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As the end of school quickly approaches, and Cooper Bailey watches his perfect world slip away, his only concern is savouring every last minute of his high school career. For his best friend, Reid Patterson, graduation is a doorway to the future, where his discipline and focus will finally allow him to meet his true potential. When a mysterious mirror-masked man begs for their help to stop a dangerous heretic, Cooper and Reid find themselves thrust into unknown worlds, wrestling with a destiny as old as time itself.

Annabelle Lake thought she recognised the Ford Fiesta waiting outside her school, and the driver in it. She was wrong. Her body is discovered some time later, dangling from a swing in a local playground on Canvey Island. The post-mortem shows she’s been fed, clothed and kept warm. That whoever was responsible had looked after her. But when another girl goes missing and is found in a similar fashion, that’s where the similarities end.

When seasoned treasure hunter, Mike Gordon, and his party of unconventional adventurers travel to a breathtaking island hoping to discover a primitive tribe, their journey couldn't have gone any smoother. But the day after landing their seaplane, they are overrun by violent savages whose god is in need of a fresh sacrifice.

With his ex-wife receiving threatening phone calls and a ritual burial found in a Norwich archaeological dig, the last thing Greg Geldard needs is an East Coast flood and a cliff fall that reveals—what exactly? Set in the unique landscape of the Norfolk Broads and on the sometimes treacherous Norfolk coast, this thriller follows a serial killer, and his relentless pursuer.

Sitting in a jail cell, uncertain of his innocence, Hume Rankin finds himself lost and a long way from home as he recalls dismissing the blind old negro woman’s warning and is haunted by the possibility that he may have played a part in how own demise.

When a top British agent is murdered in Hamburg, spymaster Tweed is desperate to know why his man was killed – and who he should target for revenge.The investigation quickly leads Tweed to a devastating conclusion – one of his four European sector chiefs is a traitor. Tweed’s terrible problem is that he does not know which one. With time running out, Tweed realises he may also be tracking a mass murderer – and that an appalling scandal in London will break if he does not find the killer.

S-Squad are relieved to be home, and even an order to investigate animal mutilations at a local wildlife park does not seem like an onerous detail. But things take a turn to the twilight zone all too quickly around the S-Squad, and even their homeland is not immune.

Calamitous Fortunes is a story about that all-powerful supernatural force in the universe that shapes all of our lives. The beautiful, mystical being that none of us have seen, yet most of us believe in. Although it is not tangible, the majority of Human Beings insist it is not imaginary and they pray for it to look upon them with great favor. CF is a story about LUCK. Once upon a time there were three families graced with an abundant amount of Luck.

ntelligence agencies are convinced that Adam Procane, a top Washington official, is about to defect. But the Presidential election is only two months away and it’s the last thing the Americans want. Trouble is, no one knows who Procane really is, so nothing can be done to stop him. In London, Tweed of SIS watches and waits. Four highly suspect Americans have already passed through London en route to Scandinavia – the Deputy Head of the CIA, the National Security Advisor and his wife, and the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces. Any one of them could be Procane. So it’s time for Tweed to act.

A body is found during a bird flu turkey cull. DCI Greg Geldard, newly promoted and newly transferred to Norfolk, is about to face the most challenging case of his career. His investigation starts with one body found amongst dead turkeys but goes on to expose a range of crimes hiding in plain sight, from modern slavery to wildlife smuggling. The body count rises, a friend is threatened, and justice seems a long way off.

The Follow-up to the Award-Winning The Wisdom of Hobbits, Mimetic Theory & Middle-earth: Untangling Desire in Tolkien's Legendarium, by long-time author Matthew J. Distefano, delves deeply into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, using René Girard's mimetic theory as the primary lens through which to view the good professor’s legendary texts.

After a short spell in the trenches in 1915, Jack Cunningham, a miner from the North-East of England, finds himself recruited as a tunneler to dig mines under the German lines, becoming involved in the underground warfare between the two sides. Telling his story through a series of flashbacks, he is tormented by a voice inside his head, questioning his memories and his obvious guilt at surviving when others didn’t, swinging between varying states of confusion and control over his situation and over what is and isn’t real.

Earth stands on the brink of doom, but hope lies in the Bertram Ramsay Space Station, evacuating seven million survivors. Jaxon Leith is struggling to recover from the explosion that rocked Compression, halting the evacuation and leaving two million legitimate occupants stranded on Earth. Together with the rest of the covert operations team, Jaxon continues the mission to neutralise the station's biggest threat: The Acolytes of Gaia.

In 1969, during the crux of the Vietnam war, Jack Tagger is on the run. As the war in Southeast Asia rages on, he has made the moral decision to resist the draft. In his effort to avoid the authorities and the war, he seeks refuge on a desolate coastal barrier island where unbeknownst to him, while avoiding one war, he finds himself unwittingly caught in the middle of another deadly land-war between two very powerful men at Sunset Beach, North Carolina.

The year is 2250. Earth faces apocalypse, and the future of mankind rests in the Bertram Ramsay Space Station. Home to 9 million souls, but not all of them are friendly. The Acolytes of Gaia are a formidable foe to the men and women charged with Earth's evacuation. Their murderous intent; to see Earth is destroyed, and mankind with it.

A simple theft, a kingdom in turmoil, a diety imprisoned. When master thief Aren Kesik pickpockets a reality-transmuting bracelet, not even death can stop the steel-masked Charodin—the Overlord's secret police—from seizing it back. Thrust into a revolution he didn't want, while mourning the brutal execution of the only family he's ever known, Aren joins two clever street urchins, and an exile atoning for his late father's forbidden magic, to reunite a fractured god and rescue Aren's re-emergent adopted brother from eternal subjugation.