, decides to get a tattoo, he never would have expected to fall in love with the woman portrayed on his chest. However, his dreams are the only place he can find her, as she lives in a strange castle on slope of an erupting volcano, guarded by ghostly knights. Soon, Will’s life is pulled down a rabbit hole when he bounces between dream and reality. All the while, his greatest desire is to find the woman he loves. But is Will ready to pay the price?

Kyle Firestone is a Sleeper, hopping between two worlds and living two different lives. He is a prince in Rehen, but back in London, he is a typical office rat, no different from the others. Being the first in line to the throne of Rehen is not easy for Kyle. Some want him killed, and others have their own twisted agenda. It doesn’t help that Kyle has no previous knowledge of Rehen, which makes him vulnerable, unable to tell his friends from his enemies.

What is success, and how does one attain it? To achieve and maintain a successful and healthy life, you must learn to navigate through the nuances life presents you. Battle’s Blueprint: 5 Self Battles to Defeat for Success draws on years of experience from multiple leaders and a variety of successful organizations in which I have participated in or observed. Battle’s Blueprint outlines what it takes to become a winner in life by achieving success at work, garnering entrepreneurial accomplishments, and overcoming the many challenges life will hand you.

You don't know what hell is until you try to get out of it.... Luke Hawthorn's world is crumbling around him. After his mother, an NCIS (National Criminal Intelligence Service) operative is killed in a mysterious house fire, he learns that she was investigating a new designer drug linked to the death of some 200 London club-goers. Among the victims: One of Luke's closest friends. So when an enigmatic uncle appears at the funeral and offers Luke a home in New York, he jumps at the opportunity to leave his old life behind.

It was supposed to be a holiday, with nothing more challenging than babysitting, navigating familial politics, and arguing about the proper way to brew tea. But when dragon prince Thuan and his ruthless husband Asmodeus find a corpse in a ruined shrine and a hungry ghost who is the only witness to the crime, their holiday goes from restful to high-pressure. Someone is trying to silence the ghost and everyone involved. Asmodeus wants revenge for the murder; Thuan would like everyone, including Asmodeus, to stay alive.