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Rick Hamilton has the perfect life; a great career, a wonderful son and a beautiful wife. Until one day, halfway through a vital business meeting he starts doodling - and a chilling premonition tells him his wife is about to die in a car crash. After a frantic dash to the scene he discovers an even more horrifying truth. It is his car not his wife's in the wreckage. Blood spatters his clothes - different clothes to the ones he wore in the meeting. His wife is there and alive, but why, through her tears, is she calling his Richard? And denying that they have a son? Rick Hamilton is trapped in a parallel universe. In an anything-but-perfect life...
Rick Hamilton has a premonition that his wife is about to die in a car crash. After a frantic dash to the scene he discovers that it is his car, not his wife's that is in the wreckage. His wife is there and alive, but, why, through her tears, is she calling him Richard and denying that they have a son?

David Ambrose read law at Oxford and has worked internationally in theatre, film and television. For more information, visit his official website on www davidambrose.com

The long, hot summer of 1976 and American student Alice Bourne is heading for the south Devon coast to research an event that took place 32 years earlier: a catastrophe which claimed the lives of 1,500 American marines. No one seems to know exactly what happened that fateful day in April, 1944. But as Alice learns more about the farm boys from Iowa and Nebraska who came to an alien land prepared to battle against Nazism, she determines that the true story of their sacrifice should finally be told. Herself a stranger in a strange land, Alice is only just becoming used to the English and their peculiar ways. But someone is making her increasingly unwelcome. Minor disturbing incidents escalate until Alice believes she's being haunted; targeted by a malevolent individual with his own dark reasons for preventing her from finding out what really happened at Slapton Sands. A poignant love story and a chilling tale of suspense, this beautifully-crafted novel gradually peels back the layers of past and present to reveal the harrowing truth about a tragic wartime event and its devastating repercussions.

When Superintendent Frank Shakespeare receives an anonymous package containing a mobile phone and a black-and-white photograph, his nightmare is just beginning. He's been targeted by a malevolent blackmailer. Someone who knows about Frank's past. A past that could cost Frank his job, his marriage - and worse. Tami Steel meanwhile is adjusting to life on the outside after fourteen years in prison. Framed for a crime she says she didn't commit, Tami is determined to put the past behind her and start anew. But it's not going to be easy. There are people after Tami. People who want to know where her husband is. People who think Tami has the answers. Dangerous people. Tami might find help from an unexpected quarter. For she and Frank Shakespeare are connected by a shared knowledge: a secret pact sealed over fifteen years before. A secret that someone will kill to keep ...

The time has come for the final confrontation. Pazair has become Tjaty of Egypt and his wife Neferet has been appointed as the kingdom's Chief Physician. But are they powerful enough to take on the Finance Minister, who now openly presents himself as spokesman for the conspirators who are holding the Testament of the Gods, and who will soon overthrow Ramses the Great in order to seize supreme power? The situation appears desperate. By undermining the economy and directing it towards the law of profit alone, the conspirators are attempting to destroy the values which form the bedrock of Egyptian civilisation. Determined to make a stand, the tjaty and his wife attempt to loosen the conspirators' stranglehold and identify the murderer of their spiritual master. But allies are few and far between. Where is Pazair's blood brother, Suti, who has escaped from his Nubian prison? After several fruitless attempts, will the mysterious "shadow-eater" succeed in eliminating Pazair? And who is the real leader of the conspiracy, hiding in the shadows? Who will emerge victorious from this fierce power struggle on which the survival of Egypt depends?

The man in the prison cell calls himself Max. He admits to killing the cop who found him sitting in the car beside the still-warm body of a disembowelled young woman but claims to be suffering from multiple-personality disorder - a common alibi for the worst criminals. Irene Cogan is the psychiatrist assigned to assess the truth of Max's defence, but he kidnaps her during his bloody escape from prison. He agrees to undergo therapy with Irene and she meets a succession of his alternative personalities including one who has an unhealthy penchant for strawberry blondes ... Irene's own hair colour.
It looks like it will be up to FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender, who has been on Max's trail for over a decade, to find them before Irene discovers exactly what that penchant entails...

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Vourniass Lycern -- a conosq of the three-sex Seriattic race -- holds the key to peace between Earth and Seriatt, and thus the continuation of the lucrative illegal arms trade conducted by General William Myson. When Lycern decamps to the Affinity Group complex on Veshc, Myson orders experienced Military Intelligence Officer Alexander Delgado to fetch her. While once respected, the changes that followed Myson's rise to power saw Delgado's position reduced in all but name, his independent character and methodologies unwelcome. But Delgado, sees the mission not as a chance to reinstate his name to the position of respect it once held, but an opportunity to engender a much greater level of change. When he comes into contact with Lycern, however, Delgado faces his greatest ever challenge, the consequences of which have the ability to change his life -- and potentially the future of Earth -- forever. In the first of the Structure novels, Martin Sketchley has created a vivid widescreen setting in which the boundaries between good and evil, male and female, human and non-human are often indistinguishable despite the wishes and perceptions of the startling characters he has created. Sexuality, gender roles, and the fundamental drives of every human being are explored within a gripping dynamic storyline that highlights the contrast between what humans perceive themselves to be, and what they really are.

Martin Sketchley grew up in Tamworth, Staffordshire. Following a brief but passionate affair with music, he began writing behind a Tamworth market stall at the beginning of the 1990s, and sold his first short story to small press magazine Xenos in 1994.
Having worked in retail and then catalogue publishing, he is now a freelance writer and editor. He lives in Birmingham with his wife, Rosaleen, and their two children.

Newcastle, 1946. 19-year-old Jack Smeaton returns from the trenches, his hair turned white by the trauma of WWII. He seeks solace in socialism, falling under the spell of the young T. Dan Smith, visionary future leader of the city council, architect of tower blocks and sculpted concrete. Meanwhile, the future of Monica Blacklock, victim of a childhood of abuse, seems unremittingly bleak. A chance encounter with a handsome young man on the banks of the river Tyne looks set to change her life for the better. But handsome, psychopathic Brian Mooney has plans for Monica. In fact, Brian has plans for lots of people...
A masterfully contrived fusion of fiction and real life crime, The White Room is a gripping tale of passion and violence, desire and revenge, spanning four tumultuous decades.