The Winter Chaser

The Winter Chaser

Following the stunning 'Gate of Tears', Christopher Holt, has gone to the other end of the spectrum, with this chi...

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Montfort The Viceroy (Montfort Series)

Montfort The Viceroy (Montfort Series)

King Henry cannot do without Simon's skill as a military commander and sends him to quell rebellion in England's French duchy of Gascony. But the Gascons entangle Simon in intrigues -- and Henry has his opportunity to try him for ...

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Maids Of Misfortune: A Victorian San Fr…

Maids Of Misfortune:  A Victorian San Francisco Mystery

It’s the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie’s husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the bo...

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Too Many Witches

Too Many Witches

When Moanica Moonsweep plans a special Halloween party, her witch's brew has to be just right. So she invites her witchy friends over to help her plan the perfect kettle of gruesome stew. But when they can't agree on the nastiest...

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The Whole Clove Diet

The Whole Clove Diet

As she breaks 200 pounds, and not in a good way, 29-year-old Rita finds herself married to a self-focused widower with two difficult kids and a mother who almost makes Rita's own mother look like a role model - which is really say...

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Montfort The Early Years (Montfort Serie…

Montfort The Early Years (Montfort Series)

Simon de Montfort arrives in England, a near penniless youth but with a slender claim on the earldom of Leicester. King Henry befriends him -- until he commits an unpardonable treason and flees for his life, to become in the Holy ...

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The Pajama Elves

The Pajama Elves

The Pajama Elves is the story of elves from the North Pole who deliver pajamas to good girls and boys on Christmas Eve. The pajamas are stitched with a magical thread that guarantees children will sleep soundly, giving Santa a cha...

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Throwing Clay Shadows

Throwing Clay Shadows

It's 1807 on the Isle of Eigg. Four-year old Maggie believes she has killed her mother by saying bad things and now she won't say a word. It's true that Ma's voice stays in the cottage even though Da says she's gone, and sometimes...

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The Nightmare Stone

The Nightmare Stone

The ultimate lucky break gives John Harris and his family the opportunity to fulfill their wildest dreams. But all dreams have a darker side, and John's past is never far away, ready to reach through to cast its shadow.One hundred...

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Call of a Distant Shore

Call of a Distant Shore

Call of a Distant Shore follows the travails of Elisabeth Heber and her family as they struggle under the rule of a tyrannical Prince in 1750s Germany and their subsequent journey to be among the first settlers of Nova Scotia. Unm...

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Ripple

Ripple

Have you ever wondered what goes on in the great marine intellects of the whales and dolphins? What wonders might they have achieved during the tens of millions of years of planetary rule they enjoyed before humans came down from ...

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Black Mahler

Black Mahler

06/01/12 to mark the 100th anniversary of this forgotten genius' tragically premature passing. The book tells the true story of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor who was born to a white mother and black African father in London, 1875. He is...

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The Black Banner

The Black Banner

"A grim flag fluttered and snapped from their masthead: a pair of crossed cutlasses picked out in stark white against a black background." 1719, and the high seas are plagued by the lawless. Pirates rule the crystal waters of the ...

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SCAT

SCAT

Whose DNA will escape a depleted Earth: yours or the one per cent's? Who owns your new world: you or the company? And do you dare speak your mind on a world where the very air you breathe is a corporate asset? Welcome to Scat's...

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Line by Line

Line by Line

The 1930s: As the Great Depression deepens and her family disintegrates, Maddy Skobel flees her central Ohio town—by freight train—determined to make her own way. Learning to survive as a hobo while facing hardship, danger, and vi...

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Montfort The Angel with the Sword (Montf…

Montfort The Angel with the Sword (Montfort Series)

King Henry has succeeded in suppressing the new Parliament. But the common people of England have come to believe that a new age has begun, a thousand year Era of the Sanctus Spiritus in which kingship and the Church will dissolve...

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Dragonfriend

Dragonfriend

If you think it was all good deeds and fancy ideals back in the days of Camelot, think again. Most people don't know this, but for a time things went seriously bad; Arthur was imprisoned, Merlin had vanished, and a vile demon had ...

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Peggy Pinch, Policeman's Wife

Peggy Pinch, Policeman's Wife

Peggy Pinch, unhappily married to the village policeman, must solve a murder to save her husband's job. It's 1926. In the shadow of the General Strike, a farmer's body is found on the local branchline. Scotland Yard's investigatio...

