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The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been abandoned by her scoundrel lover. Together the two women sail up the Nile to an archeological site run a pair of handsome brothers.

John has failed. The apocalypse has come. But it's been awfully quiet for an apocalypse. After stopping Kythov the Eyeless, John and the gang barely managed to stabilize the world’s mana supply, only sort of poisoning the world in the process. With a farm to run, a valley to develop, and a mysterious door to another dimension to study, John is going to have his hands full. Even worse, despite the apparent peace, turmoil stirs and ancient threats have begun to surface.

After the Seelie king Torin nearly froze me to death, I plunged through a portal into my true home. Turns out, my hometown is a wild Unseelie kingdom known as the Court of Sorrows. When Torin follows me and sees my new horns, he quickly realizes that his intended bride is an enemy of his realm. In fact, his name for my kind is "demon." But even if I have the horns of an Unseelie, I'm not welcome here, either. Queen Mab and her monstrous soldiers are delighted to torment us, accusing me of being a traitor.

Master thief, rogue and chancer Gideon Sable is back for another fast-paced supernatural heist—and this time he has the vault of a Las Vegas casino in his sights. Judi Rifkin is one of the world's most successful collectors of the weird and unnatural. In a London underworld filled with criminals with very special talents, Judi is a force to be reckoned with. And Gideon Sable—thief, rogue and chancer—owes her a very large favour. Judi makes him an offer he can't refuse: steal her the legendary Masque of Ra, kept safe in a Las Vegas casino, and she'll wipe the slate clean.

For millions of years, a bounty of unimaginable riches lay hidden deep within the scorched wastelands of the Namib desert. Diamonds. Some men cracked the earth to own them. Some men died. For ex soldier Jason Green, the job was unexpected but the brief was simple. At the most remote diamond mine in the world, something was wrong. Badly wrong. The insurance firm was deeply concerned. The running costs were enormous, the claims, numerous. What were the dark secrets that had been so carefully concealed? Secrets buried as deep as the glittering stones themselves.

After narrowly surviving my debut into the magical world, I made a promise to myself: no more hiding in broom closets. But with the Mages’ Guild reorganizing faster than anyone thought possible, and naming me as their number one target, that promise seems a little far-fetched. Especially since my training with Callie and Dizzy, the highly experienced dual-mage pair, goes off like a cake in a cannon. Left to find someone that can fill the role, it isn’t until a formal dinner party goes horribly wrong that I find the best (and worst) solution imaginable: Reagan Somerset.

Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location. The heartbreaking truth is that for decades, even centuries, the leaders of the great Hives bought the world’s stability with a trickle of secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction could ever dominate. So that the balance held. The Hives’ façade of solidity is the only hope they have for maintaining a semblance of order, for preventing the public from succumbing to the savagery and bloodlust of wars past.

Rumer Godden is well known for her acclaimed novels for adults and children. She wrote over 60 works in her lifetime, nine of which were made into films. Included here are dramatisations of three of her classic tales, as well as a fascinating interview with the renowned author.

When Vampire Hunter D entered the town of Sedoc, it was in search of answers to the meaning of a dying vampire's last words: "Find Muma." But when he meets Mia, the daughter of the local fortuneteller, he learns the mists emanating from a smoking crater on the outskirts of Sedoc have reanimated thousands of corpses, compelling them to crawl from their graves and hurl themselves into the smoking chasm.

In the grimy slums and leafy suburbs of London, a malevolent evil is lurking in the shadows. Terrorism. The perpetrators hide in plain sight. There's really no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. For ex-soldier Jason Green, it began like any another job. He'd even been assigned a young intern to assist him.

This audiobook tells of life before birth, life on earth, the passing from earth, and the return to life "beyond".

Abandoned by her allies, the Republic of Venice holds out as the last beacon of resistance against the hobgoblin armies. Armed with new weapons the Southern Horde drives upon the floating city by land and sea. The Northern Horde drives deep into the heart of Europa and all fall before it. The Horde is vast beyond measure. Assassin daggers lurk in every shadow. Necrotic evil seeps and infects.

DI John Gammon meets a cross road in his personal life. With murder cases still outstanding in his professional life Gammon is concerned. These are testing times for our hero.

Detective Inspector John Gammon is involved in another serial killer case. With his private life quite messy, the cleanup results of previous cases under scrutiny by his peers. Gammon needs to get his private and professional life back on track. Maybe that could mean leaving the Peak District to try and get his career back to the high standard before he came back to the Peak District.

Gammon feels mounting pressure with the murder count going up. Follow John Gammon in his career and social life, the up and downs in both. Gammon is a good detective, but recognition from his peers is slow in arriving due to his maverick approach.

Freelance correspondent Mike Walker has made it his mission to condemn ethnic cleansing in Palestine and the West’s complicity in senseless wars of attrition in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere in the world. Wars in which Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) provide assistance - legitimized, packaged, and presented by PR consultancy companies as “risk management” and “security solutions” - to governments and corporate interests operating in high-risk, complex environments for the purpose of extracting national resources.

Fae/Shifter stand-alone Romance. Spin-off from The Bound Series. Each audiobook is a stand-alone listen about a different couple who meet through Eternal Mates the immortal dating site. Trina made a promise to her friend that if she found a mate using a dating site, she'd sign up herself. Now she must keep her promise. Will she be able to find a mate who will not only love her but also be capable of feeding her nymph side?

Syd Shepherd doesn’t do holidays - not since losing so much just before Christmas three years ago. Instead, she spends her holidays alone in the wilderness, away from the celebrations and pitying looks from friends and her coworkers at Carter Marketing. This year, against her better judgement, she attends the Christmas works party. After her boss Riley Carter kisses her under the mistletoe, she's running scared to the only place she finds solace - her cabin.

After their last battle, something comes to light that has the potential to throw the immortals into further turmoil and danger. Once more, they must band together. This time, not just to defeat an enemy. After the sighting of a big cat in the area hits the press, and a dead body is found, they must also throw a reporter off their scent. All they need is one night, so at least one set of mates can complete the binding ceremony and boost morale. It’s going to take skill, finesse and strategic planning.

At four years old, Maya Rawlings witnessed her own father horrifically murder her mother. Brought up by an older aunt, she knows nothing of her family history. She wants a family of her own to make up for all that she's lost, but it's difficult to achieve when she's not attracted to anyone. That is until the night of her 21st birthday, when a strange mark appears on the palm of her hand. The mark is followed by recurrent nightmares of fleeing for her life and the voice of a man offering her things she's always dreamed of. Is he real, or is she finally losing her mind?