An urban fantasy with everything from romance to mystery, The Witch's Bell Series follow a feisty witch, Ebony Bell, as she solves magical malady after magical malady.An urban fantasy with everything from romance to mystery, The Witch's Bell Series follow a feisty witch, Ebony Bell, as she solves magical malady after magical malady.Ebony Bell is living just exactly the life she wants. She has her very own magical bookstore, a wardrobe full of fabulously glitzy clothes, and a sweet bowl just brimming with lollies. But when a 6ft-tall annoyance by the name of Detective Nathan Wall walks through her shop door, her sweet life turns to ruin. As witch consultant for the local police department, Ebony has to work infuriatingly close with the man. And if that wasn't the worst thing that could happen, she slowly finds out that an ancient, thoroughly powerful entity might just be out to curse her. Very soon she finds herself ditching the ruby-red heels, dashing across rooftops, breaking and entering, and stuffing whole bookstores into bags. Oh, and possibly kissing annoying detectives.

It seemed only natural to nickname them the ‘Onslow Boys’. Every time they swaggered in the front door of the Onslow Hotel after a hard week’s work, their laughter was loud and genuine as they settled onto their bar stools. I peeked through the restaurant partition, a flimsy divider between my world and theirs. I couldn’t help but smile whenever I saw them, saw him ... Toby Morrison.Quiet seventeen-year-old Tess doesn’t relish the thought of a summertime job. She wants nothing more than to forget the past haunts of high school and have fun with her best friends before the dreaded Year Twelve begins.To Tess, summer is when everything happens: riding bikes down to the lake, watching the fireworks at the Onslow Show and water bomb fights at the sweltering Sunday markets.How did she let her friends talk her into working?After first-shift disasters, rude, wealthy tourists and a taunting ex-boyfriend, Tess is convinced nothing good can come of working her summer away. However, Tess finds unlikely allies in a group of locals dubbed ‘The Onslow Boys’, who are old enough to drive cars, drink beer and not worry about curfews. Tess’s summer of working expands her world with a series of first times with new friends, forbidden love and heartbreaking chaos.All with the one boy she has never been able to forget. It will be a summer she will always remember. Warning: sexual references, and occasional coarse language.The Summer Series:Book 1: The Boys of SummerBook 2.5: Stan (Novella)Book 2: An Endless SummerBook 2.5: Max (Novella)Book 3: That One SummerBook 3.5: Ringer (Novella)Book 4: Forever SummerAuthors Note: While each title can be read as a stand-alone story, you will likely enjoy taking the journey with these characters from the beginning.

Three kingdoms at war. Three stories of hope, sorrow, and sacrifice. Three groups of heroes, whose personal quests lead them to discover that a fourth kingdom, long forgotten, lies dormant. But no more. Unless these heroes, bitter enemies of each other, can put aside their enmity, then Cithria will rise again, and everyone else will fall into the abyss.Part 1 of Rise of CithriaPart one of an epic five-part fantasy adventure! Three kingdoms at war. Three stories of hope, sorrow, and sacrifice. Three groups of heroes, whose personal quests lead them to discover that a fourth kingdom, long forgotten, lies dormant. But no more. Unless these heroes, bitter enemies of each other, can put aside their enmity, then Cithria will rise again, and everyone else will fall into the abyss. An epic fantasy series from Kris Kramer, Alistair McIntyre, and Patrick Underhill, founders of the4threalm. Catch the beginning of an innovative new sword and sorcery adventure with elves, dwarves, dragons, and much, much more. Visit the4threalm for more details!

