Ron Halestrom is a new author, one successful book behind him, who moves into a new home with his family, to write more. But naturally, Gabor House has a dark secret which is trying to drive them away. Two hundred years before, it was the old manor house: home to the Mainwarings, owners of much of the locality. Young children had been going missing, but it took their own daughter Isobel's disappearance for them to send out a search party. They find Bemorra, the local imbecile, throwing her into the Gabor Pool. Bemorra is hanged until he is dead, but he has enough time to curse the locals. Views: 57
In Victorian London, two robbers attack an old and mysterious theatre … a snowy Jacobean Christmas is marred by a series of bloodthirsty slayings … big-game hunters join forces to capture the leaping demon known as ‘Spring-Heeled Jack’ … crusading knights are stalked across the desert by an elemental force … intruders in an ancient barrow awaken an awesome, unstoppable entity.Five more stories of historical horror, fantasy and suspense by the two-times winner of the British Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award.The GaffWhen Bobber and Ketch, two vicious Victorian criminals, opt to rob the London ‘gaff’ of the weird Professor Feltencaft, they encounter more horror than they could ever have imagined.To Walk On Thorny PathsOn the eve of the ‘Bloodless Revolution’, political rivals are marooned together in a snowbound mansion. Soon they are dying one by one, as a nameless, non-human assailant begins to stalk them.A Plague On Both Your HousesColonel Thorpe is the deadliest shot in the British Empire. There isn’t an animal alive he hasn’t hunted. But even Thorpe is bemused when a young officer recruits him to track down Victorian London’s infamous leaping madman, ‘Spring-Heeled Jack’.The DestroyersAfter the destruction of Jerusalem in 1099, a band of crusaders crosses the desert in search of the Garden of Eden. Vengeance-seeking Saracens pursue them, along with something else – an indestructible monstrosity formed from the very elements of the Earth.ColossusWhen their cannonball tears into a grassy mound, a Napoleonic gun-crew realise they have opened an ancient barrow. A wealth of treasure and artworks await them inside, but so does a mysterious guardian, who will stop at nothing to protect the secret hoard. Views: 57
A classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. Bert Checkov, a racing correspondent, drunkenly confesses to fellow Fleet Street hack James Tyrone that he's been giving his readers bum tips for years. Five minutes later, Checkov's fallen out a seventh floor window. Tyrone has a nose for a story and he's convinced there's more to his friend's death than meets the eye. When he starts digging, he discovers that many of Checkov's tips never even made it to the start. But the deeper Tyrone gets, the dirtier and more dangerous this business appears to be. If he's not careful he'll be following Checkov to his death... Praise for Dick Francis: 'As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing' Daily Mirror 'Dick Francis's... Views: 57
Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief. At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: his father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him. Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father's destruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, and successful. But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerful someone, who is impressed by Gideon's special skills. Someone who has need of just such a renegade. For Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning… Views: 57
Despite a traumatic childhood in Poland culminating in the suicide of his mother and the resulting emigration to England, Janus Malik’s life is OK – until he becomes a bestselling author. One by one his friends and colleagues experience strange fatal and near fatal accidents. When the police decide he’s the prime suspect, Janus has to act to discover who or what is behind the bizarre and horrific accidents. He doesn’t feel he’s up to the task, but using the gifts inherited from his mother Janus is determined to find out what's going on and save himself from an unjust prison sentence. Views: 57
The Billionaire's Christmas Gift by Carole MortimerNick Steele's heart is closed to everyone but his daughter. He'll do anything to make this Christmas special, though sharing the holidays with her attractive teacher wasn't what he planned. But Beth Morgan soon has him rethinking his wish list.One Christmas Night in Venice by Jane PorterFive years ago an accident killed her husband and unborn child—or so Diane Mayer thought. Then she sees Dominic Coducci alive and well, looking as shocked as she! Dom is determined to put his family back together. But Diane needs to be sure about his feelings before she can share his bed again.Snowbound with the Millionaire by Catherine GeorgeGeorgia had no intention of spending Christmas marooned with a sexy millionaire. She wanted to be alone, to nurse her broken heart. But Chance was making it difficult to concentrate on her misery! Though a storm raged outside the mansion, inside things were heating up... Views: 57
Below the picture postcard surface of sleepy village Coxham Marsh lays a hotbed of decadent depravity, cruel perversity and erotic power. When Lily goes missing on her sister Georgina's twenty-first birthday, Georgie embarks on a dangerous search and rescue mission. With the help of her best friend Bunnie, the pair find themselves embroiled in the village's twisted sexual underworld. Their minds, bodies and souls are pushed to the limit as they endure erotic humiliations at the hands of the subversive locals. But through encounters with a sadistic dominatrix, an unholy vicar and a bar full of deviant farmers, they uncover a network of organised crime which caters to the darkest fantasies their powerful clients can afford. Can Georgie and Bunnie topple the secret organisation and save Lily? Or will the weakness of the flesh seduce them into compliant devotion? Views: 57
