Genres: Commercial Fiction, Historical Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

A story of courage and a fight for survival like none you have ever read. Guaranteed! Inspired by a previously untold true story… Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, 13-year-old Helena is imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto, a squalid hellhole rife with disease and starvation. Yet, although the Nazis have destroyed her home, her life, and her future, they haven't destroyed the only thing that truly matters — her family. Helena might be just a child, but she's a fighter, and she'll do whatever it takes to help her loved ones. Making sacrifices no child should ever have to make, seeing horrors no child should ever have to see, Helena bravely battles on as her world crumbles amid random killings, slave labor, and deportations. And through it all, her compassion helps to protect her family. But then the Nazis unleash new horrors. With the ghetto a raging sea of flames,...

Genres: Commercial Fiction, Historical Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

War thrust them together. Love will tear them apart. Inspired by a true story... When the Nazis invade his sleepy Polish town, Mirek swears to keep everyone in his orphanage safe at all costs. Yet, despite his struggles and sacrifices, the war drags him and his children deeper and deeper into its violent nightmare. With 89 children looking to him for hope, Mirek must do whatever it takes to protect them — no matter how criminal, distasteful, or perilous it may be. And just when he thinks things can’t get any worse, the arrival of a sadistic SS captain brings unspeakable atrocities to his town — and surprisingly, a glimmer of hope for Mirek to save all those he cares about if only he has the courage to grasp it… Inspired by a true story of love, bravery, and compassion, A Song of Silence explores history’s darkest hour and how,...

Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

She’ll save hundreds of lives. But can she save her own? Inspired by a previously untold true story. 1943, Eastern Europe. A kind-hearted 18-year-old, Inge is imprisoned in some godforsaken hellhole for the crime of simply existing. She used to dream of strawberry ice cream, of going dancing on a weekend, of one day traveling the world. Yet today, her every waking moment is consumed by beatings, starvation, and torturous labor. A disillusioned SS sergeant, Heinz can’t help but question the Third Reich’s philosophy because of the dumbfounding incidents he’s witnessed. Now, he yearns to forsake his duty, to run away with his dog, to live a life to be proud of. But he can’t, leaving him trapped in a world choking on endless suffering, misery, and death. So when the Jew and the Nazi meet, even though they exist on opposite sides of the deadly electrified fence, they each...

Genres: Commercial Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

He'd lost so much he wanted to die. But a stray dog changed everything. Left for dead in the gutter, Rio struggles to his feet and lurches into the shadows for a place to hide. Life has always been brutal, thanks to a monster of an owner, but at least he’d had food, a bed, a place to call home. Now…? Ben’s life ended when he lost his family. Drink no longer dulls the pain; therapy is a joke; friends have moved on. He’d had everything, yet now…? But when the broken man meets the broken dog, they discover something neither had ever dreamed could exist… a reason to go on. In a story as heartwarming as it is heartbreaking, Where the Echo Calls explores how hope can be found in the most unexpected of places if only we have the courage to look for it.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Interactive Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

She believed only a miracle could turn her life around, but she was wrong — it was a stray dog. Harley loses everything when his master dies — his home, his best friend, his reason for living. Day after day, he trudges the streets, trembling from the biting cold, whimpering from the gnawing hunger. Across town, Rachel has an alimony hearing looming and a make-or-break deadline hurtling toward her, yet they aren’t her biggest worries — her autistic son has withdrawn so far into his own private world, he barely acknowledges she even exists. Luckily, the magic of life lies in the surprises no one ever sees coming. Like a friendless dog meeting a friendless boy… In a heartwarming emotional roller coaster of a tale, When the Skies Cry explores how a dog can repay a simple act of kindness a thousandfold, while their unconditional love has the power to...

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Womens Fiction, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback, Large print
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

A Desperate Dog. A Scarred Girl. A Bond Nothing Can Break. An injured, young dog trudges the city streets, trembling from cold, from fear, from lack of food. Battered by the howling wind, he searches desperately for his lost family, yet day after day, week after week, all he ever finds is heartbreaking loneliness. As the bitter night claws at him, he dreams of having a friend. Of sharing all the love he has to give. Except he knows happiness isn’t real, that it’s merely something he once dreamed. But then, one magical spring morning... Across town, a little girl sobs into her pillow in the dead of night. Her life devastated by a family tragedy, she can’t understand how the world can just carry on. Her days once overflowed with childhood joys, yet now, despair, darkness, and emptiness smother her like a shroud. As the bitter night claws at...