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A Cold Snow In Castaway County

A Cold Snow In Castaway County

Dell Hinton left the Boston Police Department after a high-profile shooting incident and moved to a quiet community in Maine. After living by the lake for a year, his friend, the local minister, convinces him to run for the office...

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Charlotte – Pride and Prejudice Continue…

Charlotte – Pride and Prejudice Continues

When Charlotte Lucas married Mr Collins, she did not love him but had at least secured her future.However, what price must she pay for that future? She once said she was not romantic, but how true is that now after almost one year...

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In Search of the Fuller Brush Man

In Search of the Fuller Brush Man

Sean Marcum is driven to find the meaning of his mother's swan song. The last words she wrote in her journal were, "Fuller Brush Man". She always communicated life's most important lessons via riddles, and he is convinced this is ...

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My Temporary Life

My Temporary Life

Heroes are not born. They're made.

 Malcolm Stewart's strength was forged during harsh childhood days--ugly days when he faced down schoolyard bullies and endured the neglect of a promiscuous mother. It is a strength that he has...

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Lady of Devices

Lady of Devices

London, 1889. Victoria is Queen. Charles Darwin’s son is Prime Minister. And steam is the power that runs the world. At 17, Claire Trevelyan, daughter of Viscount St. Ives, was expected to do nothing more than pour an elegant cup ...

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Betrayal

Betrayal

Betrayal tells the story of two women, modern day Lydia Hamilton and Elisabeth Beeton, a lady's maid to Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry the Eighth. Lydia is happily in love with her physician boyfriend, Dan Taylor, until she be...

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After the Rising

After the Rising

CAN WE EVER ESCAPE THE PAST THAT MADE US? When Jo Devereux returns to Ireland after an absence of 20 years, the last thing she expects is to end up writing a family history. Growing up in Mucknamore in the 1970s, with her village ...

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Sometimes It Happens

Sometimes It Happens

Winning the lottery was just the beginning for Doreen Wilkinson, nothing prepared Doreen for her holiday at Villas Bonitas and nothing prepared Villas Bonitas for Doreen Wilkinson. Sometimes It Happens...is about secrets, decepti...

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A Field Of Poppies

A Field Of Poppies

Two families. One secret. Separated by a river and twenty years of lies. Five minutes changed Poppy Sadler's life forever. Tick. The hospital called. Her mother's battle with cancer was finally over. Tock. The police showed up a...

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The Journey of Fallen Rock

The Journey of Fallen Rock

The Journey of Fallen Rock is a children's story about family, the adventure of traveling coast to coast across this great land and the lesson that we all can enjoy our natural resources while we still protect and preser...

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The Tempest’s Roar

The Tempest’s Roar

This is a story of the whales and dolphins who rule the Seven Seas and the odyssey of a white dolphin named Apollo whose destiny is to save whalekind from destruction on this planet man calls Earth but whales know as Planet Ocean....

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Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary

"What's wrong with relaxing in the evening with a little sip of wino?" asks Carakas, an alcoholic vampire whose primary concern is maintaining his buzz. But finding a steady supply of heavy drinkers to feast upon is a challenge. U...

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An Involuntary King: A Tale of Anglo Sax…

An Involuntary King: A Tale of Anglo Saxon England

The younger son of a Saxon king unexpectedly finds himself wearing the crown when his father and older brother are slain in an attempted usurping. His is a story of a young man striving to prove himself to others and to quench his...

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Second Thoughts: Presidential Regrets wi…

Second Thoughts: Presidential Regrets with Their Supreme Court Nominations

What you see is often not what you get - especially in the field of law. And that goes for Presidents of the United States in picking the people they want to serve as Justice on the U. S. Supreme Court. For instance.... When a Su...

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Sax and the Suburb

Sax and the Suburb

Why is someone killing the community band geeks of Richland, Texas? Miranda Beeling would like to know, since she's one of them. Law grad Miranda is trying to recover from the recent death of her mother and the betrayal of her fia...

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The Voice of the Dolphins

The Voice of the Dolphins

The Voice of the Dolphins, my book on 33 years work with dolphins and whales, covers extraordinary underwater encounters with dolphins, killer whales and sperm whales, efforts to stop the slaughter of dolphins in Japan and in the ...

