A brand new series from the Author of TIMERIDERS! Views: 31
A brand new series from the author of TIMERIDERS!Ellie Quin has escaped the tedium of life on her father's farm to the domed main city of her home world – New Haven. A noisy, colourful, over-crowded city filled with ditto-heads and limp-chiks, the dregs of society watching day-time sopa-drams on the toob. A place where crime is rife and a naive young woman can too easily become a victim and a statistic. But with the help of her new found friend and fellow cube-chik, Jez – street-smart, head strong and incredibly fregging foul-mouthed – there's a hope of a chance the pair can find a way off world.But will they find a way off world before a ruthless killer – hired by 'the Administration' to track down Ellie - finally zeroes in on her? Views: 30
When single-mom Claire Matthews inherits an old home in Michigan, she starts a new life for herself and her son. But the house is in bad shape and winter makes repairs difficult. Carpenter Paul Sawyer has been hiding since his divorce, making handmade chess sets. But a customer's special request and a bad winter storm give him a second chance at love . . . if he's willing to take it. Views: 28
Katriona Hughes has no idea how she’s managed to find herself in 16th century Scotland, but she’s beginning to think the emerald gem she picked up on an archeological site may have had something to do with it. Wanting nothing more than to return to her own time, Kat is betrayed by the first person she meets and forced into a marriage with a loathsome stranger. Now running for her life, Kat meets the one man who deserves her trust, but can she give it to him.
Nick Mackall is happy to finally be back in his beloved Scotland after accidentally being transported to twenty first century San Francisco and spending the last two years of his life there. His home and family are calling to him, but things are not about to go smoothly for the handsome highlander as he meets a young woman fleeing her husband and an old foe returns from the dead. Two things are certain - he must gain the woman’s trust in order to save her and he must stop his foe from unleashing the power of an imprisoned sorcerer. Views: 28
Short-listed for the 1990 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award Moving to Soda Creek, a former Gold Rush boomtown in the Cariboo region of interior British Columbia, Kelly Linden and her father try to begin their lives again after a tragic family accident. Views: 28
Her parents want a betrothal, but Mairead MacKenzie can’t get married without revealing her secret and no man will wed her once he knows. Views: 26
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . . Project Exodus - a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to 54AD to overthrow the Roman Empire - has gone catastrophically wrong. Half have arrived seventeen years earlier, during the reign of Caligula. Liam goes to investigate, but when Maddy and Sal attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt down their field office, all of the TimeRiders become trapped in the Roman past. Armed with knowledge of the future, Caligula is now more powerful than ever. But with the office unmanned - and under threat - how will the TimeRiders make it back to 2001 and put history right? ** Book five in the bestselling TimeRiders series by Alex Scarrow. ** Ancient Rome gets a time-travel makeover! ** TimeRiders (Book 1) won the Red House Book Award older readers category, and was Penguin UK's first ever number one on the iBookstore. ** www.time-riders.co.uk Views: 26
