A house is more than just a place to lay your head at night.Sometimes, the walls remember.Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up.From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost.

Alec Black, the Earl of Stryden, sees the inevitable and does his damnedest to ignore it.When another crop infestation at the family’s estate in Bedford collides with a promotion from the War Office, Alec is torn between his duty to his heritage and his duty to the crown. Matters become more complicated when his nephew, Samuel, demands of him a seemingly outrageous and impossible favor that relies on Alec’s seat in the House of Lords.But when a common footpad threatens his ...

She planned for everything except him.Miss Jane Black enjoys a comfortable position in society. As the daughter of a respected genteel farmer and former agent for the War Office, Jane has had the pleasure of planning a future filled with domesticity and quiet reflection. But when her dying grandfather swears her to a dangerous promise, Jane’s expectations are shattered.Fighting to keep her promise, Jane sees danger lurking everywhere, and when her near kidnapping throws her...

Lady Emily Black is used to getting her way.As the daughter of the Duke of Lofton, she’s grown accustomed to privilege and comfort. So when an ordinary shopping trip turns deadly, Emily is forced to adjust to the truth of what it means to be the descendant of a family of spies.But when such adjustment includes the Marquess of Evanshire, she suddenly finds it’s not quite so difficult even if the marquess is already taken. Because Lady Emily Black always gets what she wants.

Iceland, November 1967. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal - a boy who lives on the other side of the country - but she has been writing to him in her older sister's name. Now she is excited to meet him for the first time. When the date arrives, Marsi is prevented from going. During the night, her sister Stina goes missing - her bloodstained anorak later found at the place where Marsi and her penpal had agreed to meet. November 1977. Stina's disappearance remains unsolved. Then an...

The Spy Series Short Stories Collection introduces the reader to the characters of The Shadowing London Series.These short stories introduce you to the children of the characters from the The Spy Series. But unlike their parents, they face challenges much closer to home.This collection includes:To Have and to Spy: A Spy Series Short Story PrequelTo Be a SpyTo Be a DukeTo Be...

In this gripping prequel to the bestselling Spy Series, you will discover just what it took for a father to let his beloved sons enter into service for Crown and Country.Nathan and Alec Black weren’t always spies for the War Office. But when a simple mission goes dangerously wrong, they must prove themselves and show they have what it takes to be an operative.But to do so, they must save their parents, the Duke and Duchess of Lofton, at all costs.To Have and To ...

Count your nights by stars, not by shadows ~ Italian ProverbWinter in VeniceMia Caiozzi is determined to discover her destiny by studying the science of astronomy. But her stepmother Giulia forbids her to engage in this dangerous occupation, fearing it will lead her into trouble. The ideas of Galileo are banned by the Inquisition, so Mia must study in secret.Giulia insists Mia should live quietly out of public view. If not, it could threate...

In the days of the Purge the tides of death swallowed all that was holy, but now Velspar is on the verge of revival.Sybilla Ladain survived her judgement and is now caught between her duty as Skalen and her growing entanglement with the rebels she once considered her enemies. Voirrey takes Sybilla to a little village in the mountains where they plan to start a religious community based on the old rites. In Avishae, Intercessor Maeryn is working with the Elshenders to do th...

The small community of Akranes is devastated after a young man dies in a mysterious house fire. When Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case. For the dead man's final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two. A few months before the fire, a young Dutch woman takes a job as an au pair in Iceland, desperate to make a new life for herself after the d...

Have you been to Castle Chansany?Perhaps you’ve heard of it, or somewhere like it.It’s that airy castle in the clouds, straight out of a dream.A place where wizards spin marvels from their finger-tips, and the Queen holds banquets deep into the night.A place of mystery and curiosity, finery and fancy, where even the furniture might talk to you (if you’re polite enough to it).A place of magic and enchantment, where anything could happen...Come...

Lady Emily Black will do anything for redemption.Haunted by a tragic mistake in her past that endangered her family and nearly cost the life of the only man she could ever love, Emily now lives a life of exile that just so happens to include sword play and stealth on the dark streets of London in an attempt to stop innocent people from coming to harm at the hands of seedy criminals. Caring not for her own safety, Emily embarks on a life of justice at all costs, if ...