Betrayed
Nicole Hill - 2015
How would you feel if you found out your best friend was really your foe? The one person you thought had your best interest at heart was really plotting against you, waiting for your downfall.Khloe and Carrie have been friends since elementary school. Carrie has a secret she's been hiding from Khloe. Will Carrie keep blaming Khloe for what happened? Will she share her secret or make Khloe's life a living hell?Trina has betrayed so many people its hard to keep count. Breaking up Khloe's relationship with Dre wasn't enough for her. She wants everything Khloe has. Will Trina succeed in sabotaging Khloe's life or will Karma catch up to her first?Khloe was devastated when she caught Dre in an uncompromising position. She thought life was over until she met the handsome dread head, Jason, from New York. She goes against her better judgment and decides to give him a chance. Will he prove to be her knight in shining armour or her worst nightmare?
The Day the Tide Kept Rising
Greg Jefferys - 2015
A thrilling tale filled with action, adventure, intrigue and a pleasant pinch of romance the story is set primarily in Antarctica, Tasmania and on the east coast of Australia. The book follows the lives of four different people in their struggles to survive after a huge tsunami, caused by the massive Ross Shelf icesheet sliding off Antarctica and into the Southern Ocean, sweeps across the Pacific. The tsunami leaves a trail of death and destruction after which the water levels of Earth's oceans begin to rise rapidly causing cataclysmic disaster as well as massive political and social upheaval. As cities and nations are flooded the fabric of civilisation is torn as groups and individuals struggle for survival in a terrifying new world. The three parallel story lines are exciting, predictive and thought provoking. The author has degrees archaeology and history with a particular interest in the effects of the end of the last Ice Age on the humans of 8,000 B.C. He has transposed known archaeological information on rapid sea level rises onto the modern world to create an exciting, informative and relevant novel that attempts to answer the question of what would really happen to you and I if the Earth's sea levels rose more than six meters. The stories. Katherine Brown is a climatologist based on Antarctica, when the Ross Iceshelf shatters and slides into the ocean she and her team must traverse the rapidly changing Antarctic terrain to reach the relative safety of a base camp at Cape Colbeck; only a few will survive the trek through ice and mud and snow. Peter Taylor and his family survived the first wave but not the second. Alone and homeless he is forced to scavenge in flooded supermarkets for food and avoid roving gangs of bandits that quickly establish themselves as social norms disintegrate to be replaced by anarchy. He meets a mysterious and alluring woman, who, like himself, finds herself thriving in the post apocalypse world. Jeremy Jones is an archaeologist with a particular interest in Paleo- climatology. He is fired from his prestigious position at the Queensland University for predicting massive sea level rises even as his predictions, and much worse, come true. Karen Whitaker had been partying with girlfriends when the first tsunami tore through Hobart. Trapped overnight in the remains of a collapsed building, she emerged to discover a ruined city strewn with the bodies of the dead, the dying and the injured. Living in a refugee camp she does what she must to make the best of the new world.
Queen of Thieves
Beezy Marsh - 2021
Nell is a slum girl from Waterloo, hiding a secret pregnancy and facing a desperately uncertain future.Sensing an opportunity to exploit Nell's vulnerabilities, Alice takes her under her wing and, before long, Nell is experiencing the secret world of hoisting, with all the dangers - and glamorous trappings - that comes with this underworld existence.Alice has a longstanding feud with Billy Sullivan's all-male gang in Soho, and thinks Nell could be a useful weapon in her vendetta. But Nell has a secret agenda of her own, and is not to be underestimated. And the more she is exploited by both Alice and Billy, the more her hunger for revenge grows. As she embraces the seedy underbelly of London, will she prevail in carving out her own path to power and riches......and crown herself the Queen of Thieves?From Sunday Times bestselling author Beezy Marsh comes a thrilling new crime saga series, perfect for fans of Sam Michaels, Martina Cole and Jessie Keane.
Enough of No Love
Redd . - 2013
Little does she know that her world is about to crumble out of control and there’s nothing she can do about it, or is it? She is completely fed up with her man, Kilo and all of his shenanigans and nothing that he attempts to do or say seems to make any difference to her anymore….she has become sick and tired of having ENOUGH OF NO LOVE!