Who will find Kat first - her friends or her killer?This great story, packed with twists and turns, begins in London’s smart Fitzrovia and ends in secret tunnels below central Birmingham.With two bonus short stories as an INstafreebie exclusive. Views: 279
Get ready for a brand new edge-of-your-seat read from bestselling author Sophie McKenzie!
When everyone thinks you're a liar, how hard will you fight for the truth?
Carey and Amelia have been best friends forever. Then Amelia starts being trolled by SweetFreak, a mysterious and hateful online account, and Carey is accused of being behind the vicious comments and threats.
Shut out by her other friends and shunned by Amelia, Carey is determined to clear her name and find out who’s really sending the messages. But as the online attacks spill over into real life, events start spiralling out of control… Can Carey expose the real SweetFreak before it’s too late?
A gripping page-turner from the award-winning Sophie Mckenize*, SweetFreak will keep you guessing until the very end…*
PRAISE FOR SOPHIE MCKENZIE:
'When it comes to YA thrillers, there's one name that defines the genre: Sophie McKenzie' Amy Alward, author of The Potion Diaries
'Sophie's thrillers are brilliant... You can't stop reading' Robert Muchamore, bestselling author Views: 279
You ever thought about applying for a job you see in the paper. Ever wonder what psycho might be lurking behind the innocent words. A bloody thrill ride into a world of murder and madness. Leave sanity at the door. You've just walked into something you won't survive.It’s Volume 4 of TIW shorts! The fourth collection and possibly the last of totally pointless exactly 500 Challenge and exactly 200 Weekend Quickie flash fiction stories/scenes word nonsense (plus a few specials, relays, newsflashes from the TIW blog and collaborations) to entertain you while doing whatever you do when reading. For myself, it was a long and tricky half year in The Iron Writer. Through troubles and difficulties, there was always the TIW Challenge waiting for me.I hope you enjoy these short snippets just as much as I enjoyed writing them, and thanks again to Brian and all the other Iron Writers for allowing me into their community…I wouldn’t. Views: 278
In ages past, a boy was born to meet a destiny and task that no other could. With the rise of the sorcerers and evil Kings, the land became wretched with evil and avarice. He then embarks on a precarious journey that will take him into adulthood, and beyond what any normal man can become. Merlin the Legacy follows Merlin's unknown beginnings that have been always shrouded in mystery...Merlin felt the slight kick of a boot in his side.“Come on you lazy bugger! Time to get off your backside and 'play' knight.”Merlin tried to cover his eyes from the dawn sun, and then Darius noticed something,“My God boy, why are you sweating so? What were you doing last night?”Merlin sat up wiping the sweat off his forehead. It was no surprise to him, he always greeted morning with sweat dripping off him, but he knew better than to tell Darius of his dreams.“I've always been like this, it's nothing.”“Well, in any case, while you've been lazing around, I've already been out to find you a stick you can use as a sword. It's about the right size for you. Here you are.”Darius tossed the stick at Merlin, forcing him to catch it clumsily.“Right then! First lesson, grip the sword like this.”Darius showed Merlin the classical grip and then what he called “the crazy b******” grip. A one handed grip that allowed the wielding of two weapons, as the heavy sword would be strapped to one hand with some leather cord, while the other was free to grab, strike or take up another implement of pain.“But for now, because you're such a green beginner and all, we'll just concentrate on the basic grip and strikes. I just wanted you to know how truly dangerous I can be.”Merlin raised his eyebrows as Darius got into his guard stance,“Follow me, there's a good lad!”Merlin mimicked Darius' each move. The stances, the strikes and the parries. He didn't really understand them, but after an hour, he could do them on command.“Right then,” Darius rubbed his forearm across his brow, “now I am going to attack you. Hard.”Merlin felt his stomach turn.“Parry one!” Darius shouted as he ran toward Merlin with his broadsword in a downward striking movement, with a devilish laugh.To his own surprise, Merlin instantly brought the stick up into the right position.Darius began to strike across Merlin's body,“Parry two!”Merlin again, blocked it. With Darius stopping just before his blade made contact.“No bad, not bad at all. We may make a knight of you yet.”Darius saw that what Merlin was lacking in strength, he made up for in speed and agility.“Now, attack me.” Ordered Darius.Merlin didn't want to. The look of that blade Darius was now wielding with gusto and a devil-may-care-look in his eyes, told Merlin it was the last thing he wanted to do.“Aren't you hungry Darius, don't you think we should eat.”Darius put his guard down and leaned on the sword for a moment,“Come on boy, don't be a coward, what would that girly of yours think if she saw you now? Think she'd be impressed?”Merlin felt a spark inside him grow, a spark that ignited an ember that would go on to become a furnace in future years. Taking a swing a Darius, Darius hopped backward to avoid it easily... Views: 278