Will Zac, Maya & Jake foil the Weathermakers plan to fire two E/M weapons from a U.S warship? Life is full of surprises, awkward moments & growth for our intrepid trio in the second book in the Rebelutionary series. Dangling from a chopper... hiking on a grueling military trek... disarming the bad guys... discovering secrets about the ISRA. Life is action packed when you’re on Gordon's payroll.*Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him -Aldous Huxley* The Codetalkers introduces new teenagers to the series. Captain Ryan Adams is fresh out of the Airforce Officer Training Academy. He’s the country’s top graduate and he expected to be deployed overseas. However instead he’s been assigned to Farliga pass - a wilderness training camp in the heart of Yellowstone National Park. Ryan’s uncomfortable about his first post as an officer. Most of the personnel up at Farliga Pass are old timers. And Ryan has reason to hate old timers... *Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated -Wilfred Peterson* Hope Canney’s family think she’s plodding through an undergraduate degree in journalism. But Hope’s been living a double life since starting college. She’s already a renowned investigative journalist who’s won multiple awards as Heidi Cannikin. Her cutting edge stories stem from shadowing her brother Zac’s activities. Normally it’s not risky. But this time her life is on the line. unable to contact Zac, she heads for a safehouse he’s told her about... Her decision will have far reaching ramifications for both of them.*Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records -William Arthur Ward* Ryan and Hope don’t ever get to meet each other in The Codetalkers but they have a lot in common. Both are pretending to be older than they really are. Both are Rebelutionaries - they’ve chosen to rebel against society’s low expectations of teenagers and excel in their chosen fields. Both end up feeling they’re out of their depth. And they both look up to Zac. *Change is inevitable. Growth is intentional -Colin Wilson* The young adults in The Codetalkers toss around ideas about what makes a great leader. They continue to learn to let go of the past & bridge the gap with the older generation... And they experience personal growth as they chat about issues like sex, menstruation, childbirth, honeymoon jitters, anorexia & body image... *Nobody can go back & start a new beginning. But anyone can start today & make a new ending -Maria Robinson* Will Zac, Maya & Jake foil the Weathermakers plan to fire two E/M weapons from a U.S warship? Life is full of surprises, awkward moments & growth for our intrepid trio in this second book in the Rebelutionary series. Dangling from a chopper... hiking on a grueling military trek... disarming the bad guys... discovering mind-blowing secrets about the ISRA... Life is action packed when you’re on Gordon’s payroll.*Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties. A society whose members spend a great deal of their time in the irrelevant other worlds of sport & soap opera, mythology & metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate & control it -Aldous Huxley* The Codetalkers is set in contemporary Australia & the U.S. and has references to recent events worldwide and predicted future events. It is the second book in a series which encourages teens & young adults to rebel against society’s low expectations of them, to attempt hard things & be leaders and planet-shapers.

The new thrilling installment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series. Charlie Parker aids the police when a buried, semi-mummified body of a woman is discovered. She apparently died of childbirth. Parker has to find out who she was and what happened to the child.

By the author of Lost Horizons; a story of a modest 20th century hero of his times and of his story. Bright with wit and incident by a master storyteller, it mounts to a startling , but credible climax.

Four kids search for treasure in an evil house.Selected Short Stories Featuring Analog Memory collects fifteen of Nicolas Wilson's earlier short stories. These stories are dark, brooding, and entirely too intimate.Analog Memory contains:Uncanny Valley: A man forced to be a luddite in a robotic world, by medical necessity, ponders whether his new fling is human.Censlus: A census worker is murdered while doing his job.Seed: An old woman meets a familiar face in an unfamiliar setting.Faith Emmanuel: After a carjacking, a student finds himself financially at the mercy of a corrupt medical system.Family Business: A marital fight ensues after a husband involves his kids in a life of crime.Brickmouth: A buried vampire awakens.Laborious Love: A robotic engineer builds the perfect girlfriend, and the perfect relationship.Jesus Loves Me (Just Not That Way): A man wrestles with his sexuality.Unlucky At Math: An intellectual ruminates on his relationship.Fighting Mad: A soldier considers the toll that the military takes on Muslim soldiers.Cowgirl Up: A memorial for a stubborn woman's fight with cancer, and love of smoking.The Courage of Our Convictions: An old soldier examines the leavings of genocide.Medicine: A friend falls back into addiction.The Cost of Being Me: Some ruminations on the possibility of heaven, while dying.Randomly Accessed Memory: A head injury causes a man to lose his memory, throwing his life into chaos as he regresses to his last known lifestyles.Analog Memory: A former CIA operative has his memory reset in an unorthodox way, and deals with the glitches of the new technology.

A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe-a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Here is a timeless story of adventure, faith, and romance, a tale of spiritual longing and ultimate redemption.

What would you do if you had the chance to become an Animorph? To hang out and battle the Yeerks with Jake and the crew? Now Animorphs fans can get in on the action in this "choose-your-own adventure" type book!.

A short flash fiction story of a poor man who only wanted to get down to his car in the ground level parking garage. His short trip should have never been this horrific.Jacob needed to get to his car in the ground level parking garage. The armful of wine bottles made that task a little more difficult than he ever expected coming from his high rise apartment. The after party awaited for him to bring the goods, and while he didn’t care for wine, he never knew his short trip would be this much of a terrible ride.

Legs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy’s acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond.  Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.

