Darkest Before Dawn - formato ePub

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying, a basket on one arm. As the sirens begin and the bombs crash down, she is filled with panic and, with a heavy heart, abandons her burden in a sheltered...

The year is 1925, and in Liverpool, Rose Ryder worships her father, a tram-driver. She nurses a secret dream of driving trams too, even though it's not considered a job for women. Meanwhile, in Dublin,...

Laura Collins, a widow, is struggling to make a good life for her daughters, Tess and Tina.They are living with Laura's sister Millie and her seven children so when Laura is offered a good job, with accommodation,...

Addy and Prue Fairweather live with Nell, their widowed mother, in a flat above her shop on the Scotland Road. The sisters, however, are very different. Addy is dark-haired, plain and always in trouble...

The Todd family are strangers to city life when they move into a flat on the Scotland Road; their previous home was a canal barge. Harry gets a job as warehouse manager and his wife, Martha, works in...

It takes courage to overcome the odds...Liverpool 1928: abandoned by her mother at a very young age, Dot McCann lives a lonely life with her distant aunt and uncle. A cuckoo in the nest, she spends her...

Claudia and her younger sister, Jenny, live with their parents, Louisa and Cormack Muldoon, in their grandmother's house in Blodwen Street. Louisa has a good job in a dress shop on Scotland Road and...

Daisy Kildare lives with her family in a cottage perched on the Connemara coast. The Kildares are poor but happy. But when their croft is wrested from them, Daisy's Aunt Jane, who is housekeeper to Dr...

A family divided by war but united by love.Marianne seems to have everything. She is married to a handsome naval officer, Neil Sheridan, commander of a corvette. They have a daughter, Libby, and a beautiful...

On 21st April 1926, three baby girls are born. In North Wales, Hester Coburn, a farm labourer's wife, gives birth to Nell, whilst in Norwich, in an exclusive nursing home, Anna is born to rich and pampered...

Sometimes hope is all you need... Liverpool, 1917: When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with the British Navy, he never expects to fall in love. But the moment...

It is a cold night and Sylvie Dugdale is weeping as she walks by the Mersey. A figure approaches and, dodging aside to avoid him, she falls into the river. Constable Brendan O'Hara, just coming off duty,...

Liverpool, 1923Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Perce and two boy cousins in Cranberry Court, within a stone's throw of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Lizzie loves her aunt but is...

Two penn'orth of sky is all you can see from dirty, cramped Nightingale Court where Emmy lives with her widowed mother. Her main aim in life is to escape and she sees marriage as her best way out. When...

Liverpool, Christmas 1938. Rose McAllister is waiting for her husband, Steve, to come home. He is a seaman, often drunk and violent, but Rose does her best to cope and see that her daughters, Daisy and...

Liverpool, 1935. Kathy Kelling is coming home to Daisy Street from her first day at the High School, longing to tell her friend, Jane, all about it. Then her brother, Billy, has a serious accident and...

A Murder. A Fashion Show. A Whole Lot Of Mirrors. Fashion shows kill people.Detective Adeline Ford investigates a heartless murder. She recalls her modelling days. Adeline returns to the dark world of...

When darkness comes, it doesn't ask permission.Paramedic Lucy Barker thinks she's seen it all, after years of responding to violent accidents and medical emergencies on the streets of York. But when she...

Aria He was my new stepbrother, crashing into my life from out of nowhere and playing the perfect guy card flawlessly. But I'm not fooled, even if those dark eyes make my heart stutter. I won't let him...

While not about the Lifeline team, these high-adrenaline companion stories deliver thrills in the great outdoors and heated passion indoors. Falling FreestyleDara and her best friends, Kane and Jack,...

Through these pages glide the undead.A chess player. A cookWriters. Students. Teachers. Lovers.The cursed. The damned.The grief-stricken. The penitant.The vengeful. The merciful. Ghostly features 13 haunting...

A Vineyard. An Arsonist. A Murderer.People love wining and dying.When Private Eye Bettie English investigates a series of attacks on a vineyard, she realises a murderer lurks in plain sight.Livelihoods...

Sometimes you have to brave uncharted waters to find where you belong… An emotionally captivating, uplifting new series about enduring hope, unexpected blessings, and the healing power of found-family.  Abigail...

