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When Damien Wishart emerged from his oxygen tent everyone was dead, and he was left to pick up the pieces. When he found a woman alive that meant that he had someone to talk to. When he found three children alive, life changed. Life took on a whole new meaning when they found Vicky. Damien and Vicky became an item and things were good until a meteor hit the Earth. They knew that it was coming as the children had seen it through their telescopes. It hit water but they still had to live through the tsunami that followed. Life returned to normal but life and nature had a lot more to throw at ...

The book follows the life of Alhambro Gusto, from his birth to his death. Noting the goings on in Cove House where he lived and what happened to his brothers and sisters. It then follows his strange legacy as the solicitor who is appointed to find his next of kin and he is left to sort Cove House out, it is now haunted.

With the arrival of the civil war, Peter Heyward decided to change things on his plantation. He turned his slaves into his own personal army so that they could fight for the union army when they arrived. to do that they had to train but keep what they were up to a secret. The first army to arrive was the confederate army but they were ready for them. It allowed the union army to reach them a lot more quickly without the need of bombarding the plantation with the canons. The army left with the union soldiers as a unit and Peter relaxed. He knew a young slave girl and was quite prepared to ...

When William Just tries to repair his plasma television, a funny thing happened. He could see a floor and a set of stairs but no matter how much he tried to change channels, that is all he saw. I annoyance he threw the remote at the screen. When the remote landed on the floor and slid over to the stairs, it got his attention in a big way. He finally plucked up the courage and climbed through the screen himself and found himself in the nineteenth century. He was not very rich and saw a chance of making money. He could sell Victorian items in the twenty first century and make a lot of money. ...

Senator Nathan Kelly loved his two daughters, but he loved them too much and in the wrong way. The elder daughter Carmody soon found out that it was better to hide than be in her room when her father was home. After a while when he could not find Carmody he started to visit his other daughter, eight year old Annabel. When Carmody found out she decided they had to run away as her mother had seen her father raping her and did nothing. Getting out of the mansion on her own was easy but taking Annabel with her made it a whole new ball game. They did make it outside and to the car she was going ...

Roger Thompson could not swim so when the plane that he was on crashed in the sea he panicked. He managed to put on the life preserver but the sea was in the middle of the storm of all storms. A wooden crate appeared and all he had to was get over to it but the sea had other ideas. He had to struggle to get to it and when he did he had no plans to let it go again. The storm was still raging when the crate stopped moving and he hit his face on it. That was when he met Alice although she was unconscious and clinging to the coral reef and blocking his way on to the island. He fought to get ...

The book is set in prohibition era Chicago. Cally is the daughter of the local mob's bookkeeper. He milks money from the mob slowly over some time to be able to move away with his daughter. He wants his estranged wife to go with them but he doubts that that will happen. The day he chooses to leave another bookkeeper arrives to go over the mob books. He finds the thefts and they chase Dermot the bookkeeper to ask him about it. He is hit by a bus and ends up in hospital. Meanwhile Cally is asleep in bed at home blissfully unaware of any of it. Her father has given her a key to look after and ...

When Clementine decided that her line of work, killing people for SI8 a government backed department introduced after 7/11 she knew it was not a thing that would happen without her being dead. She arranged with three drag artists to do the work for her, that way she was still working. They were very good at dressing up and when one walked out looking just like her, and Clementine was a very pretty woman, she was astonished. That is what gave he the idea. John Fairchild was the investigator for SI8 and he was very good. When one triplet was killed and returned to England in the diplomatic ...

When old Henry Kidd was accidentally turned into a vampire by the priest who was trying to save his life, Henry's life changed. First for the better while he was in charge of his feeding but then for the worse when the feeding became a frenzy. He killed his grandson's girlfriend and his grandson was distraught, standing outside in the night urging his grandfather to kill him as well. Henry agrees to do it but tries to die himself at the same time. The go out to sea in a boat and Henry takes his blood but when he dribbles his own blood into Simon, his grandson's, mouth the sun shines through...

When Hardy decided to cross the post apocalypse desert to keep away from the cannibals that now roamed his country, he took as much water as he could find. He had his meagre belongings on a sled with the water and walked out into the desert. He killed and ate anything that came within his reach as he travelled but water was always the problem. He found a crashed aeroplane and managed to distil water from the engine cooling system. He found other things there but to make his sled heavier was not worthwhile. When he walked on he travelled at night when it was cooler. As he walked he heard a ...

