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Declan had never met the kid who was to be his joint best man. Sam Aiken was abroad, working as an interpreter and finishing his studies. But on meeting Sam Aiken, Declan is surprised to realize the kid isn't a kid at all, but a tall, blond, and athletic young man. Declan is sure he's straight, so he's alarmed by the ferocious attraction he feels for Sam. And as the attraction is reciprocated, the events at Dunloch Castle change everything Declan has ever believed about himself.

Six years ago, Beata Dabrowski arranged to meet her lover in Glasgow and was never seen again. There were no leads...until now. Imprisoned gang boss Davie Hardie wants to talk in exchange for his freedom. He knows exactly where Beata is buried, and he’s prepared to take the police to her grave. But when the mission to locate Beata’s body is hijacked, DS Max Craigie is drafted on to the case. Someone is selling secrets. Max will stop at nothing to expose police corruption and uncover Beata’s murderer.

There will never be another Western writer like Louis L’Amour. A legendary author and indisputably the greatest storyteller in his genre of all time, L’Amour captivated millions of readers and has sold well over three hundred million copies of his works, which includes nearly ninety novels and countless short stories. Mistakes Can Kill You highlights an essential selection featuring nine of L’Amour’s earlier short stories, sometimes written under the pen name Jim Mayo, that exemplify the rugged morality of the best Western writing.

'A terrific thriller' – James Patterson 'A new benchmark for the modern spy thriller' – Peter James An exiled agent. A growing threat. A clandestine war. Addictive and fast-paced, Black 13 is the brilliant first thriller in the Scott Pearce series from Sunday Times bestselling author Adam...

See You at the Bar offers the sights, sounds, and smells of life aboard a fighting submarine in the second world war and how war brings into focus the true nature of humanity, both as individuals and as a collective.

A late-night gambling session ends in a bet for Richard Gaunt: can he walk to Oxford by lunchtime the next day? Gaunt sets off, and as morning breaks and the dreaming spires near, his evening's winnings look set to double. But when men in a Jeep reverse into him, scooping him off the roadside, Gaunt enters a yet stranger world. Taken to a country house, he is kept hostage by a man with impeccable manners, Mr Khan.

A sexy regency romance that's perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean, Elizabeth Boyle, and Tessa Dare. The earl doth protest ... For businessman Heath Hextall, inheriting an earldom has been a damnable nuisance. The answer: find a well-bred, biddable woman to keep his life in order and observe the...

Dealing with the tragic death of his father, 14-year-old Reggie finds the isolation of the woods near his house comforting. Until one day, a man – stumbling, bleeding, clearly distressed – emerges from the shadows. Reggie hides the man in his treehouse, and helps the stranger recover. Each with stories to share, soon the pair form a strange friendship. But then Reggie learns that his new friend is a ruthless contract killer.

Die deutschen Verbände waren Anfang August 1944 in kleineren Gefechten laufend westwärts gedrängt worden, bis schließlich am 16. Oktober 1944 die sowjetische Offensive in Ostpreußen begann. Auf einem etwa 40 Kilometer breiten Frontabschnitt lagen die deutschen Stellungen unter mehrstündigem Kampf gegen alle verfügbaren Waffen der Roten Armee. Doch dann aber gelang der Wehrmacht ein Gegenschlag.

After serving his country as a paratrooper in World War II, Jack Rhyce takes on an even more dangerous mission when he becomes a secret agent in the early years of the Cold War. Now he and fellow spy Ruth Bogart have been dispatched to Tokyo to foil an assassination attempt on a leading liberal politician. Murder is only the first part of this nefarious Communist plot; the ultimate objective is to stir up anti-American sentiment in a country that has formed close bonds with its former adversary in the West.

Drei Personen. Eine Ehe. Ein Mord. Du: Tom, mein attraktiver Ehemann, der mir alles gegeben hat. Ich will dir vertrauen, aber ich weiß, dass du nicht die Wahrheit darüber gesagt hast, warum du unbedingt hierherziehen wolltest. Und auch ich war nicht immer ehrlich zu dir … Ich: Als wir auf unser neues Traumhaus anstoßen, gebe ich mir ein Versprechen: Ich werde alles über Toms Vergangenheit vergessen. Für unseren Sohn.

David Wesson must have been absent the day his grade three teacher taught the parable of “curiosity killed the cat”, because he has inadvertently witnessed an exchange he should not have seen. Though he doesn’t realize it, the barely employed musician and single father is about to become entangled in a terrifying plot, in which he will unwittingly play a pivotal role.

This pulse-pounding psychological thriller takes roots from the Dutch tradition of blindfolding and dropping your adolescent child in the middle of the wilderness—and shows what happens when it goes horribly wrong. Twelve-year old Karin is blindfolded and dropped into the Hoge Veluwe National...

After accepting a date with an older man, Vivian finds herself in a life-or-death situation with two undercover drug enforcement agents. These guys are as crooked as they are dangerous. Marcus wants to control her and use her for sex. And Lenny just wants her dead. The only way to escape their grasp and the constant threat of death is to play by their rules. She discovers the lure of danger combined with the fascination of her sexual evolution exciting. She falls in love with a monster. And becomes entangled in a relationship filled with manipulation and obsession.

Sheriff Jake Mason finds love and danger when he meets his match in super-agent Grace Cooper. A strong woman whose passion leaves Jake smitten and suspicious, Grace's loyalties are put to the test when a mystery of international intrigue explodes in sleepy Caswell Bay, Maine.

On the coast of Maine, a young man foraging for treasure in an old attic learns about the secret life of his family. In hopes to protect them, his uncle explains in five journals his secret life. As a professional assassin, he was trained by the military and government agencies, no one knew his true occupation or of his grandfather. A suspenseful and action packed journey spanning from 1941 to 2025, experience this thrill ride from the assassin's point of view.

When the justice system lets you down and allows murderers to walk the streets freely, whilst the friends and families of their victims are left facing a life sentence, then something simply has to be done. But it can no longer be done legally, of course. And who better to put things right than a hired killer. But what does a hired killer look like and how do you find one?

Charlie Ebersole is good at his job as a securities analyst for International Industries in Los Angeles in the year 1962, but he is also somewhat bored at being tied to a desk most of the time. He jumps at the chance to join the fraud section of II, and is immediately put on a case that will take him and another employee, Elizabeth Reid, to Buffalo, Fort Lauderdale, and possibly to Fidel Castro’s Cuba, although the Bay of Pigs fiasco is a recent memory, and relations between Cuba and the United States are not good.

Serial Killer Max Baxter escapes from federal prison and has struck again. Three young women have gone missing from malls across the Midwest and are feared dead. But Max wants to play. He has challenged the best of the best, modern day United States Marshal Jake Mathews, to find and kill him within 48 hours or the girls die a horrible death. Deputy Mathews is plunged into a nightmare of treachery, violence and non-stop action until one of them is dead. This is the second book in the Jake Mathews series.

US Marines Capt. Kramer and his dog Sgt. Shadow survive hell in Afghanistan - but worse awaits them back home. You Can Run is not your average crime thriller. Full of crime, absolutely! A thrilling ride, most definitely! But Greg Smith takes it up a couple of notches, pulls you, the listener, into a dangerous, action-packed FBI operation. You enter the world of 2 US Marines who offer their services to bring down a diabolical kingpin.