For Heidi Strong and her mother Amy, life can never be the same. Amy has entered into a relationship with the mother of Heidi's best friend Cindy, and they are moving into the same house to live together. But as they begin their new life, new challenges also come. They meet a couple with secrets, face the most horrific night of their lives, and discover new friends as they begin to experience the greatest journey a girl can face. The later teenage years... This third collection of the Heid...

The fifth collection of An Education stories takes us from Valentine's Day to the summer holidays, and finds Cassie, Jenny and their friends finding love and new playmates. They also face changes in their family lives, some less welcome than others. At the same time, the man known as Jay Edwards continues to visit families, holding them hostage and making the parents help them rob banks. When Sarah and Brian Holderness-Carter, who are awaiting the arrival of their new family, come to Engla...

As the Pussycat Gang start to prepare for the upcoming year, many things are on their minds. Supporting Abigail de Ros, her friends and fellow debs... What to get the Sweet Sixteens for presents... Choosing colleges... Preparing to rob a secure storeroom full of furs or a very full bank vault... and helping a friend facing a deadly threat. And underlying all of this is growing rumours of a second gang using their name, leading to a far more deadly dance. Other books by Kev Pickering and Je...

The long hot summer is in front of the ladies of the Pussycat Gang and their associates, and following the events of The Pussycat and The Prince they all are looking forward to a chance to recharge their batteries. For Jo Smith, a chance to model opens new doors... For Carina Huntingdown, a visit to her ancestral home uncovers more of the truth of who she is, and family secrets... For Heather Smith, her past comes back to haunt her... For Jeannie Brewster, a return home leads to the discov...

"I’m Miss Panther, and you may have heard of us, the newspapers call us the Pussycat Gang." A phrase that has struck terror into the hearts of bank managers, jewelers and others over the last few years. The Pussycat Gang - six women, always masked, always elegantly dressed, and the most violent, deadliest and ruthless gang in New York and the Eastern Seaboard. Leaving behind bodies wherever they strike, they work by taking over the homes of those they wish to rob, and terrorizing them into...

From a young student meeting a bank robber, to an older woman who finds a new experience when a stranger breaks in. Thirty tales from the world of Kev Pickering, featuring themes like personal reflections, days gone by, and sports - but all featuring ordinary women in situations they cannot escape from, no matter how much they wish to. The perfect introduction to the world of Madame X, The China Doll Gang and others. As you read it, remember - these are all fiction, they could never happen...

War is fought on many fronts, and is never a clean affair – and after the discovery in San Francisco of another group trading in selling women from Africa into Slavery, Shirley Xavier AKA Madame X is declaring war on those responsible. A war that will be fought on multiple fronts. In Africa, the organization known as the Sisters of Maisha take the front line, with Charlotte Gordon, their leader, helping as much as she could, and gaining allies in unexpected places. In Tokyo, Madame sends N...

Nobody knows who he is, but they know what he does. He will get into your home, your office, your place of work or leisure. He will bind you, he will gag you, and he will do the same with any other women who come into the place or are there already. But his motive is not robbery, he will not steal your valuables, your jewels, your money. He has something else in mind he wishes to take from you, and he wants you to enjoy what he does, to take you over the edge without actually raping you......

For Jenny and Cassie Craig, it started with a question that came to their minds after watching a Scooby Doo movie - what was it really like to be a damsel in distress, unable to move or speak? Their efforts to answer that question would prove invaluable as they faced robbers and home invaders, as well as the most frightening thing a child can face - making new friends and confronting their enemies. Despite their youth, both Cassie and Jenny discover more about themselves, what they like, a...

The Games Player - so called by the Daily Mail because his modus operandi involves convincing whoever is the adult in charge to persuade the others, especially the children, that they are playing a game of robbers to keep them calm while he secures them and ransacks the house. He is notorious, both feared for his robberies, and admired for the way those he visits come out unharmed, if bound and gagged in various ways. But how did he earn this reputation. Here, in his own words, he recalls ...

For ten years now, Kev Pickering has been writing stories, both short and long, but the underlying theme of many of those stories is Ordinary Women in Distress - or as he puts it, the OWiD Files. This collection reprints some of his favourite stories of the last ten years, including three of the most popular he has ever written. From a love letter to the cartoons of his youth, to stories of women in the wrong place at the wrong time... From voyages of self-discovery to the terror of being ...

Before he became the chief assistant to Caroline Jameson at Jameson Security in New York, George Simpson was one of the most wanted bank robbers in the United Kingdom - until he was caught. His escape from the court led to a journey across the country, that one day would lead to New York - after discovering who had betrayed him to the police, recruiting Lily, his niece, to Madame X, and visiting old haunts. This volume contains the complete story of George's journey, from court to freedom,...