2024 Best Book Series
In Italy, 1477, Andrea de' Grigi, a mercenary soldier, must fight to save his friends, the rulers of Florence, from an assassination plot involving several powerful Italian states. At the same time he must deal with the arrival in Florence of his English birth father whom he has never met.
A portrait of the progress of World War II as experienced by a commando officer, a tank driver and a naval gunner; by their loved ones at home, fighting to survive the blackout, ration books, the blitz and the doodlebugs; and how their intertwined lives are dramatically affected by the war.
When Garrett Young goes missing, Renee must race against the clock to find him, but will the mistakes of her past keep her from success?
In the third book of this series, Andrew Grey travels to England with the body of his dead father. There he must work to please the English King and earn his father's title. His efforts take him to a bloody war in Burgundy, frustrating peace talks in Italy and a horrific siege in Rhodes.
Expelled from a private academy for knifing a classmate, twelve-year-old Garret Connachan joins Captain Drake’s fleet as a midshipman. Striving to earn a captaincy among marauding 16th-century pirates is complicated by a family secret shared by the rising pirate’s father just prior to departure.
Chartered by the Queen to eliminate a Spanish Viceroy, Captain Connachan’s unexpected attachment to the man leads her to violate the order. Imprisoned, they escape to a pirate-infested island. She’s forced to protect the Viceroy from pirates plotting against him. He’s her only ticket to freedom.
Victoria Bentwood is convinced that once again she, her daughter and granddaughter must investigate the hit and run death of her friend Cameron if they are to prove a connection to the similar killing of her husband Robert twenty years before. The second in the Brentwood Women Mystery Series.
After book 1 introductions, we now expand and explore further day-to-day joys and predicaments of the clan and forest dwellers. Can the fairy children help a duckling who is terrified of water? Will they help their mouse friend find love? Includes audio of text and three songs.
IN THIS 2nd BOOK OF THE GLORY BISHOP SERIES, Glory finally breaks free of her mother's oppressive grasp. Against trusted advice, she chooses the protection of Malcolm, her controlling, much older, bad-boy-turned-minister fiancé. With this new reality, comes unexpected complications and temptations.
What would you do if you knew you had 10 days to live? Get your legal affairs in order? Contact family, friends, lovers, and ex-lovers. Take a trip or make an exceptional donation? Clean the house and do the laundry? Or ... would you kill someone?
Glory Bishop reads novels, speaks her mind, & enjoys stolen kisses with JT; but at home, her strict mother will do anything to keep her from worldly temptations. When 27-year-old Malcolm in interested in Glory, with her mother's blessing, Glory must choose waiting for JT or freedom with Malcolm.
Currently disowned by England, privateer Garret Connachan saves an infamous pirate's drowning crewmate. In return, he discloses a plot to defraud Spain’s King Philip. Garret faces overturning the plot or forever being labeled a pirate—not only by the King but also by former ally, Queen Elizabeth.
Fifteen-year-old Mary ran away from an arranged marriage, but life’s circumstances forced her to come back home to the world she desperately tried to escape. Can she ever find the freedom and happiness she seeks?
Hildy Brentwood, PR exec at Gulf State University, must discover who killed her friend faculty member Adrienne Harrington and student Bobby Jake before the university and the police shut down the investigation labeling Adrienne guilty of murder/suicide. First in the Brentwood Women Mystery Series.
Rescued at birth, Jiddy Vardy grows up in Robin Hood's Bay, a coastal community which harbours a dangerous secret that could get you killed. Always the outsider, at sixteen, Jiddy is clever, brave and headstrong, soon risking her life and freedom to play her part in the Bay's clandestine activities.
The world was ready to defend against an asteroid of epic proportions… but nobody was ready for what came after. First their eyes bleed. A ravenous hunger consumes them. Their sanity breaks. Then they become… the undead.
A 15-year-old girl is hiding from her biological father in an exclusive boarding school in New Zealand. She changed her name but lives with her getaway bag packed. When another girl at the school is found in a coma, the question arises - did the father poison the wrong girl by mistake?
The Coronavirus lockdown presents Pearl, Primrose, Milly, and Reggie with a very different challenge as they investigate the little known story of the magnificent, underground Crystal Ballroom.
To save the life of his son, a resurrection man and his partner must hunt for a cursed diamond, a task which will take them from the gentile drawing rooms of Regency London to the grim boneyards of Limehouse.
When Granny June brings six-year-old Juniper to a U-Pick flower farm, the child meets Bumble, a resident bee, and the two form a summer-long friendship. Wandering rows of colour, the two learn about each other and the value of caring for others. Includes audio of text and three songs.
In the second book of this series, in Italy 1478, Andrea de' Grigi has failed to save his closest friend from assassination. But he saved the chief leader of Florence, Lorenzo de' Medici. Now he must work with Lorenzo, and his English birth father, to protect Florence from further attack.
Welcome to the Ó Murchú fairy clan, who live In Carabeg, where cooperation is the best rule of thumb. Cheer on the fairies as they search for alternatives for their new sister's missing wing. Nothing could go wrong, right? Includes audio of text and three songs.
In the midst of BLM protests after a police shooting, Dallas detectives Sarah & Angel are thrust into the investigation of two midnight murders, while desperately clinging to the threads of their partnership that is threatening to unravel like a cheap sweater.
Have you ever wondered how some people deal with the challenges of life with confidence and turn their dreams into reality? Well, maybe someone will help you find a secret to embark on a transformative journey toward a life filled with purpose and accomplishment. The first and most important step is...
His touch could kill her. Her life could save him. The balance of the entire realm lies in their hands.
Book 2 in trilogy. Jiddy returns to the Bay and immerses herself in smuggling. But her sweetheart wants to make an honest living, The obsessed Captain of the Dragoons is more determined than ever to capture wrong-doers like Jiddy. She has to choose doing what she loves or losing Jonas forever.
A pair of 19th Century resurrection men are commissioned by a famous anatomist to retrieve the body of a hermaphrodite. But the corpse holds secrets and there are some who will kill to keep them hidden.
She can save the world, but there's a price to pay... November 2003. Brilliant scientist Uma Jakobsdóttir has figured out a way to solve global warming for good. Known as LEAP, the system is capable of providing Earth’s ultimate second chance...until it falls into the wrong hands.
Book 3 The two men in Jiddy's life have left. Defiant, she resolves to find choices for local girls battered by poverty. Inland, love beckons. The North Sea entices with dreams of foreign shores, but smuggling is all Jiddy has known. A brutal, breathtaking and brilliant conclusion to the trilogy!
Nash the Dash, inventor, poet, and loyal friend, is looking for a new community and is on an adventure to find one. He meets the Ó Murchú fairy clan and is adopted into their fold. With a knack for getting himself into pickles, Nash always finds creative ways to get out of them.
