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Joss is given a mission to eradicate vampires in his home town of Santa Carla, where he will need to protect his family including cousin Henry, who still carries a grudge. Joss is given a mission to eradicate vampires in his home town of Santa Carla, where he will need to protect his family including cousin Henry, who still carries a grudge. Book #3

A firebug has woken inside my heart. Dark times have fallen on remote Balrog County, and Mack Druneswald, a high school senior with a love of arson, is doing his best to deal. While his family is haunted by his mother's recent death, Mack spends his nights roaming the countryside, looking for something new to burn. When he encounters Katrina, a college girl with her own baggage, Mack sets out on a path of pyromania the likes of which sleepy Balrog County has never seen before. A darkly comic tou...

Seventeen years ago, Mae managed to escape from her abusive and controlling husband, with her two new-born children, Toby and Catherine. The escape strategy hadn't quite gone to plan, but still had the desired result. This led to her husband's incarceration for a crime that he didn't commit and fed a rage for vengeance. Just seven years later, there was a so-called accident, which revealed something very special about her children. They had wonderous gifts just as she did, but she had suppresse...

She was born to survive the end of the world. Jeremy will do anything to save Nola’s life. Kieran will stop at nothing to save her soul. Their fight to protect her may doom the human race. Civilization is crumbling, and the fate of humanity has fallen into Nola’s hands. As those outside face annihilation, Nola lives trapped in safety, forced to watch as the world burns. The cities have been seized by violent creatures of the night. Their thirst for blood threatens to shatter Nola’s future. To...

"Well, enjoy your afternoon in the real world," said Aiden, giving her a big grin. "I'm going for an adventure."Seventeen year old Aiden has done what few others ever achieve: he has taught himself to wield the eighteen magical runes. He dreams of adventure, yet he feels trapped in his life as a cloakmaker's apprentice. Then one day, amidst the flames of a burning building, Aiden has a chance encounter with an Eagle Rider—one of the elite magical guardians of the kingdom. When the Eagle Riders g...

When 19 year-old Cam Cody is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he expects to spend the rest of his shortened life in an adjustable bed. Then one night, a mysterious man offers Cam one chance to join a covert unit of young "terminals." They are like him, only they spend the last year of their lives executing exciting and dangerous missions to make the world a better place. With nothing to lose, Cam is in. A helicopter flies Cam to a secret tropical location, where he's tossed out with a parachut...

The stunning conclusion to the acclaimed and prizewinning Railhead trilogy. What happens after the adventure of a lifetime? For Zen, it's a safe, comfortable life of luxury. But it's not what Zen wants. He misses the thrill of riding the rails, of dodging danger, and of breathing the air of different planets. Most of all of course he misses Nova - lost to him forever in a distant world. But then one day a mysterious message arrives - and that's all Zen needs to head right off, ready for anything...

Jack Higgins, master of the modern thriller, teams up with Justin Richards, bestselling author of Dr Who, to deliver a pulse-pounding new instalment in the adventures of the teenage Chance twins... This third gripping novel about the adventures of teenage twins Rich and Jade Chance takes the action and adventure to a new calibre - then pulls the trigger... With their secret agent dad in trouble, Jade and Rich are flung into a headlong series of chases, fights and captures tha...

A Chaos Walking short story to read with The Ask and the Answer.This moving Chaos Walking short story, set before the Spackle War in a small fishing village by the sea, is a heartbreaking tale of love and loyalty in a divided world. Best read immediately after The Ask and the Answer, it features familiar characters such as Mistress Coyle, but will give a new perspective on the shocking events in the award-winning trilogy.

From the author of The Sandcastle Empire comes a sci-fi thriller that's equal parts Illuminae and One of Us Is Lying. Lindley Hamilton has been the leader of the space station Lusca since every first generation crew member on board, including her mother, the commander, was killed by a deadly virus. Lindley always assumed she'd captain the Lusca one day, but she never thought that day would come so soon. And she never thought it would be like this-struggling to survive every day, learning how...