England in the year 2048 and tanks and troops are guarding the gates of the Houses of Parliament. With the help of prickly centenarian Eric Blair, 17-year-old Winnie Smith takes on the might of the 'liberal progressive' government led by Rose Cromwell, the nation's first black female prime minister overseeing an ever-more dictatorial regime, where free speech is an act of treason and trolls openly cancel and publicly vilify neighbours on giant television...

"It's like carrying around a backpack. It's heavy and it's on your shoulders. It hurts. It weighs you down."The world has just come down around Mae. Her father unexpectedly died, and her despondent mother has no other choice but to take Mae and her two sisters to live with their loving but unprepared grandparents. But while her sisters quickly adjust to the changes of a new house, new school, and new life, Mae finds herself numb and indifferent. The...

A couple's move to an old West Virginia house stirs up a haunting hundred-year-old mystery . . . June 23, 1923: Local Couple Disappears Under Suspicious Circumstances Thanks to a new job opportunity, and with their children now grown, Mary and her husband, Rick, have moved from Indiana into a one-hundred-year-old home in West Virginia. But while adjusting to such a big change in her life, she has no idea that she is about to encounter the...

On the night before Christmas, lock the doors to the house... Forget the jolly old man in his red, big-buttoned suit. Because another creature is up on the roof, preparing for his annual visit to little children everywhere. With a belt of knives round his waist, a writhing bag on his back and a Santa-sized appetite, he's a little...different to the St Nick you might be expecting. And you can leave out all the carrots and mince pies you like...but...

A story for all ages. Rated-everyone. Christmas day 2012 is the birthday of eight year old Nadia. She is in a car accident going to her grandparents' house. She has lost the ability to speak and hear. Her family never gives up hope. The beginning is sad but the ending is beautiful. Word count: 3,594

Winter 1969. Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in Britain, has taken over The Sun and the News of the World, and immediately provoked outrage by serialising the sensational memoirs of Christine Keeler. He is interviewed live on television to defend his actions. Watching from a dilapidated farmhouse deep in the countryside, two men are captivated by the huge sums of money being discussed. A plan is hatched to kidnap Murdoch's wife, Anna, and to demand...

For most potential buyers, Franklin Manor was just a huge run-down old house, a former monastery and tuberculosis sanatorium, half buried in Adirondack snow. But to erstwhile professor, Butch Regent, Franklin Manor was a beacon of hope. It would make his bland and unsatisfactory life meaningful. He would buy it, renovate it, and turn it into an artists' retreat. Lack of money, broken pipes, and pitiless cold almost defeat him but for the help of former...

Tom and Kelly Barrett live a privileged life in their beach cottage along the shores of Lake Michigan, their weekends spent sailing on their sailboat slipped at the local marina. It was a very nice life ... but at what cost, they were beginning to wonder. Unlike many of their wealthy neighbors, theirs was a privilege not given or inherited, but earned. Kelly is a post-op nurse working at a large metropolitan hospital in Chicago where understaffing...

RCMP officer Cooper Tylen finally found the house that called to his soul. Nothing, however, is as it seems and he finds himself thrown into the chaos of the end of his long term relationship amid a grissly murder no one wants him to solve.Rebel Hunter and his lover, Gideon Palmer have seen it all - and then some since their deaths. Cooper's arrival disrupts the quiet of their afterlives. The past however will not rest, and a brutal murder stirs up...

History is nurtured and treasured in the City of Alexandria and in neighboring South Fairfax County. A History Lover's Guide to Alexandria & South Fairfax County focuses on this special area along the Potomac River. Travel through history from Old Town to Mason's Neck and witness the practice of preservation as it continues to evolve today. Alexandria cares for the places essential to understanding our shared past, from cobblestone streets to the...