What if there is more to life than meets the eye...As a college student, Kevin thinks he has life figured out. Then one night he meets Audrey and discovers that she is not what she appears – and life is not what he had assumed it to be...Each book in the Sky Lands series is a standalone. The books can be read in any order. Recommended for ages 16+ due to language and scenes of violence.Priscilla Alexander needs to get away from her stressful job as an advertising executive in San Francisco. In addition, her soon-to-be divorced mom has moved into Priscilla's small condo. Her mom means well, but her hovering is driving Priscilla crazy. When Priscilla reads a magazine article about vacationing in the Australian Outback, she knows that's where she needs to go to find herself. As Priscilla has come realize, sometimes escape is the only option.Priscilla has been dreaming about meeting a to-die-for hunk in her travels. Will she find the man of her dreams in the Outback?This is a short story prequel to "Outback Love," a contemporary romance novel set in the Australian Outback.

School is like a prison. Especially when Jodies evil stepmother wants to ship her off to a boarding school, of all things. Maybe they're right and she will get a good education there but what kind of a school has armed guards in the classrooms? Or chains on the doors?Ezekiel was just an ordinary man, like everyone else, trying to make his way in this world. Like most people in this world, he was also struggling. Struggling to make sense of the world around him. Struggling to understand why so many people seem to get away with murder whilst he can barely pay his bills after working so hard. One day he snapped at a group of young people that hung around his neighborhood. The events that followed led him on a journey - through wrongful incarceration, media manipulation and public vilification – into a man called “Zeek”: a vigilante who, as a product of a sick system, will clean up the very system that created him. The first book ends with the question: who will be next, after the Hoodies?

After making it through the heat and trials of High Summer in Southland, Tenet Bradwin was given a new chance at life. All he had to do was travel over an unknown land with a woman he barely knew and pretend to be a different person well enough to convince a wary government to take a chance and give him asylum. How hard could that be?With the help of a bounty hunter, Tenet Bradwin, son of the Exalted Leader, lived though his High Summer escape through the burning sands of Southland and ended up in the oasis of a rough border town. Instead of being the end of his journey, though, Tenet quickly learns that it was really only the beginning. His government is still after him, his family is leading the charge, and the only hope he has at any kind of life rests in the deep, unknown wilds of the Borderlands. The challenges are many: unforgiving mountains, brutal weather, and a bounty hunter dogging his every move, not to mention a wife who never really wanted to be a wife, a father that haunts his dreams, and the heavy burden of guilt for his actions. And that is just what Tenet faces getting to the border, before he has to try and sell his new identity to a harsh nation that can not afford to take risks. Follow Tenet and Scarab as they try to forget the past and embrace the new challenges of life in a foreign land in this second book of the Tenet Series.

The second book in Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series on the American Civil War. Nathanial Starbuck is a Copperhead: a northerner fighting for the rebel South in America’s Civil War. Expelled from the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must travel a hard road before he can rejoin his comrades. He must join the shadowy war of betrayal and espionage, where nothing is certain and no one can be trusted. Starbuck’s journey will take him through the savage prisons of Richmond, across the blood-sodden battlefields of Virginia, and into the deadly high command of the northern army.

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

Lester Ferris, sergeant of the British Army, is a good man in need of a rest. He's spent a lot of his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. He has no family, he's nearly forty, burned out and about to be retired. The island of Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to serve out his time. It's a former British colony in legal limbo, soon to be destroyed because of its very special version of toxic pollution - a down-at-heel, mildly larcenous backwater. Of course, that also makes Mancreu perfect for shady business, hence the Black Fleet of illicit ships lurking in the bay: listening stations, offshore hospitals, money laundering operations, drug factories and deniable torture centres. None of which should be a problem, because Lester's brief is to sit tight and turn a blind eye. But Lester Ferris has made a friend: a brilliant, internet-addled street kid with a comic book fixation who will need a home when the island dies - who might, Lester hopes, become an adopted son. Now, as Mancreu's small society tumbles into violence, the boy needs Lester to be more than just an observer. In the name of paternal love, Lester Ferris will do almost anything. And he's a soldier with a knack for bad places: 'almost anything' could be a very great deal - even becoming some sort of hero. But this is Mancreu, and everything here is upside down. Just exactly what sort of hero will the boy need?

Do not lose faith. Remember the words of the story, remember the words of the spell... Quinn, Sebastian, Elanor and Tom have defeated the black witch Githa and found the last crucial piece of the prophecy — the sea serpent’s scale. Back now at Wolfhaven, they search desperately through the castle crypts for the sleeping heroes, who they hope will save them all ... before the dark moon rises and they lose everything.

Short Story. Not for children. The eighth in a collection called Vampire Morsels about different vampires from the Amaranthine universe. Twenty year old Elsa is devastated when her "true love" remorselessly skips town. When she sets off after him, she finds more than she bargained for. You can also find Elsa in Shades of Gray by Joleene Naylor.The book manages to reflect the fiction story of an young girl, Simrika, a drug addict who loves to travel around the world. She is a rebellious girl, who doesn't walk in the road as if she rules the world but she walks in the road as if she doesn't care who rules the world. One night due to some reason, she pulls trigger on her own father and she is sent to prison for some years.After release,she travels many wonderlands and places where she meets a magician who teaches magic to see the life in new ways. By mean time she meets a cool,funky guitarist and painter and she decides to walk rest miles lying on his shoulder but tragedy continues.

