We have been historically educated to believe that the primordial couple composed of Adam and Eve represents the absolute beginning of human presence on Earth. But what if sacred texts and clay tablets guarded a very different truth, kept hidden for millennia?A careful philological analysis reveals an extraordinary demographic enigma: when Cain was cast out after the first fratricide and made his way to the mysterious Land of Nod, east of Eden, he did not find an em...

Being a human on a ruined Earth is difficult, and more often than not, the people you call family and friends turn on you.Leena learns this the hard way when the people of her village leave her tied to a tree in the middle of the forest - a snack for the savage, otherworldly Wolven. Claws and fangs are her introduction to the clan. And to stay alive, she cowers and submits.Death lurks at every corner, and while she tries to stay alive, the most unexpected beings become her ...

I married my enemy’s daughter.If I can’t make him pay for his sins… she will.Valachi, the name of a rival mafia family, was the last word on my mother’s dying lips.After years of careful deceit and planning, my moment of revenge has finally arrived.The head of the Valachi family has died, leaving his innocent daughter vulnerable.She is forced to take my hand in an arranged marriage.By the ti...

"You think it's murder, don't you?""There is no proof of that as yet, sir," Bobby answered cautiously."No, I know, but it's what you think," Glynne answered. After a pause, he added: "So do I." Viscount Byatt was found dead in his car without a mark on him. Millionaire Andy White's corpse was discovered in a remote cottage in Wales - no clue to the cause of death. When a grotesque-looking visitor calls on Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen in the middle of the night, the latter's help is urgent...

Description In his London townhouse, city magnate Sir Christopher Clarke is found lying murdered. At the other end of the house his safe hangs open and rifled, and earlier in the day he had visited his solicitors in order to make a drastic change in his will. Later it is discovered that there has been fraud connected with the dead man, and this is but one of the many complications with which Superintendent Mitchell is faced. Fortunately he has the assistance of young Constable Owen, a tale...

Description Con Conway, the notorious cat burglar, was not the kind of person to be scared out of his wits for nothing. So it seemed odd to Sergeant Bobby Owen, when he met Con quite by chance rushing, terrified, along a road in the Brush Hill district just before midnight. Afterwards he investigated the house where it seemed Conway had been, yet there was nothing, not a shred of evidence to suggest that swag had been hidden there or taken from there. It was a strange place, Tudor Lodge; i...

Charming, wealthy Randle Kennedy has a secret: he's British Columbia’s most prolific producer of boutique marijuana. He’s developed strains of B.C. Bud to please the most sophisticated palates and produce any desired effect, from a light contemplative buzz to the most mind-warping stone. His medical varieties offer relief for conditions ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's disease. Come legalization, he'll be the first on the market with marijuana's answer to single-malt Scotch. Until that d...

Step behind closed doors and discover a world where desire rules the night. The Secret Club Collection Volume 1 invites readers into four unforgettable erotic nightclubs filled with temptation, powerful chemistry, dominant men, and passions too intense to ignore.From unexpected birthday surprises to strangers consumed by instant attraction, from seductive games of temptation to delicious revenge wrapped in a birthday gift, each story delivers heat, emotion, and irr...

"I'll have breakfast ready before you're dressed," Olive said, her mind full of bacon and eggs, tea, toast."Can't stop," Bobby told her. "I've to be at Castle Wych at once.""What's happened there?""Murder," Bobby answered as he made for the door.Bobby Owen has left London and is now a policeman in the bucolic county of Wychshire. The local community is stunned when a missing heir returns to Castle Wych, determined to claim his inheritance. But following the ensuing dispute over his identit...

Description Police officer Bobby Owen is a weekend guest at Lady Cambers's majestic country pile, there to advise on security following recent burglary scares. But when the lady of the house disappears, her bed unslept-in, it's a case of murder not burglary - for Bobby discovers her ladyship, strangled, in a nearby field. One of the finest of the early Bobby Owens novels, Death Comes to Cambers combines wit and excellent characterization in a satisfying and classic whodunit, featuring an e...

Description The body of a brilliant woman journalist is recovered from the wreck of a burning car. It is soon discovered that the smash did not kill her; she was dead already, shot by a Browning automatic that was found near by. Superintendent Mitchell, with the help of Owen, a young University graduate turned policeman, follows the enigmatic clues backwards and forwards between a furrier, a picture dealer, and the establishment of a fanatical sunbathing enthusiast. Then dramatically the s...

Description What could be more innocent than a crossword puzzle? A game to while away an idle hour, a diversion for the lonely. And yet its cunning formula could still be turned to sinister purpose. The curious crossword devised by Mr. George Winterton turned out to be part of a game for high stakes - it was the creation of a man whose brother had just drowned and who feared for his own life. Yet the dog hadn't barked... When Detective-Constable Owen (B.A. Oxon, pass degree only) arrives i...