A heartbreaking and moving true story of two sisters separated at birth, and their journey towards finding each other, celebrating the true meaning of family.Helen Edwards grew up in a pit village in Tyneside in the post-war years, with her gran, aunties and uncles living nearby. She felt safe with them, but they could not protect her from her neglectful mother and violent father. Behind closed doors, she suffered years of abuse. Sometimes she talked to an imaginar...

Tough times make tough people.Max Dauntless - Some Kinda Hero, is the second instalment of the series. Luke Sanders and Tessa Winters return. The armies of the night had unleashed their nightmare, their barbaric riots having torn through the beleaguered town of Arlingston, leaving devastation in their wake. Lives have been lost, leaving behind a desolate landscape of shattered dreams and broken hearts. Nonetheless, the survivors persevere, resolved to rebuild.Despite uncove...

If you can't change the cards you're dealt, change how you play your hand!Max Dauntless - Us Against the World, is the third instalment of the series. Luke Sanders and Tessa Winters return. Following the Duke's death and his clan's downfall at the hands of the vigilante, as the town's gangs battle fiercely, the sinister crime lord, Mr Big, and his ruthless gang, Chaos Dawn, rapidly seize the town of Arlingston. Dominating the criminal underworld, the crime lord governs Arlingston w...

I don't know how I'm going to win ... I just know I'm not going to lose...Max Dauntless - The Fight Back Begins plunges readers into the perilous town of Arlingston, nestled in the north of England. It's the early nineties, and for Luke Sanders and Tessa Winters, the teenagers who are living through it, survival is a daily fight. Luke, a tenacious orphan with a rebellious streak, was driven by a desperate need to uncover who had murdered his father. Tessa, embodying the quintessent...

Damaged people are dangerous; they know how to survive and make hell feel like home.Max Dauntless - The Midnight Assassin, is the fourth instalment of the series. Luke Sanders and Tessa Winters return. The sinister crime lord, Mr Big, grows more powerful, his wicked influence on Arlingston intensifying as the courageous teenagers, Luke, and Tessa, fight his malevolent operations, from Chaos Dawn to the corrupt police officers.The mission to track down a bomb-making terroris...

Civility cracks under true chaos.Max Dauntless - Destroyer of the Underworld, is the fifth and final instalment of the series. Luke Sanders and Tessa Winters return. Doggedly, Luke vows to bring Tessa home. With Luke wrestling with his affections, he and Tessa are close to finally uncovering the truths they've always desperately sought.All the while, the ruthless crime lord, Mr Big, alongside his barbaric thugs, Chaos Dawn, and loyal followers, unleash their devastating pla...

Lee Smith brings her masterful storytelling magic to this jewel of a novella that follows Jenny, an adventurous thirteen-year-old, down to Key West for a patched-up family vacation following the discovery of her father’s illicit affair.Available for the first time as a stand-alone novella, this book centers on the Blue Marlin Motel, where Jenny, her beautiful socialite mother, and chastened father share their sunny days with movie stars who are in town to make the ...

The Night Pool is a blood-soaked, page-turning horror set in the Gold Rush West, where three women must battle monsters both human and inhuman to survive—perfect for fans of Alma Katsu’s The Hunger and Victor LaValle’s Lone Women.The American West is no safe haven for women—least of all in the Gold Rush town of Coloma, California. Not for Clara Tice, the blacksmith’s strange and stubborn daughter. Not for Mei, the healer whose calm presen...

Taryn MacTavish found the egg in a pile of wet leaves on a camping trip when she was only nine years old. A nine-year old believes in a lot of things--killer snipes, flying dragons, magical powers and fantastic worlds--but the woman that Taryn has become is firmly rooted in the real world...until the egg she has safely kept all these years hatches into a baby griffin. Now she must make a choice: Abandon Aisling and lead a normal life, or follow a mysterious singing gypsy out of Earth and i...

"The best novel so far by a writer whose growth has been steady and sure . . . . [Oral History] tells the story of the Cantrell family and the odd curse that its members believe to have hung over them. It is a tale that begins in the late 19th century with Granny Younger, the midwife, and continues well into the 20th century through several generations of Cantrells; it is also a tale deeply rooted in the folk culture of the Appalachians, a tale that in the best tradition of folklore contai...

When the past comes hunting, love becomes the safest place to land.When a workplace connection ignites under pressure, healing and heartbreak collide in a romance shadowed by danger.She came to Hull House for a fresh start, not to fall for the one woman who could change everything.Krista Smith has worked hard for her peace. Fifteen years sober and newly starting a counseling job at Hull House, she wants structure, purpose, and a safe place to rebuil...

"LUCID IN EXECUTION, BREATHTAKING IN SCOPE AND HEART-RENDING IN EFFECT--A REDEMPTIVE WORK OF ART. . . . Lee Smith has done more than write another novel about the South. She has broken through the grotesque surface to the underground spring, the music of Scrabble Creek, and the effect is stunning--a beguiling, gentle prose formed by an honesty so severe we are brought to our knees. . . . This novel has a grand and singular purpose, to clothe the spirit with flesh. In this, Lee Smith succee...