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Despite it being slightly more fun than a visit to a 12th-century dentist, Stitches doesn't want to go. Tonight, Mrs. Ladle has promised them something special: a game that hasn't been played for a very long time. One that's bound to make the evening fly by. This could be the start of another adventure crammed with intrigue and weirdness and packed full of derring-do and never-before-chronicled acts of heroism and bravery.

Imagine an athlete so incredible that he dominates two sports - football and baseball - shattering records and lifting his team to championships every year. Doug Maxwell is a new kind of reluctant hero. A boy from a fractured home, he now has to overcome crushing criticism from the media, opposing players and the public. Deep down, Doug is a kind, giving man, who struggles with his own inner demons and human foibles. But he is not a cheat.

Twenty years after Penny’s Hawaiian adventure, she and her husband are moving to Las Vegas, Nevada. But when they run out of gas in the Mojave Desert, the couple is rescued by a famous painter. The eccentric artist hires Penny to redecorate his property while her husband finds work on a skyscraper on the Strip.

Between creating precious glass parts for one Professore Galileo Galilei’s astonishing invention and attending lavish parties at the Doge’s Palace, Sophia crosses paths with influential people, including one who could change her life forever. But in Venice, every secret has its price. Soon, Sophia must decide how much she is willing to pay for her family, the glass, and love.

Photojournalist Steve Lurgan returns from the war in Kosovo and falls in love with a Serbian national in modern-day NYC. Meanwhile, Jana Dragana’s career is being compromised by her drug addiction, but her exploiters end up as victims of a mysterious attack. NYPD detective Darko Lucic suspects the murders are part of a larger conspiracy. But is it an underground network of criminals that is behind the killings, or something even more sinister?

From hunting pickpockets in London omnibuses and ghosts in Hesse Square, Sergeant Watters and Detective Silver are led into the notorious Wild Geese public house, and a tangled mystery that involves the murder of a guardsman and the vivacious wife of an Austrian diplomat. With the help of the Irish woman Rowena, Watters trawls through the back streets of London, encounters female prize-fighters and suave cracksmen, and finds himself in the savage world of espionage. But can he unravel the mysterious words: "There is a storm from the east and the west"?

Why? Is a story set in a web of despair, sex, unreachable emotion, and love. One man's crippling injuries, caused by an unprovoked, vicious attack, ruins the lives of everyone around him. This includes Terry Meadows, a 19-year-old boy who falls in love with the main character's daughter Laura, 27 years before the opening of the story. The twisted, interconnecting matrix in which Francis, Laura's father, lives, destroys and distorts his daughter's image of life beyond repair. It is a sad tragedy with an unexpected ending.

Dirty Noir is10 stories of the riptide in human affairs, for those of us who are magnetically drawn to the passionate, strange, and dreadful. Get ready to meet the honeymoon couple who encounter grief in Mexico; Zack, the schoolboy assassin in love with a circus beauty; Miguel, who proves to be unexpectedly dangerous; the Giant Rat of Sumatra, cruellest contract-killer in the business, and Phoebe, perhaps the strangest, and surely the sharpest, woman in fiction.

Edinburgh, 1820s. On one side is the Old Town; ancient, crumbling, and full of poverty. On the other is the New Town - elegant, refined, and prosperous. When newly qualified Doctor Martin Elliot arrives, he discovers that the duality goes deeper. There is more darkness in the streets than he could have imagined. Ghosts of the long-dead haunt the houses, and nightmares soon fill Martin’s head.

A sinister Masonic-Templar organization - The Brotherhood of the Wand - is planning to bring the world to its knees and create a dystopian one-government world. The price? Eighty percent of the world's population. To achieve this aim, they are planning to harness ley lines and other ancient earth energies to reawaken the Serpent: a mythical creature known to all early civilizations by different names.

A child goes missing, taken from her mother by a powerful family. Soon after, the father of the girl is banished for violating the code of the tiny Cornish hideaway. Emma Thorne has come to the edge, not knowing if her daughter is alive or dead. The village offers no clues and gives away no secrets. In desperation, she enlists the help of a local private investigator, holding out hope that Lauren can be found.

Five years after surviving a cruel winter, delivering a daughter, and experiencing whirlwind celebrity after telling her story, Georgia Charles’ ex-husband passes of a sudden heart attack. While attempting to settle into a quiet life with her child and boyfriend Sean, her ex-husband’s widow Julie visits - and turns Georgia’s world upside down.

When the world was known as Avalyne, humans and magical beings lived in harmony. But over time, the elves retreated behind the Veil that separates the modern world from the magical realm. In present day New York, psychiatrist Doctor Dan Ellis finds himself treating an elderly homeless man, brought in for vandalizing the imposing Malcolm Industries building. The old man insists on calling Dan "War Dragon", but can recall nothing of his own past or identity.

Para ganar la guerra contra los titanes se necesito más que sólo el poder de los dioses. Zeus no podía derrotar a los titanes por si solo, así que creó un arma: doce creaturas conocidas como los Yokaiju. Armas que funcionaban perfectamente para derrotar a los poderes primordiales. Pero para hacerlo, necesitaban estar vivos.

Twins Mindy and Mandy rely on shaky advice to find ghosts at an abandoned house. Discovered with a bloody knife in their hands, they turn to Hawk Theriot to clear them for the murder of the old man, Gramps Atkins, who once lived there. Hawk suspects one of Gramps's three sons. Only he does not know which one. All have motive, means, and opportunity. After interviewing all three, Hawk reaches a surprise conclusion, despite the continued interference of the twins in the guise of help. Even the ghosts did not see this one coming.

Who is Denys Woodville? England, 1471. Adopted as an infant, Denys lives with her mother, Elizabeth: queen and married to Edward IV. Denys makes numerous attempts to uncover her true lineage, but each effort comes to an abrupt and tragic end. Queen Elizabeth metes out Denys's ultimate degradation, when she marries her off to the ambitious Valentine Starbury.

London, 1897. When romance author Christopher Price is told by his publisher to write gothic horror - the most fashionable genre at the time - he reluctantly accepts and retreats to his usual country cottage to write the book. Henry, the caretaker of the cottage, welcomes Christopher back with open arms. While researching the old books in the house, he comes across a photograph album with pictures of Henry and his wife, Enid.

Shipwrecked on the African coast, Major Jack Windrush and his wife Mary find themselves embroiled in a war, as the Ashantis attack the British colony of the Gold Coast. While Jack leads a company of the West India Regiment, Mary tries to help the refugees in Cape Coast Castle. Soon, they both find themselves deeply involved in the war, and will need to make sacrifices they could have never anticipated.

After surviving the Battle of Culloden in 1746, young Hughie MacKim swears a blood oath to avenge the murder of his brother. Trained as an infantryman in Fraser's Highlanders, Hugh joins the Army himself and follows the trail across the horror of war in North America, through to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in September 1759. But how can he trace the men in the anonymous ranks of the British Army?

After one too many drinks at Dionysus' bar, Jason and Hercules find themselves transported to the 21st century: a world where they've been practically forgotten. The gods of Olympus are gone, existing in a separate dimension, forced only to observe as the world relegates their history to children's stories and fantasy. But some of the Olympians still remember a time when people came to them in droves, worshipping and sacrificing in their name, and they miss the love which was bestowed upon them.