Rescuing a human child from the wreckage of a car crash is the beginning of a strange and exciting adventure for Mawei, a yeti who lives in the wilderness of Northern California. But the little human is not just in danger from the cold. Mawei finds out that there are other yetis who would stop at nothing to keep their world secret from even the smallest of humans…When a yeti named Mawei hears a car crash on a mountain road in Northern California, she decides to investigate. The wheels are still spinning on the half-crushed, upside down car at the bottom of the gorge. A man and woman have been killed in the wreck, but there is a child, alive and unharmed, hanging from a car seat in the back. Her name is Helena, she is six years old. With a snowstorm on the way, Mawei knows that the little girl won’t survive on her own. Mawei is breaking an ancient rule of yeti culture that forbids contact with humans, but she takes the child. Getting Helena back to the world of the humans turns out to be a lot harder than Mawei thought it would be, and when the wrong yetis find out what she's up to, the race is on to get the little human to safety before they can catch and kill her...

It's just your average Friday night. Then the police show up. Your mum's been caught on CCTV, breaking into a giant chemical company. They say she's working undercover for A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E, a group against animal testing - but how is that possible? She's not a spy - is she? Now she's on the run - and only you can uncover the truth. And you've got to crack a code to do it. A gripping story from the bestselling author of Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman.

Science fiction action adventure taking place in the world wide web of the near future. Icarus is a brave coder that decides to put a fight against digital depression. He's soon been pursued by the almighty Chocolate Fighters Group and helped by a weird A.I. called Gray. His adventure takes him to all shorts of weird places while his acquaintance with Electra changes his quest, and life, for good.A devastating attack by the strangely human Hrwang leaves the Earth eerily quiet. No cellphones. No broadcasts. No electric power. Survivors scramble to find safety in the aftermath. German hiking club leader Wolfgang Riebe, still grieving the loss of his wife and daughter, finds his fate tied to a group of American soldiers and a Swiss woman named Leah. An attack on their vehicle leaves the group wary, leading to a heart-wrenching moral test when they encounter someone the Americans suspect was in on the ambush.Meanwhile, Jayla continues her quest to find safety and medical help for her sister Jada. Their exploration of a crumpled landscape begins to give Jayla clues about the extent of the destruction.In Utah, Eva and Mark encounter a makeshift group of inexperienced soldiers manning a checkpoint. The encounter opens their eyes, but they will face a much greater threat as they make their way to Las Vegas in an effort to find a way to fight back against the Hrwang.Capt. Stanley Russell, leader of a United Nations vessel orbiting Mars, knows nothing of the chaos on Earth. That changes when he and his second-in-command are asked to board a Hrwang vessel to speak with a leader. The leader reveals that the Hrwang consider themselves to be every bit as human as Stanley, and they ask him a question that sends his mind spinning. Bernard Wilkerson continues his Hrwang invasion saga with an action-packed installment that will leave the reader aching to know what happens next.

When a lost two hundred year old painting said to be cursed with the world's most darkest powers suddenly surface, four friends come together to steal it.Seventeen year old Autumn Jones has it all. She’s rich, she's the most popular girl in school…and she's a thief. Nicknamed “The Ghost” by the media, she and her best friend Yuri have pulled off some of the most perfect heists. But when her father turns up dead during summer break, Autumn decides to put her heist days behind her. That is, until a new challenge arises.The lost painting her father spent his life searching for has suddenly surfaced. But there's a catch. The painting is rumored to be cursed with deadly dark powers, that in the wrong hands, could lead to the world's demise. Despite the myth, Autumn and her best friend, decides to steal the painting. But unlike other heists, this one calls for more than a two woman team. The girls team up with two other classmates, while Autumn tries to ignore the sudden feelings she is starting to have for the new transfer, Micah. Being around him is putting a dent in her bad girl reputation, and is also taking her attention away from the heist. But as the days for the heist grows closer, Autumn begins to discover secrets and clues about her father, that may have caused him his death. It seems there is another thief after the painting, and they will do anything to keep the girls from stealing it, even if it means killing them.

Synopsis The Highlands, the center of Atherton, is sinking; Samuel and Isabel are trying to sneak into The House of Power to restore water to the world of Atherton; and Dr. Kincaid, Vincent and Edgar make their way towards the edge of the Highlands, intent on entering the secret underground refuge of Mead's Hollow and finding the key to unlocking Dr. Harding's brain. They must discover the solution to overcoming the threat of the deadly Cleaners, creatures now unleashed on the flattened land, before it's too late. But Mead's Hollow holds more secrets than any of them had ever imagined. In this tremendously satisfying continuation of the story of Atherton, readers will experience a world turned inside out; a spectacular flood; former enemies forced to work together in the name of survival; surprising histories concerning the creator of Atherton, Dr. Harding, and his partner Dr. Kincaid, and a shocking revelation about Edgar's own past. Best of all, the trip to Mead's Hollow leads to a dangerous-and extraordinary-expedition through the interior of Atherton that will titillate imaginations for a long time to come. With themes evocative of Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno, expect Rivers of Fire to give readers plenty to sink their teeth into.

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... A time wave has struck that alters the entire history of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln has followed Liam into the present from 1831and now the world is in a dangerous state of limbo... If the TimeRiders can’t return Lincoln to the past, the Civil War will never end. Can Maddy persuade two colonels on either side of no man’s land to cease fire long enough to save the future?