Beth has it all: a grammar school education, a stay at home mother who dotes on her, a father who works hard on his own business, and a little sister who adores her. But when an older man takes an interest in her, the innocence she once had is slowly ripped away from her.

Seven years later, Abby, her younger sister, has her life turned upside down again on Christmas Eve when pink-haired, skinny Beth turns up out of the blue. Life starts to take a turn for the worse. Now a teenager herself, Abby barely recognises this stranger.

When Beth starts receiving threatening text messages and nightmares disturb her sleep, Abby knows it is not good news. But why won't Beth talk about it? Why is she so powerless?

Abby is tired of explaining that she is not a little kid anymore. In a world away from their comfortable life, Abby begins to see snippets of Beth's broken life and the men who would stop at nothing to get what they wanted. With her parents' marriage on the brink of collapse, Abby wonders whether life will ever return to normality.

In this friendly, fast-paced book, Dan Klefstad shares everything he learned during his 30-year broadcasting career, plus the three-year campaign for his novel, Fiona's Guardians.

Learn how to pitch media interviews, perform well in front of the mic, and how to share that interview. You'll also learn the importance of co-branding with indie bookstores, and which reviewers to pitch and which ones to avoid. Finally, Dan shares how to get your book adapted, pulling off the right stunt, and how to grab surprise opportunities.

With this compact guide, let Dan be your co-pilot in your search for readers, and be sure to catch him at the next book festival or convention - and never pay for promotion again!

Boing boing boing, the day has just begun,

Bounce bounce out of bed, a day of sound play fun!

The Sound We See is the second in a series of children's listen and look books. It is designed to encourage early sound and rhyme play. Follow Baby Bear to find sounds during the day, then listen, and look!

This colourful and engaging picture book is also a great resource to aid early speech and language development to help babble with your baby, toddler or child. It's also a fantastic way for parents and babies to bond.

Designed and written by Specialist Speech and Language Therapists passionate to encourage communication in children.

Scan the QR code or visit the website to watch a video demonstration on the principles of sound play.

When a vampire seduces you, death is minutes away. When she hires you, you'll soon wish you were dead.

It's a truth known to every guardian who worked for Fiona, including Daniel. Aside from managing the day-to-day chores and keeping them protected, he manages an investment portfolio to buy stolen blood from hospital workers. The 250-year-old Fiona needs 10 pints of human blood every night. As a result of this, Daniel and Fiona are always on the lookout for police but fail to notice their gradual encirclement by Mors Strigae, an ancient order of monks dedicated to the extermination of vampires. Gone for a century, the monks start a new war when they destroy Fiona's sire. This time, her vampire family is pushed to the edge of extinction -- and the humans who serve them are hunted and executed.

After 35 years, what keeps him loyal? And will he ever be allowed to leave?

The hardback version includes two bonus short stories which introduce the sequel to Fiona's Guardians. Dan Kleftstad's original spin on the vampire legend brings bloodsuckers into the 21st century, exploring how the manipulative and seductive vampire struggles to maintain her hold to power in the technological age. This original book has already been adapted into a creative podcast performed by Chicago's Artists' Ensemble Theatre show: Mysterious Journey. See artistsensemble.org for more info

Based on a true story

Hermine Braunsteiner is the first person to be extradited from the Unites States for Nazi war crimes. Hermine was one of a few thousand women to work as a female concentration camp guard. Prisoners nicknamed her 'the Mare' because she kicked people to death. When the camps were liberated, Hermine escaped and fled back to Vienna.

Many years later, she met Russell Ryan, an American man holidaying in Austria. They fell in love, married and moved to New York, where she lived a quiet life as an adoring suburban housewife, beloved friend and neighbour. No one, not even her husband, knew the truth of her past, until one day a New York Times journalist knocked on their door,

blowing their lives apart.

The Mare tells Hermine and Russell's story for the first time in fiction. It explores how an ordinary woman could descend so quickly into evil, examining the role played by government propaganda, ideology, fear and cognitive dissonance, and asks why her husband chose to stay with her despite discovering what she had done.

'It Doesn't Matter How We Talk' is a colourful and engaging call-and-response picture book which introduces children to the different ways that people communicate. The book was written and illustrated by an NHS Speech and Language Therapist and is a valuable resource for families, Speech and Language Therapists, teachers, and early years practitioners, providing a simple way to facilitate open conversations about disability, diversity, and acceptance with young children.

'It Doesn't Matter How We Talk' was born out of a need for early years resources which represent communication differences without referencing negative stigma or judgement. The book aims to promote self-acceptance for children with communication differences and develop understanding amongst their peers.

