The Venturers are going on their annual Christmas holiday camp for a week of surfing, canoeing and pure fun. But little do they know, the Russian drug Mafiosi have arranged for a mother ship to drop off a cargo of illicit drugs in a wrecked Navy submarine near the boys' campsite. Stumbling upon the illegal manifest, the Russians take the Venturers prisoners and make plans to dispose of their bodies. It's now up to the most unlikely of them, Scott...

Terror from the Past? Women are turning up in shallow graves in different boroughs of Manhattan. New York homicide detective Tara Woods and her partner are on a dangerous quest to find a serial killer. The gruesome and meticulous method of death triggers the chief's memory of a similar cold case he and Tara's dad had worked on thirty years prior. Tara must determine the common link between the two investigations in order to bring down a vicious...

In Hong Kong a beautiful woman is pushed off a balcony to her death. In London a young American is gunned down outside the U.S. embassy. In Washington a senior CIA official vanishes into thin air. Random, unrelated events? Or pieces of the same puzzle? These events are no accidents, it seems, when it is discovered that the woman in Hong Kong had a CIA lover. That the London murder was a case of mistaken identity, and that the intended target was the...

On the outside it looks like my life has returned to normal. I have Valerie, my soul mate, by my side in wedded bliss. But darkness overshadows my happily-ever-after. My guilt for sending my father to an eternity of torture at Lucifer's hands is a pain I cannot escape. When Valerie and I return from our honeymoon, a note from the king of hell greets me, outlining in sickening detail his plans for the rest of those I hold dear.With everyone I love...

To the people back home, Colton Rae is still a big deal. His trip is supposed to take days, not weeks. A funeral. A day to grieve with his sister, then another to settle his mother's affairs, but his mother's affairs don't settle easily. Some old letters implicate the father he barely remembers in a decades-old murder, and his father wants them back. Someone else wants them, too, for a reason more damaging to Colton than murder. Not all ghosts roam...

John Trevelyan Parfitt, a refrigeration engineer, is made redundant and goes to an Employment Exchange to find work. Unknown to him, a schoolboy had hacked into two databases and joined them together. The result is that Parfitt is abducted to Harwich Docks where he is put on a ship that takes him to a remote volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean. He is taken to a complex built underground and told that his work is to decimate the world's population...

Tony Blackman, has written a very unusual story about a mystery submarine in the Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea. A Royal Australian Air Force aircraft is lost in the Torres Strait and the wreckage is found by a Royal Air Force aircraft on an exercise with the Australians. It becomes clear that the Australian and UK Governments are keeping secrets from one another and the problem is compounded as the United States is also involved....

A secret never to be shared. A killer seeking vengeance. Is his nightmarish fiction about to become a bloody reality? Michael Kerrigan is delighted with his success. With his well-received suspense novels putting him on the map, the popular author trades his dark past for meet and greets with adoring fans. But his borrowed peace shatters when a friend he thought he'd buried dead in the ground long ago shows up very much alive… and hellbent on wreaking...

In the Demi-Monde, author Rod Rees has conjured up a terrifying virtual reality, a world dominated by history's most ruthless and bloodthirsty psychopaths-from Holocaust architect Reinhard Heydrich to Torquemada, the Spanish Inquisition's pitiless torturer, to Josef Stalin's bloodthirsty right-hand man/monster, the infamous Beria. The Demi-Monde: Winter kicks off a brilliant, high concept series that blends science fiction and thriller, steampunk...

Psychologist Alice is struggling to keep herself together after the year from hell. Circus performer Bonny is already falling apart. Private investigator Sammy is drinking himself to death. Guitarist Angus is nearing the end of the road. Prisoner Harry is already there. Surely things can't get any worse? Five extraordinary people, with unique lives. But they have one thing in common...they're all living on the edge. What they each need now is a guardian...