Collection: Fiction

A collection of short stories. From a woman intent on bizarre revenge, to a restaurant critic with a morbid fear of the number thirteen; and from a man arranging a life-changing assignation, to a couple heading for a disaster-filled vacation...

Caribbean, 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run - from their pasts, from the British Navy and the threat of execution, and from the destiny that fate has written for them. Plantation owner's daughter, runaway wife, pirate - Anne Bonny has forged her own story in a man's world. But when sh...

Hours before his untimely - and highly suspicious - death, astrophysicist Thom Bergmann shares his discovery of extraterrestrial life with his wife, Lucy. He leaves her his computer flash drive, which holds the keys to his secret work.

Renovations at the rectory DCS Fran Harman and Asst Chief Constable Mark Turner plan to move into after the wedding are disrupted when a skeleton is found in her garden. She delves into the Rectory's past owner as she investigates the skeleton's identity

It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve an horrific hostage situation that is spiralling out of control...

A seaside holiday at Shell Cottage in Devon has always been the perfect escape for the Tarrant family. But this year, everything has changed. Following her husband's recent death, Olivia is struggling to pick up the pieces.

Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes...bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy king Tommen. But their enemies are poised to strike...

Set against the background of the war in Vietnam, it follows the life of journalist Paxton Andrews, from Savannah to Saigon, where she becomes an acclaimed war correspondent before returning to the States after seven years,

The story of Matthew Flinders and his bride Ann Chappell. He left her behind for 9 yrs as he carried out great feats of seamanship and navigation, charting much of Australia's coastline, being shipwrecked and later held prisoner by the French on Mauritius

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief.