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When a young nurse accepts a job at a former military hospital, she unearths a family secret and finds the spectral occupants a little too familiar. This is a short ghost story.

When a lost card game indebts her to local gangster Danton, gambling Scotswoman Kat McKay is kidnapped and forced to pay the price - the removal of her heart from her chest. Weak and emotionless but with a newfound power to see the dead, Kat plans a way get her heart back - with a set of unexpected allies. A fast-paced thriller set in Nevada’s famed gambling towns, Gheist follows Kat and a motley crew of criminal ghosts, including mobster Clint, stage magician Melchior, and hitman Jack "The Knife", as they embark on a risky scheme to regain their freedom and her heart.

A children’s adventure book, following a young girl as she gets taken aboard a flying pirate ship, sailing the clouds and collecting lightning. Along the way, she meets a wonderful array of characters and makes all new friends and enemies.

Come on a whirlwind ride across time and place with one of the most recognizable figures of Western history - Joan of Arc. We all know of her, but few know the details of her life. Travel back in time, through the words of the maid, in a series of imaginary interviews conducted by the author. Join her on her journey from shepherdess to warrior woman, to her rise to sainthood. Enjoy Joan’s own words, recorded through two arduous trials. Listen to her own descriptions of the many battles and political maneuvers she lived through and starred in.

A Mistletoe Bride is murdered on Christmas Eve, 1893. Her ghost haunts the family stately home, Willow Manor, until her remains are discovered and the truth revealed. Set in the present day and Victorian England, the tragic young bride can at last share her story and put right the terrible injustice that destroyed her family and those she loved. The city of Oxford’s Randolph Hotel, and the village of Minster Lovell, the site of the stately home, are the locations for this heartwrenching story of deceit, love, and betrayal.

Sixty-two years ago, Nancy Jenkins was found dead in the woods, and her murder went unpunished. Since then, the woods have been a dark place. Some say it’s a serial killer, and others think it’s much more sinister than that. Amy Woods and her friends don’t take the rumors seriously and set out to seek the truth. Dark secrets are about to be exposed, and Amy faces the terror that awaits her and anyone she loves. The truth about Nancy Jenkins is much closer to home than Amy could ever imagine. Nothing stays silent forever, not even the dead.

With her mother dead, and her father lost in despair, Sarah spends her time outside of school in the town’s old library. Inside the pages of a forgotten world, a darkness calls forth a feast to feed its master. Now trapped within a world of dying stories and surrounded with characters who just don’t belong, Sarah has to fight her way through this strange world of stories, to find her way home.

Laura and Jack Harrington are the archetypal career couple. They live in a trendy flat and look forward to starting a family. But Laura is still haunted by her "dark days" - memories of being bullied by a girl at school. She is finding it hard to conceive and fears this is the result of the illness that followed her traumatic experience as a teenager. When his new personal assistant arrives, he has no idea how much effort she had gone to - who she really is, and what she has planned....

When Emily wakes up in the middle of her bed, shaking and sweating from yet another nightmare, she knows it will not stop easily. The sexual assault she suffered eight years ago has left an enduring mark on her mind. In the immediate aftermath, she moved back to live with her parents, and since then they have happily provided sanctuary. But at what price? Emily is not free, and her inner doubt and anger are increasing their stronghold over her life.

On a bright, and sunny day, Little Bird decides to fly out of the nest and go play. As he flaps his wings and circles around the park, he decides to land on a branch not knowing whose home it is. To his surprise, he meets a squirrel. This sparks a friendship and many adventures to occur. Follow along with Little Bird as the adventure continues, and meet the new friends he encounters.

Kara Tate was looking forward to a new start in a new home after the breakdown of her marriage. A drunken first night leads to a discovery hidden under the floorboards - little does she know it will lead to a shocking outcome. Kara and her best friend have unlocked a dark secret that has been buried for so long it will stop at nothing to be told. The new life she longed for cannot begin until she unveils the truth of Sapphire Lake Estate.

Carrie Dobbs and Arnold Bateman have arrived in India. The journey from Bombay to Secunderabad is arduous - hot, uncomfortable, and with little to eat but unfamiliar food. But when she steps over the threshold of the bungalow she and her baby son John are to share with Bateman, she realizes that nothing could have prepared her for the life she is now expected to live.

The power of our free will and our power of choice will, ultimately, set the course of our lives. If it is our mindset to choose the way of love as the direction for our lives, then there will be the need to yield to truth. Love cannot be without truth. Truth cannot be without righteousness. In truth, there is freedom. In that freedom are reconciliation, peace, and joy. Love is the way, the truth, and the life of righteousness. We first need to understand love to adorn ourselves in its awesome power.