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When Ben Chaudhry is attacked in his own home by elves, they disappear as quickly as they came. He reaches for the phone book, but what kind of exterminator gets rid of the Fae? Maybe the Paranormal Defense Agency will ride to his rescue.
Sadly, they turn out to be another rare breed: a bunch of UFO hunters led by Chris Gatrell, who while distractingly hot was forcibly retired from the RAF on grounds of insanity.
Shot down in WWII and shot forward...
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1762, The Georgian Age of Sail: For his first command, John Cavendish is given a ship, the HMS Meteor, and a crew, both in need of repair and discipline. He's determined to make a success of their first mission and hopes the well-liked lieutenant Alfred Donwell will stand by his side as he leads his new crew into battle: stopping the slave trade off the coast of Algiers.
Alfie knows their mission is futile, and that their superiors back in England...
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An anthology of three historical novellas, comprising Blessed Isle, The Crimson Outlaw and Labyrinth.Blessed Isle: 1790 British Age of SailFor Captain Harry Thompson, the command of the prison transport ship HMS Banshee is his opportunity to prove his worth, working-class origins be damned. But his criminal attraction to his upper-crust First Lieutenant, Garnet Littleton, threatens to overturn all he's ever worked for.Lust quickly proves to be the...
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Heir to a business empire worth millions, handsome and wealthy Alec Goodchilde has everything a man could want except the freedom to be himself. Once a year, he motors down to an exclusive yacht club on the Cornish coast and allows himself to take the summer off from his demanding father, his stifling mother, his unwanted fiancée and a life he thinks of as a trap.
Once a year, poverty stricken surfer Darren Stokes allows himself to take the summer...
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His future depends on bringing the smuggler to justice. His heart demands to join him. Customs officer Peregrine Dean is sent by his patron to investigate rumors of corruption in the Porthkennack customs house. There he is tasked by the local magistrate to bring down the villainous Tomas Quick, a smuggler with fingers in every pie in town. Fired with zeal and ambition, and struck to the core by his first glimpse of Tomas, Perry determines to stop...
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After a massive anxiety attack, Sam Atkins left his high-powered job in the City and committed himself to life on the road in a small van. Six months in, he's running out of savings and coming to the conclusion that he might have to go home to his emotionally abusive family. Needing time to think, he takes a walk through a copse by the Cornish roadside, only to stumble upon the body of a ritualistically killed sheep. As he's trying to work out what...
7) Dogfighters
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Kidnapped by the Faerie Queen, Ben is confronted with his own supernatural heritage, a royal family and a lover he doesn't remember. His first instinct is to turn his back on them all and get back to Earth. Compared to this, Chris and his wacky cohorts seem almost...normal.
Back on Earth, Chris Gatrell is having trouble convincing the police that he didn't do away with Ben and hide the body. Determined not to lose another sweetheart to the elves'...
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The ancient city of Trowchester is a sanctuary for the broken hearted. But love is never easy.Can an ex-cop whose career has broken him find new passion with an ex-thief grieving for his dead husband?Can two shy history nerds focus on the present long enough to find each other?Can a forgetful archaeologist rescue the beautiful young man he adores from the serial killer he lives with?Welcome to the city of second chances...This box set of three mm...
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I called the book "Things Unseen," because from the outside I have lived a blessedly uneventful life. If a biographer was one day to write my life story, I think he would despair of how boring it was.And yet on the inside - unseen, except by me and God - that same life has been a succession of miracles. I have met God and demons and creatures that were perhaps somewhere in between. God has sought me out and saved me and taught me things about himself...
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When Joel Wilson's boss clears out the coffers of his failing art gallery and disappears, leaving him to confront an angry loan shark and his brutal henchmen alone, the last thing he needs to find, behind the bins at the back of his house, is a fugitive elven prince.
Kjartan has quite enough to do, defending himself against his murderous brothers in the competition for succession to his kingdom's throne, without having to get involved with Dave's...
11) Vampire War
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When the magic returned, the monsters came with it.Pursued by his father's assassin-butler, British scholar Frank flees to Romania to study the newly working Atlantean technology on nobleman Radu's land.His arrival sparks Radu's ancient vampire parents to want more than their traditional tithe of terrified peasants.As the vampires take their bloodlust to the capital, and then to the Ottoman Empire, it soon becomes apparent they will be satisfied with...