At an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic,a battle to save all life on Earth is about to begin… The Secret Base – It is a top-secret base known only as Dragon Island. A long-forgotten relic of the Cold War, it houses a weapon of terrible destructive force, a weapon that has just been re- […]
When Poppy loses her engagement ring and her mobile all in the same disastrous evening, it seems the obvious solution to make use of a phone she finds, by chance, abandoned in a hotel bin. But inevitably her life becomes entangled with the real owner of the phone, a high-flying businessman called Sam who becomes […]
Kajori (Kaju) Roy, a vivacious young Indian-American, returns to the land of her birth to discover her roots. Adopted as an orphaned three-year-old, her attempts to delve into her forgotten childhood throw up a number of intriguing questions: Who were her birth parents? How did they die? How did her adoptive mother find her, and […]
Marine researcher Melis Nemid is treading dangerous water??and she??s about to be dragged under. Melis knows something that has already caused one oceanographer to disappear from the face of the earth . . . and that??s only part of a past torn by violence and betrayal. She thought she had put that past behind her […]
There was nothing in the room to surprise her. She could understand exactly what had happened. She had known about this in the morning. She had known about it the day before, the month before, and in fact since the moment of her birth. The violent death of her biologist husband forces Nafisa into a […]
Growing up in a small town, Sandy Paull dreams of something better. When she lands a job with one of Londons leading theatrical agencies her dreams appear to be coming true, particularly when she meets Michael McCann, her handsome and dynamic boss. Ellen Shelby, as a highly respected and successful agent, has Hollywood at her […]
Free-spirited and rebellious, Saira has grown up in California with her beautiful, obedient sister Ameena. From childhood, she has broken the boundaries between her desire for independence and her familys traditions – in particular, her Bombay-bred mothers idea of how girls should behave. Now, hungry for experience and curious about the world, Saira travels to […]
The only daughter of a European banking dynasty, Raphaella had always been sheltered from the world. Married to a much older American, she was kept in the privacy of great luxury, tended to by servants, watched over by bodyguards. She was the beautiful dark-eyed woman the young lawyer from San Francisco, Alexander Hale, saw sitting […]
The timeless adventure From young Jim Hawkins??s first encounter with the sinister Blind Pew to the climactic battle with the most memorable villain in literature, Long John Silver,?ÿTreasure Island?ÿcontinues to thrill generations of readers.
This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career; and in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole […]
Intelligent, practical Mary Challoner knew wicked Dominic Alastair, Marquis of Vidal, wouldnt marry her sister, despite her mothers matchmaking schemes. So Mary coolly prepared to protect her sister by deceiving Vidal. But, she certainly hadnt expected the infuriated nobleman to kidnap her! Reluctantly awakening to his responsibility — and realizing just how serious Mary was […]
The rioting in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, in 1961 was a watershed event for India. After the Partition, it was the first time such large-scale communal violence had taken place. The author, Prateep K. Lahiri, on his first posting, was involved in bringing the situation under control. Some time later in 1969, as district magistrate of […]