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Lieutenant Commander Brandon Dixon spends his free time in the ship's recreational fitness room. The last two years of service have left him packing some major heat in the swoll department. With a service record and a face as beautiful as his bod, Brandon is in for some incredible news and an even more incredible night of raw, unadulterated obscenity.

Luke Barber went missing from his village, leaving no clue to his whereabouts or why he left. Now, three years later, Luke’s father hopes ex-cop Michael McLaren can find a trace of Luke, alive or dead. As McLaren pokes through the case details, he wonders if the pressure of succeeding in tennis or music, or his upcoming marriage, was too much for the lad and he simply ran away. And McLaren’s suspicion may be correct, for he soon is assaulted and left for dead - a hint that he’s upset someone connected with this case.

Jean-Michel Wu, Chief Talent Officer at McCann WorldGroup APAC, says, "Whatever size your business is, getting the right strategic business partnerships in place is fundamental to success. Callum has been creating partnerships for decades and in this book breaks down how anyone can follow his steps to partnership success."

Why would a rich banker risk the life of his only son? And how, five generations later, did Seth and Hannah become immersed in the lives of those who have gone before them, ultimately finding themselves the latest part of the family saga? Does family heritage really matter so much? As the story unfolds, maybe you, the listener, should decide.

From childhood, Edward Newman has been obsessed with dreams. As an adult he fulfils an innate desire to help people obtain a restful night’s sleep, whilst grappling with his own night traumas. Upon opening a sleep-specialist practice on the Brompton Road in London, he's immediately faced with more than he bargained for and phenomena such as he's never heard of or read about before. As events spiral out of control he finds himself immersed in the past and the future, almost simultaneously.

Dark Prophecies is the first novel of a three book fantasy epic series. A mysterious old woman, named Mara, comes to teach four children who have been foretold in two dire prophecies. The kids have wild adventures while forming strong bonds. Mara teaches them to fight, and much more, for the mysterious old woman knows what the future holds for these children, and their coming will shake the world.

Oregon, summer 1983. A series of mysterious deaths shakes the coastal town of Harmony Bay from its peaceful sleep. Shortly after the death of his wife, Sheriff Cody is called upon to investigate numerous murders which all exhibit strange puncture wounds. Cody and his team expect the murders are committed by a serial killer, but it soon becomes clear something more sinister lurks behind this idyllic town, which becomes his worst nightmare.

Humanity can make short work of the oceans' creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller's sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It's a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail.

Gripping and atmospheric, Winter in Tabriz tells the story of four young people living in 1970s Iran during the months immediately prior to the revolution and the choices they have to make as a result of the ensuing upheaval. The lives of Damian and Anna, both from Oxford University, become enmeshed with two Iranians - Arash, a poet, and his older brother, Reza, a student sympathetic to the problems of the dissident writers in Iran and a would-be photojournalist, interested in capturing the rebellion on the streets.  

'I would be most unhappy to think that any part of this memoir should be cut on grounds of 'decency', for those bits are essential....' So begins the lively true story of aristocrat and travel writer Roderic Fenwick Owen. Born in 1921, Fenwick Owen had an extraordinary life, which careered between some of the biggest moments in history and took him to the ends of the earth, meeting (and even living with) some of the 20th century's most well-known people along the way, including Eisenhower, Jackson Pollock, Christopher Lee and Sean Connery. 

Brought to you by Penguin. It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed...

A book about my time in the boys brigade and some of the things I got up too. From a young boy to an adult. Maybe this book might help boys who are a bit nervous about moving up to another section of the Boys Brigade. And maybe you might be interested in what I got up to.

Some families pass down money. Some pass down secrets. The Briggs family passes down both, along with enemies you never knew you had. When Nathan Briggs flies home to New England after his grandfather's disappearance, he expects grief and family tension. What he doesn't expect is a locked room, a letter written in a language he somehow understands, and a power igniting in his blood that has no business existing in the modern world.

When former police detective Michael McLaren is given an old photograph and newspaper article, an inquiry begins that seems straight forward enough: an accident in a millpond. But when it’s apparent that other odd deaths are linked to this, all via the victims receiving a cypher puzzle, the secret meanings become more important. More important still when a fifth death occurs practically on McLaren’s doorstep. Now it’s five deaths and five puzzles, and McLaren’s determined to solve the mysteries.

A DARK WARNING. A DANGEROUS SEDUCTION. The first in the Gothic romance series Shadows of Pemberley, a seductive modern-day reimagining of Jane Austen’s most daring worlds, from USA Today bestselling author Zoe Blake. Aristocratic scandal. Murder. A legacy cursed by Northanger Abbey. Jane...

The limits on Calling have been lifted, and Callers are now allowed to conjure up anything they want – from tables and chairs to food and clothes. But many on Elipsom still don't realise that everything they Call is being stolen from Evantra, a secret continent on the opposite side of the world. Quin, Allie and Davinia have been fighting to show people the truth. But Adriana Octavius, the Chief Councillor of Elipsom, will do anything she can to suppress the rising rebellion. Even if it means endangering the Vine, the life-giving force for all of Evantra and Elipsom.

In 1920s London Lew and his lover Detective Alec Carter are working out the parameters of their new relationship. Lew is torn between staying in the past and trying to get back to 2016. Alec is wrestling with the idea of being in love with a magician. Meanwhile Alec’s sergeant, Will Grant, is drawn to the mysterious Fenn, a hunter from the Outlands.

It’s 1919. Rob and Matty both return to Webber’s Farm, Bradfield, from the trenches only to find Matty’s brother dying of an unknown illness. When Matty also starts to look sicker and sicker, the answer seems to be in the esoteric books Arthur left strewn around the house. It’s taken a decade and a war to admit they have feelings for each other. They are determined that nothing will part them. What is Rob prepared to sacrifice to save Matty’s life?

Inadvertently tumbling through the border into the Outlands after Fenn, Sergeant Will Grant of the Metropolitan Police has spent three months imprisoned by the Frem. When Fenn frees him, they step through the border to the Egyptian desert. It’s a two week ocean-liner journey back to England, with the possibility of magical pursuit. Will the journey give Fenn and Will time to resolve the feelings they have been dancing around since the day they met?

The Swim is not one of my usual mysteries featuring former police detective Michael McLaren. It's a prequel novella giving a picture of his life from teenager to the strong man he is today. He's real to me, and I want you to understand him. I want you to understand a man whose need to help others find justice became his incitement in a world like today. He's been through a lot from his ordeal beginning with the "swim", his move from the Force, and his cold cases. He's made enemies, friends, and he has loved and lost. Like many of us.