This writer's companion book addresses issues facing authors today, from time management to maintaining motivation. Build a support network, fight writer's block, and find joy in creating your book from start to finish. Fill it with notes, ideas, and affirmations in a format created for the writer in you.

Get Write On It: Your Writing Companion helps unlock your creative potential. You will want a copy for every book project whether you are a novelist, poet, memoirist, or non-fiction writer.

October, 1650

Traumatised Parliamentarian spy James Archer returns north seeking his sister Meg, missing in the aftermath of Newcastle's recent witch trials.

Aloof, enigmatic Elizabeth Thompson draws him to investigate the ongoing killing of women who had worked to free the accused.

But when Elizabeth herself becomes hunted, the only chance of escape lies in Archer setting himself as bait.

Set against the backdrop of the greed and brutality of Interregnum England, The Wicked of the Earth is an historical thriller perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, S J Parris, or C J Sansom.

The Newcastle Witch Trials of 1649 and the fervour which surrounded the Republic claimed the lives of twenty-six women and one man. Following the English Civil War, the women who had maintained the land and towns of England, came under scrutiny for their elevated position in society. Combined with the Republic's puritanical Christianity, the Newcastle Witch Trials swept through the city. Unlike other trials of the time, the Newcastle witches were hung from the scaffold. This book is dedicated to their memory.

Social worker June Hunter races to find a loving adoptive family for a troubled teenage orphan before she ages out of the system. June supports the girl by teaching her how to trust, build healthy relationships, and prepare for an uncertain future.

A Case of Peaches is set in the fascinating world of social workers, lawyers, cops, and needy kids.

The hardback edition includes a glimpse of book 2: CHANNELING SOCRATES

Joy is a contemporary coming-of-age novel revolving around two women who shared an intense whirlwind romance as teenagers. Now, knee-deep in their twenties, they are both navigating their separate lives.

Joy, in London with her husband, is dissatisfied with her materialistic lifestyle. Erica, an artist in their hometown of Liverpool, is stuck thinking about the past whilst living with a girlfriend who can't stop getting fake tan on the bed sheets.

When circumstance brings Joy back home, the pair are faced with everything that was left unsaid, and the chance to risk it all to be together again. What happens when the one that got away comes back?

'Breakthrough' is the first in a series of exciting, fast-paced, heart-warming books based around youth footballer, Jack Harvey. Jack is an up and coming teenager who is trying to break into the first team of one of the most illustrious football clubs in England.

His team, the Academicals (or Accies for short), have fallen on hard times and they are about to be relegated from the top division. Many of the club's best players then desert them for riches elsewhere, but this allows Jack and some of his youth team friends a chance.

After a terrible start to the new season, youth team player Jack and his best friend, goalkeeper Lucas, are thrust into the side in a last-ditch attempt to save the season, and the manager's job.

Finding his scoring boots, they try to gain promotion back to the promised land of the Premier League. Can the Accies climb their way back up the league?

The world turns upside down for thirteen-year-old Brooke Woods - literally - when she tumbles through a mountainside portal during a school trip.

And she's not the only one, either. Her classmates Charlie Flint and Dale Reed got pulled in, too.

Suddenly, they find themselves in a parallel world on the brink of war. A continent teeming with monsters and magic and intrigue. A place unlike anywhere they've ever been before, where one wrong move could see them gobbled up or turned into slugs.

Uland.

There, with the help of a flame-haired woodsperson called Willow, a band of battle-ready trolls, and an ancient Druyad never caught without his pipe, they embark on a dangerous, time-limited mission to get back to the real world. And the only route there takes them through haunted forests, goblin markets and mountain fortresses, all the while pursued by the brutal Commander Hysst and his sinister Doomgaard warriors.

Their journey will forever change their perception of good and evil, and of what TRUE friendship really looks like.

The highly awaited sequel to the multi-prize winning The Little House on Everywhere Street

The fabulous Redmaynes, evicted from their time-travelling house, embrace their new lives on the idyllic-looking farm where they've sought temporary sanctuary-a farm so isolated that it exists in a self-contained bubble in spacetime visible only to them.

But sure, the rustic life is fun for a time but once the novelty fades, how will they-not least the three children-cope when their confinement drags on with no end in sight? After a disconsolate Felice is tempted back to Paris, a chain of time-twisting events is set in motion that brings both the solace of an old friend and the peril of an old enemy back to their door.

