Kirjahaku

Having visions of people in trouble is a fact of life for Ellen Victoria, a shy biologist living in a biosphere in twenty-fourth century Central Australia. But when a gladiator appears amongst her tomato plants, calling for her to come to him, she knows this is something unprecedented. And even if she's more Bambi than Lara Croft, she also knows she has no choice but to time-travel back to the Ancient Roman Empire and find him. Because the fate of the world rests in her soft, plump hands and if she's to avert the apocalypse that never happened, but still might if a rogue time traveller has his way, she has to face her own fears and step up. But she doesn't have to do it alone. Her gladiator will be at her side; even if he's there as her kidnapper, not her champion. If she fails to win him over, all will be lost, history will be irrevocably changed, and her future Utopian world will cease to exist.

When Raphael Umbria Jumps to Ancient Alexandria in search of the Divided Knowledge of Atlantis, he doesn't appreciate being distracted by a youth who runs a street gang and uses martial arts that are out of place in the Ancient Roman Empire. But Jin is an anomaly he can't figure out, and though he has never been interested in his own sex before, he starts to wonder if his intense obsession with the boy might indicate that Jin is his Key, the one person who can bring him fully back to life after hundreds of years of numbness and sterility. Jin is on a quest of her own. Masquerading as a boy, she searches for a Watcher, one of those who, throughout history, have studied mankind from a distance and know all the secrets of time itself. She made a deathbed promise to her Master to find this man, discover when the demons would end the world, and get that information back to his Taoist temple in the Far East. Could Rafe be the Watcher she's looking for?

Innocent young patrician, Anniana Bibuli, is to be unwilling pawn in a game of power that will see her wed to the decadent new emperor, Titus, unless she can escape Rome with her only protector, a violent, Norse giant. He must get her to Pompeii before Salvia, her cruel mother, discovers her escape. But when Pompeii is destroyed by Vesuvius, and Salvia sends assassins to track her down, it becomes a chase across the breadth of the empire, to keep her safe. Vali has every reason to hate Salvia, who used him as a sex-slave years before. Now he must keep her daughter safe, not only from hired killers and the many dangers of the journey, but from the biggest danger of all - himself, because a damaged barbarian is no fitting mate for an innocent noble of Imperial Rome.Ninia, Anniana's handmaiden, is sent to find her mistress. But when she's shipwrecked with Braxus she unexpectedly discovers a chance for real happiness. The only problem - the man she's starting to love is in league with the enemy.

When Krista Denton meets Dirk Roeder in Wurzburg, Germany in 1936 she is horrified to realise that he is her Key, the one man she can love enough to bring her back to painful and exhilarating life. When he nearly dies she has no choice but to take him home to New Atlantis, her utopian future world. Because, now that she has found her Key, their lives are inextricably connected. If he dies, so will she. But New Atlantis is no place for a Gestapo agent, and there are those in the city who have suffered at the hands of the Nazi's. Those people want Dirk gone, one way or another. Is Krista willing to risk everything for a man others despise?

When a handsome young man, claiming to be three hundred years old, offers Cara a chance at a new life in his future utopian world she considers she has two options: back away cautiously or try to help the obviously deluded stranger. Because it comes naturally to a teacher of autistic kids to help, Cara decides to take the second option. By doing so, she unwittingly opens herself up to a passionate new love in an unimaginable new world where clones extend lifespans and time travel is used to repopulate a decimated human population. To Jac, Cara appears to be the ideal target for Retrieval: a worthy, productive human being. But when her free-thinking individualism begins to clash with his peaceful, highly regulated world he has to rethink his priorities. How much is he willing to change to keep this loving, beautiful woman in his life? And, more importantly, is he prepared to break the rules that define their very existence to stay with her?

What happens to an unattractive teenage girl who jumps off a ferry in 1968 Sydney and wakes up a stunning red head in the fabulous future-world of New Atlantis? Jane is about to find out when she's targeted for Retrieval by Brazilian born Julio after she's mortally wounded trying to save the life of Julio's real target. For Julio, Jane is an anomaly. The handsome Retriever hasn't cared about anything for hundreds of years, and he certainly doesn't expect to start caring now for a little nobody he meets as part of his mission to rescue one of the Missing Children. But care for her he does. So even though Jane doesn't fit the criteria, Julio goes against Protocol to bring her back to his utopian world, where she can be given a beautiful new body and offered the kind of life she could never have imagined possible. But for Jane, being beautiful is problematic. She doesn't know whether the gorgeous bad-boy who has stolen her heart loves her for who she is, or for her beautiful new body.

An exciting mission from the future to snatch innocents from the maws of death.Faith Lincolnshire isn't an adventurer.But when she becomes obsessed by the mysterious disappearance of 150 children from a train on its way to a Nazi Death Camp in 1942, she has to put forward an audacious plan to rescue those children. On a Recon mission, her partner is killed and she is saved by a US commando who is seriously wounded during the rescue. Faith breaks Protocol and Retrieves him. But the peaceful, Utopian world of New Atlantis she takes him to is no place for a warrior like Luke Daniels.But no matter how much Luke comes to want to remain with his new love in her future world, duty calls him back to 1942. He agrees to help complete Faith's Rescue Mission so he can return to his own mission. But the best laid plans can always go astray. And Love can sometimes be more powerful than Duty, even for the most hardened savage.