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

A good day is only having to kill a handful of people. A bad day is not having to kill any. A rogue assassin, Tess Williams prowls the city’s shadows, preying on killers, pimps, gangbangers, rapists… the monsters that ruin lives. Haunted by a tragic past, she’ll risk everything to protect the innocent and avenge the dead. Midnight Burn After a young woman is slaughtered in an alley, Tess hurtles across Manhattan in a breakneck investigation to identify the killer. As Tess uncovers clues and believes she’s closing in on the psycho, she realizes two crucial witnesses have been thrust into the killer’s crosshairs. And the killer is closing in fast. Way too fast. Despite all Tess’s lethal skills, this time, she can’t save everybody, so must make an agonizing decision — who lives and who dies. And just when she thinks things can’t get any worse… The killer sets...

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Five rapists. One woman. The worst mistake of their lives was believing they were hunting her. When a brutal gang starts abducting women on the streets of Manhattan, ex-assassin Tess Williams launches a full-throttle manhunt to nail the monsters whatever the cost. Tess’s investigation takes her from the safe and cozy neighborhoods of New York City to a poverty-stricken, hellhole halfway around the world, where shootouts, kidnappings, and murders are all parts of everyday life – the slums of Cape Town, South Africa. Before Tess knows it, she’s incurred the wrath of some bloodthirsty psycho who sets a deadly trap. And she waltzes straight into it… There’s no hope of rescue and the clock is ticking down to her execution. How will she make it out alive?

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

He's a brutal crime lord. He figures he's untouchable. She figures he's dead wrong. A rogue assassin, Tess Williams prowls the city’s shadows, preying on killers, pimps, gangbangers, rapists… the monsters that ruin lives. Haunted by a tragic past, she’ll risk everything to protect the innocent and avenge the dead. Nightmare’s Rage 17 years ago a local gangster destroyed Tess’s life, then vanished. Tess has spent her entire adult life preparing for the moment she tracks him down. And today is her lucky day. Except… That gangster is now a feared crime boss, surrounded by brutal mobsters and hired guns. To go up against him alone would be suicide, so her only hope lies with someone she fears, someone deadly, someone who’ll stab her in the back if the price is right. And just when she thinks things can’t get any worse, the crime boss discovers she’s tracking him —...

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

They're going to butcher a child. Tomorrow. Her only hope is a serial killer who's quit killing. On the eve of building a new life for herself, ex-assassin Tess Williams makes a shocking discovery. An old adversary is back. Someone who is supposed to be dead. Someone who loves hacking up children. Desperate to nail the killer at any cost, Tess storms through the city, riddled with guilt over having failed to stop this monster the first time around. But her hunt quickly turns into a fight for survival when lethal threats come from both law enforcement and the brutal criminals that lurk in the city’s shadowy underworld. With the clock ticking, Tess battles on, frantic to uncover the mystery of how the killer is still prowling the streets. She blames herself entirely for the rising body count, so no matter the danger, she struggles on, desperate to bury him...

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

She can kill to save an innocent family. Or to save herself. But not both… Discover where Tess’s story begins… Vengeance is Tess’s sole purpose for living. Literally. Her days in Shanghai are spent honing her lethal combat skills in readiness for her own personal war back home. However, when a young family is attacked by a vicious gang right in front of her, she can’t turn a blind eye. In a bone-crunching blur, Tess rips into the thugs and leaves a trail of broken bodies behind her. But when she thinks it’s all over, she discovers the longest day of her life has only just begun. Thrust into a heart-pounding face-off with the elite of China’s shadowy underworld, Tess must use every deadly technique in her arsenal to survive. But it’s not enough. Trapped in a deadly game of twists and turns, where deceit is as lethal as the...

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

They're killers. Ruthless. Relentless. Remorseless. And she's hunting them. Rogue assassin Tess Williams preys on killers, pimps, gangbangers, rapists… the monsters that ruin lives. Haunted by a tragic past, Tess will risk everything to protect the innocent and avenge the dead. Kill Switch In Krakow, Poland, the disappearance of a young woman thrusts Tess into an impromptu investigation. Before she knows it, she’s plunged into a life-or-death battle with an international gang of people traffickers. With the clock ticking, Tess races to save the woman before all trace of her disappears forever. And that’s when the body count starts to rise. Outnumbered, outgunned, and out of options, Tess discovers that victory sometimes comes at a price too terrifying to pay. Angel of Darkness A crazed sniper blasts another innocent bystander from a rooftop, proclaiming on social media that he’s on a mission from God. Tess had hoped the police would...

Genres: Crime, Espionage, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

He's a brutal crime lord. He figures he's untouchable. She's out to prove he's dead wrong. Killers aren’t born, they’re made. Seventeen years ago, a savage murder ripped Tess Williams’s world apart. Today, she finally gets a lead on the killer, so after seventeen long, torturous years, she’s out to meet her maker. All guns blazing. Unfortunately, that monster is now a feared crime boss, surrounded by brutal gangsters, hired thugs, and ruthless assassins. If Tess is to reach him, she must go through all of them. But how? Outnumbered and outgunned, Tess knows this will be the job that puts her in the ground, however, she doesn’t care as long as she nails her target first. Not a problem, if she had a small army. But alone? And just when she thinks things can’t get any worse, the killer discovers she’s tracking him – the hunter becomes the hunted....

