Allison: 698 books

Peter Marquart, former assassin for the crown, is tired of watching his back, bad food, and sandy deserts. He just wants the world to leave him alone while he spends his days raising horses. Until he meets Abigail. Thirty four year old geeks have no business starting over in the nineteenth...

‘She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into – the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world.’ But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney, descendants of the fierce Maroon people, do get to see the...

A seashell holds echoes of a forbidden wartime romance Louise Ahrendts, daughter of a shipbuilder, is at home in Simon’s Town, a vibrant community in the Union of South Africa, with a Royal Navy port at its heart. Louise dreams of becoming a nurse and in a world of unwritten, unspoken rules...

Calvin’s Christmas Wish is a charming children’s tale of love for family and animals during the special Christmas season. Beautifully illustrated, this storybook transcends ages and reveals a message that will have meaning to each of us.Young Paxton and his family are going to celebrate...

A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole between his eyes, a pistol discarded close by. The death has officially been ruled as suicide by local police, but with an apparent lack of motive for such action, the museum’s administrator, Gladstone Marriott,...

LONDON’S FAMOUS MUSEUM HOLDS A DEADLY SECRET... 1894, London. Professor Lance Pickering had been due to give a talk on the British Museum’s Age of King Arthur exhibition, when his brutally stabbed body is discovered. Having forged a strong reputation working on the infamous Jack the Ripper...

North Camp, a growing Hampshire village, has been briefly energised by the cessation of the Great War and the years of peace that followed. Now, however, with the beginning of the Second World War, the lives of the inhabitants are plunged once more into chaos. Tom Munday, carpenter of the village,...

1942 – a quiet Lancashire village will soon be divided by war. In the autumn of 1942, fifteen-year-old Ruby is collected from her aunt’s guesthouse by her grandfather and taken to live with him in a small Lancashire village. A few days after her arrival, American GIs take over a nearby...

Secrets, salvation and a schooling in murder . . . 1894, Wigan. Miss Dorothea Gadsworth is dismissed as candidate for a teaching position at George Street Elementary School. On Monday morning, the caretaker discovers her body in a locked classroom alongside a note. DS Michael Brennan is called...

Read as the Apostle Paul continues to establish the first christian churches that have impacted the whole world today in Christ. Which help bring Life to its fullest. This was the dream of Jesus for every person who ever lived on Earth. He came and died so that we could live the rich lives He always...

Eric returns home after what he’s sure has been a full day of work, but without any memory beyond the previous night’s erotic experience with a beautiful half-snake, half-woman named Sabine. Is she to blame for his memory loss? If she is, would she even admit it? This 4,600 word erotic...

Juno couldn't take the pressure. His girlfriend of seven months was trying to set him up. The sensual act that brought them together was the main thing that was tearing them apart. As things intensify, it takes moments to achieve a solution in the midst of a shocking end.

Are you always running out of time in the morning, no matter how early you set the alarm clock? Breakfast is usually the first thing to get the axe on the morning to-do list. Put a nutritious meal back at the top of your list! You’re not limited to cold cereal and a glass of juice. We have recipes...

During the cold winter months, nothing tastes better than a warm, home-cooked meal. Good food invigorates the soul and refreshes the body. Don’t be depressed by Old Man Winter, there are plenty of hearty meals to fill your stomach and your spirit! Although produce selections can be scant this time...