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Left Behind 3: Last Chance is the concluding book in P T Saunders's Left Behind series. Like books, one and two, this has plenty of twists and turns, and offers a glimpse into the darker side of the armed forces and policing out of the public gaze, by someone who knows. Written cleverly and in short chapters, you’ll struggle to put the book down until you finish it.

Diana Bainbridge, Duchess of Newcastle, thought she had found her way into the perfect life. Married to the darling of London's best and brightest, living in a gorgeous ducal estate, she perched at the height of prosperity - for a time. But now her beloved husband is dead, and as it turns out, he wasn't so golden after all. Diana is left to live in mourning and pick up the pieces of a future that had once been all but assured. She yearns to move on from her shattered dreams of happiness, but the long memory of the ton stands in her way.

When a failing author Harry Sumpter receives several scathing reviews of his latest book From Fighter to Writer, Harry’s week goes from bad to worse. He tries and fails spectacularly to avenge his most critical book reviewer Cuthbert William Smythe. A man Harry hates with a vengeance and also the man who is now bonking Harry’s ex, Belinda. To add salt to his wounds, his estranged wife Penelope blackmails him into attending a weekend party. Where most of her guests have their own very unique sexual preferences. Or just darn right perverts.

When a bi-lateral government ordered an assassination of a couple of prominent Afghan Elders goes spectacularly tits up, three of the six-man mercenary team are killed. Two escape and one Ex-SAS trooper Alex Langdan is captured and held hostage by the Taliban. Now three years on, Alex has finally gained his freedom along with a new identity. Now he is hell-bent on seeking revenge on those that broke the unwritten rule: "Never leave a man behind".

For over a year Alistair Godstone has been the Duke of Marlowe. Though he's now a wealthy nobleman, it's his wife and daughter who are most important to him. With Christmas at his lavish estate approaching, all Alistair wants to do is celebrate with his family by honoring the father he never met. But rumors start to spread that threaten to tarnish the family name. Rumors suggesting that Alistair isn't the true heir to the Marlowe title.

When a bilateral government order to assassinate a couple prominent Afghan elders goes spectacularly tits up, three of the six-man mercenary team are killed, two escape, and on an ex-SAS trooper, Alex Langdan is captured and held hostage by the Taliban. Now, three years on, Alex has finally gained his freedom along with a new identity. Now, he is hell-bent on seeking revenge on those that broke the unwritten rule “never leave a man behind".

Evelyn, daughter of the baron of Smythe, has finally escaped her arranged marriage to a cruel duke she doesn't love. Except, her escape means she has to leave behind Alistair, the handsome butler she's secretly fallen for. Evie must start over without the butler she will never see again. Or so she thinks. When Alistair finds her, he convinces her to come home, but when Evie finally returns to England, she'll have to face the cruel duke who refuses to release her.

Evelyn Smythe has been dying a thousand deaths inside, secretly planning to leave England to escape a life of misery at the hands of a monster. She receives aid from an unexpected source and her life changes forever. Knowing she was falling in love with the new butler, she feels torn between leaving him behind and getting away from her arranged marriage.

The only really happy people are those who have learned to serve. Alistair Godstone has one goal in life. To break his family's tradition of being trapped into a life of servitude. With one more temporary job to finish up a family obligation, he will achieve his dream. He just has to keep up the act and wear his mask of the cold but attentive butler long enough to pay his family's medical bills. When he arrives at his new post, his entire focus and purpose change. At this mansion lives the grown woman he loved as a child. Only she's a heiress - and untouchable.

It's been two decades since Mars' failed conquest of Earth. The journalist and his wife, Carrie, have a son. A criminal selling poems and nursery rhymes contraband on the streets of Artilleryman's glistening subterranean metropolis, New London. Pursued by a disillusioned gunslinging-curate, Pockets evades capture only to stumble across darker secrets buried below the citadel. Teaming up with Tuppence and Zero, the young trio plan to escape to the surface, fatefully on the conjunction of our two planets.

When Kyle, his cat, and his mother move from San Francisco to India, Kyle's life changes - a lot. And not just because his new city is so different from what he's used to. Kyle's life changes because of magic. Finding a mysterious marble sends Kyle on a quest across his new city, even deep under the city. Kyle and the friends he meets along the way even end up in a jungle that is filled with animals who talk.

Six men wake up in a hazy room. Trying to piece together the jigsaw of how they ended up there, it becomes clear that they are being held prisoner on a spacecraft. But why were they abducted? One by one, they are dragged out of the room and into the darkness. From a brilliant professor to a young, headstrong resistance leader, they all have to face their greatest fears and come to terms with their past...and the dangerous future they face.

In a world where media companies hack into personal communications at will, Adam and Isobel are pursued by faceless, unknown men. Riots and civil unrest turn the country upside down, while a mysterious group of insiders attempts to use the spreading anarchy to further their own agenda. Politicians line their pockets with falsified expense claims, and crooked practices operate within the police force, as government contracts are bought and sold by those who have the prime minister's ear.

Seven years after Jacob Marley and the three ghosts of Christmas changed Ebenezer’s life, Scrooge has a problem. He’s given away most of his money and brightened many lives, restored churches, and made London workhouses better for those living and working inside. If only all of that made him feel better about his life! Doubt plagues Ebenezer. Even with all of his philanthropy, he still has questions he can’t answer. Are the scales balanced? Did he do enough good after that fateful Christmas Eve to avoid Jacob Marley’s fate?