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He never intended to be a jailer … After years of travelling, responsible to no-one but himself, Steve has resolved to settle down. He gets a job, buys a house and persuades Liesel to move in with him. Life's perfect, until Liesel delivers her ultimatum: if he won't agree to start a family, she'll have to leave. He can't bear to lose her, but how can he face the prospect of fatherhood when he has no idea what being a father means? If he could ...

Gabe and I are happy this way. We don't need anyone else in our lives." Mariana feels like a pawn in other people's games. Her birth mother is ill and opportunities for them to be reconciled are running out. Despite being adopted, Mariana has always felt secure with who she is. But both sides of her birth family are now closing in, and whatever she decides will irrevocably alter many lives, most of all the man and woman who created her...

Leap of Faith is the second novel from Matthew Munson, following the adventures of characters we first met in Fall From Grace - human and angel alike. The lives of Paul and Joseph have changed over the past two years, Paul is on Earth, living a new life with his girlfriend, while Joseph is in heaven, living as an angel and still mourning the loss of his sister, Lauren. But war is once again on the horizon of the two worlds. Barriers b...

A HERO MURDERED. A GIRL ALONE. A CITY OF VILLAINS. From the crumbling belfry to the citadel's stained glass eye, across acres of cobbled streets and alleyways that never see daylight, Greaveburn is a city with darkness at its core. Gothic spires battle for height, overlapping each other until the skyline is a jagged mass of thorns. Archduke Choler sits on the throne, his black sealed letters foretell death for the person named inside. Ab...

As they immerse themselves in the ambiguous and often chaotic sphere of adulthood, these University of Leicester students are turning their hearts to the joys and flaws of life. And with their minds turned towards their future privileges and responsibilities, as forthcoming "parents" of the world, they will inevitably help to write the future for us all. 'Write for the Future' is a collection of works written within a single week at the Univer...

With influences of Robert Frost, Max Ehrmann and Roger McGough, in his superb first collection of a collection of thoughts, Nick Palmer explores the three worlds of human experience, what we are like on the inside, the beauty that inspires us to do great things, and the shadows that snare our hearts.

This powerful collection brings together 17 short stories linked only by flight or denial. The distinct characters in Claiming One are both incredibly loving and tragically flawed: far from finding anything, and an even longer way from peace. Yet, E.J. Runyon masterfully intertwines a trail of hope, found in the hearts of the characters, to string these tales together. We welcome them: still standing, albeit wobbling, as adults or as children ...

In the legends, the Four saved the world from war and poverty. These incredible men walked the lands, seeking an audience with the ruler of each nation. They demanded that mankind focus its efforts on education, trade and culture. No longer would the people face starvation and terror. This commandment was enforced with displays of miraculous power. After all, it is difficult to argue with the Gods. Once finished, the Four left with a promise: ...

Meeting author Callum Wilde is the catalyst that turns Marianne Fairchild's fragile sense of identity on its head, evoking demons that will haunt two families. She is seventeen and has spent her life fighting off disturbing memories that can't possibly belong to her. His twin sister Marion died seventeen years ago. When Cal and his older sister Sarah spot Marianne in the audience of a TV show that Cal is recording, they are stunned by her unca...

Her power is unmeasured. Her abilities untested. Her destiny inescapable. Faria Phiraco is a resonator, a manipulator of the elements via rare crystals. It is an extraordinary and secret power which she and her father, the Emperor of Xayall, guard with their lives. The Dhraka, malicious red-scaled dragons, have discovered an ancient artefact, a mysterious relic from the mythical, aeons-lost city of Nazreal. With their plan already set in motio...

Rebecca Grey can't shake off the hallucination she had while in hospital, but her alcoholic mother Bex is too wrapped up in the 'Great Grief' of her youth to notice her daughter's struggles to define dream from reality. After lurching from one poverty-stricken situation to another, and ghosts from the past are disturbed, Rebecca's dream comes alive. Why does the old woman who left them a sudden inheritance believe she is Rebecca's grandmother,...

For Alan Shaw, escaping the workhouse was only the beginning of the adventure. As an orphan growing up alone on the streets of Victorian London, staying alive is a daily battle, filled with choices a child should never have to make. This is Alan's lot in life, until he is offered more money than he can imagine, enough to take him to the new world to begin afresh. He only has to complete one task, something that could bring the British Empire t...

Humanity built its monolithic spires of hopes and dreams and tried to believe that the whole sordid mess actually meant something." Terapolis is an urban sprawl of global proportions. The vast city state has smothered whole nations, liberated humanity from the tides of history, the place is ripe with secrets... Here, billions of people live only to give themselves to The Gestalt. An esoteric technology, said to unlock the secrets of crea...

Too many books tell you what you need to do during a round of editing...but they very rarely explain why that need exists. Without explanation and examples to help your understanding, craft basics can feel restrictive and unbearable. You might have already begun writing something you've had a great idea for. But a great story requires more than the gift of inspiration. Tell Me A Story takes you through the first steps of what you need to kn...

Somewhere within the Earth's population is a selection of people, each one of them unique, holding traces of information locked deep within their DNA. They do not know who they are... ...but we do. We are the Fallen Angel Network, a secret government facility charged with finding a way to stop the oncoming apocalypse. Only when we find them all can access their memories, information sent back to save us from the future. ~~~ Chronic...

Hundreds are dead at the hands of The Four.Three months after the events of Leithar Grove, Tamir is a kingdom in fear. The people no longer trust Prince Remelas, his military ambitions are now public knowledge. So the Sons of Tamir, a nationalistic faction created within this atmosphere of betrayal, march on the capital to seek Remelas' abdication.And still the rumours persist of a young girl who walked away, unharmed, from Leithar Grove that ...

It's time for heaven to become a democracy... Paul Finn feels like his life is passing him by since he left his calling in the priesthood, but his inability to hold down a job is the least of his problems. He and his friends, sceptic extraordinaire Joseph and academic psychologist Lauren have been thrown head-first into a celestial war, at the heart of a battle that has raged for two thousand years. To put things right, the three of them must ...

When the leak of sensitive information is traced back to his computer console, Government official and minor celebrity Danny Parque's bright future comes crashing down around him. Found guilty and sent out as a conscripted criminal to fight for an Empire he once loved but comes to despise, horrifying combat leads to capture by the terrorists he is supposed to fear. Danny joins their ranks, persuaded that they are pursuing the same freedom he c...

Trust ye not in a friend, put he not confidence in a guide." - Micah, Verse 7 Chapter 5 When a sunny morning presents an unnamed corpse stuffed into a black carrier bag and dumped outside a local charity shop, Detective Inspector Jack Munday and his team scramble to piece together the man's identity. The trail leads them into the excesses of London's highly paid bankers, where a lifestyle of drugs, sex, risk-taking and flamboyant living come e...

It's 1967 East Los Angeles. Duffy Chavez is ten years old and from a large, mixed-race, single-parent family. Growing up is never easy, but for young Duffy Chavez, whose childhood is anything but innocent, the journey is particularly painful. Swimming against the tides of her troubled family as well as her own cultural identity, she struggles with the cards she has been dealt. Buoyed up by the belief of a select few, she strives to achieve ...