With this ring, I thee claim… For months I've waited, biding my time with sweet little Rhylee. Tonight, the waiting ends, and she will be mine. Not only will I have the thrill of putting my sous chef...

From a futuristic colony where a woman dreams of rockets, to a drab estate where a girl finds magic, SJ Bradley\'s inventive and experimental stories showcase remarkable range. Vividly rendered, they...

Hidden behind the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941, four lives collide, all afflicted by the human cost of wars, betrayals and trauma.Gus, a shrewd attendant, is the keeper of everyone's...

'An engrossing and vivid novel brimming with compassion for nature .' - Anna Ittenere, The Sea Library Magazine. A family drama unfolds across Australia and New Zealand. There is betrayal but it's not...

In the Tasmanian bush six contestants battle it out to win $250,000. Only five finish. In Bass Strait the Blue Gazelle yacht tackles fierce winds, high waves and a phantom vessel in its race to win the...

My life would make so much more sense if I'd been born into a Regency romance… And just like any Regency miss faced with a disapproving Duke, my relationship with Justin has always been a bit rocky. I...

When the shadows of the past gather, trouble isn't far behind ... Fenella Rose-Waterman is happy running The Cranky Lizard winery until a broken relationship lifts the lid on the Pandora's Box of her...

The Archangel Gabriel has quite enough on his plate with a murderous vampire on the loose, the enigmatic Lord Hallam's return to parliament after a ten-year absence, and the near riots at London's notorious...

- Kirkus Awards & Accolades winner- Featured in Kirkus Reviews magazine September 2024. Less than 25% of submissions receive this honor!Fleeing barbaric witch hunts in England, Sybil Cotterill sails...

Time. Limited. Inescapable. Precious beyond measure. But what happens when time doesn't follow the rules we all know? What are the possibilities? The perils? In this innovative and thought-provoking collection,...

MERCY, a Novel (Revised 2024)    CATALINA RICHARDSON, RN, is both dedicated nurse and black sheep of Mercy Hospital's Ward 2. Battle-weary from continually bucking a system choked by hospital politics,...

Two missing persons. Two wildly differing circumstances.Juliette Page, an elderly lady with Alzheimer's, disappeared in the company of her caretaker twelve hours ago. Her daughter, Cynthia Hayes, is frantic...

A New Alien. A Band Of Superheroes. An Alien Mind.Aliens have weird minds.Superheroes Matilda Plum helps humans. She helps aliens occasionally. Matilda meets a brand new alien with a very weird problem.Matilda...

Apple -- I gave Deacon my heart, but he said I was too young. So he left. For over a year. Didn't want me around. Hurt and humiliated, I left for Grim Road MC. If anyone will understand my need to hide...

An Alien Race. An Extreme Weight Loss Solution. A Bizarre Situation.Aliens infect obese people in the near future.I infect obese people so I secure the future of my race. When a doctor threats my life,...

Samira had two choices.  She could return back to her home country and face starvation and imprisonment. Or she could live life on the run knowing she could be caught any time. She chose the third option. Samira...

An Office Romance with a Fairy Tale Twist. A millionarie shoe magnate suddenly finds himself attracted to his executive assistant.    

In small-town Wyoming, a tough sheriff and a former Navy SEAL are thrown together by circumstance. Their fiery chemistry leads to constant clashes, but as they work to solve a mystery, they can't ignore...

After returning from Faerie and failing to make a lasting stand at Air house, Rosalinde must reclaim her fractured kingdom from dark forces threatening to tear it apart. With the weight of her lineage...

In the 23rd century you can jack into the web, shop at a mall floating half a mile above the street, kill yourself with the drug of the week, and wake up in a new body.The rich can have what they want...

DeclanWhen I joined The Insidious Seven MC sixteen years ago, I thought I'd left my troubled past behind. Little did I know that those old ghosts would come back with a vengeance. After we took down a...

Welcome to Westhaven - or welcome back, in my case. Hurrying home to be at my dad's bedside wasn't exactly how I planned my small-town homecoming, especially when my shoot-for-the-stars successful life...

A clueless omega and an oblivious beta dance around their fated attraction. Will they figure it out before the pride's past catches up with them?Life in Valentine Growville is more exciting than Burke,...