Wisps of Wisdom
In this third novel about Karla Spicer and her teaching career, we find her in charge of a thousand student Joseph Ward Junior High School in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. After arriving at her new school Karla finds that Deputy Principal Michael White has been selecting more sporty pupils for his own syndicate. Karla stops this but believes the competition between the four school syndicates is at the expense of co-operation. It is as if there are four mini-schools all going their own way. Her hands on approach in melding the school into one identity is a distinct contrast from the previous principal who was more interested in being socially accepted in the business community. Avery Francis, a first year teacher is attacked and stabbed by an intruder late one afternoon but it is not a random attack for she knows her attacker, a prisoner escapee from her family’s past. There are repercussions that affect Karla later in the year. Year 10 student Gwen Young, reports to Karla that she is scared for her friend Jasmine who is skipping school to meet a boy she only met on the internet, at Auckland International Airport. Karla with police help steps in and stops an abduction by a middle-aged paedophile. With Ryan she traces the incident to a whole paedophile ring on the internet. Ryan is contracted by the police to help trace students’ pages in aPetal Life social site that is popular with teenagers. Other girls have been attacked and Savannah an undercover detective with Ryan’s help sets up a webpage and pretends to be a fourteen-year-old junior high girl. A similar meeting with a fake high school boy similar to Jasmine’s encounter is all set up but are the safeguards sufficient to stop a tragedy? With an expanding roll and the popularity of JWJHS, a conflict with Westview Intermediate School to the south over the boundary between the schools’ zones escalates. Problems with the principal there, Peter Niles surface and is the reason for parents wanting to enrol at Karla’s school. The Ministry of Education steps after the Westview Board of Trustees resigns and a government commissionaire is appointed to run the school. Karla is also asked to help out as an Executive principal, a position she held before arriving at JWJHS. When the zoning issues are solved, Karla’s school needs extra classrooms to cope in the following year but how can they be built in time? Jon, their Board of Trustees chairperson, suggests they buy a modular block direct from China. Is this feasible? Throughout her first year Karla moulds her school into one to be proud of but there are always problems with personalities and actions of staff and students. There is also another personal situation for early in the year she becomes pregnant with her family’s second child. Can Karla cope with the huge responsibility of running a large school and that of becoming a mother again?
Art of Reincarnation
Our protagonist was an adult in his late twenties, who had crossed dimensions into a world of cultivation. However, he was sent into the body of an infant when the transcension happened. Our story begins a few years later, when both his parents died to an illness and he was the only heir to his clan, at six years old. Watch him grow as a human and a cultivator as he fends off enemies who desire his fortune and builds his influence in the new world!
The Sun God
A hidden artefact - A dense jungle - A killer on their trail It is 1933. Commissioned by the British Museum, young adventurer archaeologists Quinn Westwood and James Duncan plunge deep into the Guatemalan jungle, in search of a priceless gold statuette of the Mayan Sun God Kinich Ahau. However, it quickly becomes clear that they are not the only ones hunting for the Sun God. On their tail is one of Europe’s most ruthless traitors, and what should have been a straightforward assignment, turns into a deadly race through the jungle and a quest for vengeance.
Fates of Midgard - Inner Origins Book Two
Siri Alvarsson holds the fate of the world in her hands. She's on a mission to find a cure for a sinister antiserum that destroys the light in fae and humans alike. Her whole life has been leading up to this moment: training in martial arts and parkour with her mom, learning the old legends and traveling the world. But nothing prepared her to enter the hidden world of the fae, the most ancient race on the planet. In just a few short months, Siri's started having strange visions, discovered that her parents are both Light fae warriors, been attacked by her ex-boyfriend's family, and fallen hard for a gorgeous elite Light Guard. Everyone seems to want something from Siri. The Light claim they want to protect the planet, humans included, and the Shades say they have humans best interests at heart. Can one girl heal the rift between two worlds and stop the evil plans of the Shade Council? Find out now in the exiting sequel to Shades of Valhalla!
The Spy
The silence had already taken hold of each of the rooms in the house, so much that sometimes it was difficult for me to go there, where so many things had happened in the family. At the beginning I turned on the television or the radio, to listen to a voice wherever I was in the house, and that made me feel better, but then, it seemed so absurd, deceiving myself, it was like I was with somebody, when there was nobody left. Joys, sorrows and sadness, listened in every corner of that home, in which my wife had always worked with such care to maintain order and cleanliness.
