Risking her life for the job has never been an issue... Until now!Detective Dawn Grave returned to the remote town of her youth to help her estranged sister. She never intended to stay.That all changed after she met her precocious six-year-old niece. Now Dawn is settling down and working with the local police to do what she does best-hunt down killers and put them away.When a young woman's body is discovered entangled in a local fishing trawler's net, Dawn finds herself investigating a former adversary. Les Richardson plays at being an art dealer, but his connection to organised crime is undeniable. The smuggler even orchestrated an attempt on Dawn's life, but she was never able to prove anything before he disappeared.As the evidence mounts, Dawn tracks Richardson down and discovers a new connection she never saw coming-One that paints a huge target on her back.With family so close, she's suddenly afraid it's no longer just her in the...

Chief Engineer Bache Loftt and his colleague Specialist Zaphir Mye are directed to investigate strange crop yield anomalies on the agricultural planet of Serris Adelaine.Not a particularly dangerous assignment one would speculate. But when a team of highly trained professional soldiers attempt to murder them both before they can uncover anything, Bache concludes there has to be something more at stake than just the sabotage of grain production.What he uncovers shocks the GDA to the core and involves an ancient enemy believed to have been wiped out over a millennia ago. It seems that human races within the galaxy have been infiltrated at the molecular level going back centuries and as the height of the manipulation becomes apparent, Bache has a huge dilemma of who to trust and who are unwittingly in some cases working towards their own annihilation.

A single picture exposes a truth deadly enough to kill for. Disgraced photojournalist Shari Catalano built her new life on a lie. There's a reason she can't trust her instincts or her friends. Because someone close to her found what she keeps sealed in a hidden room, and they're using it to torment her. When her neighbor vanishes and the evidence points to Shari, finding her stalker becomes a matter of life or... life in prison. From behind her vintage camera lens, she watches the quiet suburban street that suddenly feels staged, every resident a suspect. Then a stranger turns up in her picturesque town of Doomwood Falls, so she snaps a picture and develops the film. What she discovers in her darkroom chills her to the bone. Exposing it could be deadly. Because Shari has a secret too, one that explains why she never allows her own picture to be taken, and why she refuses to speak her husband's name. Now someone is watching Shari. They discovered what she's done. And they'll kill...

Snow Falls, Alaska is small, quiet, and easy to forget—until the governor decides no one gets in or out.When acting chief Sarah Spencer learns a notorious killer's heir has set his sights on her, the town is abruptly sealed: state police roadblocks, disabled cell service, and a storm moving in like a lid slammed on a coffin. Sarah's officers are sick. Backup is a fantasy. And the killer knows exactly how to use isolation as a weapon.Bethany Lights should stay locked in her cabin. Instead, she arms up and drives straight into town, because she knows what Sarah won't say out loud: this is the final stage of a long hunt, and the hunter has been planning it for years.From the station to the coffee shop, from whispered strategy to sudden hostage threats, every hour becomes a contest of nerves. The enemy doesn't need an army—he has weather, politics, and fear on his side. And as the snow deepens, Bethany and Sarah realize the next move could decide...

An edge-of-your seat adventure set in the iconic world of Mortal Engines!Can they get out of the Frying Pan without getting into the fire?Tamzin Pook and her group of unlikely fighters-turned-friends have managed to make it out of Thorbury alive. Now with a massive, terrifying, armored, and un-dead Revenant (and its pet kitten) as one of their gang.For their next mission, Tamzin and her friends head to the city of Museion to help save it from the ferocious predator suburbs that surround it and keep it trapped in the mountain valley known as the Frying Pan.Here, Tamzin, Max Angmering, Oddington Doom, and Hilly Torpenhow are in for the toughest fight of their lives. But as they battle for the fate of Museion against the terrible predators that surround them, people on board Museion start to die one by one from a traitor within.They've got to figure out an escape, but every direction looks like a...