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A novel for those who loved Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The Poisonwood Bible and The Lovely Bones.Raped then murdered in Japanese occupied Hong Kong, 1942, Lin Shui’s ‘Hungry Ghost’ clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host off whom to feed. It is 12-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled daughter of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows her to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, embroiled in the family’s web of dark secrets and desperate lies, unleashes chaos. All this unfolds against a background of colonial unrest, riots, extremes of weather and the countdown to the return of the colony to China. As successive tragedies engulf Alice, her ghostly entourage swells alarmingly. She flees to England, then France, in a bid to escape the past, only to find her portable ‘Hungry Ghosts’ have accompanied her. It seems the peace she longs for is to prove far more elusive that she could ever have imagined.The Hungy Ghosts is a remarkable tour-de-force of the imagination, full of instantly memorable characters whose lives intermesh and boil over in a cauldron of domestic mayhem, unleashing unworldly spirits into the troubled air.

The best Christmas gift of allChristmas is approaching and a holiday in the snowy Alps with her young son should be a pleasure for single mum Crystal. But it means facing the one man who affects her like no other: brooding Frenchman Raoul Broussard. There was always a spark between Raoul and Crystal, but he is her late husband’s brother and she is determined to keep her distance.Yet with festive sleigh rides, toasty log fires and even a touch of mistletoe forcing her ever closer to Raoul, Crystal is forced to confront both the way he makes her feel – and the heartwarming way he connects with her son…

A lifetime of caution gone in one night…Angela Capria had never experienced that crazy desire that makes one forget caution and succumb to passion. Then a fascinating, exhilarating stranger rescued her and she totaly physical awareness. And after one ngiht of perfect seduction, Angela had a searing memory of the most phenomenal deflowering a girl ever had….It had been a setup. Angela's friends thought she needed a dark and dangerous fantasy man to sweep her off her feet, take control and awaken her sensuality. Corporal Vic Steadman had reluctantly agreed to the charade, never planning to go that far. But now he wanted more than one night–and the only way to make amends was to «recapture» Angela's virginity with a hands-off promise….