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Merchant Of Destiny - Bright Mills "Merchant Of Destiny" is a captivating yet cautionary tale of two marriages. Both have suspect foundations and their survival is always in doubt, The first marriage is under stress from the outset simply because the wife enters into it with a secret, When her cousin marries her brother-in-law and he finds out about that secret the knowldge puts him in a position to obtain what he really always wanted - his brother's wife! The mix is potentially explosive, and explode it does. But the fallout is not at all what might be expected! The story is carefully constructed and, despite being highly emotionaly charged, it moves along at a good pace. It's an unusual tale, cleverly told. (about 20,000 words) Price: £2.50 Quantity:

Dangerous Love - Bright Mills This is a relatively short but nonetheless captivating tale of love and fulfilment. It is the story of Stacey Adams, a young lady who is sure of what she wants - a husband, a family and a life of domestic bliss. It doesn't quite turn out that way, though. We see the story unfold largely through Stacey's eyes as she reaches her mid 30s, still unmarried, and then becomes the 'other woman' in a love triangle. Bright Mills approaches this subject from a slightly unusual but effective angle with an ending that will surprise many readers. It moves along at a brisk pace, surprising and delighting in equal measure, an excellent example of the singular skill of its author. (about 11,000 words) Price: £2.00 Quantity:

Candle Lady - Pradeep Kapoor Pradeep Kapoor has collected some of his favourite stories in this anthology; it demonstrates that he is unusually adept at writing compelling romance. It also demonstrates that romantic fiction encompasses so much more than the "boy meets girl and they live happily ever after" stereotype. 'Habits Endure' is a case in point as is 'An Old Friend', the latter being about a bungled burglary and at first sight rather out of place here. Anyone feeling in need of a little lift, of some intelligent feel-good reading, could do a lot worse than spending an hour or two with stories by Pradeep Kapoor - he's skilled in the art of making people feel better! (about 11,000 words) Price: £2.00 Quantity:

Love You Forever - Pradeep Kapoor There are certain diseases which amount to a death sentence as there is no known cure; among them is leukaemia. But how should you react once the diagnosis has been made and a limit placed on life? That was the question facing the still young and attractive Neeta Shroff. She took the decision to end her treatment: after all, its continuation was merely going to add a few weeks, perhaps months, to her life and that extra time would be lived in pain. No, in her mind it was better to do her best to enjoy the little time she had left. So, while she still could, she took a holiday. She expected to spend a couple of restful weeks in attractive countryside; that expectation was fulfiled. What she didn't expect was that she would fall in love with a man who had clearly fallen in love with her. That left Neeta in a dreadful dilemma: should she reveal that her inevitable death was just a few short months away? What else could she, or should she, do? It is a compelling story, beautifully told, that stretches emotions to the point where the reader feels such empathy with Neeta: the book is very highly recommended. (about 10,000 words) Price: £2.00 Quantity:

Back To Hitler's Germany - Oliver Marti Back to Hitler’s Germany is a novel involving science fiction and a historical mystery. In 1984, J. J. Benitez wrote a novel in which a time machine made by NASA went back to the First Century Jerusalem. Gathered at a meeting of the "Cosmos Society", a group of American scientists were discussing the book when Carl Sagan surprised the others, stating that a machine capable of crossing the time barrier could, indeed, be built. Twenty years later, the secret project, known only by a few people inside the Government, had turned Sagan´s idea into reality. In the Mojave desert the time-ships were built and based: the scientists decided to return to April 1945 Berlin, to find out whether Hitler and Eva Braun had died in the Chancellery bunker or escaped, with the help of the famous aviatrix Hanna Reitsch. The machine, piloted by major Kelvin Martin, drops the American agent Steve Kleist, of German ancestry, near the Reich Chancellery on the evening of April, 26, 1945. Steve, pretending to be major Hans Kleist, from Wench’s Army, enters the bunker and discovers two doubles, one for the Fuhrer and another for Hitler’s mistress. He returns to America, but, despite the existence of the doubles having been confirmed, Hitler's and Eva's destiny remained unclear . It was then decided that Hanna should be interviewed. Steve, this time posing as the journalist Rudolf Kleist, son of major Hans Kleist, goes back to 1965 Salzburg, where the aviatrix, now 49 years old, resides. During the interview Hanna confesses that, with the help of SS general Otto Skorzeny, Air Force General von Greim, Heinz Linge and the spy-master Reinhard Gehlen, she had rescued Hitler and Eva, by air, a few hours before Russian troops reached the Chancellery and that the Fuhrer survived and lived for many years under a false identity at the small Paraguayan town of Juan Pedro Cabalero. But, unexpectedly, "Rudolf" and Hanna fall in love. Nevertheless, Steve returns again to the States and, because of his unexplainable passion for Hanna, he sinks into a deep depressive state. A few weeks later, the US Air Force decides to test another ship, sending it, ten years back, to the North Pole. Kleist succeeds in convincing his friend Kelvin to take him along, secretly, and to drop him in Salzburg, at a time corresponding to a few hours after the moment he had left Hanna’s home on the previous trip. So, Steve disappears mysteriously and all attempts to find him fail. Of course, no one thought about checking the "dead archives" of the Salzburg Nachrichten, where, in the issue of September, 14th, 1965, a note that said: "the aviatrix Hanna Reitsch, accompanied by an unknown American young man, left the city, to spend a long period of vacation at the French Riviera ..." Thus, Steve had exchanged his career and the way of living in twenty-first century America for a love affair in the Europe of the sixties and seventies, even knowing that Hanna was scheduled to die in 1979, fourteen years later. An incredible, amazing and touching passion! An impossible love that love had made possible! (about 54,000 words) Price: £3.50 Quantity:

