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In Cassie's Corner


Dale Mayer - 2012
    Gone as in dead. Gone as in ghost.But she doesn’t realize that when he wakes her in her bedroom and begs her not to believe what they say about him. It’s not until the next day when her parents tell her about the accident that she learns the truth…The police believe Todd was living up to the family name, drinking and driving and coming to a predictable end. It’s up to her to find out the truth and clear his name.Todd is shocked at his sudden change in circumstances…and angry. He struggles with his new ghostly reality, realizing all he’s lost as he watches his brother build a relationship with Cassie as the two pair up to find out what really happened to him.The truth isn’t always pretty, and Cassie has to be stronger than ever before. Especially when the whole world seems to be against her.

Eye of the Storm


Jack Higgins - 1992
    Now Dillon is a terrorist for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillon’s strengths and weaknesses … and brilliant mastery of espionage. — Once friends, now enemies, they are playing the deadliest game of their careers. A game that culminates in a frightening -- and true -- event: Iraq’s attempted mortar attack on the British war cabinet at 10 Downing Street in February 1991.

Ted Saves the World


Bryan Cohen - 2014
    All books in the series have been re-released with new titles and covers. Books in the series include;1. The Dark Souls, previously published as Ted Saves the World.2. The Telepath, previously published as Mind Over Easy.3. The Candidate, previously published as Portal Combat. 4. Enemy Territory, previously published as The Light, the Dark and the Ugly. 5. The Devil Within, previously published as Veil to the Chief. 6. The Rebellion7. The Final Battle Ted Finley was your typical, wise-cracking teenager… …until an otherworldly force gave him abilities beyond his wildest dreams. After an unintended public display of his powers, Ted has become an instant celebrity and the target of a gang of undead thugs. Sixteen-year-old Erica LaPlante was six-feet-under when a blast of blue light brought her body back to life. Armed with the consciousness of a fierce warrior, Erica must keep her teenage urges at bay to protect the newfound hero. When sparks fly between Ted and Erica, Erica wants nothing more than to hide who she really is and the dangerous mission they must face. But when their school comes under attack, Ted and Erica must use everything at their disposal to save their friends, the town and... well, the world. Ted Saves the World is a YA sci-fi/fantasy novel that features fast-paced action, terrifying horror, side-splitting comedy and a touch of romance. Author Bryan Cohen has watched every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it shows in the first book of his new series.

Sugar & Spice


Saffina Desforges - 2010
    Based on research and details from the case of Robert Black, a UK serial killer, Sugar & Spice was deemed "Too controversial for the British market."100,000 + readers thought otherwise. Sugar & Spice is now one of the biggest-selling e-books in the UK of 2011.It has also just been voted as a 'Red Adept Reviews' 2011 indie award winner for mystery!If you like cosy crime, this is NOT for you.Sibel Hodge (author) called it "Patricia Cornwell meets Silence of the Lambs." The author draws heavily on the classic of the thriller genre, from Cornwell's Scarpetta and Thomas Harris through James Patterson, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Stieg Larsson and A.K. Alexander, to produce a truly unique and ground-breaking debut novel.Would you trust a convicted sex offender to help you find your daughter's killer? Claire did...Inspired by a news story of a man who begged a Judge to give him a longer sentence, because he knew he would harm another child if released without treatment, Sugar & Spice is meticulously researched, asking the questions society prefers not to have answered.At once disquieting and challenging, Sugar & Spice is car-crash reading.~It's every parent's worst nightmare: A child fails to return home. As hours turn to days, all they can do is hope. Some children never come back...Driven by the need to know why, a mother confronts the man accused of her daughter's murder, He presents a compelling defence, convincing Claire not only that he is innocent of harming her daughter, but that his previous convictions were not what they seemed.Teaming up with a second-year psychology student and a fourteen year-old truant schoolboy, Sugar & Spice is the story of a mother's fight to bring one man's reign of terror to an end.~Be warned: In Sugar & Spice not all things are nice...

Helix


Nathan M. Farrugia - 2016
    A rogue operative.A secret war that could destroy them both.Olesya hunts the augmented operatives she was trained to become. But when a clandestine mission takes her from the illegal bio-clinics of Brazil to the icy borderlands of Kaliningrad, she encounters a rogue assassin with a dangerous secret. As operatives and hunters start vanishing, one thing becomes clear…They aren’t the only players in this deadly game.This is the first episode in the new USA Today bestselling series of cyberpunk thrillers by Australian ex-recon soldier Nathan M. Farrugia. Do you like conspiracies and genetically-enhanced operatives? You’ll love this action-packed cross between Jason Bourne and Altered Carbon. Find out why readers are calling it “the most addictive action series” they’ve read.

