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A daring leap to avoid disaster finds a hidden world of adventure.For survival, for love...on a distant alien planet. With the man of her dreams unconscious in her arms, terrain scout Kate Borrowdale must escape the treacherous peaks of Kratos and traverse a strange, hidden world beneath the clouds.Includes all three (newly revised) books in the trilogy: The Eleven Hour Fall, The Elemental Crossing and Kate of Kratos.
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No matter how hard you try, no matter how far you look, you will never find this shop.It will find you.Dreams, desires, the most outlandish wishes: all are for sale at Esther May Morrow's timeless antiques and sundries store, for the bargain price of...well, that would be telling. You'll have to see for yourself. So come on in. Don't be shy. Make her an offer. She never refuses anyone.There's just one thing I should mention: each purchase comes with...
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Airship officer Verity Champlain is well-respected by her crew. But after a vital mission nearly goes wrong, she is having second thoughts about her career. Lord Garrett Embrey is on the run. The Leviacrum Council, the secretive scientific body that holds sway over the Empire, executed his father and uncle and now they want him dead too. Professor Cecil Reardon is consumed by grief. Since his wife and son died he's been obsessed with his work, and...
4) Alien Safari
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Warning! Wildlife may be dangerous. Proceed beyond this point at your own risk.When Detective Vaughn is called in to investigate a deadly breach on Hesperidia, a protected planet full of indigenous wildlife, he doesn't know what to expect. The place used to be a tourist attraction, but the safari tours were discontinued long ago due to rampant poaching. Only a handful of researchers live there now, including Jan Corbija, the young woman who reported...
5) Borderline
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Alone. Double-crossed. Pursued across thousands of miles of alien desert on his beloved hoverbike, Finnegan is holding onto two things dearer than life itself: the priceless biotech prize he's stolen, and the opportunity for revenge against the treacherous employer who left him for dead. He's never met her, but he knows all about her family, the most ruthless criminal syndicate of the inner colonies.But when he finds a beautiful stranded woman badly...
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Excitement and danger collide on the galaxy's wildest ride.With Alien Safari's reputation in tatters after the tenax disaster, Jan invites a select group of influential journalists to experience Hesperidia for themselves, hoping their reports will sway public opinion back in her favor. In partnership with Detective Vaughn, now the operation's permanent Security Chief, she launches an all-or-nothing intercontinental tour, incorporating the thrilling...
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It's the newest, most thrilling sightseeing cruise in the Alien Safari brochure.For ranger Jan Corbija, ferrying rich tourists around the aquatic wonders of Hesperidia's islands helps to fund her important scientific research. But her final 'White Water' tour of the season might just be one sail too many when passengers steal her equipment for a dive into uncharted depths, triggering a tragic series of events.A leisurely cruise becomes a race against...
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A murder investigation at an interstellar beauty pageant draws two detectives into a deadly mystery.Detectives Rappeneau and Thorpe-Campbell are from different worlds. One's a debonair number-cruncher with a posh accent, the other's a hard-edged burn-out a hair's breadth away from suspension. They'd settle for a week of eye candy and full body massages. But there's been a vicious murder at the famous lunar resort of Pont de Rêves. And with a half-billion-credit...
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The Award-winning novella based on the deadliest crocodile attack ever recorded.On February 19th, 1945, one thousand Japanese soldiers retreated into the fetid mangrove swamps of Ramree Island hoping to escape their British enemy. However they soon discovered that the sixteen kilometre stretch of marshland that promised to offer safe cover, had delivered them straight into the jaws of hell.Inspired by true events during WWII, Sunset on Ramree follows...