A novel of love and intrigue. On his way home, the protagonist chances upon a beautiful young fugitive climbing out of a window.

Lunacy, Alaska - population 506 - is Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die - and the guilt still haunts him. Maybe serving as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote town, where darkness falls by midafternoon and temperatures fall to zero and below, will bring some kind of solace.

An enthralling story of violence and revenge

Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth- century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality.

Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Working as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school, she falls in love with a fickle sixth-former, Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby she soon realises just how alone she really is.