After a successful first year in one of London's finest drama schools, Rain returns to America to cope with the death of Grandmother Hudson, the only family member who truly loved Rain for who she was. Now Rain finds herself the controlling heir in her grandmother's will, inheriting the vast millions of the Hudson wealth. Rain can hardly believe it. Is this a gift of a test?
All she knows is that she is alone to face the rest of the Hudson family. They will not allow Rain to inherit the fortune that is their birthright. They will do whatever it takes to remove this parasitic young woman from their lives. Rain knows how to fight. And she is not afraid to try. But to battle for her grandmother's estate is only the beginning. Rain will soon face a tragedy of her own - a devastating blow to her dreams that will leave her shattered. And finally, Rain will have to come to terms with her own fears to discover the person she truly wants to be.

Mary Higgins Clark, bestselling author of suspense, always excels in exploring the quirks of the human psyche, and in this new thriller she takes a journey into the uncharted territory of the criminal mind.

Anxious to relocate after an acrimonious divorce, Emily Graham decides to buy her great-grandmother's childhood home, an old Victorian house in the New Jersey seaside resort town of Spring Lake. The family had sold the house in 1892 after one of Emily's great-aunts, then still a young girl, disappeared. Now, more than a century later, as the house is being renovated and the backyard is being excavated for a pool, the body is found. But as one mystery is solved, another begins, for next to those skeletal remains lies another body... that of eighteen-year-old Martha Lawrence, who disappeared from her Sping Lake home only nine years ago. It soon becomes apparent that by trying to reclaim some part of her family's past, Emily has stumbled upon secrets that will threaten a devious and seductive killer. She will learn that he has chosen her as his next victim.

From Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's legendary mindhunter sheds new light on the mysteries that won't go away Certain criminal cases maintain an undeniable hold on our collective imagination. Now John Douglas examines eight of the most controversial and unforgettable cases in criminal history, dismantling the conventional wisdom, building new profiles and re-evaluating suspects. Witness revisionist theory at its most startling in The Cases That Haunt Us.

A submarine is dying in the cold, northern wastes: can her crew be rescued? Classic race against time to save submarine crew; A submarine is dying in the cold, northern wastes...can her crew be rescued?; Shadowing one Russian submarine, the USS Tulsa never sees the other, which causes a collision with the American boat in the Norwegian Sea. The US sub sinks to the bottom, but her hull is not breached - most of the men are still alive, but the clock is ticking. Do the Russians tell the US and face their wrath, or keep quiet and hope the collision is never discovered? And will the men in the sub survive?; From Commander Richter, captain of the US sub, to Commander Borzhov of the Russian vessel, and all their officers and men, this is written realistically and excitingly. Not everyone is a hero, or cool under pressure. As the clock ticks, an American officer's wife - who once loved Richter - and other people on the surface (including Brits, who are major players in the rescue party) deal with the ever-increasing possibility that the crew will not be rescued, while Borzhov has to face the anger of his masters.

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I was a different person then, and I was with her on that dawn road. And her death was not an accident, in spite of what it says on her death certificate and what everyone else believes. I should know, because I was there when it happened. So that makes me -?
There's no need for me to say the words: try working it out for yourself.

As the sun rises over an idyllic Greek island, Carla Finch lies dead on a lonely road. Beside her Helen North, the only person who can possibly know how Carla died; but the only thing Helen knows for sure is that it can't have been an accident. Since meeting Carla, neither woman told the complete truth about herself; using make- believe and lies to hide the lives they left behind, and now Helen must lie about the events of their last night together.
As Helen tries to rebuild her life back in England, haunted by remorse and guilt, she is drawn back into the centre of Carla's life and world. As Helen becomes more involved with Carla's secrets, she finds herself drawn closer to Carla's friends, children and above all to Daniel, the man Carla loved. And Helen discovers that she really knew nothing about the woman called Carla.
But when a figure from her island nightmare arrives with questions only Helen can answer, she is forced to confront the truth about that hot, balmy night when Carla died. But in a world where reality and fantasy are becoming more entangled and blurred than ever, can Helen trust her own judgement? And will she ever learn the truth about Carla?

