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When Damien Wishart emerged from his oxygen tent everyone was dead, and he was left to pick up the pieces. When he found a woman alive that meant that he had someone to talk to. When he found three children alive, life changed. Life took on a whole new meaning when they found Vicky. Damien and Vicky became an item and things were good until a meteor hit the Earth. They knew that it was coming as the children had seen it through their telescopes. It hit water but they still had to live through the tsunami that followed. Life returned to normal but life and nature had a lot more to throw at ...

The book follows the life of Alhambro Gusto, from his birth to his death. Noting the goings on in Cove House where he lived and what happened to his brothers and sisters. It then follows his strange legacy as the solicitor who is appointed to find his next of kin and he is left to sort Cove House out, it is now haunted.

We were introduced to Ranger Daniel Turner in book one of this series when he left England to become a park ranger in the wilds of Canada. After his investigations into a serial killers activities in book one, in book two he finds other things and falls in love, marrying a local woman with 3 children. Now after the honeymoon is over he decides to fight his fear of flying and learn to fly a helicopter. One of his new family falls ill and Danny needs to move Heaven and Earth to save the sick child. Klondike Bill take on an angry bear to save the boy he is looking after and Danny comes face to...

When Andrew McDay was forced to take up the position of Beadle at a workhouse orphanage, it opened his eyes to the suffering and ill treatment meted out to the children in the orphanage to make them work on one bowl of gruel a day. He wanted to make changes and did. The whip, the man who ran the workhouse for the beadle was thrown out and the drunk woman who was looking after the babies suffered the same fate. His hands were tied to some extent by the lack of money but he found help from strange places. One came from a workhouse, with her children and another he met when she tried to rob ...

Roger Thompson could not swim so when the plane that he was on crashed in the sea he panicked. He managed to put on the life preserver but the sea was in the middle of the storm of all storms. A wooden crate appeared and all he had to was get over to it but the sea had other ideas. He had to struggle to get to it and when he did he had no plans to let it go again. The storm was still raging when the crate stopped moving and he hit his face on it. That was when he met Alice although she was unconscious and clinging to the coral reef and blocking his way on to the island. He fought to get ...

When Daniel Turner was made redundant, he took a job as a park ranger in Canada, leaving behind England and his wife. What he did not know, until he got out there, was that the park held many disturbing secrets. He discovered that his predecessor had been murdered, and that when the thaw arrived after the previous winter; several missing young girls had been found naked and frozen to death. When a similar cycle of events started again, shortly after his arrival, Danny decided it was time to track down the person who was responsible for these perverted crimes, but finds himself locked up in ...

when Michael Jenner was awoken to repair a large meteor hole in the spaceship they were travelling home in, little did he know that he would not be allowed back into cryosleep without the signed order of an officer. Unfortunately, they were all dead due to the meteor strike. He had the choice of staying awake for over a year on his own or passing enough exams to become an officer. He chose the latter. By the time he went into cryosleep, he was the new first officer, quite a young first officer. The Off World Mining corporation chose to bump him up to captain and send him back out to collect...

With the arrival of the civil war, Peter Heyward decided to change things on his plantation. He turned his slaves into his own personal army so that they could fight for the union army when they arrived. to do that they had to train but keep what they were up to a secret. The first army to arrive was the confederate army but they were ready for them. It allowed the union army to reach them a lot more quickly without the need of bombarding the plantation with the canons. The army left with the union soldiers as a unit and Peter relaxed. He knew a young slave girl and was quite prepared to ...

The book is set in prohibition era Chicago. Cally is the daughter of the local mob's bookkeeper. He milks money from the mob slowly over some time to be able to move away with his daughter. He wants his estranged wife to go with them but he doubts that that will happen. The day he chooses to leave another bookkeeper arrives to go over the mob books. He finds the thefts and they chase Dermot the bookkeeper to ask him about it. He is hit by a bus and ends up in hospital. Meanwhile Cally is asleep in bed at home blissfully unaware of any of it. Her father has given her a key to look after and ...

