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After witnessing a powerful British officer’s brutal actions in wartime Vienna, a former servant escapes to rural England and builds a new life—only to find her buried past threatening the man she loves, the child she must protect, and the deadly secret she has sworn to keep. Woman at the Door, the Story, adapted Stage Play and adapted Screenplay, bring together an original story, its stage adaptation, and its screenplay in a single, distinctive volume. Presented together in one publicatio...

A Novel set in the vast space between fragile minds and implacable non-human intelligence. Zonobia explores themes of human identity, artificial intelligence, political control, evolution, and the moral limits of survival, set against the isolation and psychological pressure of deep space travel. The story combines political science fiction with psychological and philosophical drama, focusing on a small cast of characters facing momentous decisions that will determine the future of humanki...

A fictional drama set in Texas and Mexico in 1890. An exploration of fate, life, and death in a small town in the Rio Grande desert region of southwest Texas. In the period between the Civil War and the growth of the railroad network and the industrial revolution. Written in the genre of ‘SCROVEL’. A crossover of a SCREENPLAY, and a NOVEL. A dispute around a campfire leads to violence and retribution, as men and women, still reeling from the aftermath of the Civil War, and the Mexican – Am...

The world evolves. Billions are subjugated by the elite few, who cannot be legally deposed. As the planet rolls onwards to its nemesis, two groups will remain for the denouement, the elite few, and the assassins they contracted with, and in the end, only the assassins. Stephen Parry, cold, remorseless Cumbrian, and Michael O’Leary, charismatic, literate Irishman, are professional assassins. Publicly denied, their profession is an essential component of world politics. Assassinations, commi...

BUNYIP: A mythical creature from Australia’s ancient history. It is believed by some that the blood and flesh from the BUNYIP can miraculously speed the healing process. On a remote cattle station in the Simpson Desert a cattleman kills an unidentified creature that is slaughtering his cattle. Within hours the story that a BUNYIP has been shot goes viral world-wide. For political reasons the story is given credibility by the Australian Government to divert attention from a potentially worl...

‘SCROVEL’ - A new writing GENRE. Read SinkHole in ‘Scrovel’ and play the MOVIE in your head as you read. ‘SCROVEL’ is a crossover between a NOVEL and a SCREENPLAY. Stiv and Bob are two young unworldly hunters with extraordinary shooting skills. Guns and shooting is their shared passion. One day after a fruitless day out hunting they blunder into an evolving crime scene. The criminals discover them and the situation escalates out of control. The two young men survive, but their extreme acti...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTERGoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist"Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic."—People magazine"Mesmerizing . . . The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history’s most tragic eras."—USA TodayThree women, haunted by the past and the secrets they holdSet at the end of...

When Rosalen Maldonado tinkers with the derelict freighter, she's just hoping to prove she deserves a scholarship to University. She certainly doesn't count on waking the ship's damaged AI or having three stowaways, Micah Rotherwood and brothers Jem and Barre Durbin, along for the ride. They all have their private reasons for hiding aboard and lives they are seeking to escape, but if the accidental crew can't work together and learn to trust each other, they'll die together, victims of a c...

With epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war.The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise. But Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner can see that Hannah is not the same woman as when she left...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!"I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog ManThey may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds...whether you like it or not! This New York Times bestselling illustrated series is perfect for fans of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.The bad news? The world is ending. The good news? The Bad Guys are back to save it! Sure, they might have to "borrow"...

The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a pianist in Berlin on the cusp of WWII and the choices she makes that echo across generations.Sometimes the best place to hide is the last place anyone would look.Northern England, 2010After a tragic accident upends her life, Kate Mercer leaves London to work at an old guest house near the Scottish border, where she hopes to find a fresh start and h...

Can a sci fi story alter the course of something ponderous, like the space program? Perhaps. "Tank Farm Dynamo" sure tried! What if we found the nerve, the spirit and daring to use every resource - including those that NASA simply threw away? An unabashedly old-fashioned hard SF story with science and technology as central, problem-solving players... plus a real twist.