My big Greek family wants me to find a husband. I have a year to find a boyfriend or my grandma is going to ship me off to Greece to marry a fisherman in a small village. And I do not want that to happen.I decided to use up all the money on my credit cart to join a high-end dating service in the hopes of meeting Mr. Right.I wasn't to know that my Mr. Right might very well not be looking for his perfect match, but not that's not going to stop me. I'm going to find love, no m...

"A dazzling debut." - The Prairies Book ReviewAlone. Afraid. Fighting to survive.A collision with space debris has left a gigantic hole in Inez Stanton's ship, nearly crippling it. Inez is a cargoist, that rare breed of adventurer who takes to deep space solo, ferrying valuable cargo for the Tenth Great and Glorious Browns Company. Now she's in a race against her own rig's spaceworthiness, and that might not be the worst part....

She's the good thing that happens to bad people.Esper is the galaxy's worst bounty hunter.Maybe she dresses the part. She has her own ship. She even carries a blaster—not that she ever uses it. But she violates the cardinal rule of the galaxy's most cold-blooded profession: get paid.At least she's not alone. Her partner Kubu is an alien who gets mistaken for a dog.One is a wizard on the run from her past. The other is a lovable eating machi...

Hitchhikers are trouble in any galaxy.Carl Ramsey has a starship to run. Down on his luck, struggling to pay the cost of fuel, he's just looking for some quick, easy cash. While looting the wreck of passenger ship, they discover that one escape pod never ejected, and the passengers are still alive. A routine salvage job turns into a rescue mission, and a good deed never goes unpunished. With two refugees aboard, Captain Carl Ramsey finds that his ship, the Mobius,...

Smith, his soul shattered after suffering a crushing personal loss, is left to fight for the survival of his son and the new colony on a planet that’s far more dangerous than anyone expected.> GOLD MEDAL: Readers’ Favorite Book Awards - 2023 - Fiction - Adventure> WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Best Science Fiction Series“This sensational book is a breathtaking page-turner with an enthralling sto...

It takes a dwarf to be homesick for a place he's never been.Ninety years ago, the dwarves of the Dragonhammer Clan were driven from their ancestral home. Now, a small band from a new generation, raised in exile among humans, are mounting a venture to retake it.These young dwarves aren't fools. They don't have an army. They don't even know the old ways. Led by the young heir to the clan, Genrik Dragonhammer, they seek to carve out a foothold within a nearby mountain...

The story unfolds in a small English village where the titular character, Mistress Spitfire, is a commanding and somewhat feared woman with a reputation for being fiery and outspoken. Her strong personality and the secrets she holds make her a central figure in the community.The narrative kicks off with a mysterious death or crime that seems to be connected to Mistress Spitfire. As the investigation progresses, various local characters become entangled in the mystery, each with their own m...

'Brainy, twisty, inventive' AJ Finn author of The Woman in the WindowDon't let him get in your head.THE PSYCHIATRIST claims he can predict when people will die and has been using his skills with chilling accuracy.THE PATIENTS trust their shrink. They believe him when he tells them their date and the predictions have always come true.THE DETECTIVE is shaken when a ma...

"Let's just say I have pressing business anywhere but Earth."Chuck Ramsey is a traveling comedian trying to turn a planetside gig on Earth into a cash cow. Of course, the cost of living on Earth is astronomical. He needs to get rich quick—or at least come out ahead—and head for cheaper pastures.Enter Mordecai The Brown. Once the golden boy of the Convocation, Guardian of the Plundered Tomes and the Convocation's number one hunter of dark wizards, "Mort" has found h...

Professor Rachel Jordan committed the ultimate heresy: she dared to teach that the Angels were never humanity's saviours.For three thousand years, Angelic doctrine has shaped civilisation. The Redeemers—fanatical guardians of that doctrine—will stop at nothing to silence her. Branded a heretic and hunted by zealots determined to erase her beliefs, Rachel flees to the edge of civilised space.But she isn't hiding.The only proof of her theories lies in...

The Cartwright Gardens Murder is another one of those stories of crime which made Mr. Fletcher one of the most popular writers of the Golden Era of detective crime fiction. There is a great deal of character study in it, as well as a baffling plot, and, at the end, a striking surprise. The characters who move in this drama, which is concerned with the murder by unusually subtle means and under extraordinary circumstances, of one Alfred Jakyn, are distinctly clever and original. And as is a...

British Murder Mysteries assembles more than 560 tales, novels, and crime narratives tracing the extraordinary range of British detective and thriller writing. From locked-room puzzles and police procedurals to sensation fiction, espionage-inflected adventures, psychological suspense, and purportedly factual crime accounts, the volume maps murder as both narrative engine and social anxiety. Its standout forms include the ingenious whodunit, the gentleman-thief adventure, and the unsettling...