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When Frederick Bligh invented a machine which allowed him to travel into another dimension he was happy but then he thought, what good is it. When he found out that another machine in that dimension allowed him to go anywhere in the dimension he had just left, our dimension, it suddenly became useful and he started to get rich. When his ex girlfriend's new beau beat him up the last time, for merely buying everyone a drink in his local, he swore to get his revenge. He was a clever young man and used his anger to drive him on to bigger and better things. He dropped the bed the two were making...

With the arrival of the civil war, Peter Heyward decided to change things on his plantation. He turned his slaves into his own personal army so that they could fight for the union army when they arrived. to do that they had to train but keep what they were up to a secret. The first army to arrive was the confederate army but they were ready for them. It allowed the union army to reach them a lot more quickly without the need of bombarding the plantation with the canons. The army left with the union soldiers as a unit and Peter relaxed. He knew a young slave girl and was quite prepared to ...

When Hardy decided to cross the post apocalypse desert to keep away from the cannibals that now roamed his country, he took as much water as he could find. He had his meagre belongings on a sled with the water and walked out into the desert. He killed and ate anything that came within his reach as he travelled but water was always the problem. He found a crashed aeroplane and managed to distil water from the engine cooling system. He found other things there but to make his sled heavier was not worthwhile. When he walked on he travelled at night when it was cooler. As he walked he heard a ...

The team decide to go on holiday and choose the place in the usual way. The dart lands on the map and it is an island but things are never that easy. Stevey buys a boat to take everyone out there but soon after they disembark to go to the island the boat is taken by pirates. The team find that they have to rescue their fathers so that they can then rescue their mothers. Meanwhile José Colebora has escaped from prison in Colombia and he wants revenge!

The book is set in prohibition era Chicago. Cally is the daughter of the local mob's bookkeeper. He milks money from the mob slowly over some time to be able to move away with his daughter. He wants his estranged wife to go with them but he doubts that that will happen. The day he chooses to leave another bookkeeper arrives to go over the mob books. He finds the thefts and they chase Dermot the bookkeeper to ask him about it. He is hit by a bus and ends up in hospital. Meanwhile Cally is asleep in bed at home blissfully unaware of any of it. Her father has given her a key to look after and ...

Stuart and Stevey come out of the wrong flume and are faced with possible death, but they land on an alien spaceship. The spaceship breaks their fall but there is another spaceship following which is trying to destroy the spaceship they are on. Their weight on top saves the spaceship but they are eventually hit and the pilot flies into the forest to hide and crash lands there. The team immediately want to help the pilot who appears to be a young alien girl. After that their actions to help her first defeat the robots trying to kill her and then rescue her father from his evil brother. After...

After the happenings at Gordon Hall the team decide to go to Devon to rest but they soon find themselves in a nether world, inhabited by some interesting things, some from their minds. They soon work out that they have to overcome the apprentice, free the wizard and take the two books and the two Victorians out of this world. The one problem was the homicidal white shoed leprechaun who was willing to turn anyone into stone in his fight against the apprentice. They are on the same side but it is hard to explain that to someone who acts first and thinks later.

When Stevey inherited a lot of money from his great, great aunt, he decided to buy Gordon Hall, a house the team had come across earlier and found it to be haunted. The plan was to get to know the ghost if they could and help it, if you can help a ghost. At the same time they met Waif, named Foundling Waif by the convent who were 'looking after' her. She was dressed in rags and malnourished. She was also ill treated by one of the girls, she was called Ursula and they took an instant dislike to her and the hockey stick she carried to control Waif. Follow the latest adventure of the Minton ...

When the team returned from Deetmar, everything seemed too tame and Celia suggested a holiday. They used the dart in the globe method to find out where to go and ended up at what was considered a played out mine in Australia. The miner was there and drunk when they crept in to get to the spot the dart landed in their estimation. They met his son Alfie and as his son did not see many people when he was out of school they became friends. When Simon found a diamond with his diamond detector things changed at the mine dramatically. When they had completed their mission they went on holiday and ...

When the dust settled it was time for Calliaster Doyle to go to finishing school. Drummond chose both her school and his school, they were in different states which upset Cally a lot until she received a note and saw him on the opposite side of the river she was standing by. Now she smiled. They were bound to have more adventures now and she was close to her boyfriend.

When Clementine decided that her line of work, killing people for SI8 a government backed department introduced after 7/11 she knew it was not a thing that would happen without her being dead. She arranged with three drag artists to do the work for her, that way she was still working. They were very good at dressing up and when one walked out looking just like her, and Clementine was a very pretty woman, she was astonished. That is what gave he the idea. John Fairchild was the investigator for SI8 and he was very good. When one triplet was killed and returned to England in the diplomatic ...

Life moved on for the team but they were being watched and stalked. Someone had plans for them and they were not nice plans. At first they did not know anything about it but they soon twigged. As soon as they started investigating, the man watching them ended up in the river. It was a dead end but they soon found out about it, the hard way.

When Duncan Lee left the union army at the end of the civil war, he had very little money and there were not many jobs about. He rode past town after town and decided to ride into Martinsburg. He chose the day to ride in just after the bank had been robbed. When he asked about work the deputy laughed and suggested that he catch up with the posse so that he could share in the reward when they caught the perpetrators. He gave him flyers with the gangs description on them and likenesses. He chose to ride out the way he came in but when he came to a wide plain he chose to go up the rocks on the...