Phantom Watch is a Cold War naval thriller grounded in the daily reality of life aboard a U.S. Navy warship. Two young men join the crew of the fictional frigate USS Buidhe (FF-1039). Mike carries the weight of a multi-generational Navy family and the ideals of service. David arrives with a far more dangerous purpose—he has been carefully prepared since childhood as a sleeper agent for the Soviet Union. As the ship deploys into the Mediterranean and the broader contest of the Cold War, the...

It was after Culloden. Though I, David Scott, was an unimportant person yet I lay in the Tolbooth, in Edinburgh, with my betters. I was a young man—twenty-two. I had fought for the Stuarts at Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden, without the least question that I can remember arising in my mind, that being the politics of my chief and my family and nearer acquaintance. Now I made as little question that I would not lie there in irons if I could help it. No, nor be shipped to Barbados or Virgi...

Can he turn one night into forever?After being ditched only weeks before her wedding, Cassie Stackwell wasn’t out looking for a hookup. Then the devastatingly handsome bartender she’d been trying not to obsess over for months offered to give her a ride home. What could one night hurt?When his future was almost taken away after one impulsive decision, wolf-shifter and ex-con Jace Miller waited patiently for months before making a move on the woman he knew to be his destined ...

Elle resigned herself to being the responsible one. She moved her and her recovering dad out of the city to a small town. Her new job keeps his medical bills at bay, and caring for her dad soaks up her free time. But she’s never had a social life anyway.It’s been just the two of them for so long she doesn’t know any different.After returning home from the army, Dillon jumps into business with four of his cousins. He’s the oldest and the unofficial leader of the farm and ran...

The compelling story of the end of Henry VIII’s reign—and how the fate of England was determined by the king’s secretary and minister, William PagetIn the closing years of Henry VIII’s reign, the future of England hung in the balance. The king’s potential heirs consisted of two daughters of disgraced parentage and a young son too inexperienced to rule. With a French invasion imminent and the royal dynasty in crisis, England’s noble families vied to manipulate the s...

He arrived in America with little more than ambition and a gift for dreaming bigger than anyone around him dared. Samuel Goldwyn — born Schmuel Gelbfisz in the tenements of Warsaw — would go on to reshape the very face of Hollywood, building an empire of glamour, scandal, and unforgettable cinema through sheer force of will. Alva Johnston's The Great Goldwyn, published in 1937 at the height of the golden age of film, pulls back the velvet curtain on one of the most colorful, contradictory,...

Pioneers in Canada opens with a sweeping account of exploration, conquest, and settlement in North America, told through the daring, flawed, and often tragic lives of the men and women who helped shape the British Empire. Moving from ancient human migrations out of Asia to the first Norse voyages across the North Atlantic, the book traces the peopling of the Americas, the settlement of Iceland and Greenland, and the brief, dramatic Norse reach into Vinland before their colonies collapsed. ...

The world is a dangerous place for a child when no one's watching.In post-World War II Scotland, a seven-year-old boy should be walking to school. Instead, he's shipped off to Australia.Trapped in a world of anger and violence with nowhere to turn, young Johno clings to the hope that a policeman might help him. But life has other plans.Decades later, after years of denial by governments and cover-ups by institutions, Johno begins to uncover the trut...

Pioneers in Australasia is a sweeping history of exploration, discovery, and empire in the southern seas, from Borneo and New Guinea to Australia, New Zealand, and the wider Pacific. It traces the first European encounters with unfamiliar peoples, lands, and creatures, showing how fragile ships, uncertain maps, hunger, disease, storms, imprisonment, and death shaped the making of colonial power. Alongside the drama of adventure, the book insists on honesty about both courage and wrongdoing...

Sir Harry Johnston's Mrs. Warren's Daughter boldly continues the story of Vivien Warren after George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, expanding a famous argument about women, morality, and independence into a sweeping novel of modern life. Opening in June 1900 in the efficient offices of Fraser and Warren in Chancery Lane, it introduces Vivie as a cool, athletic, fiercely self-possessed "New Woman," and follows her through romance, work, scandal, and political struggle as the women...

It was supposed to be one night to feel alive after getting out of a dud of a relationship. Now I’m having a baby, and I only have the soon-to-be dad’s first name.After my breakup, I need to find a job and place to live, but I can’t move into the house my grandma left me unless I’m married. Fortunately, the guy renting the place doesn’t know that, so I stop by and find out if he can move at the end of his lease.Only when the door opens, it’s him. My one-nig...

What if the warning signs were there all along?When Cassie's best friend suddenly disappears from her life without explanation, she finds herself anxious and searching for a sense of purpose. Reinventing herself as a tarot reader from her Glasgow flat, she throws herself into spirituality, manifestation and the hope of a fresh start.Then Finlay walks into her life.Charming, intense and searching for answers about his missing girlfriend, Finlay quick...