Destiny's Elbow

Working against the background of a campaign for Scottish independence, American undercover narcotics agent, Roz Tattarkowski, has to take over as lead investigator when her chief is killed in a mysterious accident in Edinburgh. From that time on, she receives minimal support from her organization in the U.S.A.Seemingly left alone to operate in a country she dislikes and struggles to understand, Roz relies on skills she learned as an aspiring but unsuccessful actor in New York. These enable her to track through political intrigue and deceit into a world of narcotics production, immigrant smuggling and trade in human organs. In the process, she becomes involved in further intrigue at the international level, when her acting talents are put to a final test: war will be the outcome if they fail.Throughout these events, Roz takes pride in her imagination and improvisation. But what appear to be actions taken freely and on personal initiative turn out to be plots scripted and directed by unseen hands.

Sun Burn

Set on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Ibiza, Sun Burn is a steamy thriller which revolves around the island's drug-fuelled club scene. Leaving behind her dead-end life in London, Stacey follows her dancer friend Lucia to Ibiza, finding work in the island's world-famous nightclub Amnesia. Very quickly she and Lucia get drawn into the dangerous underworld after a mistake involving a large consignment of drugs. The girls fall out and Stacey goes it alone in Ibiza's busy West End district until she reconnects with Aaron, a handsome stranger who helped her on her first night on the island. However, Aaron is not all he seems and the mystery over the drugs consignment comes back to haunt them, eventually threatening their lives.

The Devon Scot

John Gunn has found himself the perfect job, close to his home in South Devon. Having trained as a marine biologist, it’s a change of career, but it will allow him to set up home with Kate, his long-term girlfriend. But within weeks, it all starts going wrong.Together with his boss Bill Hexter, he becomes embroiled in a macabre discovery on a local farm. It looks like a scoop. But with no explanation, Bill tells him to drop the story. Ever impetuous, John persists and is summarily fired. The following day, Bill is killed in suspicious circumstances.Realising he must be the prime suspect, John tries to discover the truth behind Bill’s death, whilst staying out of reach of the law.

The Meddling Ghosts

In turns both hilarious and tragic, two worlds collide in The Meddling Ghosts.A cast of inept ghosts, some of them centuries old, and a modern, dysfunctional family, hooked on technology and social media, co-habit Cuckoo House, a former inn. Meet the Berridges: Elaine and Hugh – teetering on the brink of a marriage break-up – and their teenage children, Leah and Jake. Elaine is chronically depressed, and spends most of her time asleep or on Facebook. Hugh has become dependent on alcohol. Leah seeks solace in a perilous online world, Jake on his Xbox.The ghosts – a disparate bunch led by Colonel Pine, who still looks at everything as a military operation – have a mammoth task on their hands to stop the Berridge family from self-destructing. But will their meddling be enough?

The Odessa Connection

2008: Almost three years have passed since the tumultuous events outlined in The Mendelssohn Connection, which thrust the unwilling Isaac Menshive into a position of global responsibility as the head of a fabulously wealthy family trust. Isaac now lives quietly, if luxuriously, in a dacha in the west of Russia with his new family: his young wife Sophie, heavily pregnant with their second child, and his infant son. While Isaac’s marital contentment has put paid to his former philandering ways, it is his old friend and most trusted adviser Will MacIntosh who finds himself emotionally unmoored — at exactly the moment when events conspire to put the immense burden of the trust squarely on his shoulders.Still in danger from unknown forces that will stop at nothing to get their hands on the trust’s considerable assets, Will and his team continue to investigate its origins and the extraordinary fortune that it has accrued over the centuries. The team’s researches point them in the direction of the city of Odessa and the early 20th century, and the unexpected involvement of two men: the first a very familiar figure from Russian history; the second hailing from Will’s own backyard on Prince Edward Island…Moving between Russia, the Ukraine, London and the Mediterranean, this second instalment of the trilogy that started with The Mendelssohn Connection finds our protagonists Will and Isaac tested as never before. Now that he has so much to lose, Isaac experiences the extremes of joy and despair, while Will, weighed down by ever more responsibility, finds his stolid self- assurance evaporating as he discovers betrayal lurking around every corner.

