Attorney James Crosson is in the grips of despair, blaming himself for his wife’s death. A widow hires him to pursue a wrongful death case on behalf of her late husband who died in a seemingly ordinary car wreck. Crosson must confront his own tragic loss and gambling debts as he unravels the plot hatched by a deranged corporate tyrant who will stop at nothing to conceal the truth, take down the lawyer, and preserve his empire.
As a seasoned, but ever-hopeful pragmatist dad, I’m not terribly confident they paid attention the first (second or third) times I’ve said them. Sometimes/Oftentimes, I feel like the proverbial fallen tree in the woods. Did my children understand what I said? Did they even listen? Did I at least make a loud, discordant thud? Ultimately, I view this book as a testament and as a gift to my children. They should know three things: 1) Dad was here. 2) Lead a good and well-lived life. 3) Abundantly and ten-to-the-nth-power tenfold, I love them.
What is more terrifying than a covert mission to North Korea? Try raising a 12-year-old girl. Elina struggles with the countless rules in her life, especially when they keep her from a mysterious new boy who arrives at her school. What is Alexander Veurr to do? As the leader of Atropos-one of the government’s most elite tactical teams-Alexander assigns retired agent Xavier to guard his budding daughter. With Xavier’s skills and agency resources, what could possibly go wrong? A lot, it turns out. Elina goes missing and Alexander is exiled from the agency. Two things become clear.
“A Promise Broken” by Kim Anderson is a 410-page period piece set in England that follows Alice as she returns to her noble origins, faced with the prospect of an arranged marriage and a culture she knows nothing about. After being raised as a commoner with her sister, Alice discovers the true nature of her birth when her mother becomes ill. The sisters are sent to Lord Hastings, a wealthy duke and the father they left as infants. Discovering the truth about her father, the reasons she was taken away from him, and the marriage he has arranged for her, Alice’s world is thrown into turmoil.
While embracing the idealism of the 1970s counterculture, he seeks to discover himself in pursuit of his escapism. Amidst the backdrop of reconstructing his deconstructed Christian faith, sharing adventures with friends, his interior conversation gives a glimpse into the author's inner growth during these years.
The British Intelligent Service have many secrets and for this specialist unit within it, some are personal. Ryan Snow is one of their best agents, experienced, trained and relentless. His latest assignment seems to be straightforward, travel to Amsterdam and gather information from a meeting in a local cafe between two of Hollands biggest drug dealers. Quickly realising that forces are against him and when one of the men from the meeting is abducted.
King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigmatic figure who was deposed in 1886, mysteriously drowning three days later. Eccentric to the point of madness, history tells us that in the years before he died Ludwig engaged in a worldwide search for a new kingdom, one separate, apart, and in lieu of Bavaria. A place he could retreat into and rule as he wished. But a question remains: did he succeed? Enter Cotton Malone. After many months, Malone’s protégé, Luke Daniels, has managed to infiltrate a renegade group intent on winning Bavarian independence from Germany.
Matty Darcy is a Criminology and Psychology student in the quaint university village of Ambleside. She has survived the normal dramas of student life such as shared living, assignments, heartbreak and friendships. But this year takes the drama to a whole new level when her fellow students start mysteriously dying. Matty takes it upon herself to catch the killer with the help of local Police Officer, and heartthrob, P.C Nicholas Wilde and her ex-boyfriend Dean. It is a race against the clock to work out who’s killing students, and why.
The city is a contemporary crime thriller with a dark romantic theme, told from the perspective of a female undercover police officer involved in a complex operation to infiltrate a notorious street gang. As she works to gain the gang’s trust while simultaneously building a case against them, it becomes clear that she can’t trust anyone, least of all herself, as the lines between her two lives become blurred.
Infertility Saved My Life: Healing PCOS from the Inside Out exposes the raw teaching moments of Sarah Willoughby's journey to self-love through Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and secondary infertility. Within Infertility Saved My Life, Sarah Willoughby addresses the challenges and heartbreak she experienced while becoming a mum to three amazing children. She writes about her multiple miscarriages, as well as the trauma she endured so that anyone still on their journey to parenthood can feel less alone in their loss and grief.
