When Maria Taylor purchases Westingdale, a huge mansion overlooking the sea, she hopes to turn the beautiful old house into an historic bed and breakfast. She also hopes that it will bring her closer to her sixteen-year-old daughter, Janie, as the two have drifted apart following the death of Maria’s husband and Janie’s father the year before. But the long-vacant home has problems of its own. Little do they know that Westingdale is haunted. Many unanswered questions are waiting to be discovered in their new home. With the help of a very unusual guest, the mysteries become clearer. Join along …

Twenty-six thousand years ago, the Atlantians evacuated Earth, escaping cataclysmic events that changed the planet. They have now returned to study the next evolution of human beings. They are shocked when they see the state of a world in bitter conflict, are appalled at the pollution and the abuse of natural resources, and cannot understand poverty in a world of abundance. GanaLozMiha is the scout for the Atlantians space nomads and is sent to discover how this state of affairs came about. He is tricked into landing and becomes incarnated inside a human being in a coma, Scott Bradley FitzLiam. …

Terrible secrets hang over Bradford Hall that no amount of riches or social position can hide forever?. Charlotte Dear, By the time you read this, I will be gone.? I have felt for some time that someone was trying to kill me, but I have been unsure just who and how. That is for you to find out, my dear. Remember, follow Mr. Herbert?s instructions carefully. Love you always, Aunt Victoria Charlotte Bradford is a beautiful heiress who works at her father?s prestigious art gallery. For Charlotte and her police detective boyfriend, Jason Talbot, an unexpected note from a distant …

Although Dr. Allyson Brittmore is a well-trained emergency room physician, nothing has prepared her for the mysterious chain of events following the death of a teenager from the highly contagious disease of meningitis. In the medical thriller Meningitis, Allyson is the newest physician on staff at Houston's Memorial Hospital. She becomes the target of a peer review committee when it investigates the deadly spread of meningitis within the hospital staff. The facts in each death, Allyson's close observations, and her involvement in each case provide hospital administrators with all the evidence needed to bar Dr. Brittmore from treating any more …

On the surface, menace lurks in many of the stories in Brain Food and Other Tales. Some of these disturbing stories seem to be based on fact. All are surprisingly difficult to forget. The short story “Brain Food” tells of a distressed woman who happens on an unbelievably cruel and callous way of ridding herself of her violent, drunken husband. “Cottage Pies” appears to be set within an idyllic village, but all is not as it seems. Soon, a shockingly brutal child murder and rape shatter the tranquility. The villagers take matters into their own hands in determining the culprit …

Exciting, visceral and thoroughly entertaining, The Game: Adventure Begins follows two groups of rival role-players as they are magically transported into a fantasy world after using a mysterious pair of dice. Discovering that they are nothing like their powerful role-playing characters, the groups are forced to adapt, or die, as they seek out the dice which will return them to their own world. Adopting two divergent routes, the groups are soon bitter rivals in the fantasy world, much as they had been in the real world, but with much higher stakes. As they head for a collision course which transcends …

Sweeping through the 1800s, through the despair of poverty and the glory of hope, through shepherding on a croft, through the atmosphere of Fort Worth and Texas to war-torn France and Europe, from modern Brisbane to heady New York City, In Love’s Time is as ageless as the aborigines’ dreamtime; it takes you from tragedy to the triumph that occurs when fortes fortuna juvat (fortune favors the brave). For Catrine Stewart, it a time of discovery and intrigue. . . Lilian White will always remember the thrill of riding in a buggy on Australia Day in Brisbane, Australia. Hearing the …

Steve Dalton, an electronics graduate living in a sleepy Cheshire village, had no idea the turn his life would take on a business trip to Malaysia. After pulling off the deal of a lifetime, he finds himself in danger, embroiled in a web of crime and murder that reaches from China to the Middle East and Africa. As he navigates the hazardous terrain of illicit drugs, bogus medicines and vice, Steve needs to figure out if there is anyone he can trust if he is going to uncover the deeper motivations of the criminal syndicate—motivations that may just hit a …

This sweeping love story travels around the world to touch on betrayal and hidden family secrets. Elle Ryan is a wealthy doctor who finds it hard to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother. She depends too much on Pete, her colleague and boyfriend, to help her through the grieving process. When Pete deceives her, they have a very emotional breakup. As Elle’s Life Changes, she feels she must move away from her family, friends and job in America for a fresh start in Australia, where her mother’s family provides a bond. In just one night, she …

If you could travel through time, what epic event would you pick to experience? In the fascinating novel The Unveiling: Quest in Time, Ben Stone and his mentor, Bob Peterson, build a time machine. In the first book of this sci-fi series, Ben uses the machine to travel to his mentor’s Pittsburgh home long before they build the machine, so he can let Bob know that their experiment is a success. His next adventure takes him to perhaps the most extraordinary event in history! Ben returns to the past to witness the death of the great prophet who was crucified …

There are plenty of mysteries beneath the surface of the novel The Mystery of the Louisville Star: Can the Louisville Star Retain Secrets From Her Watery Grave? There are only two known survivors when the Louisville Star riverboat sinks in a rain storm south of Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1915. One is a riverboat gambler, and the other a six-month-old white baby boy that he rescued. The two wash ashore at a cotton plantation north of Natchez. The orphans’ home there rejects the baby on technical grounds. An old black man who lives on the plantation is given the task …