Wisps of Snow
Karla Spicer is called in as a Change Principal at Tuckett Area School in a remote New Zealand district. This small school takes pupils from Year I to 13 but has a falling roll, an apathetic principal, Don Trow and a divided board of trustees. The Ministry of Education is considering closing the high school section and downgrading the school to take just primary pupils (Year 1 - 8) pupils. Karla and her husband Ryan move south and begin to cure the school's problems. Ryan is a computer programmer who finds that the school is heavily in debt because Don Trow is faking online accounts and is betting on a Russian casino. He has run up huge debts and they want their money. By running down the PTA account he has paid off most of these debts but the casino is run by an international terrorist organisation named Haqq Nar. When Karla tells Trow she has knowledge of his illegal activities, he agrees to cooperate. Programmes are changed, slack teachers made to improve and the pupils become one co-operative unit. Ryan also takes on a part time position as school bus driver with his tiny bus travelling through the remote hinterland north of the school. Karla is also asked by the Ministry of Education to help at two other small schools in the area with teacher or board of trustees problems. Karla is curious when two businessmen arrive in town by helicopter and head for Trow's office. She intervenes just as Trow is about to be shot but is herself wounded. The would-be assassins escape but do not abandon their bid to make an example of Tuckett Area School. Ryan is near the end of his school bus route when his bus is hijacked. Five children and himself are flown by helicopter to a remote mountain hut but the kidnappers have no intention of letting them survive. They are just pawns in a sinister plot to get a Haqq Nar cell established in New Zealand. Can Karla cope when she realises that not only the police but the secret service and military are involved in rescue attempts?
Wisps of Cloud
Karla Spicer is a senior teacher in Wellington, New Zealand"s capital who is hindered by the associate principal who resents her progressive ideas. However, through a conscientious attitude and by supporting junior staff and parents Karla is a popular staff member. New partner Ryan Purdon, the school"s property manager tells her about problems with a lackadaisical principal at Top Plateau who is forced to leave the tiny school near his family farm where he grew up. Karla agrees to take the acting principal"s position there and Ryan goes with her to stay in his farmhouse. Life in a remote area is different than expected with problems at the school and also on Ryan"s family farm where he has problems with his sister, step-father and mother who are all trying to sell the property divided between them by his late father"s estate.Tensions arise in the district with a marijuana plantation discovered near the farm and a local bikie gang being suspected as the growers. However, nothing is as it first seems, potential enemies become friends and the trusted, untrustworthy. Back in Wellington, teacher Chrissy Ancell is attacked and turns to Karla for help. As Chrissy"s attacker is a respected person, their efforts to get justice seem to be thwarted. It appears that the problems are intertwined with Karla being the kingpin and more than just a teacher striving to do the best for the children under her care.
The Choice
The Choice: unexpected heroesis the sequel to The Contract: between heaven and earth. In the first book, a catastrophic political event threatens Earth. The heavenly leadership decides to execute extraordinary measures to ensure the survival and long-term viability of the planet. Two volunteer souls return to Earth and take human form as Brad Channing and Sarah O’Brien. They are ultimately successful in preventing the catastrophe, but lose their lives in the process. The Choicepicks up where the first book ends, at an Air Force Base in northern California. The base commander invites Brad’s former Navy SEAL instructor to help him determine who is behind the murder of Brad and Sarah. It is evident that their deaths are part of a bigger plan, and the commander has an urgent need to thwart that plan. A mystery unfolds which implicates key Washington D.C. officials. A confidential team studies the evidence and pursues leads. Eventually, they uncover a traitorous conspiracy that has as its goal: world domination. The pressing question is who can be trusted and who cannot.
DAKAR: The Savoi Affair (The Puppets of Washington Book 4)
The chase is reaching its climax, and the prize is close. But with every step that Talya and Samuel take that brings them closer to solving the mysteries around Carmine, Savoi and Richard Gilman, the danger they place themselves in increases exponentially. The closer they get to uncovering the identity of The Puppeteer they get, more determined he becomes to stop them - at any cost. New controversies have been brought to light in the world of the underground; one of The Puppeteer"s first puppets, Richard Gilman, has resurfaced, after he was thought to have been killed. The Puppeteer himself, with his drug-running network, operated in conjunction with the CIA and DEA, feels a threat to his power when someone uncovers his identity by accident. He knows that his identity must be protected, and he is willing to stop at nothing to do this. The question now is, with such a deluge of darkness and power stacked against them, can Talya and Samuel safely reach Ottawa to tell the CSIS what they have discovered? In this, the fourth installment of The Puppeteer of Washington series, you"ll be taken on a careening ride of heart-stopping twists and thrilling revelations as Talya and Samuel fight their way through The Puppeteer"s web of lies and deceit. An unputdownable blend of excitement, suspense, mystery and action make The Savoi Affair an absolute must-read. Get even better value for money with the new Box-Set at $8.99 instead of $12.00 you"d pay buying the books individually. Just search The Puppets of Washington Box-Set on the Kindle Store Search Bar
The Superhero's Origin
With a new power at his command, Kevin Jason (Bolt) goes to visit his grandparents, who he has never met before, in the hope that they might be able to help him better understand the source of his new power.But it soon turns out that enemies from his grandparents' past have come back to get revenge for the crimes committed against them. Not only that, but Kevin's grandparents have a mysterious agenda of their own that seems to involve Kevin in a way he cannot understand, but must if he is going to survive.Now Kevin must find out the truth of his grandparents and his family before their enemies catch them. And if Kevin fails, then this may spell the end of his family.