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It is too late to retrieve the code. Victoria and Basil must instead recreate it and get it to the queen as fast as possible. To do that, they must travel to the remote Yorkshire seaside, along with Basil’s sister and her husband, and their friend Fred Brody, to a vast, empty house of Professor Winchester’s where Victoria’s reference books reside. But a ghostly presence begins to interfere, drawing closer and closer every day. Will Victoria, who has already lost so much and achieved so much, be able to stop her old mentor’s wicked plans once and for all?

Need more of the charming Victoria Thulin and her eccentric tutor, Professor Basil Collingwood? You’ve come to the right place! The denizens of Pendy Corner and the occupants of Baker Street lead interesting lives, to say the least. Their adventures take them to the depths of an Oxford laboratory on a Halloween night, to an illegal Shoreditch boxing match, across the ice of the Serpentine River, and trailing after the mysterious Keeper of Her Majesty's Broom Cupboard. Take a glimpse into these, and even more, of our heroes' thrilling daily escapades. “The Pendywick Pair” is a ...

Young Quinn and Agatha are caught between immortal factions, and Quinn must face the truth about all of them--and his own lineage--if he is to save his own life, Agatha's, and indeed, all of Europe. Christmas Eve, 1848. Young Quinn Campbell and his best friend Agatha have been kidnapped. Their captor, Dmitriy Gavrilov, is cruel, ruthless--and a vampire. Thus begins a treacherous journey through ice-locked Europe, toward a castle in the depths of Romania, and a mysterious ruler at the heart of a thousand-year war. Can Quinn somehow bring peace between the two factions by assuming his ...

Because of a small, careless action in the medieval past, the Allied Forces may not win World War 2 after all. Bhaird, second son of a Scottish lord, is heartbroken when his father is killed in a hunting accident, and the three MacDonald brothers are divided to rule their inheritances. While his brothers are given pieces of Scotland, Bhaird, bitter and angry, must cross the sea to Ireland. Oleron decides to come along on the journey. But as the brothers set sail, the sea churns and takes their ships under... And when they surface, the brothers find themselves in the far future. In the midst...

A man who has been the subject of experiments all his life will not survive the next one. He must escape, leaving all he knows, or die. KL-62 was created in a test tube--a perfect specimen of a human male. On the way to be transferred to a remote space station, he learns he is about to be the subject of one last experiment—and it will prove fatal. He has no choice but to break out of the only environment he has ever known, and crash-land on an abandoned prison planet called Tenebrae. He must survive a perilous web of dark dead-ends and patrol droids, and the only one who can help him is ...

If he succeeds, he will be named a hero. If he fails, his kingdom, and everyone in it, will crumble to dust. Young Lord Oleron MacDonald has been given a mission. The mysterious wizard, Rune, has cursed him, forcing him to leap forward through time in a desperate search for a great treasure Oleron has coveted and killed for: the treasure that Beowulf himself wrested from the dragon. But while Oleron sees only the chance to return home in wealth and glory, his courage and his heart will be tested by the devastating trials of the London fire of 1666, the sinking of the Titanic, the bombing of...

Old allies become mortal enemies in a war between pure logic and emotion. John Cannon was once a ruthless killing machine. The Elder Knight for the Kingdom of Novus--a new world where emotions had been eradicated by an implant, and everything that created perceived "inequality" between citizens of Novus was confiscated and destroyed. But John Cannon became a Traitor and killed the King, and rebels destroyed the emitters to the implants, allowing the people of Novus to experience emotion again. Now, John is learning to navigate this foreign territory with the help of these rebels, and to ...