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Sons of the Wolf

Sons of the Wolf

1054, pious King Edward sits on the throne, spending his days hunting, sleeping and praying, leaving the security of his kingdom to his more capable brother-in-law Harold Godwinson, the powerful Earl of Wessex. Against this backd...

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Finding Emma

Finding Emma

A child torn from the arms of loving parents, a relationship torn apart from loss... Megan sees her daughter Emma everywhere. She's the little girl standing in the supermarket, the child waiting for the swings at the playground, ...

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This Time You Lose

This Time You Lose

What would you do if street thugs invaded your home? What if you're a daycare provider, caring for a dozen children at the time? Lisa Kaamp, a most unlikely heroine, faces just such a nightmare in This Time You Lose, the suspense ...

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Savannah Jade

Savannah Jade

Trailer trash is what people in Port Regal, South Carolina call seventeen year old Savannah Jade Mason and her family. Savannah dreams of doing important, spectacular things, but it is unlikely she ever will given her spectacular ...

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Sea Witch (Sea Witch Voyages Series)

Sea Witch (Sea Witch Voyages Series)

Escaping the bullying of his elder half brother, from the age of fifteen Jesamiah Acorne has been a pirate with only two loves - his ship and his freedom. But his life is to change when he and his crewmates unsuccessfully attack a...

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Gross: Doctor Deathworm Rises

Gross: Doctor Deathworm Rises

Donald is at peace in knowing that he was born in another dimension, no longer insecure when being picked on by the other orphans for his differences. His father, only able to talk to him from his home world through dreams, appear...

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The Mustard Seeds

The Mustard Seeds

Elliot White is a 16-year old musical savant with Asperger's Syndrome. After his mom's sudden death, Elliot is forced to leave his performing arts high school in New York City and relocate to Winslow, Arizona to live with his ecce...

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A Fatal Verdict (The Trials of Sarah New…

A Fatal Verdict (The Trials of Sarah Newby)

What would you do if someone murdered your child, but the justice system let you down? Kathryn Walters is faced with this dreadful decision when her daughter, Shelley, is found dead in a bath in her boyfriend’s flat. Despite the ...

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Patches of Grey

Patches of Grey

Tony Johnson is a studious young man planning to soon
graduate from much more than high school. Although his zip code places
him in a Bronx tenement pre 'rise of Obama', his sights are set far
beyond the trappings of a humble upbr...

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Opening Day (Matt Davis Mystery Series)

Opening Day (Matt Davis Mystery Series)

Young girls are coming through a small Upstate New York village, but...they aren't all coming out--alive! Following a close brush with death as an NYPD homicide detective, Matt Davis takes early retirement, and accepts what appear...

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Peanut Butter For Cupcakes

Peanut Butter For Cupcakes

As the stock market crashes in October of 1929, Oliver fears for his job at the silk mill.  When his nightmare comes true and the mill shuts down, Oliver is hesitant to allow his wife, Estella, to take a job at the local coff...

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The Grave Blogger

The Grave Blogger

The scenic bayous and small towns of South Louisiana hold hidden dangers beyond those you might expect - in a tangled tale of mystery and suspense. Raya, a freelance writer and blogger, researches cold cases for true crime website...

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The Dating Dilemmas of Delilah Dunnfield

The Dating Dilemmas of Delilah Dunnfield

Tick, tick, tick. That's time ticking away. All aboard! Next stop twenty-five years old. Pardon me while I panic. Don't panic. Don't panic. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Delilah Dunnfield's neurotic fears have her convinced that when the ...

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Rebel Puritan

Rebel Puritan

Scarlett O'Hara meets The Scarlet Letter: Rebel Puritan is based on the true-life escapades of Herodias (Long) Hicks, one of New England's most notorious women.  Like Scarlett O'Hara, Herodias was married far too young to a ...

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Dirt

Dirt

In 1933 the Great Depression and Dust Bowl brought devastation to thousands of people. For thirteen-year-old Sammy Larkin, it made him an orphan. Refusing to allow the state to take his seven-year-old sister, Birdie and himself fr...

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Ashford

Ashford

Seventeen year old Anna is a naive American orphan, delighted to find herself on a tour of Europe in the spring of 1939. A feeling of camaraderie with all mankind thrills her as she mingles with throngs of foreigners, but her joy ...

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A Guide to Kitties: How to Find a Nice H…

A Guide to Kitties: How to Find a Nice Home

One abandoned kitty's story of how he found a new home and the best mommy and daddy.

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