When the Minton Cruisers under 12 football team reached the safety of the hotel in Columbia, they thought their troubles were over but far from it, the captain's brother took over when he was taken to hospital and he did not believe a word they said. He thought that his brother had saved them and was injured doing it. In the end, Stuart, the spokesman for the group offered to go out in a helicopter to show them everything they told them was true. Some boys had no intentions of going back near the jungle and refused. Instead four went, including Stuart. To make things worse the helicopter ...

When the Minton Cruisers under 12 football team were offered the chance of a Football holiday in Florida, they all jumped at the chance but when the plane was hijacked and they found themselves stranded deep in the Colombian jungle, the mood changed.Their manager survived the crash as they did but as they were searching for survivors he was bitten by a snake. One of the boys were bitten at the same time.To get out of the jungle they would need to work as a team but up until now that had not really happened. Over night the manger died and the boy look very ill. They split into two factions, ...

The team decide to go on holiday and choose the place in the usual way. The dart lands on the map and it is an island but things are never that easy. Stevey buys a boat to take everyone out there but soon after they disembark to go to the island the boat is taken by pirates. The team find that they have to rescue their fathers so that they can then rescue their mothers. Meanwhile José Colebora has escaped from prison in Colombia and he wants revenge!

Stuart and Stevey come out of the wrong flume and are faced with possible death, but they land on an alien spaceship. The spaceship breaks their fall but there is another spaceship following which is trying to destroy the spaceship they are on. Their weight on top saves the spaceship but they are eventually hit and the pilot flies into the forest to hide and crash lands there. The team immediately want to help the pilot who appears to be a young alien girl. After that their actions to help her first defeat the robots trying to kill her and then rescue her father from his evil brother. After...

After the happenings at Gordon Hall the team decide to go to Devon to rest but they soon find themselves in a nether world, inhabited by some interesting things, some from their minds. They soon work out that they have to overcome the apprentice, free the wizard and take the two books and the two Victorians out of this world. The one problem was the homicidal white shoed leprechaun who was willing to turn anyone into stone in his fight against the apprentice. They are on the same side but it is hard to explain that to someone who acts first and thinks later.

When Stuart recovered from his ordeal at the hospital( book 2) he found out that they were moving. He tried to engineer it so that they moved and he could still go to his same school. Something he would not have managed before being stranded in the jungle(book 1) The moved to a village called Eastliegh but one thing led to another and they found out that there was a forger working in the nearby breakers yard. They are seen when investigating and each time they take the police there, in connection to a teenager's death, the police find nothing. The lose confidence it anything they say after ...

When Stevey inherited a lot of money from his great, great aunt, he decided to buy Gordon Hall, a house the team had come across earlier and found it to be haunted. The plan was to get to know the ghost if they could and help it, if you can help a ghost. At the same time they met Waif, named Foundling Waif by the convent who were 'looking after' her. She was dressed in rags and malnourished. She was also ill treated by one of the girls, she was called Ursula and they took an instant dislike to her and the hockey stick she carried to control Waif. Follow the latest adventure of the Minton ...

When the team returned from Deetmar, everything seemed too tame and Celia suggested a holiday. They used the dart in the globe method to find out where to go and ended up at what was considered a played out mine in Australia. The miner was there and drunk when they crept in to get to the spot the dart landed in their estimation. They met his son Alfie and as his son did not see many people when he was out of school they became friends. When Simon found a diamond with his diamond detector things changed at the mine dramatically. When they had completed their mission they went on holiday and ...

After the shootout at the 99th precinct, the rest home run by her mother, Calliaster Doyle starts to relax. When she finds out that her mother is saving up to pay for and operation on her grandfather's back she decides to find out what secrets the key her father gave her, holds. With the help of Drummond she manages to get enough information out of her father, who is now at the retirement home as well, being looked after by her mother. Unfortunately, Michael, the man who takes over from the dead Luigi Clo decides to regain the money, to look good for his boss. As Cally is waiting outside ...

When the dust settled it was time for Calliaster Doyle to go to finishing school. Drummond chose both her school and his school, they were in different states which upset Cally a lot until she received a note and saw him on the opposite side of the river she was standing by. Now she smiled. They were bound to have more adventures now and she was close to her boyfriend.