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They’re torn between duty and love, passion and power, reputation and regality. In this four-book boxed set the Royal Agents of M16 destroy the enemy, journey across the globe into perilous situations and steamy encounters, then return to the men and women they love. While each title in this series is a standalone featuring one couple with their own HEA, the books in the series will be more enjoyable in order.

Incredibly smart and unbelievably stealthy, I take my name “Zeppelin” seriously. As a Brit who worked for the US NSA and NRO, I’m experienced and wise, with a penchant for technology. Traffickers can never get by me, and they never even see me coming. Teaming up with the young and assertive Verity is not my idea of a good time. But going undercover as her lovesick husband may be my worst nightmare. The last thing I want to do is pretend to like this chick. Let’s be honest, she’s not real happy with this make-believe coupling either. I may have heard her mumble “neanderthal” once or twice.

As the ruthless commander of Unit 23, I’ve dedicated my life to eliminating the world’s deadliest threats. Infiltrating crime syndicates and executing covert missions is all I’ve ever known. But when I meet Eliza Fox, my carefully constructed world begins to crumble. For the first time, I find myself longing for a life beyond the shadows. As our whirlwind romance blossoms, I’m thrust into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with my former mentor—a man I thought long dead. With everything I hold dear at stake, I must confront the ghosts of my past to secure our future.

Lady Cecilia Maitland has everything an unmarried woman could want: money of her own, high social status, and the ability to live life on her own terms. What she doesn’t have is the only man she ever loved. She turned down James’s proposal all those years ago and didn’t see him again...until he turned up at a house party in search of a patron. Cecilia knows she can provide him the monetary and social support he needs if they marry, but will he accept such an offer from the woman who broke his heart? And what will it cost her if he does?

Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They are never the whole story. Exploring seven old towns, from Frankfurt and Prague to Vilnius in Lithuania, Marek Kohn examines how they have been used since the Second World War to conceal political tensions and reinforce certain versions of history.

Your husband stands just outside the fence, beckoning you to join him. Of course, that shouldn't be anything out of the ordinary. Still, because he died many years ago....

Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing Vitruvian Man comes from a description by the ancient Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, who wrote the only major work on architecture or engineering to survive from classical antiquity.

The last bequest of a convicted murderer on death row in Texas lures men seeking fortunes into the lawless Congo. Rigby Croxford, still in mourning for his wife, is drawn into a web of deception and corruption by a friend in trouble. They have survived the unbridled barbarity of untamed Africa before, but this time is different.

Before her suspicious death, Rigby Croxford's wife, Helen, fingered an African politician as the head of an international wildlife poaching syndicate. Plans to avenge Helen's death are put on hold when an ex-lover from Rigby's past reenters his life. The woman's daughter has disappeared in Africa. She enlists Rigby's help, but her agenda is not what it seems to be.

Rigby Croxford's introduction to the United States proves to be more perilous than anything he faced in Africa. His efforts to defend his famous brother-in- law, a television newscaster, from a sex scandal puts him at odds with men bent on destroying America.

Still unclear as to his past or why he had been brought to these war-ravaged lands, Darcus is sent on a journey to retrieve the Orb of Origins from an evil, dark sorcerer. If he returns the orb to the elder of the Mërka Uran, he has been promised to have his memories restored. Facing the Dark Sorcerer will not be an easy task though. While Darcus starts off with wyverns and a clear direction, his journey isn’t as straight of a path as he had hoped for. Darcus is determined, but will he even make it to the Dark Sorcerer’s Lair?

Rigby Croxford returns in this spine-chilling saga about six American tourists ensnared in the middle of a bloody African coup. Their harrowing escape takes them down the mighty Zambezi River. They are challenged by the brutality of the Dark Continent. James Gardner again lives up to the immense praise he has received from America's best-selling author James Patterson, Nelson DeMille, and other industry heavy weights for his mastery of action/adventure/thriller writing.

Darcus is lured deeper into these war-ravaged lands and is captured by a slaver. Not trained in the powers of the realm or the powers of the void, Darcus is cast into a world ruled by an evil Shaläri wizard king and prince who seek to rule over all men, elves, dwarves, giants, centaurs, and the Mërka Uran. Darcus must learn how to master his powers and protect his enchanted sword that has been sought after for over 1,000 years while uncovering who is friend or foe.

James Gardner weaves both the brutality and the compassion of modern Africa into his thriller, The Lion Killer. His protagonist, Rhodesian war hero Rigby Croxford, is hired by the unscrupulous American litigator Max Turner to rescue his son from Congolese rebels after a peaceful safari to see the mountain gorillas turns into a bloodbath of rape and murder. Croxford is apprehensive about Max’s hidden agenda, but it’s too late to back out. The adventure has more twists than the Zambezi River with danger at every bend.

On the verge of losing everything, the citizens of Ness come together to save their kingdom, led by two young friends who show them how to work together by honoring their differences. Beans and humans alike come together to form a close-knit community that embraces different cultures and ways of life. The Ness farm discovers that their greatest crop isn't beans, but love. Together, they build a fair and peaceful world where all are free.

The young bodybuilder found himself alone in a strange city, homeless, where he knew no one. Would he survive the concrete jungle when all his pleas for help fell on deaf ears? The alien world Will visited every night in his dreams had its own perils too. He must find the blue orchid he had placed on the dead girl’s chest before he had pushed her body into the lava flow. He had been told that the flower couldn’t perish in flames, but would he be able to find it? Would he find the narrow path to his love? Would the blue orchid melt the ice in her heart?

Recruited solely for his reputation in cyber intelligence, Luke Frankland is meant to lend his name to a cyber start-up venture, host clients, and build up the sales value of the fledgling company. However, when he is targeted by a new type of social engineering, he quickly realises that all is not as it seems in the high-tech world of commercial intelligence gathering. Thrust into an environment where corporate advantage means multi-million dollar contracts, he discovers that some within the firm will stop at nothing to protect their share of the profits.

When a British bank, investing in emerging markets and hoping to help some of the world’s poorest, starts hemorrhaging money, Luke is called in to find out who is to blame. He soon finds himself in the middle of a multinational game of treachery, extortion, and murder.

Luke Frankland, a junior intelligence officer just home from the Iraq War, finds himself cast into a world of cyber espionage and state-level politics. Out of his depth and with no one in the government heeding his warnings, he forms a makeshift team and tries to establish who is waging a new kind of war from behind a keyboard. The truth will leave him plunged into an arena he little expected, and where the real cost is not measured in 1s and 0s but in human life.

Powerful new technologies enable us to see the details of how our neural systems work. We no longer need to speculate about how genes are expressed or the nature of consciousness. Now, we can understand how the brain functions from the bottom up, how we communicate, form ideas, and behave accordingly.