When Clementine decided that her line of work, killing people for SI8 a government backed department introduced after 7/11 she knew it was not a thing that would happen without her being dead. She arranged with three drag artists to do the work for her, that way she was still working. They were very good at dressing up and when one walked out looking just like her, and Clementine was a very pretty woman, she was astonished. That is what gave he the idea. John Fairchild was the investigator for SI8 and he was very good. When one triplet was killed and returned to England in the diplomatic ...

Senator Nathan Kelly loved his two daughters, but he loved them too much and in the wrong way. The elder daughter Carmody soon found out that it was better to hide than be in her room when her father was home. After a while when he could not find Carmody he started to visit his other daughter, eight year old Annabel. When Carmody found out she decided they had to run away as her mother had seen her father raping her and did nothing. Getting out of the mansion on her own was easy but taking Annabel with her made it a whole new ball game. They did make it outside and to the car she was going ...

When William Just tries to repair his plasma television, a funny thing happened. He could see a floor and a set of stairs but no matter how much he tried to change channels, that is all he saw. I annoyance he threw the remote at the screen. When the remote landed on the floor and slid over to the stairs, it got his attention in a big way. He finally plucked up the courage and climbed through the screen himself and found himself in the nineteenth century. He was not very rich and saw a chance of making money. He could sell Victorian items in the twenty first century and make a lot of money. ...

We were introduced to Daniel Turner in book 1 of this series when he had left England to take a job as a park ranger in Canada. He became embroiled in the investigation of several young girls who went missing and were later found frozen to death. In book 2, Danny finds himself on the wrong end of a high-powered hunting rifle, investigates a murder/suicide case, and becomes involved with the search for a crashed plane and its 200 hundred passengers. However, in between these major events, there is plenty more going on in Ranger Daniel Turner's personal life, and the community around him.

When a terrorist leader decided to commit global genocide by unleashing a killer virus. He found gullible supporters to travel to every corner of the world and make sure as many people there perished. They did not know that their serum was just a placebo, they were meant to die as well and only the leaders prodigy was going to inherit the Earth. His mistake was that one of his men survived through natural immunity and when the man returned the plague he carried killed his friends. When they found that the serum was just a placebo, the man had a new goal, to shake his leader's hand. In ...

Inspector Clayton Moore investigates the case of the body of an old man who is dumped behind a block of flats. During this investigation he investigates other crimes and finds the culprit but the Leslie Felltham murder remains unsolved. With his wedding approaching the pressure to solve the crime mounts.

When old Henry Kidd was accidentally turned into a vampire by the priest who was trying to save his life, Henry's life changed. First for the better while he was in charge of his feeding but then for the worse when the feeding became a frenzy. He killed his grandson's girlfriend and his grandson was distraught, standing outside in the night urging his grandfather to kill him as well. Henry agrees to do it but tries to die himself at the same time. The go out to sea in a boat and Henry takes his blood but when he dribbles his own blood into Simon, his grandson's, mouth the sun shines through...

When Frederick Bligh invented a machine which allowed him to travel into another dimension he was happy but then he thought, what good is it. When he found out that another machine in that dimension allowed him to go anywhere in the dimension he had just left, our dimension, it suddenly became useful and he started to get rich. When his ex girlfriend's new beau beat him up the last time, for merely buying everyone a drink in his local, he swore to get his revenge. He was a clever young man and used his anger to drive him on to bigger and better things. He dropped the bed the two were making...

The fifth book in the Canadian Winters series. Follow Danny Turner's adventures in Canada and other countries.

When Hardy decided to cross the post apocalypse desert to keep away from the cannibals that now roamed his country, he took as much water as he could find. He had his meagre belongings on a sled with the water and walked out into the desert. He killed and ate anything that came within his reach as he travelled but water was always the problem. He found a crashed aeroplane and managed to distil water from the engine cooling system. He found other things there but to make his sled heavier was not worthwhile. When he walked on he travelled at night when it was cooler. As he walked he heard a ...

When the Minton Cruisers under 12 football team reached the safety of the hotel in Columbia, they thought their troubles were over but far from it, the captain's brother took over when he was taken to hospital and he did not believe a word they said. He thought that his brother had saved them and was injured doing it. In the end, Stuart, the spokesman for the group offered to go out in a helicopter to show them everything they told them was true. Some boys had no intentions of going back near the jungle and refused. Instead four went, including Stuart. To make things worse the helicopter ...