The email pinged again. The attachment was a picture of the door to her flat. She reeled. Clasping her hand to her mouth as she retched again."It was never about the money, Rachel. It was always about you. I could use someone with your skills. I'll be in touch. I know where you live. D.E.M."No good turn goes unpunished!When Rachel is spurred to use her computing skills to find an abducted boy, she has no idea that it will bring her to the attention of an anonymous v...

To reach the top in sport takes something special, but as well as talent you also need the right approach, the right mindset, the right plan.Lee Ness' Sports Motivation Master Plan helps you create your own route map to success. From picking your dream and learning from the greats through getting motivated and dealing with obstacles, the Master Plan is there for you no matter what your sport.If you want to be the best in your sport, no matter what it is, then you need the Spo...

Athens 438 BC"So the gods have seen fit to give you to me," said Zosimos. "I thought they must be smiling on you after Samos, but it seems they were just playing a cruel trick on you. That fool Pericles might have taken a shine to you, but he can't protect you here. You're mine now."Alexander has survived the Siege of Samos and been sent to a military academy as a cadet. The battles with the Athenian army are nothing to what he faces in the Academy.With his life in d...

The growth mindset is the biggest performance enhancer there is. Will a growth mindset guarantee success? No. There are too many other factors involved. But without it will success be all but impossible? More than likely. And success in anything is difficult enough as it is.This mini-book will describe the mindset, how to use it as an athlete, as a coach and as a parent/guardian.The impact of mindset, and the simple language or semantics we use for praise, have an incredibly ...

In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Acclaimed artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya’s responses to them to startling life in Death Threat, a comic book that, by its existence, becomes a compelling act of resistance. Using satire and surrealism, Death Threat is an unflinching portrayal of violent harassment from the perspective of both the perpetrator and the target...

Athens 440BCAlexander decided that there was no-one around and started to move from under the ramp but, before he could make his escape, he felt the ship rock as a loud tramping came from the gangplank. He froze in position while he tried to work out what this new sound meant.After listening for a short time, he realised that the troops were boarding the ship. He needed to get away, so he dragged himself fully out from his hiding place and made his way to the ramp. Maybe he...

Rachel, Cam, Deborah and Dave are on the run. They are being hunted by person or persons unknown but they do know they are in grave danger.When they are eventually tracked down, they are offered a stark choice. Execution or a mission. Their freedom in return for a task.Quid Pro QuoThere really is no choice for the team, but when their individual histories start to rise from the darkness, the danger is beyond what any of them could have imagined.

He was known as Eidolon - in Ancient Greek literature the name means an apparition, phantom, ghost. It is the name given to the world's most feared assassin. No-one knows who he is, where he comes from, what he looks like or even how to contact him.Until now.John King has lived in the shadows for a decade. No-one can find him because he has no history. Not one that could be traced anyway. He was just a normal person who chose the life he led. No government or military backgr...

In a world where cats and dogs act like people, absurdity reigns supreme.Bedlam threatens to engulf the world—unless Oscar can stop it, which he's willing to try, provided he has an enormous breakfast first.When the Tremblees, Arabesque's ambitious aide d'camp, stumbles across a translation of an ancient language revealing the existence of a fabled stone, he vows to find it for greed and vengeance.With a dead dog stuck to a car bonnet, some burst lu...

Book 2 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.Scotland 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Varvara Volodymyrovna visit the Scottish Borders to solve the Lammermoor Golf Course murders. Lord Cruddock is staging a tournament to promote his new golf course but someone is killing-off the golfers.There are plenty of suspects among the golfing-tragics, weird locals and exotic guests staying at Cruddock Castle, however, it is the dowager Lady Cruddock, a Spiritualist who is oppos...

Book 5 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots:France 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna are holidaying in Biarritz when a fire breaks out in the kitchen of their petit hotel. The hotel's owner (a retired opera singer known as the Singing Wolf) invites the handful of guests to stay at her isolated mountain retreat in a remote area rife with wolves and lawless brigands led by the murderous outlaw, Sarazan.Among the guests are Colonel James Isambard Moriarty, B...

Book 6 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots:France 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna are drawn into the world of fin de siècle Paris by a series of macabre murders, propelling them into the naturalistic horror plays of the Grand Guignol.Each horrific murder performed on stage is mysteriously and simultaneously re-enacted on the bohemian streets of Montmartre.Inspector Didier de Guise of the Sûreté Nationale enlists the help of our two sleuths when ...