Have you ever wondered if, just beyond your reach,there's another you, with a life not quite like yours? Lena Rainey of Moorhens wonders this.Lena, 41, stares into mirrors, thinkingthat nothing feels quite right these days,while another Lena, also of Moorhens,died two years ago, aged 39. And that's not all. That's far from all.Before a week's out, the living Lena will havea grown-up son instead of a grown-up daughter,and no idea that they've been...

On an spring afternoon in 1978 in the loft of a church outside Cambridge, England, an organ tuner named Malory loses his virginity to a dyslexic math genius named Louiza. When Louiza disappears, Malory follows her trail to Rome. There, the quest to find his love gets sidetracked when he discovers he is the heir to the Kingdom of Septimania, given by Charlemagne to the Jews of eighth-century France. In the midst of a Rome reeling from the kidnappings...

Under normal circumstances, lifting a landmass is impossible. Under normal circumstances. But a lot can change in a year as Richard Cronin discovers. While attending the Messengers of Hope Reunion, a chance to remake the world's former greatest source of inspiration, his best friend and co-founder is killed when the event is taken hostage. Rich inherits the property and decides to turn around his life and bring purpose to it by finding ways to do...

A journalist takes on a double professional mission: a paper on the closing of a marble factory of funeral monuments in Saint-Maurice-des-Carrières, his native village, and an article on a circus camped out in Brémondville. These reports are gradually invaded by fiction, by the illusions of childhood, dreams, entertainment, drugs, and death.Excerpt« A muffled siren, followed by a flash: Guy used his electronic flash to photograph Antoine standing...

Alastair Seiver, wielder of fire, has vanished, leaving his father and his friends Caelyn and Mydia behind. In the wake of Tenebrae's attack, the city of Lyrias is left shaken. Whispers of war are on the horizon, creeping ever closer.Caelyn is summoned home, back to the restrictive life she had been so desperate to escape. With the help of Doctor Seiver, and a little determination, she makes a startling discovery in the place she least expected.Mydia...

No one can stop the curse laid on him-and breaking it may kill me.I may not have much in this world, but I do have a life plan: work hard, save every penny, get that college degree, and build a better life for myself.Getting involved with the guests of the hotel where I work would derail me from that path. I have been specifically warned to keep away from the ones who stay in the top-floor suite, the best the hotel has to offer.That includes the mysterious...

During the writing of his autobiography, Die Bibel (published in 2016 by Steele/Roberts), Michael O'Leary began a parallel fictional autobiography which he conceived as an 'apocrypha' of additional aspects to his intellectual & emotional life, combining myriad intertwingings of previous works to form a synthesis, a kind of Rainbows End of the Mind, as its characters & events ride a rollercoaster of the psyche, a tipi haere helter-skelter on what might...

When a girl sets a boy a strange challenge, he must venture into some extraordinary places in pursuit of his goal.

A crown prince holds a secret. If he reveals it, he risks losing the throne. If he doesn't, he risks losing even more-love. In the mid-twentieth century, patriarchal norms abound in the Kingdom of Gulaz. Princess Maryam, dressed and treated as a boy since birth to ensure succession to the throne, is known to all as Prince Mahib. Life in Gulaz is peaceful until King Dariush's death. In his final moments, the king divulges a prophecy that forever changes...

A tale of magic and murder The increasingly bizarre murders have baffled the police-but each death is somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy community. The police are searching for a human killer, but the Romany know better. They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one: Mulengro. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.