With the TDA now circling, can the fugitive family stay hidden much longer? Must they really never go home again? And who or what is the mysterious Third Force that appears to be covertly shaping events in the timeline to suit its own ends-whatever these might be? Are they helping or hindering the Redmayne cause? And, above all, why?

Once again, the Redmaynes find themselves caught in a time-warped trap of their own making-a quantum quandary in which they must risk losing everything they hold dear for the chance to regain their lives. Time to decide.

Sidney the skeleton lives in Halloween Land. Sometimes, poor Sidney can feel a little lonely and not quite 'part of the crowd.' However, one thing that always makes Sidney feel better is music, and now he wants to make his own! He tries playing all sorts of battered and broken instruments he finds lying around, but none of them work. However, after attempting to play trumpets, violas and contrabassoons, our music-loving skeleton discovers that he has a very special talent - Sidney possesses musical bones!

At the 'Grand Monsters' Ball' that year, Sidney enters the talent contest alongside the most weird and wonderful acts. After Harry the Hunchback's eye-watering juggling act and Frankenstein's questionable street-dancing, Sidney hopes that his own unique act will get the judges' attention...

Snowy is a beautiful white puppy. One day he goes out in his garden to discover a big brown ball of prickles.

On investigation, a cheeky little head with a pair of sparkling brown eyes pops out and stares back at him. He introduces himself as Scottie and the two begin to play together. This is a wonderful story about friendship between two loveable friends

Ignatia Heretical isn't shaping up to be much of a Hero.

The daughter of the most famous Villain in the country, Ig is finding that no matter how hard she tries, no one at her illustrious Hero academy seems to trust her. Or, you know. Like her. At all. Her only friend is Pisces - the beautiful, popular girl she's been hopelessly in love with since she started school at the Lunalist Academy For The Gifted and Talented.

However, Ig's chance to prove herself comes when she's signed up for a secret reconnaissance mission; infiltrate Shackleton School for Villains and work out their nefarious plans.

Pretend to be a Villain.

Make friends with an unhinged botanist, a mad scientist, and his insufferable clone/lab assistant.

Find out their secrets.

Go home a Hero.

What could possibly go wrong?

YOUNG LOVE USUALLY HAS A BEGINNING AND AN END

For Anabelle, it began when she met Graham at high school and never ended. Years later, Bella lives next door to Graham, who doesn't acknowledge their past. Still, she cleans his house, cooks the occasional meal, and sometimes sleeps in his bed when he's away on business. Bella is content with the arrangement and fawns over her cat, Sir Trevor, like the replacement child she never had...

When divorcee, Angela Maynard, moves to the street and sets up a psychotherapy practice from home, she grows close with Graham and Bella's cosy routine is threatened. One morning a woman accidentally arrives at Bella's door for her first therapy session with Angela, which is when the seed of an idea implants itself. After all, Angela has taken so much from her and how hard can therapy be?

Posing as Angela, Bella starts to deliver her own style of therapy.

After leading the once-mighty Accies to promotion, home-grown hero Jack Harvey now has the chance to test his skills in the English Premier League. Can he fire the Accies back to glory once again? Jack Harvey 'Believe' is the second in the series, following a young striker making his way in their first season back at the very top: the English Premier League. After a good start, the challenge of matching the best of the best is more than they can cope with, and they are dealt a horrendous blow. There is drama both on and off the pitch as a new superstar signing causes more trouble in the dressing room, threatening to upset all the hard work that has been put in by the team. It's left to homegrown hero Jack to rescue their faltering season with a late push up the league table coupled with an exciting FA Cup run.

'Believe' is the second in a series of thrilling, fast-paced, feel-good books based around youth footballer, Jack Harvey.

The Scouse Stand By Me.

YOUTHFUL PROMISES SHAPE LETHAL OUTCOMES

Historian Vinny Connolly tries to escape the bitter memories of his childhood in a tough neighbourhood. But a secret from the past, involving a pocket watch, an old man's death, and childhood friends, threatens to unravel his present.

When one of those friends, Sammo, dies in mysterious circumstances, Vinny, his wife Helen, and his ex-partner Anne McCarthy race against time to uncover the truth. A hit and run incident, text messages, and a murdered pet, all warn Vinny away from the investigation. A series of letters hold the key to Sammo's life, and the secret to unlock the mystery of his death. Facing unexpected obstacles and police opposition Anne tries to overcome an accidental death verdict.

Set against the backdrop of a post-Brexit UK, this is a gripping tale of immigration, friendship, the power of secrets to shape our lives, and the value of resistance to authority.