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Where Lies Begin Her knight in shining armor had just ridden in and she didn’t even know it. All around them, the other in-patients were scattered with their visitors. On overstuffed sofas layered over with plastic to prevent the worst of the stains, mommies and daddies were giving their little girls and boys cuddles, but…
Exclusive Look: The Baby Farm Murders
Terms, £10 Evelina Marmon had made a mistake. It was not an uncommon mistake for a woman to make. Women had been making that same mistake over and over since the dawn of time, which was somewhat lucky, given that it was the kind of mistake that meant that the human race kept on existing.…
Exclusive Look: The Monster Within
Everyday Heroes The waters rushed by, setting their log raft rocking gently as they drifted downriver. The sunlight sparkled on every little wave, tiny silver fish flitted underneath, and everything was bright and warm and alive. The three boys were laughing among themselves, rocking the raft as it went, safe in the knowledge that it…
Exclusive Look Inside: Seeking Hearts
True Romance It was not the easiest time to find a date. The Great War had taken so many of the men, and those that had come home were survivors, they were changed, harsh and broken, all the romance in their hearts burned away by the whistling shells and the blood they had shed. Looking…
Exclusive Look Inside: Outback Outlaw
Outlaw of the Outback The world blurred sideways in the dark of the night. Neon and stars spun in a great kaleidoscope of colours. Liquor and beer churned in his stomach, and though deep inside of him he was still as sane and rational a man as he always had been, the only sound he…
Exclusive Look Inside: Butcher, Biter, Spy
Boom Town Across the globe men, women, and children of every free nation rejoiced. The war was at an end. Surely that would be the end of all war. Nobody could conceive of unleashing such nightmares again. There was an entire generation for whom the faintest scent of turned soil or chlorine cleaner was enough to reduce…
Exclusive Look Inside: Drop Dead Dangerous
Quick Draw The Georgia freeway was swallowed up beneath Paul’s tyres, the endless stretch of black up ahead being gobbled down and turned into history behind him. He never looked back, never needed to, never wanted to. Forward was where the excitement was—forward, just about anything could happen. He could be anybody, do whatever he…
Exclusive Look Inside: Crimson Petticoats
Hope Springs In 1855, the world was changing. The cities of France were being rebuilt to the grand design of the new, self-appointed emperor; the fields that had long lain fallow or fallen to ruin were being revived with new methods and technologies. The long hunger that had plagued France throughout its kingless years was…
Exclusive Look Inside: The Beast
Summer Shining Like Gold There was just something about Clifford. He seemed to walk to a different beat as he strolled down the street. Like everyone else was trailing along the ground and he was floating, with a band playing his theme song in the background. When people got close to him, stepping inside that…
Exclusive Look Inside: Doctor Satan
Final Solutions The streets of Paris were clotted with smog. Many months had passed since the occupation began, and the factories that had fallen silent as the French war effort ended had been brought lurching back to a semblance of life. Conscription orders had gone out; every able-bodied man was to report to their assigned…