Discover the John o’ Groats Trail, a strikingly remote and challenging long-distance walk across northeast Scotland. Stretching approximately 233km (145 miles) from Inverness to John o’ Groats, this coastal route leads you through wild Highland landscapes, along sandy beaches, cliff tops and quiet shorelines, and past attractive towns and villages that offer a welcome break from the solitude of the open coast.Far less well known than many of Scotland’s established ...

Jason Harte, a pilot downed in 1972, is sent on a secret mission to aid rebels in China against Mao and the Cultural Revolution. Jason becomes a successful businessman and a much maligned target of his murderous competitors. One who claims to be an Admiral sends Jason steal weapons for the Chinese rebels. He engages poppy-growing warlords to help. Part of Jason Harte series by the author.

Navy pilot Jason Harte crashed and escaped to Laos where he disregarded warnings about danger and began competing with murderous Laotian businessmen. He discovered a way to buy raw gold from miners and turned the idea into a fortune that he used to build a financial empire. Forged stock certificates and attempted murder crushed his company. Survival meant retaliating under dangerous conditions.

Jason Harte is ordered to stay in Laos by one who claims to be an Admiral. Jason is warned that murderous competitors will try to ruin him if he goes into business there. But, full of hubris, he proceeds. They ruin him through fraud. He is crushed by his failures and his terrible deeds. Those closest to him are tortured and killed. He must arise from his tragedy and provide arms to Chinese rebels

China Bright tells of a conspiracy to force Communist China into the Market economy in 1978. Murderous in their tactics, they plan the collapse of China's leadership. They must be stopped to avoid death on a grand scale and to allow capitalism to mature naturally. Noah is exposed to Capitalism aborning in the illegal businesses that thrive on China's coastline where life is secondary to commerce.

They are trapped in a van that crashed off a mountain road in a blizzard. Earlier Rachel's testimony had convicted Jack. Now, forced to confront each other for the first time since the trial, Rachel accuses him of being a liar and a worthless human being. Disoriented,she tries to walk through the blizzard to safety. Jack must decide to whether to risk his life to save her and then face her family.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An assassin with no face, no identity, and a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne“A killer of a thriller.”—USA TodayThe basis for the award-winning major motion picture starring Matt Damon!Reenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For ...

Winner of the Nebula Award and British Fantasy Award for Best NovellaFinalist for the Hugo Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award for Best Novella“A window onto a beautifully developed world that widens the meaning of space opera.” —New York TimesOnce, the mindship known as The Shadow's Child was a military transport. Once, she leapt effortlessly between stars and planets, carrying troops and crew for ...

The holidays are fast approaching, and Kathy Grant is hard at work on the renovations of her soon-to-be bed and breakfast. An unexpected winter storm disrupts her friends’ plans, and it looks like her B&B will have to open a little early. And then there are the cryptic notes that hint of a treasure to be found somewhere in the house. Will Kathy and her friends find the cache of cash?The immensely popular Booktown Mystery series is what put Lorraine Bartlett’s pen name Lorna Barrett...

In a California courtroom, seventeen-year-old Nou Lee's mind reels with what she is about to do. What she must do to survive. She reflects on the splintered path that led to this moment, beginning twelve years ago in 1978, when her Hmong family escaped from Laos after the Communist takeover. The story follows the Lees from a squalid refugee camp in Thailand to a new life in Minnesota and eventually California. Family members struggle to survive in a strange foreign land, haunted by the sca...

"Nothing to Fear" is an episode inspired by The Rule of Three, the opening novel in Eric Walter's trilogy of the same name about the terrifying challenges faced by an ordinary suburban kid, his family, and his neighbors, in the first days and weeks and months after a viral catastrophe causes the world to go dark. Sixteen-year-old Adam Daley is taking his girlfriend, Lori, on a picnic in his homemade ultralight aircraft—one of the few computer-free machines that still works. He wan...

When George McPherson, an old and gentlemanly Adelaide business man, left a will with very specific instructions, he would neither have guessed nor intended the indirect changes that would happen, as the result of that will, to the lives of at least five others, five people whom he never knew. The changes begin when Richard McPherson and Max Clark fine themselves becoming funeral directors in the Victorian rural city of Horsham. Then, following a tragedy, the same couple become 'parents' t...