Maris Matherly-Reed is one of New York's most respected editors working for her father's firm Matherly Press. Matherly Press is very much a family concern: her father owns the company, her husband is President and publisher. Maris herself is an Executive Vice-President but she still enjoys the thrill of finding and nurturing new talent. Envy, the story of a destructive jealous rivalry and revenge between two friends that leads to murder, is one of the most exciting finds that Maris has come across in recent years. Intrigued enough by the opening chapter to offer a contract she finds herself longing to meet the mysterious PME. Parker Evans is not what she expected at all. Confined to a wheelchair and obsessively protective of his privacy, he is, however, happy to work with his new editor to finish his book. But as Maris confronts the knowledge that her seemingly perfect husband is having an affair, she finds herself falling under Parker's brooding spell. But like most first novels, there is more than a little of Parker's own story in Envy. And his plans extend far beyond literary success...

The dramatic true story of four climbers kidnapped by Islamic guerrillas in the mountains of Central Asia - and their daring escape. In August 2000, four young American climbers were shot at and held hostage by Islamic militants in the remote mountains of Kyrgyzstan; after six terrifying days, they made the difficult decision to kill their guard by pushing him off the mountain. When he fell from the cliff, they literally ran for their lives - eventually, after many dangerous encounters, they reached safety, exhausted and traumatised by their experiences. But it was not the end of the story; a year later the guerrilla they thought they had killed turned up alive... Greg Child, a leading mountaineering writer, has had full and exclusive access to the four climbers, three men and one woman, and much of their extraordinary story is told in their own words. The book looks set to become a classic of mountaineering adventure.

April in the Sierra, the ski season is almost over and it is the perfect weather for gamblers. Nina Reilly, the sole practitioner at Lake Tahoe and developing a reputation as an erratically brilliant local lawyer, hears their stories all day long: stories about their wins, their divorces, the bankruptcies, the purse-snatchings, the week-long binges and the overdoses. It is not a pretty picture. Then one gambler gets murdered, and suspicion falls on the winner of the biggest jackpot in Tahoe's history, Nina's new client - and a girl who won't tell anyone her name...

Perri O'Shaughnessy is the penname for two sisters, Pamela and Mary O'Shaughnessy, who live in Hawaii and Califomia respectively. Pamela graduated from Harvard Law School and was a trial lawyer for sixteen years. Mary is a former editor and writer for multimedia projects.

It's the moment every lawyer fears most... One careless moment that threatens careers, reputations, lives...For Nina Reilly, it will change everything - igniting a case where her own clients are witnesses against her - and where the defendant is Nina herself. As an attorney championing desperate people, Nina Reilly has skirted the edges of legal ethics in pursuit of a just result, but she has never before broken the rule of absolute protection of her clients' secrets. One September night in Lake Tahoe when her unlocked truck is stolen, her life changes forever. Gone are her most sensitive case files, complete with the sometimes brutally candid notes she took while interviewing her clients. It's every attorney's nightmare. And now the worst has happened: the secrets are being revealed, one by one, in ways that will cause the greatest harm. Nina's own clients complain to the State Bar of California, and suddenly Nina is fighting for her license and her livelihood in a legal proceeding that may ultimately lead her to disbarment. As reputations are ruined and people begin to die...a chilling pattern of rage and revenge comes into focus. Someone is bent on destroying the lives of Nina's clients and, in the process, Nina Reilly.

International best-selling author Nora Roberts presents the first in a quartet of novels that deal with the lives and loves of four brothers living in Chesapeake Bay Cameron, Ethan and Philip were all troubled young boys who were rescued and adopted at difficult periods in their lives by the extraordinary couple, Raymond and Stella Quinn. Now grown and living on their own, the Quinn brothers must return to the family home on the Maryland shore, to honour their fathers last request. Sea Swept is Cameron's story. Cameron has lived the reckless life of a daredevil since leaving the quiet community of Chesapeake Bay. He likes fast cars, fast boats and fast women. But when his dying father calls him home to care for Seth, a troubled young boy not unlike Cameron once was, his life changes overnight. After years of independence, Cameron has to learn to live with his brothers once again, while he struggles with taking care of a difficult teenager. Old rivalries and new resentments flare between Cameron and his brothers but they have to try and set aside their differences for Seth's sake. Only Seth's fate is in the hands of a tough but beautiful social worker. She alone has the power to bring the Quinns together - or tear them apart...

Genny Haviland is said to have drugged and suffocated painter George Gabriel. The prosecution claims he alienated the woman he first seduced and then enslaved. Yet in Genny's mind there rests another story, one that started 20 years before.

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Carmel Devine's world is shattered when her husband Sean disappears on the evening of her 33rd birthday. There are no clues as to what has happened to him. When a local prostitute is found brutally murdered, it looks as though Sean could be responsible, and Carmel's life descends into a nightmare.

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Phone calls that come in the middle of the night rarely herald good news as far as Charlie Fox is concerned. And this is no exception.
Summoned from her bed to deal with the latest incident on the Lavender Gardens Estate, she finds that a burglary attempt on one of her neighbours has gone horribly wrong...
Charlie's actions put her at odds with the ruthless private security force who have been called in to keep the peace. Matters are further complicated by the arrival of Sean Meyer, a spectre from her army past.

Praise for Killer Instinct:
'An exciting ... entertaining first novel' Sunday Telegraph
'one of the best crime debuts for years' Janice Young, Yorkshire Post

The legal team of Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez has a new, high-profile case. Their client is none other than the arrogant and ambitious DA of San Francisco, who has been found dazed and incoherent in a hotel room with the dead body of a young male prostitute sprawled across his bed.