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

A psycho abducting kids. Body parts around the city. A little girl's only hope is an assassin with a conscience. Dubbed “The Butcher” by the press, a psycho is hacking up children on a sick killing spree and dumping the body parts. Sickened by the killings, rogue assassin Tess Williams spearheads her own investigation. With the most unlikely of allies, she storms through the city, hunting the killer before he can strike again. However, things aren’t what they seem and every lead Tess follows only slams her into another dead end. Her only chance of nailing him seems to lie in solving the nightmarish mystery that envelopes him like a burial shroud. And then the stakes get even higher – the Butcher snatches another little girl. With the clock ticking, Tess has no choice but to risk everything and race-against-time to rescue the child before the Butcher dismembers another victim....

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

A savage street gang that doesn't abide by the law. She's going to make them pray they did. A defenseless old man is brutally gunned down in a gang initiation ritual and the shooters simply stroll away, laughing. They’re so proud that they even post a video of it online. Horrified by the viciousness of the attack, rogue assassin Tess Williams storms after the killers to claim vengeance. But she’s distressed by more than just this old man’s murder. Memories haunt her. Memories of a murder long ago. A murder which turned her into the killing machine she is today. Though she knows she should walk away from this job, Tess leaves a trail of bloody carnage in her wake as she hunts the killers, craving justice for the victim, for his family, and last but not least, for herself. Battling inner demons and gun-toting psychos alike, she’s determined to...

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

An innocent man driven to kill. A woman tormented by her past. An assassin breaking her own rules. Killing is a tough way to make a living. Especially for an assassin gone rogue. Tess Williams isn’t in it for the money, though, but for the peace she finds in nailing the scum who prey on the innocent. However, when she investigates a gruesome homicide, deadly secrets hurl her onto a collision course with a killer who is as devious as he is brutal. As if that isn’t bad enough… Tess’s investigation thrusts two crucial witnesses into the killer’s crosshairs. And the killer is closing in fast. Way too fast. Despite all Tess’s lethal skills, this time, she can’t save everybody, so must make an agonizing decision – who lives and who dies. And just when she thinks things can’t get any worse… While Tess is tormented by demons from her...

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

She's cleaning up the city. One killer at a time. To Tess Williams, murder is not a crime, it’s a vocation. A rogue assassin, Tess lives to protect the innocent and avenge the dead, so when a brutal slaying in suburbia grabs her attention, she wants just one thing – to nail the killer at any cost. But with no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence, how can she catch this cold-blooded monster? Tess’s investigation plunges her into a perilous underworld filled with chop shop thugs, professional thieves, and mob bosses, where her survival relies as much on her wits as her fists. Yet no matter how hard she fights, she can’t uncover a single lead, only hints of a dark secret that lurks at the heart of the murder. Battling on, Tess digs deeper, but then a shocking revelation stops her dead... Her only chance of nailing the killer...

Genres: Commercial Fiction, Crime, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Vengeance is a woman. She never forgets. Never forgives. And never fails to get even. Ex-assassin Tess Williams hunts the monsters that prey on the innocent: murderers, rapists, gangbangers, pimps… So when a crazed sniper starts blasting people from Manhattan's rooftops, Tess dives into the city's shadows to nail him, leaving a trail of carnage in her wake. Tess's hunt for leads plunges her into the sleazy underworld of white supremacy and illegal arms deals. Yet no matter who she begs, bribes, or batters, all she uncovers is a mystery as tangled as it is deadly. Tess battles on, determined to stop this psycho because if she fails, the blood of his innocent victims will be on her hands. But the clock is ticking and the killer is already lining up his next target...

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Forged by demons from her past, she serves justice as justice should be served – swift, cold, bloody. Rogue assassin Tess Williams is a drifter. No life. No ties. One goal: justice. At any price. In Krakow, Poland, she's thrust into the hunt for a missing woman. It sounds a simple job, yet the city's quaint medieval architecture hides secrets darker than any Tess has ever encountered. Her investigation hurling her into danger that stalks the shadows like a rabid dog, Tess employs the deadly skill set she forged in Shanghai's ganglands. But the deeper she digs, the more sinister are the answers she uncovers. And the higher the body count rises. With more at stake than Tess ever imagined, she's plunged into a race against time to save countless lost souls. But one question haunts her - against unbeatable odds, what is she prepared to sacrifice to see justice...