He wakes in the dead of night, the August moon his only light in the darkness of his mountain château. He is alone, but the shifting shadows that stir within his room suggest the presence of another.Before the night is choked by the dawn he will be confronted with an encounter bearing the face his deepest dread. But could he be wrong? Is his dread in fact the most liberating, sensual experience that life will ever present to him?In the hours ahead as he is forced to challenge...

On the white painted veranda of a post colonial Bombay hotel, two men meet in the stifling heat of the approaching monsoon. They are a generation apart and their ideologies diverge but they share the same turbulent moment in time; a time of upheaval and monumental shift that is changing their world and unveiling the dawn of an uncertain future.But the storm clouds that gather over world events are also forming over their own private worlds as they confront each other with questions...

To Chaiko, living in the prehistoric world, existence is hard enough. Become injured and life becomes nearly impossible. What does he have to do to regain worth and status? Sharpened by misfortune and need, his intelligence is the only tool to help find his way in an often hostile world. Yet the challenges he faces cause him to grow in unexpected and satisfying ways.

Scandal on Nob HillThe first in a series of Sterling Quinn, detective extraordinare novellas (approx 42 pages).Sterling Quinn, the uncompromising police officer turned private detective, always found his way into the mind of the weak, determining their thoughts and deeds before they could react.His was a mind that was consistently precise and determined, yet at times imbalanced to the point of recklessness. He observed the world with a machine-like qu...

Telah Costner has enlisted the help of psychic after psychic in a quest to find her missing daughter, Claire. Dani is the latest psychic, and Telah is hopeful because she senses something different about Dani.To Dani, however, Telah and Claire are just two faces in a sea of clients and missing people. Dani doesn't believe in psychics and never has. She and her sister Kate have perfected a scam in which money is the only thing that matters. That is, until weird things start happenin...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘A Tale of Three Lions’In this thrilling tale of danger and adventure, young Harry joins his father, the famous Alan Quatermain, on a hunt for lions deep in Africa.Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, conti...

It was a crime of pure arrogance. Madame Muriel Ducharme was murdered in what looks like a break-in gone wrong. It's a little too pat for Inspector Gilles Maintenon. Nothing appears to have been taken, but the killer has thought of that too.

The Las Vegas Murders is the story of retired police detective Jake Fuller, and his search for the killers of four people in a murderous spree in Las Vegas.After twenty years of being a detective in New York, Jake Fuller decides to retire, move to Las Vegas, and start a simpler, more peaceful life. Four years later, a series of unexpected events changes his life drastically. He wakes up married to a much younger woman. Jake comes to think she will be good for him, however she has a ...

In 529 A.D. Cybele and Diana are the Thelma and Louise of Rome. Both are on the lam to Constantinople, Cybele from her life as a prostitute, and Diana, a socialite, from being framed for the murder of her groom on their wedding night. Despite their contrasting social status, they forge a lasting friendship, ultimately one sacrificing her life to save the other, burying her in a sarcophagus in a burial cave.Dr. Chloe Anderson is head of an archaeology team excavating the Byzantine b...

Everyone wanted to know about her. The scariest thing of all was that she also wanted to know. Eve Summers was lost in her own dead mind. All she knew was the day before. Her whole life had disappeared after she woke up in a tiny cabin on a hillside. Befriended now by a kind woman, but harassed by a police chief, she also wondered about the man that had owned the cabin. So many questions and not one answer to who she was or where she came from.

At the request of a trusted colleague, ex-soldier Savio Mendes departs for Mexico City with the goal of gathering data on a drug network. When circumstances force him to get involved in locating a runaway family member for the head of the cartel, his role as clandestine observer is compromised. To complicate his already screwed position, Savio soon discovers he’s been directed to undertake a different job than the company authorized. Unsure who to trust and no longer certain who he’s actua...