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Lured by exotic gems and valuable oils, the crew of the space trader Solar Queen landed on the newly discovered planet Sargol only to find their most ruthless competitor there ahead of them. Still, they tried for fair trade, even according to the sly rules of the strangely feline, native Salariki. But after takeoff they found they had a plague on board, the treachery of someone who'd been on Sargol. Although they'd begun to run out of supplies, they couldn't land or they might start an inter-planetary epidemic....

Get the next two compelling books in the series. Richard and Jack are set on a mission to sell a stolen arms shipment to the Knight's of St John - how badly wrong could it go? Follow their adventures through Europe and the Malta to the Island fortress of the Knights. The backdrop to their own struggle is the political tension in England. Mary I, convinced God has given her the task of returning England to the true faith sends the Protestant reformers a stark and violent message.

“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin. The King is dead. Long live the King. With King Philip IV dead, and the Kingdom left in disarray, as the fatal curse of the Templars plagues the royal house of France. Imprisoned in Chateau Gaillard, Marguerite of Burgundy has...

Set in the 1930s, Mob Queen follows one woman’s rapid rise through the Mafia as she searches for the truth about what happened to her friend and navigates a perilous relationship with the infamous Bugsy Siegel.

What if one day, your whole life changes when you are told that you are not from the world you've known but are actually a princess from a kingdom located in a different world called Mirral? What if you learn that in the world you are from, some people have special powers?

It is 1938, and antiques dealers Rick and Rose Sinclair come across an old journal. It tells an explorer’s tale of sighting the queen’s lost temple, but his porters forcing him to turn back, terrified by myths of the temple’s protection by giant monsters and the queen’s avaricious ghost. The Sinclairs will find that all the legends were true. The temple does exist. The treasure is still there. And it is all defended by giant creatures bent on slaughtering any who trespass. Will Rick’s cunning and Rose’s intellect be enough to survive the dangers of the temple of the queen?

The eternal blood war between the vampire, shifter and wraith has been at a stalemate for centuries, but someone has just changed the rules of the game. Christian Grieco is a vampire hunter, working with an elite organization known as the Order to hunt down and eradicate the various creatures of the night. Together with Suzie Q, and Sammy, he stumbles upon Evilyn Strogovanna and her daughter Mina. She is a vampire, a killer, he should eradicate her without a second thought. But something about her is different, something about her is special. She is more than a vampire, more than a monster.

Special Agent Omar Zagouri's latest case is his most dangerous - and his most personal yet. The discovery of secret sixteenth-century letters unveils a plot between the sultan Suleyman and his chief wife, Roxelane, to change the course of the Ottoman Empire. A descendent of Roxelane, Zagouri learns he has an enemy whose revenge has been centuries in the making.

Ex-special ops legend Dane Blaise is desperate to recruit Shana George to partner with him, but he'd never let her know it. She's too gorgeous, too smart and too much like him. But there's something indefinable about her that gets to him. She has impressive skills, and if he’s honest, she keeps him in his place. Most of all, Dane wants to keep Shana on the island, because he can't get past his insane longing for her.

When he encounters a teenager being pursued by a group of dangerous jewel thieves, Orlando Black finds himself in the wrong place at the right time. He helps the kid escape successfully, but things really heat up when one of Black’s old friends is caught in the middle of the thieves’ heist. To save her, he must face the thieves in a final showdown.

Tragedy sees the Archer sisters return to New York City, reunited for the first time in five years, emotions still raw even after so long spent apart. However, differences are put aside when Axel Archer's final message to his daughters contains a warning not to investigate his death but to carry on with their lives. It is a warning that the sisters cannot follow, for love, loyalty, and honor demand that they discover who took their father's life and make them pay. Whoever recruited Axel needed the skills of one of the best thieves available.

Axel Archer was a retired soldier, family man, patriot...and the king of thieves. Five years later, tragedy causes the Archer sisters to return to New York to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives, reunite in a quest for vengeance, and uncover a conspiracy which has cost them dear. They will take their father’s training and their own skills and qualities and adopt their own style. They will show New York that the heirs to the king of thieves are back in town, and the queens of the steal are just as worthy of the throne.