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A teenage snooker prodigy, Ronnie turned professional with the highest of expectations. This pressure, together with a challenging personal life, catapulted Ronnie into a life of excess and addiction. He was winning titles - his first within a year of turning professional - but losing himself and his game as he tried to block out the mental pain and misery. Whilst Ronnie appeared at the height of the game to spectators, these were the moments when he felt at his lowest.

Emperor Aithan has commanded his eight heirs to carry out the plans that the Alliance in Trinon has ordered, which means that they will marry into the varying realms in the Meridian. Will the heirs do as they are bidden? What secrets will be revealed? What requistions will be given as the heirs look to their futures in the Meridian?

In the third age of man, Emperor Aithan rules one of the realms in the Meridian in peace and prosperity with the complementary counsel from his wife, Arabella, and Nicodemus, the Elder. Aithan has spent the past 20 years educating his eight children in matters of law, nobility, and equal rights of all the citizens in their realm of Trinon, with the expectation that the knowledge they gain would be used throughout the Meridian.

After publishing his first book, The Hunter, in 2010, Tom Wood has gone on to write seven more titles within his Victor the Assassin series, which features his cold assassin antihero, Victor. He has now published the exciting eighth installment, Kill for Me. Tom wood talks to us about his latest book, his infamous antihero and the supporting characters he loves to write.

In the spirit of Stephen King, the natural becomes supernatural in Isla Chillido—a true tale of terror. Isla Chillido is a luxury Caribbean island resort that is largely populated during the summer season by the grown children of uber-rich parents who feel entitled, empowered, and carefree to a fault. Their only parameters in life seem to be an abject worry of being ridiculed by their peers or appearing “uncool” at any moment in time. These pretentious young adults fear nothing and no one until…until they are faced with a horror beyond imagination.