3 a.m.


Nick Pirog - 2013
    Henry Bins is awake for one. He wakes up each day at 3 a.m. then falls asleep at 4 a.m. Life is simple. Until he hears the woman scream. And sees the man leave the house across the street. But not just any man. The President of the United States.

The Unquiet


Mikaela Everett - 2015
    She is the perfect sleeper-soldier. But she’s beginning to suspect she is not a good person. The two Earths are identical in almost every way. Two copies of every city, every building, even every person. But the people from the second Earth know something their duplicates do not—two versions of the same thing cannot exist. They—and their whole planet—are slowly disappearing. Lira has been trained mercilessly since childhood to learn everything she can about her duplicate, to be a ruthless sleeper-assassin who kills that other Lirael and steps seamlessly into her life.An intricate, literary stand-alone from an astonishing new voice, The Unquiet takes us deep inside the psyche of a strong teenage heroine struggling with what she has been raised to be and who she really is. Fans of eerily futuristic and beautifully crafted stories such as Never Let Me Go, Orphan Black, and Fringe will find themselves haunted by this unsettling debut.

Sharp Shooter


Marianne Delacourt - 2009
    Fast. Feisty.WINNER of the Davitt Award 2010 Best Crime Novel and nominated for Ned Kelly Award 2010 Best First Crime NovelBook 2 - SHARP TURN, coming 2016!Book 3 - TOO SHARP, coming 2016! Book 4 - SHARP EDGE, coming late 2016!

Adrift


K.R. Griffiths - 2014
    The ship is a perfect floating paradise, but when Dan spots what he thinks is a body being thrown overboard, he begins to suspect that not everybody aboard the Oceanus is there for a vacation.Soon, Dan will discover that there are some things worse than murder, and the body he saw is just the beginning. Because something is coming for the passengers on the Oceanus. Something that isn't supposed to exist...

Final Passage


Timothy J. Frost - 2009
    Twenty-five years later, Martin discovers hidden logbooks in his mother's attic, and vows to find out the truth. His quest takes him racing across the Atlantic in the Columbus Cup, the world's largest-ever regatta, an event that becomes a personal voyage of discovery and disaster. On the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, with his enemies closing in, Martin must make one desperate final sea passage to discover the shocking truth about his family - and himself.

Spy Girl: Books 1-2


Jillian Dodd - 2018
    Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society. 
An eighteen-year-old covert agent is pulled out of training before graduation by Black X, a espionage group so secret even the President of the United States doesn't know it exists. For her first mission, she must go undercover as the long-lost daughter of a recently deceased billionaire, infiltrate high society, and protect the Prince of Montrovia from assassination. But Prince Lorenzo is known as the Playboy Prince for a reason and his sensuality and charisma add a whole other level of complication to her mission. She knows that her every move is being watched, but what she doesn’t know is that the Prince is just a chess piece in a bigger game that will have world-wide ramifications. And that Blackwood Academy, the place she has called home for the past six years has secrets of its own.

The Signal


John Sneeden - 2014
    Compounding the mystery, his daughter, Amanda, receives an ominous letter that her father mailed to her on the day he was murdered. Amanda is sure that clues contained in the letter will lead to her father's killer. The United States government, with its own interest in the matter, turns to the Delphi Group. Senior operative Zane Watson is called out of hiding from a black site in Colorado, and the team uncovers a series of clues that leads them across Europe, from a luxury apartment in Vienna to an ancient cathedral in Geneva. In the process, they uncover a sinister plot to harness the power of modern technology toward supernatural ends. The team must race against time to protect civilization from an evil not heard of since the dawn of recorded history. With the clock ticking and a blizzard raging outside, the forces of good and evil collide at a world-renowned scientific facility. At stake is nothing short of the future of mankind.

The Insiders


Craig Hickman - 2009
    The Insiders by acclaimed international best-selling author Craig Hickman is a tech-savvy suspense novel filled with the vices of vicious men. It introduces a new brand of thriller that exposes the way broken capitalism exploits the middle class and corrupt business leaders keep their activities concealed through high-level conspiracies. As some readers may suspect, the world’s most powerful CEOs have an insider’s club based on a complex web of insider trading and corporate espionage. From killings in the stock market to access to contract killers—whatever they want, they get. They live above the law until one man whose powerful father founded the insider’s club must avenge an attempt on his father’s life. As with the real life big business economic meltdown, one man’s missteps can mean chaos to the American Dream, and the adrenaline rush will last until the very end.