Desperation Point


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Book 2 of 3 It began with The Cove. Now the suspense continues with the second chilling thriller in the Devil's Cove Trilogy. Devil's Cove used to be a safe place to live. Until a serial killer was caught hiding behind a familiar face. As the Cornish community reels in shock, missing teen Cal Anderson has been implicated in the murders. Desperate for answers, his mother Carrie is determined to track him down. But so is someone else... Crime writer Aaron Black has arrived in town. His career is in ruins and he's determined to save it by writing a bestseller about the killings. But he needs Cal, and he'll do anything to find him - even if it means endangering lives. Because there’s more to the horrifying truth than anyone can imagine. And for Carrie and her family, the real nightmare is only just beginning. ***** Praise for the Devil's Cove Trilogy: "Downright chilling." - Tranquility Book Reviews "Gets your heart racing." - Reading Out Loud "A real page-turner leading you deep into a dark and terrifying world." - Readers' Favorite "Be prepared for a spine-tingling intense read. I was riveted to the pages." - A Wonderful World of Words "Packed with intrigue, deception, tension twists and turns. A must read!" - SJ's Book Blog The Devil's Cove Trilogy: 1. THE COVE 2. DESPERATION POINT 3. THE DEVIL'S GATE Also available as a complete series ebook boxset.




Desperation Point


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In the mountains of a paradisiacal island, four teenagers went hiking, only to discover that they were walking straight into a catastrophic earthquake. Years later,their lives were entangled in a chain of natural disasters including: an ever raging hurricane and a monstrous volcano. In the midst of those dreadful disasters, Robert Cullingberg is caught up in a sophisticated love affair between Kaila Bronson his childhood friend and later a storm specialist and Erika Hafez a young German professor at Ross University. At the same time, Nature Isle is in campaign mode. Wrapped in a tangled web of deception, the ruling political party is keeping a deadly secret from the people; a menacingly active volcano is about to erupt and the main opposition party is fighting feverishly to blow the governments cover.




The Power of Desperation


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What could be good about being broken? Michael Catt, innovtive pastor and executive producer of hit films Facing the Giants and Fireproof, finds treasure at rock bottom in The Power of Desperation, a book for anyone who has ever cried out for God’s strength in life’s moments of absolute weakness: “Maybe you are feeling alone, immersed in a time of darkness. I’ve got good news: God is on the verge of getting you alone with Him, so He can get the ‘you’ out of you and fill you with Himself.” Through biblical and modern stories of incomplete people whose only path to victory is through total surrender, Catt introduces yet another breakthrough concept worthy of widespread personal application. Discover the power of desperation.




In Desperation


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Eleven-year-old Tilly Martin is dragged from her suburban bedroom. Her mother, Cora, pleads for mercy but the kidnappers are clear: if they don't get their $5 million back in five days, Tilly dies. If anyone contacts police, Tilly dies. Journalist Jack Gannon's estranged sister, Cora, disappeared without a trace decades ago. Now she is frantically reaching out to him for help. Cora tells him about the shameful mistakes she's made—but she guards the one secret that may be keeping her daughter alive. A twenty-year-old assassin, haunted by the faces of the people he's executed, seeks absolution as he sets out to commit his last murders as a hired killer. In the U.S. and Mexico, police and the press go flat out on Tilly's case. But as Gannon digs deeper into his anguished sister's past, the hours tick down on his niece's life and he faces losing a fragment of his rediscovered family forever.




The Red Trade Menace


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Acts of Desperation


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'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer 'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times 'Such brilliant writing about female desire...honest and visceral' Marian Keyes She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his thin, glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn... We're all looking to get what we want - but do we know what we need?




The Spectator


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Desperation


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Welcome to Desperation. Once a thriving copper mining town in the middle of the Nevada desert, Desperation is now eerily abandoned. It's the last place that travellers like the Carver family, bound for vacation, and writer Johnny Marinville, astride his Harley, would expect to be stopped and charged. But Desperation still has a local cop - a unique regulator who patrols the wilderness highway. The secrets buried in Desperation are as terrifying as the forces summoned to encounter them. A terrifying transformation is taking place and the travellers will soon discover the true meaning of desperation . . .







Prices of Quinine and Quinidine


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Investigates price rises in quinidine and quinine in relationship to market factors and alleged attempts of a Netherlands cartel and West German companies to control world supply and prices.