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Jimmy Tucker is dying. There’s only one person he wants to tell. His daughter—Milly. But when he gets home from the hospital, she’s vanished without a trace. The inoperable brain aneurysm deep within Jimmy’s head could burst at any time—a cough, a sneeze, or a blow to the head could kill him instantly. With the police not interested in Milly’s disappearance, Jimmy takes things into his own hands and begins to look for his only daughter. But it doesn’t take him long to realise that his daughter is not the woman he thinks she is. As he gradually discovers Milly’s shocking ...

Dawn. The English Channel. A small boat arrives crammed with exhausted migrants, not all of whom will make land. Some of the shattered occupants have already paid for their journeys. Others have arrived with a debt still to be paid. One of the migrants isn't fleeing anything. He's not from Europe, or Africa, or the East. He's from Texas, and he's wearing a robe. When the traffickers take some of their passengers to pay for their journey, they also take the man in the robe. That was their first mistake.

Natasha is completely alone, although she's surrounded by people. Freshly arrived in England on a train full of refugees from a vicious war in mainland Europe, she's left everything behind—including her fourteen-year-old son. It's not long before she runs into trouble. Natasha finds herself in peril, surrounded in a dark London alleyway by men who wish her harm. Also in the alleyway is a man in a robe. A preacher with a most unusual skill set for a man of the cloth.

When Anita Delgado, a young woman desperate to escape the clutches of a fanatical religious cult known as the Adelphoi, steals vital information that could expose their terrifying plot, she becomes a target for powerful and ruthless enemies.

Zara Cole didn't come to Sierra Leone to die. But the American humanitarian aid worker has something the Phantom wants—a diamond that shouldn't exist. Now, Africa's most feared warlord has given her forty-eight hours to reveal its location. No one has ever survived saying no. Caleb, a preacher with no last name whose ministry leaves blood in its wake, is hunting the Phantom to repay a debt from a far-flung battlefield. His unlikely partner is Jessica Middleton, an ambitious journalist who's chasing the story that could make her career. She dreams of a Pulitzer. He dreams of vengeance.

Suzy and her daughter are on a bus, heading for London and safety. She knows her partner will be hunting them down. It's what he does for a living. He hunts people. Suzy's plans go awry when armed robbers storm the bus on an isolated road and rob the passengers. She loses her entire savings—money she desperately needs to build a new life for herself and her daughter, far away from her psychotic partner. With the sound of approaching sirens in the distance, Suzy makes a split-second decision.

"Would you remove your soul, to save your life?" Unlock the continuing mind-bending possibilities of ethical and moral dilemmas with "After Dinner Conversation - Season Two," the next installment of the must-read collection of the best short stories from the critically acclaimed After Dinner Conversation magazine series. Spanning all genres, from science-fiction to historical fiction and everything in between, each story is guaranteed to captivate you and leave you questioning your own beliefs. Perfect for philosophy students and fiction lovers alike, each story comes with five suggested ...

You don't have to be killed in action to be a casualty of war. Medics Paul Adams and Lizzie Jarman are one of the most welcome sights to injured soldiers in the war-torn poppy fields of Afghanistan. With red crosses on their arms and medical equipment strapped to their backs, they thunder into battle in a Chinook helicopter – straight into areas everyone else is desperate to get away from. In the middle of the fiercest fighting British troops have seen since the Falklands War, the medics are the last defence from death on the ground in some corner of a foreign field. But in Afghanistan, ...

One body. Two missing men. A baffling mystery. The discovery of a corpse at the rundown Texas 8 motel on the outskirts of the sleepy, rural town of Sanderson, Texas, sees disgraced Detective Kate McGarrety and her reluctant partner, Detective Charley Pride Pearson dispatched from San Angelo Police Department to find a killer. With a population of less than eight hundred people, homicides are rare in Sanderson. But neither the murdered man—nor the vanished ones—are who they claimed to be. There’s precious little for the detectives to go on, but when the true identities of the body and ...

When a dismembered hand is discovered in a lobster pot off the North Norfolk coast, it’s one less missing person for the police to look for. Until something much darker emerges…a blackmail note. Gareth Dawson, a reformed criminal whose gruff exterior hides a kind heart, is trying to deal with the aftermath of his brother-in-law's death. But if the extortionist reveals the shameful secret that Gareth’s brother-in-law has been hiding, the truth will destroy both his memory and the lives of those mourning him. As well as those who aren’t. With his sister refusing to go to the police, ...

An innocent man sent to prison for life. A lawyer gives him a second chance. Can they overcome an unfair system to clear his name? Gareth Dawson is innocent. He's not a murderer. His main problem is that the British justice system doesn’t agree with him. He might be a reformed thief guilty of many things in his past, but not murder. In the space of a few short months, Gareth has gone from being married to the woman of his dreams to facing a life sentence. Inside Her Majesty’s Prison Whitemoor, a Category A prison in Cambridgeshire, Gareth’s got all the time in the world to go over the...

How can you fight an enemy when you don’t know who they are? Medics Paul Adams and Lizzie Jarman are back at home, recovering from two brutal tours of Afghanistan. They’re in the process of getting on an even keel when, in an attempt to escape the horrific memories of combat, Lizzie decides to take a sabbatical in Sierra Leone. Back in the United Kingdom aspiring investigative journalist, Eleanor Vickers, has uncovered something unusual about the local bio-technology institute that is sponsoring Lizzie’s sabbatical. She risks everything to uncover the truth about the secretive ...

Even when you’re flying a desk, Afghanistan is a dangerous place. Medic Paul Adams thought he’d seen the last of Afghanistan after his last tour almost killed him and his colleague, Lizzie Jarman. They’d been there, done that, and got the medal. But he can’t turn down a temporary promotion. Just as he arrives in Kandahar air base, rockets start raining down, dealing death and destruction in equal measure. Unknown to Adams, Lizzie isn’t where he thought she was. Now much more than just a colleague, he thought she was safe and sound back at home. Sent out to replace a fallen medic, ...

Paul Adams’s nursing shift at the Norfolk & Norwich Emergency Department is coming to an end when a case comes in that marks the start of a sequence of events that leave him questioning everything about his life. Something’s got to give, but the question is, what? Seriously considering a change of direction, Adams finds himself at Royal Air Force Cranwell a few weeks later where RAF medic, Lizzie Jarman, has just started her new career. Having just graduated from RAF Halton. It isn’t long before she realises that life in the Armed Forces isn’t what she thought it would be. Basic ...

Medics Paul Adams and Lizzie Jarman are in the process of rebuilding their lives and planning their future when an unexpected opportunity arises for a deployment in the Caribbean. A deployment like neither of them have ever been on before. Based on board a Royal Fleet Auxiliary hospital ship, the RFA Apollo, Adams, Lizzie, and the rest of the crew are supporting relief efforts during the hurricane season. But the Apollo has a dark history, its reputation as an unlucky ship known only to a few. One of the few is Sub-Lieutenant Rebecca Lewis, a newly graduated naval officer with a score to ...