Cases collide for two star crossed ladies of law enforcement!Customs Special Agent Dana Rossi and semi-rural Ohio county Sheriff Melissa 'Mel' Crane are each working critical cases that seem to be related. Can they get along together long enough to solve them both and will their undeniable feelings for each other be allowed to grow or will the two ladies fight each other every step of the way?Cases collide for two star crossed ladies of law enforcement! Customs Special Agent Dana Rossi was forced to start her life anew after a bad breakup with her former girlfriend and the loss of job that she loved. These days, she spends life on the road, moving from one case to another until one day when runs run right into the path of Sheriff Mel Crane. The feisty, sexy butch cop is as determined to uncover a counterfeiting ring in her county as Agent Rossi becomes to stop a stalker obsessed with Mel and hot for her company. Dana is under the added pressure of conducting an undercover investigation of her own with a tight deadline: finding and then stopping a ring of smugglers bringing high end designer knock-offs into the states. Could their cases be related? When repeated vicious attacks on Mel and on her home accelerate the danger for her and also their attraction to each other, they become desperate to find the truth and solve the two mysteries. Can they find a way to work together to resolve both cases while coming to terms with their growing feelings for one another? Can Dana move beyond her jilted lover past and find true happiness with a small town Sheriff? Views: 278
In THE END OF THE WORLD RUNNING CLUB Edgar Hill ran 550 miles after an apocalypse to try and find his family.He had it easy. This is his wife's story.Beth Hill has survived the apocalypse with a baby and toddler in tow. And what's more she's done it alone - without her husband's help. He's never been any help. But when disaster strikes and someone steals her kids, she knows what she has to do. The new world might be very different: no government, no law, no infrastructure and a whole lot more ocean than there used to be. But one thing hasn't changed - the lengths a mother will go to save her family... Views: 277
In the year 2020, M-Corp, a huge cooperation has bailed out the UK; but for the price of M-Corp having complete control. As society gets chewed up by the rich, and the government takes a back-seat, a modern day Robin Hood emerges, taking things into his own hands. But can one act change the course of the future? Or will the wicked wheels of corruption crush anything that comes in its way.When seventeen year old Patience Gillespie arrives at her uncle’s house for one of her regular visits, she finds blood everywhere, and evidence that he has been kidnapped. She stumbles across a letter detailing that the world of fantasy and magic is in fact real, and that he had been expecting this to happen. He also leaves a magical ring which he says will protect her. Patience enlists the help of an elemental called Grim, Mercy – a sword fighting clairvoyant who has the ability to alter people’s memories and explore their mind, and Mortus, a zombie necromancer who can spirit walk among the dead and use shadow magic. Together they must uncover a plot that has been set in place ever since an ancient war which shaped the world we live in today. There are dangers, laughs, and a hell of a lot of style. Views: 277
1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet—Natchez Burning—the first installment in an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage
Growing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows about honor and duty from his father, Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor is accused of murdering Viola Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the early 1960s. A fighter who has always stood for justice, Penn is determined to save his father.
The quest for answers sends Penn deep into the past—into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the Double Eagles, a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. Now Penn must follow a bloody trail that stretches back forty years, to one undeniable fact: no one—black or white, young or old, brave or not—is ever truly safe. Views: 276
