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In 865AD, Vikings attack the female Bramingham Monastery in the Kingdom of Northumbria. The building is looted with everything of value taken by the pagans. Abbess Jane and senior nuns are slaughtered and the younger nuns abducted into slavery. Maiden Kendra, minding the monastery sheep on the top plateau during the attack survives. This is her story. PART 1 KNOW THINE ENEMY In 865AD Vikings attack the female Bramingham Monastery in the Kingdom of...
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It is 320 AD and Hadrian's Wall separates Roman Britannia Inferior (now the northern counties of England) from the free lands to the north where the village of Darbarri is located. There, Jelena is asked by her father Druid Floyd to travel south of the wall into Roman territory to help the people in the small village of Bramfield. It is a dangerous area for the new Roman emperor has declare that everyone living in the Roman Empire should convert to...
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INFINITY DRIVE MISSIONSIn Infinity Drive Missions, all our old friends are back including Brittany, Zane and the little silf Pepper, as well as their galaxy cruiser Strabo. They continue their adventures in our distant future. Brittany and her companions find themselves stranded on Fortitude, a spaceship orbiting their planet. After a mysterious start, they discover that the computer voices coming from the onboard computers are live beings. Yuri is...
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Travis Crichton and Jacey Roden's weekend orienteering contest in a vintage Mark 4 Jaguar car becomes a journey through a belt of fog and into a strange village called The Valley that is not shown on any map. The store and people there appear to be living in the 1950s, a time when the car was new. Jacey realizes that this is more than random misfortune and that they are caught up in something more sinister. Back home through the fog, the authorities...
5) Acid Air
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When Greg awakes in , a nuclear submarine K264's decompression chamber, he finds himself alone. All the crew are just piles of ash. Also, the computer produces a hologram of a young woman called Nedda. More sinister is that the air on the surface has become poisoned, there is no contact with anyone and it seems that he is alone in the world . Shontel is stranded in a deep cave on Vancouver Island. On finding her way out she discovers that everyone...
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When her mother dies after an accident, Astrid Stowell moves to the small New Zealand Coromandel Peninsular village of Hook Bay to live with her grandfather, Steve Barton. She has to cope with life in a new environment with old friends' help and betrayal, a new school to attend for her final high school year and an early encounter with the forces of nature.Steve's love and guidance, as well as Astrid's ability as an artist, helps her through difficult...
7) Mind Split
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The bees that attack a group of students at a graduation party are far from ordinary. Every student is stung once in the neck, except Madison who is stung twice and collapses. When she wakes up she finds she is in a new strange place called Buckoway but still remembers Earth. Her friends have no memories of home. Buckoway is a strange hybrid of modern and old civilisations. There is electricity but no motor vehicles, aircraft or firearms. It is as...
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Karla Spicer finds her position as Senior Teacher at Tui Park Primary School in Wellington, New Zealand's capital, is hindered by the Associate Principal Val Cook, who resents her progressive ideas. Principal Murray Norwood, is an easy-going man drifting towards retirement who avoids controversy whenever possible. However, through a conscientious attitude and by supporting junior staff and parents Karla becomes a popular staff member. Karla becomes...
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In the mid 1990s, Zuzana Milenkova, rescued from her fate as a sex slave of a rebel militia group in war-torn Bosnia, finds herself alone in a strange new country. She has emigrated to New Zealand and has anglicised her name to Susan but is that sufficient? There are many obstacles to overcome, a new language to learn, different customs and a new career. She also has to come to terms with the horror of the past before she can move on and create a...
10) Watershed Law
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Lawyers, Alina Hanlon and Jarin Boyd meet while participating in a white water rafting trip at an in-service retreat for their profession at the White Water Lodge. They survive being tossed from a raft and over a waterfall in the upper Rangitikei River of the central North Island in New Zealand and manage to reach a bush hut just before a summer storm arrives. So begins this romantic thriller about their lives and those in the two Auckland law firms...