Fresh from his escapades in the popular Boundary Waters (0671016997), Cork O'Connor finds himself mierd once again in the mysteries of small-town Minnesota in this shocking new thriller from the award-winning author of Iron Lake (0671016970); Not far from Cork O'Connor's small hometown of Aurora, Minnesota, lies an ancient 200 acre expanse of great white pines, sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe and known to them as Minishoomisag (Our Grandfathers). And just a stone's throw from these prized trees, too close for comfort for many members of the Anishinaabe, lies the lumber mill of Karl Lindstrom, a wealthy industrialist hardly known for his sensitive environmentalism. So when an explosion at Lindstrom's mill results in the death of one of his night watchmen, it's obvious that suspicion will fall upon the tribe members. When Cork is called in to help with the investigation, he has mixed feelings about the whole affair, to say the least. For one thing, he is part Anishinaabe himself. For another, his lawyer wife, Jo, represents the tribe. Now, Cork must grapple with his public duty and his private concerns as never before.

Hilton Kask is a whizz-kid systems inventor on the brink of a breakthrough with a highly sophisticated Artificial Intelligence package. The great American dream is finally within his grasp. And then the unthinkable happens. A team of venture capitalists unite to blow the dream out of the water. And then the unthinkable happens. Again. Hilton dies and for each of his special friends leaves a parcel. Inside is a mobile phone with one simple instruction: `Press Send'.

There is a signal emanating from deep within the ice of Antarctica. Atlantis has awoken.
Indeed, ancient monuments all over the world are also awakening. Reacting... to a brewing crisis not of this earth, but somewhere out in the solar system. Connectng to each other through the oceans via low frequency sound waves in some kind of ancient global network. Around the planet security systems are suddenly alert to this crisis and the earth is thrown into panic stations.
Could it be that the energy signals emanating from Atlantis are a prelude to something much greater? Could it be that the entire city is in fact one giant ancient machine? And to what end? What purpose? Mighty secrets relating to the distant past of humanity and the Earth itself are about to be uncovered.
It is the year 2012, the same year Mayan belief prophesied the end of the word. Two armies, American and Chinese, stand on the brink of war for control of the most potent force ever known to man. The secrets of Atlantis. Secrets which are encoded in crystal shards retrieved from the sunken city.

What does this writing reveal? A blueprint showing how to save mankind from its impending destruction? Or a prayer for those who are already dead? One thing is clear. By any standards, the city of Atlantis and its peculiar writing bear all the hallmarks of an advanced civilization superior to our own. What hope could their knowledge hold for us now? A second chance for the second coming?
There is only one way to find out by deciphering the ancient language and mastering the mysteries of Atlantis. The only trouble is that on the surface of the ice, two miles directly above where Atlantis has been detected, sits a heavily fortified Chinese Military Station ... and they don't want any visitors.

The Number One New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of the Hunger with the long-awaited sequel to the cult classic. Whitley Strieber's vampire classic, the Hunger reinvented the genre and created a truly eternal heroine in Miriam Blaylock. Now, after two decades of mountin ganticipation, the Last Vampire finally steps back into Miriam's shadow and weaves a tale of stunning invention and mounting suspense. Miriam Blaylock's insatiable hunger has never ceased. Her incomparable beauty has made her a legend among the Keepers. She knows the secret of civilisation, and the mysteries of life. In the hollow sould of her mother she has witnessed the agony of undeath. For centuries she has gained the wisdom of God and the wit of the Devil. For centuries she has felt safe. Until now. For Miriam Blaylock, immortality is a thing of the past. He watches, Interpol agent Paul Ward knows of them. The undead. He has battled them, cleansed entire continents of their exquisite poison. He possesses their sacred Book of Names. He knows their weaknesses...and fears his own: Miriam Blaylock. Elusive and toxic, she has escaped his complex network of hunters for years. Seductive and cunning, she has become his obsession. And now each has set a trap for the other. Now, predator is about to become prey. Killer is about to become lover. As good and evil are rendered indistinguishable, the endgame begins. The Last Vampire will take readers as deep into the dark as a nightmare.