After watching helplessly as Mexican raiders brutally murder her little brother, fourteen-year-old Siki is filled with a desire for vengeance and chooses to turn away from a woman's path to become a warrior of her Apache tribe. Though some men, like envious Keste, wish to see Siki fail, she passe...
The Goldsmith's Daughter was written really well. A friend of mine recommended it to me a while ago, and only now I had the chance to read it. I must tell you, I was impressed with it. It was a great story with a wonderful plot. I felt like I was right there next to the main character, Itacate th...
A severe weather warning had been issued – a big storm was on its way. No helicopter was safe to fly; no boat was safe to sail. So the police couldn’t make their way across from the mainland to investigate. We were cut off from outside help: stuck miles from anywhere in a gothic mansion with a mu...
The man delivering them didn’t seem to have arms that were quite long enough to carry both packages. Maggie pressed the buzzer and the stage door swung open to admit us. “You kids going in?” gasped the struggling delivery man. “Yes.” “Do us a favour and take these, will you? They’re for Miss Webb...
The tiger ripped off its head to reveal the flushed face of a young woman whose hair was dyed almost as orange as the suit she was wearing. “I’m so sorry, Mr Monkton!” she gabbled. “I didn’t mean to scare you! Are you all right?” Faces had begun to appear at the basement windows, peering up at th...
By the time the helicopter landed in the garden of the massive villa, I was snoring, nose pressed against the window, mouth hanging open, neck twisted at an awkward angle, Graham’s elbow in my ear. When I woke up I thought for a second I must still be dreaming, because there, looking in at me wit...
asked Toby calmly as he tied me to a chair. Len Radstock was lying on the floor nearby, his thinning hair crusted with scarlet. He wasn’t moving. “‘Toby,’ she used to say, ‘You’re so sharp that one day you’re going to cut yourself.’ I never understood what she meant. I never thought it was possib...
We soon discovered that piglets can run extremely fast. Once the town hall was given the all clear, the firemen attempted to round them up but they proved uncatchable. The sow, meanwhile, was in Attack Mode. No one even attempted to tackle her. Then someone had the bright idea of scraping the rem...
When she’d been carted off in the ambulance, Alonzo had gone with her, looking at her with such desperate tenderness that Carlotta had burst into another furious bout of weeping. At the hospital they must have popped her arm back into its socket pretty quickly because right after Inspector Humphr...
However, now things had turned nasty Mum insisted on coming to the park with us. The next day there were lots of police in and around the shrubbery, and then – surprise, surprise – a TV crew arrived with a squeal of tyres to cover the latest gruesome developments. When Dermot O’Flannery climbed o...
“They can at least take him off to the proper place,” he said. But it turned out that the emergency services couldn’t come and collect the body because they couldn’t reach us. The river had burst its banks and the roads were beginning to flood. According to the vicar, if we left quickly we could ...
The ill omens of the past months gave the festival a desperate, ardent intensity, for it was through the favour of Tezcatlipoca that our empire had been created; by his grace that Montezuma sat aloft as lord of the world. But all knew that the god who had made Tenochtitlán great could as easily d...