Alison: 1980 books

Can the love of an honourable man save her from  the memory of a desolate marriage? From the battlefield of Waterloo to the drawing rooms of Brantstone Hall, Sebastian Alder's elevation from penniless army captain to Viscount Somerton is the stuff of dreams. But the cold reality of an inherited...

Baxter Ross had asked Dee to become his wife of convenience in return for a very large sum of money. Dee decided she had nothing to lose, and agreed to go ahead with the wedding. But why did such a good-looking man need to pay for a bride? It seemed he’d never been short of female company...

Caius Tellus wants to seize power in Roma Nova and destroy a system that’s safeguarded its people for over fifteen centuries. Aurelia Mitela, ex-Praetorian and chief imperial councillor, vows to stop him. But Roma Nova in the early 1980s is paralysed by a ruler afraid to rule. Old...

Suppose Roma Nova, the last remnant of the old Roman Empire, had struggled through to the 21st century – a tough little country with tough, resourceful people? Apulius, a young tribune sent to a backwater in 370 AD for having the wrong religion, encounters the fiery Julia. What does...

Carina Mitela is still a young inexperienced officer in the Praetorian Guard Special Forces of Roma Nova. Disgraced and smarting from a period in the cells for a disciplinary offence, she is sent out of everybody's way on a seemingly straightforward mission overseas. All she and her comrade-in-arms,...

"I thoroughly enjoyed this classy thriller" - The Bookseller 21st century Praetorian Carina is back! Pulled into a nightmare of blackmail, drugs and breakdown, she struggles to defend her family and country against a gifted and vicious enemy. Carina is an experienced military intelligence...

Hugh O’Flaherty, a cheerful Kerryman who loved sport, was in Rome in 1939 when the Second World War broke out. Unable to watch from the safe haven of the Vatican as people were arrested and sometimes killed, he set up an escape organisation for Allied POWs, Jews and others who needed help. The Gestapo...

Pearls Of Passion - 12 erotische Kurzgeschichten. PEARLS OF PASSION: HALTLOS Jennifer hat sich vorgenommen, in Paris einen aufregenden Franzosen zu treffen, doch Armand Lazare übertrifft ihre wildesten Fantasien! Er zeigt ihr eine völlig unbekannte Welt, die sie zugleich erregt und beschämt...

Can one night of passion lead to marriage? Amanda-Jayne wasn't looking for a husband—and if she had been, she would never have picked Reb Browne! He had a reputation for many things, but being a family man wasn't one of them. Now, after one reckless night of passion, he was about to become...

"Trafficking thrives in the shadows. And it can be easy to dismiss it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. But that is not the case. Trafficking is a crime that involves every nation on earth, and that includes our own."—US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2009 Human...

Back in 1957, nine-year-old Zidra Vincent met Jim Cadwallader for the first time. Fourteen years later, their bond of friendship - forged during a childhood in the beautiful coastal town of Jingera - is still strong. But is friendship all they dream of? Jim is now a respected war correspondent in...

Rookie detective, Kate Garrett lives in the shadow of her near-legendary father Joe. When Joe dies unexpectedly, he leaves Kate half interest in Garrett Investigations, his last case that ties to three murders, a partner she can't stand, and a legacy to live up to. Jake Carmedy has lost a partner,...

The story continues where The Simple Wish ends. Simon Hill finds himself lost in a different solar system, but as he looks for clues to the location of Earth, he finds himself the focal point in a much bigger war than the one back on Earth. As he starts out making a living while he searches for the...

To Detective Alexandra Wolfe, the human bone sticking out of the toilet in the camper wasn’t any big deal. She needed to check out a very old bone in a very old camper…what could go wrong? It seemed routine enough, until she found a police badge buried in the camper’s holding tank. When...