Sheridan's Wager - Paula George Judith Brant was an attractive young lady, but the young men of Victorian London regarded her as aloof and unobtainable. Perhaps her attitude to those who would court her was conditioned by her brother, an idler who gambled to excess. Unknown to either, his gambling was to shape his sister's destiny. Far away, on the moors of Devon, lay Lawrence Sheridan's estate. He was of a family with a dark past, shrouded in secrecy, and that history had made him the man he was. When he met Judith his desires came to the fore, yet he knew of only one, very dark way, to satisfy those desires. How Judith Brant came to spend a snowbound winter at Sheridan's house on the moors is a tense tale of passion, loyalty and devotion, the climax of which remains uncertain until it is reached. Nobody reading this book should ever be lulled into thinking the outcome is inevitable! This is the first in a series of Victorian romances; readers will consume the others just as voraciously! (about 53,000 words) Price: £4.00 Quantity:

The Dressmaker's Daughter - Paula George The second of Paula George's Victorian romances is set against a background of rapid social change. The Lovelace family lives in a town that has come to terms with industrialisation, if not with the undesirable elements that come with it, and is getting used to new ideas such as being served by a railway. There are the beginnings of the erosion of the great divide between the classes too: the Lovelaces are working class whereas the Walters family are members of the gentry as are the Henlys, whose daughter Helen is engaged to Enryk Walters. But Enryk meets Flora Lovelace and suddenly sees his engagement in an entirely new light. The Walters and Lovelaces are not unknown to each other, we discover, and their history appears to stand in the way of so much. The author has woven a captivating story of sickness, kidnap and above all love which develops its plot and subplots so intriguingly before bringing matters to a satisfactory but surprising conclusion. It is a most appealing work, and highly recommended. (about 54,000 words) Price: £4.00 Quantity:

Winning Victoria - Paula George This is the story of Victoria Yates, who lives with her father in an isolated house on Dartmoor. There are helpers living in the house too: Mrs Ramsy the housekeeper, two young men of dubious backgrounds and the foul-smelling, dirty Stanton who lives in the stables. Victoria's father was a lawyer by profession, but his work has made him certain enemies. One day, those enemies track the family down; violence and bloody murder ensue, Victoria being saved (however reluctantly) but the inventive and quick-thinking Stanton. Events move on as Victoria begins a new life in the little community to which Stanton takes her, across the moor from her childhood home. There she meets the industrious young doctor, the meek vicar, the vicar's twisted and splendidly nasty sister and many others - including the family the smelly Stanton. But who has set his heart on winning Victoria? The third of the author's Victorian romances, this book is vibrantly full of life and ultimately brings all its plots to very satisfying conclusions. Lovers of romantic fiction will find this book hugely enjoyable. (about 52,000 words) Price: £4.00 Quantity:

The Master Of Redmays - Paula George Catherine Oliver was a farmer's daughter from the Isle of Wight, perhaps luckier than some. Her aunt was in a position to take Catherine on a tour of Europe as part of her education and to secure her a position as a governess at Redmays, a house owned by the Lynton family, on the mainland. Catherine soon discovered that Redmays contained more than its fair share of family secrets. The younger of the two Lynton brothers, Edward, owned the house with his wife Sickle; the elder brother, David, was confined to bed in the house, apparently close to death. Gradually the secrets were revealed partly because Catherine recognized what was really happening and partly because she coerced, very gently, others to reveal what they knew. But someone in the house was not as kind and innocent as they appeared, and was in fact a homicidal predator. When Catherine was lined up as the next victim the help she needed came from the most unexpected source, and its arrival led to an explosive climax. Victorian England might be perceived to be prim and proper but, as this book shows, the Victorians were perfectly capable of the most delightful impropriety! (about 52,000 words) Price: £4.00 Quantity:

