Scifi, dystopian and frozen. Welcome to the chilling future of humanity.A soldier is summoned to the North Pole, days before the year changes, told to fix the great Clock for a celebration. He has no idea what to do.A girl, hunted for the crime of being born, almost dies out on the ice. She is rescued by the last polar bear left alive.A library waits for them both, a library built over a span of a hundred years, forgotten in the basement of an ice shack.The wor...

"We are probably going to die today," said John."I'm aware," Robin replied. "But then again, we're constantly going to die.""So what you're saying is," Alis hissed behind them, "that you're used to being about to die.""More or less," Will Scarlet replied, rare laughter in his voice. "The excitement is gone."Meet Robin Hood's band of outlaws.Robin Hood, the robber prince.Benedict Tucker, the warrior monk.Will Scarlet, the beautiful, damaged ...

After years of sacrifice to earn his medical degree, Doctor Jim Baker has finally achieved the lifestyle most only dream of. His new life, in an upscale normally crime-free Chicago suburb, is not the only one that is suddenly ripped apart by a series of unexplained murders. Wives belonging to the group of top local plastic surgeons he recently joined are being systematically found in their locked homes murdered, with alarms set and no apparent clues or motives. The peaceful final traum...

Losing her is breaking me."You saved my life.""I did. Now I'm the one who's drowning."I was playing Mr Darcy in a modern Pride and Prejudice film adaptation, shot on a Greek island. I was Hollywood's golden boy, Wes Spencer. A billionaire. One of the youngest Academy Award nominees. A prodigy.She was just a stunt girl from Greece, surfing and diving into the azure waters of the Corfu beaches between my takes.There was no reason for us to meet.

General Sir Frank Kitson's memoir details his distinguished 41-year career, highlighting his innovative tactics and leadership in key conflicts. As this superb memoir bears out, General Sir Frank Kitson's 41-year career ranks among the most distinguished and eventful of the post-1945 era. Commissioned into the Rifle Brigade at the end of the Second World War, he distinguished himself during the vicious Mau Mau campaign. His highly innovative tactics and personal courage earned him his firs...

"Which young lady are you making a cake of yourself over this time, Laurie?"The voice belonged to the most handsome and arrogant of Theodore Lawrence's friends."The same one as always," Laurie replied. His eyes had not left Jo since he entered the ballroom.His friend scoffed. "Of all the ladies you could have, why her, my poor fool?""It's always been her," Laurie replied simply."Is she not the girl you once rescued from drowning?""She is the woman ...