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A group of hackers is attempting to defraud the Canadian banking system. Investigations conducted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the O'Unit (Ontario), are inconclusive since this particular type of fraud is unheard of. The Superintendent of the Department of Electronic Fraud, Derek Savill, receives an unexpected and well written e-mail signed by a certain Master of Criminals stating that he needs to speak with him regarding the course of his investigations.
Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 2007.
Single mom Cate has started nursing school, but between her five-year-old son, her ADHD struggles, and her part-time job, her grades are already slipping. High school football coach Adam has been head-over-heels for a colleague for the past year but is too scared to make a move. As long-time friends, Cate and Adam make the perfect deal. He’ll help her study, and she’ll help him with his love life. But the more time they spend together, the more their feelings get tangled. Will they finally see what’s been right in front of them all this time?
Known best by his nickname, Adam, Brigadier General Angus Donald McGregor (A.D.M.) is the Air Force and Defense Attache' serving at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. As a handsome, career bachelor with an eye for beauty, Adam enjoys the finer things in life. Sonya Olsen, a young, beautiful housewife from Minnesota, is uprooted by her husband from the safety and security of her Midwestern life. Sonya and her two small boys are transplanted to Cairo innocent of the dangers that plague the Middle East. Thrown together by unusual circumstances, Adam and Sonya begin a love affair faced with ostensibly grave odds that only their stalwart resolve to each other can overcome. Their torrid amour is abruptly halted by a family catastrophe resulting from a terrorist attack and a tragic accident that leaves Sonya clinging to her life.
After the Master is shot, the shroud of mystery surrounding him thickens. There is one person who knows his true identity and he has vowed to protect the Master until his dying day. But the enemy of all enemies arrives in Canada to deal with the Master in his own way. Carefully kidnapping him, he places the Master in a wooden crate without food or water for several days as they journey to a destination unknown to the Master.
This is the second book in the Dalton Family Trilogy, set in the Second World War. Adam and Juliette Dalton who own the old Somerville Estate (Revenge is Wild Justice - the first book)have become wealthy. Phil, their son joins the RAF as a Mosquito pilot while their daughter Jennifer is trained as an SIS intelligence agent sent to France. A serial killer has abused and murdered several young women near RAF stations, but the police fail to track him down. The Daltons and other RAF airmen take over the investigation. To protect children from the Blitz London school children are evacuated to safety in the country. The Porter family is sent to the Cotswolds where Derek (Del Boy)is billeted with the Daltons. There is a battle of wills between the 'giant' Adam and the 'Artful Dodger' Del Boy. Several threads of the story involving the main characters interweave against an accurate historical background, finally coming together. This crime thriller involves romance, hatred, murder, revenge and aviation.
When do you know when the fine line between love and obsession has been crossed? Mark and Kerry have it all the perfect love, the perfect relationship, and a bright future or so it seems. But these two people have two very different perceptions of their relationship. In Mark's eyes, theirs is the perfect love love at first sight. He'll go crazy if he can't have her. When he returns after visiting family abroad, he struggles to find the courage to ask Kerry to marry him. Kerry, on the other hand, is trying to find the strength to say good-bye. She never finds that courage but she leaves him anyway. Weighed down by a secret she cannot share, Kerry returns to the place she once called home. There she reunites with a family she thought she had lost forever and meets Derek. Soon she finds herself being torn apart by the love of two men. Can she find the courage to do what is best for her and her daughter, when for so long she has been putting others' needs before her own? When you're obsessed, you'll do anything to have what you want. But when you are in love, their life means more to you than your own. Can Kerry walk that fine line, or will forces beyond her control determine her fate?
Kate has a secret, as everyone does. Right before she moved to Maryland, Kate was diagnosed with Leukemia. Now all she has to do is keep it a secret. The problem is Kate falls in love with her best friend’s boyfriend, Derek. Once Derek finds out, the word “cancer” spreads like wildfire. Kate decides to go living her life like normal and Dr. Lemeix, Kate’s physician, has found a cure. There’s a catch, there’s only a five percent chance she’s going to live through it. Kate has to decide between living the rest of her days out with Derek or under go the needle for her life.
What if your path forward leads you back home? When Toronto party girl Kylie is fired from her perfect job, she's forced to do the one thing she never wanted to do: go home. Returning to her sleepy hometown is her definition of failure. She drags herself back to the lakeside town of Camden with her tail between her legs, and she'll do whatever it takes to get back to the big city. When Derek runs a routine traffic stop on a speeder, the one person he never expects to see in Camden again is Kylie. In fact, he barely recognizes her. She doesn't look like the quiet, sweet girl he had a crush on in high school. Kylie's brother offers her a job back in the city if she can prove she’s changed her ways. She finds the perfect opportunity, but it means working with Derek to save the town’s waterfront. Can she look past their feud and get the job done? Can she avoid falling in love with him and complicating her plans to return to the big city?
From bone-crushing lovers to a cross-dressing hitman, the night-soil man of the gods and sex conditioning on squids, the dangerous desires of the diabolically large and seductively small, body-swapping, gender-swapping, exploration, transcendence and re-incarnation, machines that are gods and machines that are cats...Polluto 7 is here