Murph and Rory Caulfield are two regular kids in the small town of Coombs in rural Virginia. When their uncle goes to fetch the local sheriff after finding "something bad" on his farm, the boys go to check it out for themselves. What they find is more than just bad, though - it could kill them and everyone they know. The race is on now. First to escape, then to find out what's happened to their family and their town. If they can do that, they can think about finding a saf...

They're here, but not for us. They're here for them.When an alien race known as the Surge arrives on Earth with deadly force, three high school kids in Philadelphia find themselves fighting for survival in a city tearing itself to pieces in panic. Pursued through the heart of the horror shattering their ordinary world by creatures hell-bent on dragging them away to a fate they can only guess at, the teenagers must deal with their shock and grief at losing ...

Seven years ago they put him away. They thought his victims were all dead. They were wrong.Cody Williams was never charged with a string of child abductions and murders across New England, but everyone knows he was the man behind them. While the remains of some of his victims have been found down the years, several are still out there, buried in the Massachusetts wilds. Now Cody's dying and the families want their children's bodies recovered. And he'll talk, but only to th...

She's gone. He's lying.Phil Durand is a low level crook. A delivery driver, nothing more. When his girlfriend Evie goes missing three days before they were due to leave town together to start a better, cleaner, life down in Florida, he turns to the only man he knows with a reputation for helping guys like him...Alex Rourke was once a respected investigator, first with the FBI and then in the private sector. Now he battles a long-term mental illness that's seen him ...

Twelve hours. Two killers. No way out.Troubled private detective Alex Rourke comes to Tennessee mountain country on a wild goose chase, a plea for help telling him people were killed here a year before, their deaths covered up. It's not just future victims he's looking to save in the storm-blasted valley in the middle of nowhere, either; he's desperately trying to hold on to his own crumbling sanity as he teeters on the edge of a complete psychotic break.Trapped in...

There's a kidnapped five-year-old somewhere in the toxic ruins of northern Manila, stolen from the US and hidden away in the 'Concrete Sea', a failed district long fenced away by the local military.To 19-year-old Ghost, former gangland abductee turned killer, little Sam is her ticket home. To Cole, professional thief whose last job went spectacularly wrong and cost the life of the woman he loved, he's his path to redemption. To teenage Filipino gang member Eddie, grieving for his o...

They have the body of a slaughtered woman. They have a half-naked man standing over her. They have no idea how to make him talk.And so they call in ex-FBI interrogator Alex Rourke to the traumatized Maine town of Winter's End. But as Rourke probes the mind of the enigmatic 'Nicholas', he is forced to re-examine his own past ....Strange things have been happening in Winter's End. The question is why. And if the man in custody does hold the answers to crimes both present and ...

Step through and it can give you back everything you’ve lost, or take away everything you’ve got.Jack Harker’s a washed-up adventure junkie with a knack for languages and getting himself in trouble. But when armed strangers break into his house looking for his parents’ old notes on the legendary lost city of Huayacapo, they inadvertently draw him into a secret war that’s been raging for a century and a half, a shadow conflict to unearth the past, and to control the future.H...

A Family Romance is the story of the family of Alfred Deakin, Australia's first elected Prime Minister. In this intriguing book, John Rickard explores the complex web of relationships between Alfred, his wife Pattie, and his sister Catherine.The Deakin 'family romance' is permeated by the influence of spiritualism which, in extraordinary circumstances, brought Alfred and Pattie together, and which was to haunt their marriage.It is a tale which, with its Gothic overtones, ha...

GROW MORE FOR LESS – SHEER LUNACYLEARN THE SECRETS OF MOON GARDENING. SUITABLE FOR ALL GARDENS. FROM POSTAGE-STAMP ALLOTMENTS TO COUNTRY ESTATESThis is not your average gardening book. In it you will discover how to increase your crop yield and grow healthier plants and better tasting food, while reducing work in your garden and forking out less on fertiliser. This seemingly impossible win-win is achieved by planting and reaping in tune with the phases of the moon.Lunar garde...

Never open the package.Chase is a courier and he should be dead, killed by the package he was carrying. Except someone got to it first, and replaced the bomb with a cell phone and a loaded gun. When it starts ringing, and Chase breaks the golden rule of the job, the stranger on the other end of the line tells him that she's saved his life.And that he now has the chance for revenge and the tools to take it, if he wants. For all he has, and all he'd leave behind....

A revolution is happening in education, with leaders and teachers now asked to focus on learning, to develop collaborative teams to impact on students, to use and raise professional standards, and to identify and esteem expertise in our profession. With new demands relating to technological advances, changing demographics, internationalism, and the inclusion of ‘twenty-first-century skills,’ there is pressure on schools to deliver greater and deeper success with more students.The T...