The Resurrection

World-renowned scientist and Nobel laureate, Sir Francis MacLeod, is about to make a startling revelation – a revelation that would challenge everything scientists have thought about DNA – when he suddenly collapses.What happens next is a bizarre chain of events that puts science and religion on a collision course and spurs an international murder investigation.Set in Cambridge in the mid-2020s, The Resurrection is a fast-paced mystery thriller that exposes the inner workings of the Catholic Church, corruption within the pharmaceutical industry and proposes answers to some of mankind’s most profound questions. 

Whistling in the Dark

Samuel was 15 year old boy living in the affluent Stockbroker’s Belt of London with his rich parents Eugene and Annabelle Pritchard.Eugene was a very successful merchant banker who had to work exclusively from his study due to a serious heart condition… Annabella was 20 years younger than Eugene… Samuel adored his father but hated his mother who was in his eye a ‘whore’ on account of her indefinitely. Eugene’s love for Anabella was so strong that he would accept any lies which she told him.Heartache comes to the Pritchard household with the sudden death of Eugene due to a heart attack. Annabella tragically dies two weeks later due to an unexplained household accident… Samuel suffers a serious mental breakdown and is sent to an institution for a mentally ill.After 10 years in the institution Samuel resumes life with an inheritance worth millions… As he settles into his recently purchased country mansion. Samuel employs a butler named Thomas. Samuel and Thomas are both like-minded people and a bond is quickly established between them.This new life will test Samuel and all around him.

With This Ring...

When Charlotte Jackson first sets eyes on Joe Porter, she falls in love with him almost instantly. He is attractive, charming and everything she could dream of in a boyfriend.Joe's love and protection for Charlotte spiral out of control as their relationship intensifies, until Charlotte finds herself isolated and a victim of domestic violence.After a series of horrifying events, Charlotte flees the country and heads to Australia to live with her family and start her life over. She excels at her career and over time learns to heal the wounds of her former life.One day, out of the blue, a ghost from the past revisits her and makes her question everything all over again.What unfolds will change her life forever. But will it be for better or for worse?

On Adelaide Road

A young lawyer leads an idyllic existence in rural Ireland. But events in the wider world begin to impinge on his life. He starts to write blog posts which he intends to threaten the power of what he sees as an omnipotent monster. But how will this ogre react…?

Perfect Strangers

Paul and Sophie are planning the holiday of a lifetime, a month-long road trip in Australia, and when they return, they will finally start making plans for their marriage. Then one day a man, Larsen, turns up at Sophie’s work. He is from the company’s Swedish office and needs her help with legal issues. They work together and he seems to know exactly what a woman wants, making her question her relationship with her fiancé.Paul meets Marty, a complete stranger, but who seems like a combination of every friend he has ever had. Paul finds himself talking to Marty about deeply personal issues and they bond over similar highly emotional experiences. Then Marty introduces Paul to a world that he never knew existed; a world of willing women, a world where his every desire would be fulfilled.

Jamaica

On the emerald green island of Jamaica, an unpredictable adventure awaits twins Ana and Nicky who travel there to celebrate their coming of age. Under the Caribbean sun, they anticipate a holiday filled with fun, freedom, and excitement. But the idyllic island harbours hidden dangers beyond their expectations.

As the twins revel amid the natural tropical beauty, the thin veneer of paradise soon peels away. Their riveting journey quickly becomes a rollercoaster of suspense and action, where lust masquerades as love, morality wears ambiguous shades of gray, innocence hangs in the balance, and ruin looms one impulsive misstep away.

Ultimately, Ana and Nicky’s suspenseful odyssey of twists and turns, romantic encounters, and narrow escapes will redefine their limits of self-preservation. On an island where peril and pleasure intertwine, the twins’ quest for discovery threatens any chance of returning home the same. Their choices will determine if this final fling is merely the end of their adventurous holiday or the end of innocence itself.

Far from Home

“With Far from Home Miranda has come up with a gripping page turner of an adventure” – Bear Grylls“An assured and pacy debut” – Philip Blackwell, Ultimate LibraryFar from Home is a story about identity, motherlessness and loss. Three young friends, Joe, Alex and Emma, facing the challenge of their early 20s with changing relationships and unsolved mysteries from the past. A struggle to find the truth whatever it takes. When a boy crashes a bike on a mountain road in Nepal and a girl in London starts investigating what really happened to her mother all those years ago the truth starts to reveal itself in a dangerous adventure that takes us from Devon to London, across Central Asia, India and Nepal. Can their friendship survive? Can THEY survive? Where does the truth actually lie?