Twenty-one tales across a wide range of genres, by the author of 'Ransom'. Prepare to switch between the Morning Cloud American Wild West stories and modern ecological disaster in Fifteen Years. Onwards to corruption in local politics in Greenbelt and then a visit to Saxon-era British elves riding dragons in Myffanwy's Magic. Try a little space opera in Hercules and Perseus, then watch karma visited through multiple existences in Omega and again in Memoirs. Relax with a little romance in I...

Kit Beauregard had lived most of her life as a man, a fraud instigated by her mother from birth. Now, convicted of piracy on the high seas and condemned to death, she awaits her appointment with the hangman.She is joined during those final hours by a priest who listens as she recounts the story of her life.From childhood as a footman with the McKenzie family in Kent, to serving as a soldier in the Duke of Marlborough's army during the war of the Spanish succession, she lear...

It is May 1745 and the British army is licking its wounds following defeat at the hands of the French at Fontenay. Meanwhile, there is a stirring in the north as the restless clans are gathering to the standard of the House of Stuart where Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, is forming an army ready to invade and reclaim the thrones of England and Scotland for his father, James III.Captain Ewan McLeod of the Royal Scots waits by the roadside in Northern France for a c...

Pascale Hervé has reached the end of her career with the Police Nationale and retirement looms. As she faces a turning point in her life, a ghost from the past brings back the haunting memories of a thirty-year old case and a motorcycle ride across Spain and Portugal.As she revisits this case along with reminders of a long-lost friend and colleague, she must unravel a mystery that she hadn't realised has remained unresolved all this time.

It's been several weeks since Stephanie Ross' partner went missing and she is worried. Was he just on another of his drunken benders or was there something more sinister going on? Then people start turning up dead on the local railway line. As she worries about the whereabouts of Roddy Schaeffer, a nasty ransom virus is threatening not only her business but that of her clients. And who is Louis J Madison and what does he want?During a few sultry weeks in July, Stephanie finds hersel...

Rose Clancy, a former plantation slave turned pirate, navigates a world filled with danger, betrayal, and the relentless pursuit of vengeance. Her story is a unique blend of historical accuracy and thrilling adventure, making it a must-read for fans of historical fiction and those who enjoy pirate tales. After escaping slavery in Saint Domingue, Rose becomes a formidable force under pirate captain Dandy Pete Davey. Her goal is to track down and kill Samuel Haul, responsible for her mother'...

In the fifteenth century, the border between England and Scotland was a wild place with its own laws.The border reivers were raiders who lived off the land when they could and stole when they couldn't. Their allegiances were to the clan rather than country. Sometimes, they sold their services as mercenaries as they were skilled cavalrymen.In August 1402, Edmund Collingwood joins a Scottish raid south into England, an enterprise that takes him on an adventure leading to a clas...

Pascale Hervé has retired from the Police Nationale and is working with a former colleague as a private investigator. As she tries to adapt to this new life along with widowhood, a new client brings with her a cold case involving a robbery some twenty years earlier.Pascale And Patrice Laurent, helped by Pascale's English friend, recently retired Chief Inspector Radfield and a ghost from the past, find themselves plunged into a criminal conspiracy involving robbery, blackmail and mu...

Step into a world where history, fantasy, and the surreal collide.In this eclectic collection of short stories, Death himself fumbles with modern technology, a lost Roman legion marches into a Halloween night, and ghosts linger in Irish pubs that cannot let go of 1916. From the trenches of the First World War to the wide plains of the American West, Mark Ellott weaves tales that are poignant, witty, and sometimes haunting.Recurring characters, like the world-weary, sardonic...

Escaping the gallows was supposed to be impossible.Rescued from the noose in a daring assault on Spanish Town, Captain Kit Beauregard has reclaimed her beloved Señorita—but freedom comes at a price. With the Royal Navy determined to erase the humiliation of her escape, she has only days before Britain's fastest warships begin the hunt.Rather than risk the familiar pirate havens of the Caribbean, Kit chooses the unthinkable. She will sail south into seas few mariner...

Roulette is a gripping international crime thriller set beneath the blazing skies of southern France, where a forgotten casino win, a decades-old murder and a powerful crime family collide.When André Marchand dies, his niece and nephew discover an old casino winnings chit worth half a million francs hidden among his possessions. There is no trace of the money and no record that it was ever claimed. Curious rather than hopeful, they ask private investigator ...

"I was loadin' the buggy up when she rode into town on that big bay of hers. I stopped my work and, briefly lifting my hat, wiping the sweat from my brow and shielding my eyes from the sun, watched her as she rode down the town's dusty street. Lounging in the saddle after days on the trail, with dust spattered down her full length coat, she was an image that burned into my eyeballs.Folk hereabouts said she was a half-breed Comanche and I reckoned they was right, too. Long dark hair ...