Centuries ago, the human race was nearly crushed in its struggle to defeat the evil forces of Aboleth. Led by a powerful order known as the Valier, humankind prevailed, but at a terrible price. In their desperate attempt to achieve victory at any cost, the Valier fell and became a curse on civilization known as The Dread Lords.Time has passed. The world has moved on. The Lake Valleys of Sheridan has known peace for centuries. Only, for Niam Maldies, life has been anything but tranq...

Bob Phillips takes us on an exhilarating journey across the formative years of marathon running – from 1896 through to the Olympic marathons of the 1950s that revolutionised the event.Through a compelling blend of personal memoirs, anecdotes, runner biographies, torrid tales and extraordinary facts and figures, the book shines a light on Britain' s role in the development of marathon running and how its courageous competitors have invariably captured the public ima...

About the BookThis book is an inside view and a passenger=seat to a ride through the life of a young man, rollin’ through a life of sex, drugs, violence and money in one of the coolest cities in the nation…, How he treated, trained and managed his women, and what bonded them to him. It explores the relationships between other players in the game, and the street culture that made very rich men of some, and brought death and destruction to others. This book is Real – it’s Raw, and it ...

Taken2"We cannot find our daughter. We need help. Please, will you come to us."Can Martin, a private detective battling with addiction to alcohol, find the missing girl as he battles with a cruel and crafty kidnapper?Can he stay sober, and safe, as he chases down the weird structure of the kidnap?And can he find and recover the missing girl before it is too late?Finally, will he find a way to beat his addiction as he finds himself caring for a woman ...

"A Big Ask" is the inside story of the Ford Motor Company's return to the world's most famous sports car race - The 24 Hours of Le Mans - as told by veteran motorsports journalist David Phillips and accompanied by more than 100 color images by some of the world's leading racing photographers. Half a century ago, Ford's battles with Ferrari for supremacy at Le Mans became the stuff of legends. Rebuffed in his bid to buy Ferrari, Henry Ford II spent untold millions to defeat the iconic Itali...

Be a part of the Gold Rushes to California and Australia in the 1850's. Join convicts as they are transported from England to a hostile, distant land. Tramp across outback Australia with a swag on your shoulder. Share a drink with a great and famous colonial author and poet or an overnight camp with a notorious murderer. Go to war against the Boer in South Africa. Fight horrendous bush fires and sail the oceans in search of the lustrous pearl.Share some of the history in a series o...

Herb recovers from a broken marriage and a life on the street and spends his spare time serving stews and soups at a city kitchen. He gets to know the men of the street as friends and becomes involved in their lives.When Albert disappears, Herb feels he must go looking for him and this opens a can of worms.How does a soup kitchen get mixed up with the mob and a biker gang as the battle for control of the drug business escalates?Murders in the past are part of the fa...

When his father is murdered, a young Matthew West is left in charge of the family busines. There is a vindictive rival, with connections around the city, who plans to bring him down and take over the West family companies.A secret file, put together by a deceased ex-cop investigator, could help Matthew survive the attacks, but there would be a heap of trouble involved in finding it before those who wish him harm.His main rival deals with a biker gang in the distribution of ...

The Chinese cyber-terrorists hacked into the US government and US company systems and stole vital information. One man was given the job of tracking down the criminals involved.The trail led across the States, into Canada and finally to Hong Kong and Macau, before returning to United States home ground.With the help of his own hacker and a switched-on lady partner, Dan Miles finally got to the truths of the attack on his country.You can never stop the Chinese from s...

Can one tiny woman, descended from a line tracing the history of the ninja, and taught the secrets of an ancient clan at her granfather's knee, go against the evil of a Chinese master spy and the most ruthless tong in the city?Can she come out on top against such odds?It began as a simple private investigation into the affairs of a cheating husband.It led Trent Bain and his friend and sometime partner, Hibari Okusu, into a nest of spies and cyber criminals and a cit...

Would a grandson follow a dead man's trail all the way to the end of the line?Can a man, beaten down to nothing,ever make it back to where he has once been?Daniel Hart met Eliza Chambers. They fell in love.Could she marry so far below her station in life? Would he be prepared to live in her family's grand mansion?And then along came a war.On his return, Daniel felt the abject shame of the penniless while his fiance, Eliza, was a wealthy heiress....

Shortz!Series - This is a novella in the Settlement of Australia Series.When the ships arrived at Sydney in the early days of the settlement of Australia, they brought convicts, the military and free settlers. A combination of these groups were to form the beginning of a huge pastoral industry.These groups would become involved in thefts, illegal use of land, plotting and planning but, above all, would found the wool industry on the back of the merino, covertly and cleverly...