For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private--the world's most exclusive detective agency--saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again. In...

Holly couldn't live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish each other's sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30-year-old Holly is set adrift, unable to pick up the pieces. But with the help of a series of letters her husband left her before he died and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, she learns to laugh, overcome her fears,...

"The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct and the half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind, but the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory. Man has handed over stewardship of the Earth to new life-forms....

Before he can gain his freedom, Emperor Hadrian sends Julius Zebra on one last mission to Britannia where he and his fellow gladiators discover how much the Britons dislike the Romans.

When a tribute announcement demanding half the hive's honey threatens the very survival of the hive, Maya and her sidekick Willy defy the queen's orders and go to Buzztropolis to confront the Empress. The Empress invites them to participate in the Honey Games; however, she explains that if they win, all is forgiven, but if they lose, she will take all of the summer honey.

The story of 100% Wolf centers on Freddy Lupin, heir to the leadership of a proud family line of werewolves. Positive he'll become the most fearsome werewolf ever, Freddy is in for a shock when on his 14th birthday his first warfing goes awry, turning him into a ferocious... poodle.

Bob's can-do crew is busy decorating for the holidays and building a concert stage for rock stars Lennie and the Lasers. Bob finds out that his twin brother, Tom, is coming all the way from the Artic Circle to visit Bob for Christmas. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned. Spud is up to his usual pranks, Lennie discovers he can't sing and Bob forgets his Santa costume. To make matters worse, it seems that Tom won't be making it home for Christmas....

"He's dead. She's still in high school. But together they're going to save the world. Skulduggery is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension. There is no official plan to save him. But Valkyrie's never had much time for plans..."--Back cover.

On a blistering summer day, a bank robbery goes wrong, resulting in the deaths of all the hostages except Treva Williams. Pittsburgh psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi is called in by the police to treat Treva. Soon an unforeseen series of events plunges the investigating officers, Sergeant Harry Polk, Detective Eleanor Lowrey, and Rinaldi into a vortex of mistaken identity, kidnapping, and surprising revelations about District Attorney...

"A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his...