Some kids go to another country after graduating from high school. Marie is going to another dimension.Marie Nettleson thinks she has finally found a way to escape her heritage when extraordinary circumstances give her a place on Earth’s first expedition to an alternate dimension. Just weeks after graduating from high school, Marie finds herself in Maretzia, a land whose culture is as luxurious as it is brutal. Ruled by the mysterious Emperor Sidriel, Maretzia both fascinates and frightens Marie. However, as time passes in Sidriel’s court, Marie not only begins to doubt the sincerity of Sidriel’s advisors, but the sincerity of her fellow expedition members as well, and the more she learns, the more she wonders if she was ever meant to leave Maretzia…alive.

Anja Evans wakes up in the morgue with a hell of a hangover, and it takes almost eating her best friend before she figures out she's a vampire. Struggling to find a balance between her former life and her undead one, Anja tries to blend school and living up to her new identity, all while searching to find the elusive Viking, whose blood gave Anja the strength of a vampire hundreds of years old."It was ironic that this happened to me; I was never a night person at heart. So you can see right off the bat why a vampire was the very last thing I would have chosen to be."Anja Evans wakes up in the morgue with a hell of a hangover. It takes almost eating her best friend before she figures out... she's a vampire. When a dark and dangerous vampire shows up at her door asking to see her license and registration, Anja assumes Bishop is a regular cop. But breeding among vampires is strictly controlled, and her unlicensed status makes her an enemy of The Order. Struggling to find a balance between her former life and her undead one, Anja tries to blend school and living up to her new identity, all while searching to find the elusive Viking, whose blood gave Anja the strength of a vampire hundreds of years old.

The second episode of a series of short stories. The Alaris nebula is home to over a million people and is struggling under relentless pirate attacks. When a fighter squadron goes missing it's up to burnt out veteran Marack Nor and the rest of his squadron to discover the truth and live long enough to make it back home.The second episode of a series of short stories. The Alaris nebula is home to over a million people and is struggleing under relentless pirate attacks. When a fighter squadron goes missing it's up to burnt out veteran Marack Nor and the rest of his squadron to discover the truth and live long enough to make it back home.The first episode is available for free, it is highly recommended that you read it before purchasing this one.

After crash landing on a frozen planet, the surviving crew of a spaceship must battle a hostile environment and their own frailties. Their one chance for survival - a gruelling two hundred kilometre trek through the icy wastes to an outpost tracking and relay station.Meet George.She’s feisty, good natured and has the knack of walking into trouble.And at the moment, there’s plenty of trouble to go roundBigg City is alive with rumors, there’s a smell of burning coming from the woods.And Baroness Bertha has just come up with a devious plan to get her hands on the people’s money....DRAGON TAX!Well...you know what it’s like with Dragons. They’re so cute at first. Then they grow up.And Grow..And Grow......The classic legend hits the stage in this new version of an old story with a gallery of eccentric and hilarious characters“A lot of fun...we liked this very much” Samuel French Ltd“Great Fun” Children’s Author David Wood

In this sequel to The Adventures of Charlotte and Bloom, the two super-powered girls must face middle school for the first time. But all goes wrong when Charlotte's parents are in California, her cousin Franny is suspicious about the powers, and two bullies from school named Elsie and Wilma are out to get Charlotte and Bloom! They are starting to wish that school was out, not summer!The street urchins that will one day be called the Ministry Seven, have a task from Agent Harrison Thorne. It seems simple enough, however their leader Miss Verity Fitzroy discovers that a surprise from her past is tangled up with this mysterious man which leads to a very precarious situation.Tales from the Archives are short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. They explore events mentioned in the novels, characters seen and unseen and may include novel teasers of things to come.

Dr.s William and Eloise Cairnby embark on an historical research visit to Bouchart abbey, hoping to uncover more of the truth behind its demise. Following a freak storm lasting two days, William ventures into the abbey and encounters Lady Arabella, who takes him somewhere he thought it was impossible to go. Can he survive the shock and fulfil Lady Arabella’s hopes for eternal rest?Dr.s William and Eloise Cairnby embark on an historical research visit to Bouchart abbey, hoping to uncover more of the truth behind its demise. Following a freak storm lasting two days, a forgotten large communal grave situated in the abbey grounds was uncovered by a landslide. After helping to recover the skeletal remains of countless bodies, William ventures into the abbey and encounters Lady Arabella, who takes him somewhere he thought it was impossible to go. Can he survive the shock and fulfil Lady Arabella’s hopes for eternal rest?

This is the story of a man in Arizona who respected,is hard working, loves his family and with his wife happens to be mixed blood. A new stranger from the east comes with a ingrained prejudice and hate for anyone who does not measure up to his idea of purity.This is the story of a mixed blood man in Arizona who respected,is hard working, loves his family. His wife also happens to be mixed blood. A new tall dark stranger from the east comes with a ingrained prejudice and hate for anyone who does not measure up to his idea of social and racial purity.