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An Israelite father; a Canaanite mother. A young boy is caught between two worlds during the time of Samuel the Seer. Captured by the Sea Peoples during a battle, he is enslaved and taken to the Philistine stronghold of Gath where he meets two young girls who will shape his future. All the while, he remembers his friend, a beautiful Canaanite girl, and wonders whether he will ever see her or his parents again.

A man reflects on his idyllic childhood, as he tries to comprehend devastating news about his daughter. Between 1977 and 1979, in their last years of primary school innocence, a boy and his best friend are having endless adventures in their beautiful Cotswold village. Now, in 2003, the boy is a man, a husband, and father, whose own child lies listless in Bristol Children’s Hospital. Far from the carefree days of endless summers, Childish Ways explores the realities of growing up, of responsibilities, and of parenthood in extreme circumstances.

After a blacksmith and his wife find a baby hidden in the bushes near their smithy, they decide to take him in and raise him as their own. According to a mysterious old man, he is to become a dragon slayer. Jedrek grows up completely unaware of this, until one day when he rescues a stranger from a group of bandits.

Mixed Massages (II) is the second volume in a collection of short stories, essays, and articles about Pattaya, Thailand, and expat life. The author Jonathan Finch sets out to depict a Pattaya very different from the one advertised or vilified. His Pattaya is inspirational and sends out messages night and day but those messages are very mixed. Pattaya is alluring and may massage you into a false sense of security but in Pattaya’s underbelly are the seeds of bedlam.

Lady Anya Montgomery wakes up one day 20 years in the past, in a different body, with a controlling father, and an unwanted fiancé. Each day brings a new surprise, but she has one goal: to return to where she belongs. However, when she starts to fall in love, she wonders if she is exactly where she is supposed to be....

Hugo Duchamp, a Frenchman living and working as a policeman in London, is about to have his world turned upside down. Called upon to return to his native country where he has not been for over a decade, Hugo finds himself embroiled in the murder of a child and a town ripe with corruption. Warned not to investigate the first murder, he soon has no choice when a second child is murdered. The first in a new series of exciting adventures with a very modern and different hero.

Memories are like ghosts. They linger in doorways, whisper with the howling wind when lightning strikes. They are the dark phantoms of my youth. My mind buried my memories for good reason, and I spent 40 years believing I could escape them.

After the explosive events at the end of his last adventure, Un Homme Qui Attend, Hugo Duchamp is back in Montgenoux still reeling from what happened and haunted by the guilt he feels, but before long he is called upon to investigate the brutal murder of a maid at a local Château and he finds himself in the middle of a family at war and a murderer who will stop at nothing to protect their own interests.

A cryptic message from an old friend leads Joe Grabarz to an abandoned farmhouse in the middle of the South Downs. But Joe is too late, someone else has got there first: his friend is dead, and all the evidence points to him. Ten years ago the farmhouse was the scene of three infamous murders when a young boy killed his mother, father, and little sister. Now an adult, he was released from prison with a new identity.