Collection: Fiction

1930's Germany - Widowers Nicholas and Alex are raising their children alone and lead contented lives until a long-buried secret about Nicolas's ancestry threatens his family's safety. To survive, they must flee to America with their Lipizzaner, Pegasus.

Spring, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is dragged through the streets of London to the gallows at Tyburn. He tries to remain calm. His name is Tom Hawkins and he is innocent. Somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the life out of him.

FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation in Disneyland when he gets the call. Somebody is murdering Hollywood's A-list. Authorities fear this is only the beginning. Members of the A-list fear they're Mary Smith's next target...

Cassie Holloway moves to the little coastal town of Whitby Point, where she falls in love with Michael Aquino, the son of a local fishing family. But when the family patriarch dies, a devastating family secret threatens to destroy her dreams

The themes of Russian author Anton Chekhov's stories have as much relevance today as when they were written, and these new translations capture their spirit. The stories in this selection are among Chekhov's most poignant and lyrical.

Subject: It’s 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adan Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world’s most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller’s partner. Putting Barrera away costs Keller dearly – the woman ...

In a special edition that includes one hundred pages of extra material that was cut from the original, a vampire romance set in the Carpathian Mountains features a mysterious stranger who appears in the life of an unsuspecting American psychic

Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. As Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn.

Dazzling her patrons with scrumptious cupcakes at her Salem, Massachusetts, bakery, Elizabeth Tucker continues to fall for the irresistible Diesel, who protects her from a villain who is seeking mystical stones tied to the seven deadly sins.

Caroline MacAfee is a carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It, a home renovation series on television. But when she is told the network wants her daughter to replace her as host, she is devastated...

After eighteen years of marriage Sarah decides to go back to school, to Harvard, to get her Masters Degree. Now the only parent, Daddy must somehow cope with his troubled family.

At Iyot Lock, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward are parked for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt and her cruel housekeeper. At first the petty meannesses seem simply unpleasant but affairs inexorably take a much darker turn...

In Gawell, NSW, a POW camp for European, Korean and Japanese captives, is built close to a farming community. Alice is a woman living a dull life with her father-in-law on his farm while her new husband first fights, then is taken prisoner, in Greece...

The Welsh Borders, 1069. When Ashdyke Manor is attacked, Lady Christen is forced to witness her husband's murder and the pillaging of her lands at the hands of brutal Norman invaders. It seems the pain is finally over when Miles Le Gallois, Lord of Milnham-on-Wye, calls off the attack. But he has...

Jangamuttuk, the master of the ghost dreaming, sends his son, George, to resue Wadawaka from the 'ghost' vampire woman who has taken him as her 'dark lord' and imprisoned him in her underground kingdom.

They call them the custard tarts - the girls who work at Pearce Duff's custard powder factory in Bermondsey before the First World War. Conditions are hard but nothing can quench the spirit of friendship as the girls go out on strike for a better deal...

Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb. She struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s

Editor Jen Gibbs is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Drawn to the story, it leads her to the Blue Ridge Mountains, a place she'd left behind...

Calais, 1346. Berenger Fripper and his men are stationed in the ancient port city, a city under English control and surrounded by enemies. They are here to defend their newly won territory from the French and their allies the Genoese...

In 1982 police found a five-year-old boy lying still and silent on the carpet. There were no signs of trauma but Jacob died the next day. His mother and her boyfriend went to prison for the crime but could the real perpetrator be the boy's sister, Lauren?