For Heidi Strong and her mother Amy, life can never be the same. Amy has entered into a relationship with the mother of Heidi's best friend Cindy, and they are moving into the same house to live together. But as they begin their new life, new challenges also come. They meet a couple with secrets, face the most horrific night of their lives, and discover new friends as they begin to experience the greatest journey a girl can face. The later teenage years... This third collection of the Heid...

For ten years now, Kev Pickering has been writing stories, both short and long, but the underlying theme of many of those stories is Ordinary Women in Distress - or as he puts it, the OWiD Files. This collection reprints some of his favourite stories of the last ten years, including three of the most popular he has ever written. From a love letter to the cartoons of his youth, to stories of women in the wrong place at the wrong time... From voyages of self-discovery to the terror of being ...

"I’m Miss Panther, and you may have heard of us, the newspapers call us the Pussycat Gang." A phrase that has struck terror into the hearts of bank managers, jewelers and others over the last few years. The Pussycat Gang - six women, always masked, always elegantly dressed, and the most violent, deadliest and ruthless gang in New York and the Eastern Seaboard. Leaving behind bodies wherever they strike, they work by taking over the homes of those they wish to rob, and terrorizing them into...

From a young student meeting a bank robber, to an older woman who finds a new experience when a stranger breaks in. Thirty tales from the world of Kev Pickering, featuring themes like personal reflections, days gone by, and sports - but all featuring ordinary women in situations they cannot escape from, no matter how much they wish to. The perfect introduction to the world of Madame X, The China Doll Gang and others. As you read it, remember - these are all fiction, they could never happen...

The new school year is about to start, and for Cassie, Suzie and friends that means a new school. For Alicia, Jenny and their friends, it means taking on new responsibilities as babysitters and godmothers - and for Patty's friends, a new level of school and a big change. The latest collection of stories in the An Education series takes us through Christmas and beyond, as we learn more about the families, Sarah and Brian and their American friends, and about Jay Edwards and Mrs McPhee as th...

Growing up can be hard to do - but it can also be fun. Just ask Cassie Craig, her family and her friends, as they come together to celebrate Easter in their own ways. This is just the start of this latest set of adventures, however, as over the remainder of the year they experience new adventures. Alicia and Angela Bowden help the son of an old family friend with a film, which leads to another encounter with Jay Edwards and a set of new lessons for the young ladies - lessons which lead the...

The fourth volume of the An Education series covers six months in the lives of the Craig and Holderness families, as the new school year begins. From the tale of Patty having a surprise at home, to a grand wedding in the grounds of Holderness Manor, their adventures help them to realize how important friendship is, as they all in their own ways start to grow up and become young ladies. This edition also contains a special tale from John Jacobs, and glimpses into the past and future of the ...

The fifth collection of An Education stories takes us from Valentine's Day to the summer holidays, and finds Cassie, Jenny and their friends finding love and new playmates. They also face changes in their family lives, some less welcome than others. At the same time, the man known as Jay Edwards continues to visit families, holding them hostage and making the parents help them rob banks. When Sarah and Brian Holderness-Carter, who are awaiting the arrival of their new family, come to Engla...

Before he became the chief assistant to Caroline Jameson at Jameson Security in New York, George Simpson was one of the most wanted bank robbers in the United Kingdom - until he was caught. His escape from the court led to a journey across the country, that one day would lead to New York - after discovering who had betrayed him to the police, recruiting Lily, his niece, to Madame X, and visiting old haunts. This volume contains the complete story of George's journey, from court to freedom,...

Collected for the first time in one volume, the most famous cases of the lady of crime known as Madame X. Where did she come form, what influenced her choice of career, and how did she become one of the most formidable leaders of the underworld? Kev Pickering, better known as KP, presents her story, her most famous cases, and shows how her past always influences her present, and her future.

The Games Player - so called by the Daily Mail because his modus operandi involves convincing whoever is the adult in charge to persuade the others, especially the children, that they are playing a game of robbers to keep them calm while he secures them and ransacks the house. He is notorious, both feared for his robberies, and admired for the way those he visits come out unharmed, if bound and gagged in various ways. But how did he earn this reputation. Here, in his own words, he recalls ...

Nobody knows who he is, but they know what he does. He will get into your home, your office, your place of work or leisure. He will bind you, he will gag you, and he will do the same with any other women who come into the place or are there already. But his motive is not robbery, he will not steal your valuables, your jewels, your money. He has something else in mind he wishes to take from you, and he wants you to enjoy what he does, to take you over the edge without actually raping you......