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This book has an introduction by Ruth Rendell, herself a writer of Mystery and detective stories. This mystery story centers around the accidental finding of a significant historical object; one of the lost crowns of Anglia.
Enjoy this short story by Mace Styx. (Almost whispering) “In reality, in real actual life, that kind of magic doesn’t belong to one group and the object doesn’t have to look like them at all. It doesn't even have to look like a person. As long as you wish, dream and know hard enough, it can be anything. A stick, a leaf, a piece of fruit, a candle. My Grandmother used to do with an egg. She would write the name of the person onto the surface of a hen’s egg and then...picking up a rock she would smash! Smash! Smash! the top, so that it fractured and dented, yolk spilling and oozing out everywhere! (Quietly) The next day you would hear that the named person had experienced a very nasty accident. That they'd been hit by a car or fallen from some great height and that their skull had somehow been smashed or split open, blood spilling slowly out...like yolk.”Show book
The dramatic climax to the Blue Fame Series In its race to discover another planet to colonise for its overstretched population, the human race overlooked one thing. When a planetary event happens in the night sky, the Afterlife Guardians send the PATH team on three quests, the outcome of which will determine the fate of humankind. Should they succeed, people will continue with their safe but chaotic existence. However, failure could be a terrifying, yet necessary, option.Show book
What if your biggest fear came true? Cailyn Roberts was a single mother raising her 11 year old daughter on her own. One fateful afternoon a knock came to her door. Before she had time to react, the attacker grabbed her and knocked her across the room. He was ruthless in his assault and Cailyn was about to relive the horror she had experienced as a child. Yet she was thankful that her Lacy was safely at school. Just then, the most horrible sound in the world entered her ears: The key in the front door. Lacy was home! Cailyn was suddenly struck in the head by a nine millimeter pistol. After being in a coma for almost 3 months she awoke to learn that her daughter was dead, raped and murdered by the attacker. Yet she did not awaken from the coma alone. Someone or something had come back with her. Wanted is a story about loss, sorrow, revenge, and a love that binds across the depths of death. Join Cailyn in her struggle to regain her life as she struggles to be released from her horror.Show book
Priceless paintings… Done in a master’s hand… Revealed two centuries after they were created… A collection of paintings has complicated Lord Rothvale’s life in ways he could never imagine. Actually, make that a beautiful art specialist from the University of London responsible for the complications in his life. He’s sure about one thing though. Before Gabrielle Hargreave blew back into his sights on a stormy summer night, he never felt this good. She’s turned his world upside down, along with his wounded heart. But Gabrielle is sporting a wounded heart of her own, and she’s terrified of risking it again on someone like Ivan. Will he hurt her as others have done? Or is Ivan Everley more than just commanding male beauty in a lordly package? He will tell you he is, and knows how to keep his head in the game when it matters. Yet the truth is clouded for these two and there is trouble afoot... as well as an artfully intriguing mystery. But Ivan is certain about one thing. He has identified his target and is determined to take the win—making Gabrielle his one and only Lady Rothvale... A love beyond any price… Lives intertwined over the ages… Discoveries of the heart and of treasures hidden away…Show book
A Lovecraftian tall of terror in the deepest depths of the ocean.Show book
Rosalie Parker runs the independent UK publishing house Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell. Her previous collections include The Old Knowledge (Swan River Press 2010) and Damage (PS Publishing 2016). "In the Garden" was selected for Best New Horror 21 (2010), and "Random Flight" for Best British Horror 2015. Rosalie lives in Coverdale, North Yorkshire, the magnificent landscape of which inspires and sometimes provides the settings for her writing.TOUCHSTONE: It was nearly midday when, bleary-eyed, Paula struggled up the last few metres of the slope. Lawrence's leaving party had drifted into the early hours, even though it was the middle of the working week, and in the morning, when he kissed her goodbye and got into the taxi, she had felt the first surge of panic.Show book
