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After her friends begin disappearing, the daughter of the Grand Master of the Order finds herself involved in battling a human trafficking ring. But how far will she go to save her friends? Will she risk everything she believes in to bring the traffickers to justice?Jamie Anderson, Tom Anderson's daughter, has everything – good friends, a new boyfriend, a great job, a loving family, and her work with the Order of the Saltire. But human traffickers have abducted several of her friends, and...
| Автор | William Speir |
The granddaughter of the founder and first Grand Master of the Order of the Saltire learns her family?s greatest secret. She is given a choice and a challenge: walk away from the Order and what it represents; or follow her destiny, join the Order, and fulfill her family?s legacy. When she makes her choice, her life is changed forever. Jamie Anderson, Tom Anderson?s daughter, has grown up thinking that her family was perfectly normal ? until one day when her grandfather pulls her aside and tells...
| Автор | William Speir |
Trapped in South America, members of The Order of the Saltire watch as the democratically-elected government is overrun by Il Nona and the rebel army. The members of the Order see an opportunity to help defeat Il Nona and end the revolution before more governments in the region fall. In the final showdown between the Order and Il Nona, only one can survive. Il Nona and the rebels have seized all of the population centers, blocked all communications, and taken control of the government. Tom...
| Автор | William Speir |
Members of The Order of the Saltire in Europe are captured, but who took them and why? The Order discovers an enemy that has existed for almost two thousand years, creating and supplying conflicts for profit. This enemy has a plan to engulf all of Europe in a terrible war, pitting neighbor against neighbor. The Order must stop the enemy's plan before millions of innocent lives are lost. Tom Anderson and the Knights of the Order of the Saltire stumble on a plot to plunge Europe into a...
| Автор | William Speir |
The nation is in lockdown after several terrorist attacks. The Knights of the Order of the Saltire stands against the forces attempting to push aside the civil government once and for all. Against the backdrop of this crisis, an unexpected romance develops between two people caught up in the web of terrorism and political intrigue. Tom Anderson and the Knights of the Order of the Saltire are caught off guard by events taking place all around them. There has been an assassination, there have been...
| Автор | William Speir |
Tom Anderson and the Knights of the Order of the Saltire are facing a crisis. The country is safe, and freedom and justice have been restored. A few remaining members of the forces who attempted to overthrow the civil government are still at large, but there is disagreement within the Order as to how to handle these fugitives. When a Knight takes on the role of vigilante, extracting revenge for the death of his sister by killing one of the fugitives, Tom must help his fellow Knights decide if...
| Автор | William Speir |
It's a few days before Christmas in Versailles. Olivier has come to bury his mother, but the impending holidays and icy conditions have delayed the funeral. While trapped in limbo at his mother's flat, a chance encounter brings Olivier back in touch with childhood friend Jeanne and her blind brother, Rodolphe. Rodolphe suggests they have dinner together, along with a homeless man he's taken in. As the wine flows, dark secrets are spilled, and there's more than just hangovers...
| Автор | Pascal Garnier |
“The year it was, even, had a lovely ring to it. Nineteen fifty-two. The war and all, it was over. Things were going to get better and better.” In the Union Square neighborhood of southwest Baltimore, 1952 will in fact mark the beginning of what will come to be known as The Great Decline. Grand three-story row houses, old money and stature frame the setting for descendants of European immigrants and slaves who exist side-by-side. But in a community already marked by violence, alcoholism, and...
| Автор | Adrian Koesters |
Pat Brogan is a Gambling Squad detective in 1950s Buffalo, NY. Beneath the gritty smokestacks are thousands of bright, clanging pinball machines—banned from New York City but still legal here—tempting the well-heeled as well as factory hands in bars, stores and clubs. When a single machine could take in $100 a week in nickels and factory workers made far less, there were fortunes to be made on the dark side of the law. Dealing with grasping pinball vendors, a manipulative politician, a ruthless...
| Автор | Mark J. Hannon |
