The year is 2020 and a virulent new disease has decimated the global population. Witnesses report wild cries and bite attacks from the infected, with an apparent resistance to pain that leads many to believe the zombie apocalypse is at hand. Several months after the first outbreak the undead criers have destroyed everything that went before, with few survivors hidden in the shadows here and there. Jack is one of them, and with his only goal to stay alive he seeks out what remains of the living and safe territory where the man-eating criers can’t follow. Over the course of the following days he meets both friend and foe, slowly coming to realize how the world has changed and what it takes to stay alive.

Airship captain Kingsley Bowditch is dead. So the world thinks. A slave in the mines where the automaton navigators’ crystals grow, he’s doomed to labor for the Time King, the man he’d hoped to overthrow. But then Sky Keeper smuggler Caroline Lockley sneaks into the mines and asks for his help to find the crystal that will guide the Sky Keepers to the Star Veil to destroy it—before the Time King arrives for it. Getting the crystal might be easy, but getting it out—with guards, gates, and stray fey creatures between them and the sky—might not. Dusk is coming for the Time King’s rule or for the hopes of the Sky Keepers in this exciting conclusion to the steampunk adventure-romance series The Star Clock Chronicles.

Teacher Elisabeth Read isn't preparedfor her cookery class to be given some startreatment by wealthy celebrity chefAngus MacAllister. She's even less prepared forthe delicious attraction that flares between them!The usually cautious Elisabeth is soon feeling hot,bothered and definitely out of control, as Angusteases and tempts her into his bed! But all it takes is one small moment ofrecklessness…and Elisabeth will be forced tomake the toughest decision of her life—whenshe discovers she's pregnant….

The following book is a collection of plays penned by Gordon Bottomley. He was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris. A total of five plays are featured inside this book, which are: 'The Crier by Night', 'Midsummer Eve', 'Laodice and Danaë', 'The Riding to Lithend', and 'King Lear's Wife'.