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Meanwhile, Gillan McArdle’s academic career is ending because of one stupid lapse of judgement. Offered a short-term contract, he lands on the Hebridean island of Harris to investigate obscure animal bones. Quickly dismissing the unicorn skull as a thinly disguised fake, he can’t deny there’s something unusual about these bones. Baited by rumors of a majestic tusked horse roaming the uplands, Gill begins to suspect someone is manipulating him. As he gradually unravels the mystery of the skull, he grasps a disturbing conclusion: If this creature does exist, the evidence suggests it’s a killer.

David Troughton reads a brand new tale featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe. The Doctor makes a hasty landing on a satellite, only to discover that it's a one-man prison in space. Markan is in exile from his own people, banished to live out his remaining days with only his robot for...

Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she’s escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son, Tomas, is taken, she’s back to square one...and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that’s not all...Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer Bragi, on her side, Sonja puts her own plan into motion to bring down the drug barons and her scheming ex-husband and get Tomas back.

The brave pilots of Rogue Squadron face the impossible as the sinister Ysanne Isard wreaks havoc on a fragile Coruscant. The Rebels have taken the Imperial headquarters world of Coruscant, but their problems are far from over. A killer virus called Krytos is spreading among the population and...

A year after the Commonwealth won the war with the Theocracy, the interstellar cruise liner Supreme is on its maiden voyage, carrying a host of aristocrats thrilled to be sharing in a wondrous adventure among the stars. Then a collision with a pirate ship leaves the cruiser powerless and becalmed in hyperspace. And they’re not alone. Now, the mysterious force that’s living on this floating graveyard is coming for Supreme’s crew and passengers. As madness starts to tear at their minds, they must fight to survive in a strange alien realm.

When the TARDIS is invaded by a holographic marketing scam, the Doctor and Donna find themselves trapped on the Edifice, a purpose-built complex of luxury apartments in space. Their new environs leave much to be desired: millions of beings from across the Universe have been gathered to live side...

When Steel picks up a CIA asset with classified intel in the Bahamas, his team is hit hard and the mission blows up. A Russian Oligarch and a Russian SVR operative will stop at nothing to prevent Steel from delivering intel that will expose the criminality of a hundred powerful men. Fighting for his life, Steel asks for help from an old acquaintance - a reluctant cartel hitman. Worse, Steel's partner, Christie, has a family emergency and she has to leave Steel - but even Montana isn’t going to be safe.

The third book in the legendary series featuring the pilots of Rogue Squadron The Rebels have taken the Imperial headquarters world of Coruscant, but their problems are far from over. A killer virus called Krytos is spreading among the population and fomenting a counterrevolution at the heart of...

Professor Elliot Brand was done with adventures. When his former lover Ashra Shah calls him to Antarctica, he knows he is getting himself into trouble. Guarded by a military unit, hidden deeply in the uninhabitable parts of the frozen continent, a ruin was found that could be the most significant archeological find in history. Elliot Brand doesn't need long to understand that if they don't act fast, it might very well be the last one, too...

Thracius "Tracy" Belmanor has struggled to do his patriotic duty in the wake of the loss of the love of his life, Empress Mercedes de Arango. Amid a desperate war, the Solar League cannot afford his grief, nor the political instability of admitting the depth of their relationship. It is for duty alone, both as a soldier and as a father, that he has entered into a loveless marriage that makes him part of the royal family to shepherd his son and the Solar League towards what seems to be humanity's triumph against its foe.

Sebastiene was human... once. He might look like a nineteenth-century nobleman, but in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to a planet, then hunting them down for sport. And now he's caught them all - from Zargregs to Moogs, and even the odd...

IN 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect...

For Jack Burgoyne, a former investment banker turned reluctant fixer, the world of high finance isn’t just about profit margins and market trends—it’s a maze of lies, double-crosses, and high-stakes betrayal. In Cash-Trap, a gripping financial thriller, Burgoyne is thrust into a world where the line between genius and madness is measured in billions.

The last thing Steven remembers was waiting in a prison cell for the results of an appeals trial. His crime: speaking out against unfair treatment of workers. His opinion of his sentence: it's political. Next thing he wakes up on a commercial ship run by the Merlin Company, where he meets Luciane, Rollo and Jack, fellow prisoners of an inconveniently political nature, and the four will be sent down to a planet where a research team has vanished. Everything needed to survive and return is on the abandoned base, and all the company wants is to know what happened to twelve scientists.

In the 23rd century, humanity is wallowing in its own corruption on an overcrowded and depleted Earth. The space program, once the hope and fanciful dream of the world, has had failure after failure, and now colony ships float silently, abandoned in orbit; no planets to go to, no money to get there if they did. Mankind stands on the cusp, caught between doom and oblivion; the invisible alien invader on one hand and the benevolent artificial intelligence on the other.

Frankie and the A.C.T. freed billions from corporation control with the Nano Liberation. But the corporations won’t go down without a fight. Sent on a routine mission, Frankie and her team are ambushed. Trapped in a vast building, she’s separated from her squad and cut off from the outside world. Now an elite mercenary group is hunting them down. Frankie must face vicious gangs, deadly cyborgs, and deal with her troubled past to save her friends and survive.

In one near-fatal moment, Edward Dalton’s future turns from medical school and the girl of his dreams to fighting for survival. Intentionally run off the road and left for dead, Edward finds himself deep in the Appalachian Mountains, battling wildlife and starvation. When survival looks doubtful, he is ready to finish what his enemies started: end his life.

Major Joshua Speed has escaped our time back to his native 1950s, but the past ain't what it used to be. Alien invasions, costumed criminals, and Red martial artists dominate his days. He's beginning to wonder if something is very wrong with the world.

Heisman Trophy winner Casey Reddick is set to take the NFL by storm. But, after a freak injury ruins his Super Bowl dreams, he never expected the saving grace of getting drafted into private intelligence. And, he’s devastated again when his intel on an imminent attack is ignored, and the violent blast costs him his beloved sister. Vowing to prevent more innocent deaths, the QB-turned-spy moves into field duty to hunt down a terrorist with a thermonuclear-sized chip on his shoulder.

Zyrah Duban-McGregor, the sole survivor and only direct heir to the Duban fortune, along with her aunt and her aunt's children, is forced to hide on the planet Kaùsan as her uncle and his brother intend to kill them and take over ownership of the Duban corporation. Geologist Katia Cummings is sent on an illegal secret mission to Kaùsan to find molybdenum mining sites. An accident leaves her and aide, Cora Kanaka, trapped a thousand kilometers from the nearest help.