Alfred's Choice - Paula George "Alfred's Choice" is the story of Philip Jeffries, a soldier invalided out of the Crimean War and picking up the pieces of his life. He finds help at the cottage of the old 'Gramfer,' who has a beautiful garden and keeps strange, exotic birds, budgerigars. Alfred is the leading budgie, and much of what happens to him and Elsie, his mate, is taken from real life. Some nice people come into the story and also two rather unpleasant females. Philip's rehabilitation is aided by a dedicated young doctor, through whom he is introduced to the remedial effects of sea bathing. He also meets a nurse who had tended his horrific wounds at the hospital at Scutari; as his life is rebuilt thanks to the friendships and interests he creates she becomes more and more the focus of his new life, a life that seems to mirror the relationship between Alfred and Elsie. The book is an intriguing view of a rarely explored aspect of Victorian life which shows the values of the day, but it also offers a glimpse into the racier side of life. Taken in the context of the book, it is, even today, quite shocking even if it's not in the least explicit. (about 31,000 words) Price: £4.00 Quantity:

Sparta - Tony Bletcher The ancient city of Sparta was a singular society, at whose centre was the belief that men were warriors first and foremost with every other aspect of their lives subjugated to that aim. Against this background Tony Bletcher has crafted a novel which reflects the Spartan creed yet also triumphs as a romantic story. It is enthralling, at times disturbing - at least to our 21st century sensibilities - and always illuminating as it takes its readers through one of the major upheavals in man's history. There is also an homage to the history of sporting conflict as the story encompasses the early Olympic Games: it is an immensely readable and highly recommended work. (about 113,000 words) Price: £6.00 Quantity:

Joe's New World - Torquil Cowan Joe Soutar, dour ex-patriate Scotsman living in deepest Berkshire, is a dentist - not a very good dentist, it has to be said - and a reluctant husband. But, on just a single day, his despised wife died (in the arms of another), his equally despised father-in-law also met his end and Joe had a little bit of luck on the Lottery. Well, it wasn't really so little. His multi-million pound cheque came with the services of a young lady - a really rather attractive young lady - to help him get used to his new life as a rich man. So Joe, a newly-single skinflint, could add wealth to his list of attributes, which up to that point included only poor (to the point of being dangerous) driving skills and worse, but equally frequently exercised, abilities in the field of D-I-Y home maintenance. The fact that Joe was singlehandedly responsible for the majority of the whisky consumption in Berkshire was, really, not what you could call an attribute. Facing a future that included wealth, his own incompetence at everything - with one notable exception - and an attractive young lady who really did enjoy what every male the world over fantasises about, Joe is all set for a romantic yet hilariously comic life. Read and enjoy! (about 92,000 words) Price: £4.75 Quantity:

Nothing For Nothing - Liz Barton Disowned by her father, Grace Wilton is sent to her aunt and uncle in Ireland, and her young life was made a misery by her brutal uncle and ineffectual aunt. Her only true friend was Tom, one of the serving staff. Tom, although very slow-witted, loved Grace like a sister, and she returned that love. Often she would smuggle food out to the servants, who had very little. But when her uncle, in a fit of pique, savagely beat Tom, causing his death, Grace made up her mind to return to England and seek out her father and grandparents. Thus began her quest for her family history and her search for real love. Love that she had never felt. Finding her real father, who was, it turned out, in a bigamous marriage, Grace set out with steely determination to bring him down and save her young step-brother Abraham from a life of misery. Once again Liz Barton takes us into a world of intrigue and dysfunctional family life. With strong characters and told in Liz’s inimitable style, this story will you have gripping your chair as the story unfolds. (about 53,000 words) Price: £4.00 Quantity:

For Ever And A Day - Liz Barton When Anne Marie Brand’s wayward niece Morag dumped her son on her, Anne Marie released that unless she left home she would be tied to her dysfunctional family forever. Plucking up courage, she left New York early in 1821 to seek her way in the world. Heading west, she ended up in the small town of Jenson’s End where she obtained work as housekeeper on a ranch run by the handsome widower James Faulkes…but little did she know that her troubles were only about to begin and that the spectre of James’s no-good son Karl would come to haunt her, and the family she’d left behind would soon start to disintegrate. Liz Barton’s thought provoking story about wayward families in the America of the early 1800’s captures the imagination and is an excellent read from beginning to end. (about 55,000 words) Price: £4.00 Quantity:

To Have Or Have Not - Liz Barton Fourteen year old Esther Green lives a lonely, miserable life. As the illegitimate daughter of the local brothel keeper, she hates the sounds of forced ecstasy that she hears on a daily basis. Her life is made even worse when her cruel and heartless mother forces her to marry the evil business man George Hamilton. Esther endures two years of hell as George forces himself on nightly, in an attempt to produce a son. But fate steps in and Esther’s father rescues her from her life of torture and sends her to a small town in the mid west. Eventually Esther finds the love that she has been so desperately seeking and gains a loving husband and, over the years, several children. But fate steps in again and terrible shadows from her past turn up to threaten her idyllic life. In To Have Or Have Not, Liz Barton takes us once again into the early years of 19th Century America to learn the fates of various members a dysfunctional family. Liz’s thought provoking, and gripping story will have the reader enthralled from the first line, and is a worthy addition to her other titles. (about 52,000 words) Price: £4.00 Quantity:

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