Maggie and Travis have never met, but in their dreams they have known each other a lifetime. They are two halves of a shared Soul. Her love and acceptance has balanced his lifetime of hatred and rejection. His unseen presence has allowed her to walk her unconventional path alone. But now Maggie must leave her art and her Utopian world of 2333 to find her other half in Bradford England in 2012, so they can put right what their bond has jeopardised. And once reunited, they must find a way to remain together, because this time their separation can only mean death.

Rene York was a French Canadian ecologist before the Last Great Plague. Now he is a time-travelling researcher who spends whole lifetimes with his Ojibwe ancestors collecting data on all the planet has lost. A legend leads him to Regency England where he meets the blue-stocking granddaughter of a famous Naturalist, and he falls in love for the first time in nearly 800 years. But history has Livianna Mulgrave dying in a riding accident 4 months after he meets her. And the past cannot be changed. Liv never planned to marry, preferring the freedom of spinsterhood. But a handsome and mysterious stranger leads her into an incomprehensible future world where everything is possible - except escaping her fate.

Three loves found on one incredible journey. Karl Ontario is a medical researcher not an adventurer, but when an audacious mission is proposed to go back in time to save doomed children on the ill-fated Atlantic liner, RMS Titanic, he makes sure he's included on the team. Little does he realise that his own future happiness depends on saving the life of just one passenger: Lizzie Faulkner, an unwed mother-to-be. Eilish Cork is a time travelling Retriever and this mission is like any other to her, until she falls in love with her handsome Target, London barrister Maxwell Ingham, and is asked to risk everything to save him from his tragic fate. And sweet Pia Rogaland, whose only goal is to rescue the children on board the Titanic until she meets Marco Lorenza, a man she's not permitted to save. With time running out, is it possible to rescue those victims history determined went down with the unsinkable Ship of Dreams or will more lives be forfeited trying to carry out this dangerous mission.

What if the one person who completes you is the one person who can destroy you? For a New Atlantean, finding the one person who is their 'Key' or 'soulmate' means coming fully back to life after hundreds of years of peaceful numbness. But the love that can regenerate them can also destroy them. When Retriever, Kat Kent, thinks she's found her Key in anti-Nazi activist, Kurt Luff, in 1942 she soon realises that having a Key can be a dangerous situation. If she can't save his life she will lose her own. And coming back to life means confronting her own demons, especially when she realises her heart belongs to someone else. For young Bart Lublin, falling in love with a woman he can't have becomes even more torturous when he discovers that the only way he can keep Kat alive is if he can stop Luff sacrificing his own life.

Those who see the ghostly figure of the WWII fighter pilot in the English farmhouse garden at Grange End are destined to die within a week of that sighting. But when Cassie Grant not only sees the Polish flying ace in the garden but talks to him in her bedroom, it's clear that something more than a prediction of death is at work here. Hawk has been waiting for something at Grange End for nearly 70 years and from the first moment he sees the fragile beauty at the upper window he realises what it is - Cassie! But is he there to accompany her to the other side when her time is up or is his increasingly corporeal presence meant for something else? When the enemy of the past becomes the enemy of the present, Hawk is determined to save Cassie from her untimely death, even if he has to cross the boundaries between Life and Afterlife to do it.

An Imperial Purge leaves a stoic philosopher dead and his wife and youngest child kidnapped. Galeria, the teacher's daughter and Cyra, her slave girl, are the only ones who can save them. But their task seems impossible until two men arrive to aid their search. Nexus is only half the man he was since the death of his lover. Sent to save the family from the emperor's wrath, he never expected to find love and a reason to live again. But, from the first moment he meets Galeria and agrees to help her, his life has meaning once more. Decaneus, the Dacian warrior, renamed Leonis after he slew a lion in the Colosseum, has no goal but regaining his freedom. That is, until he meets Cyra. Then her goals become his, as they set out to rescue the child that she loves most in all the world. Across the Aegean, the couples pit themselves against the might of an emperor, a devious fiend and treacherous slavers, as they race to rescue a mother and daughter from their terrible fate.

Livia, a young and vulnerable patrician, is brought up in isolation and poverty by her madman father. At his death she is married off to Festus, a degenerate Roman Senator, who is to 'save' her from the whorish blood she inherited from her mother. Little does she know, the man her father thought would protect her, plans her degradation and death. But the innocent Livia is not without friends, even if they are only slaves belonging to her husband. There is Nexus, the Nubian head slave of her husband's household, Niobe, her handmaiden, and Allyn, the dangerous and unstable Celt who has spent his life meeting the sexual demands of his owners and now find himself tasked with the destruction of his new mistress. From Rome's villas of unimaginable wealth to the blood and desperation of the gladiatorial amphitheatre and the eruption of Vesuvius the slaves play a cat and mouse game with their devious master to keep Livia safe.

Escaping one madman has she run right into the arms of another? In Victorian England a contagion runs rampant, unbeknown to its citizens. Those afflicted are either killed or confined to a desolate pile of stones on the Yorkshire Moors called Breckenhill Keep. The denizens of that Keep loath the monsters they have become. None more so than Jasper Horton, a refined gentleman in all ways but one: He is a werewolf. When Lady Fidelia Montgomery arrives at the Keep, seeking to escape the clutches of the madman who has killed her husband, she unwittingly unleashes the wildness Jasper has gone to such lengths to contain. His love for her puts innocent lives at risk, including Dee's own, and threatens to turn the pretty widow into one of the monsters he abhors. "Perfect for readers who enjoy love stories with substance and a classical supernatural touch."

Philomena Davenport is shocked at her first sight of, Breckenhill Keep, the monstrous ruin she had inherited from the father who had deserted her as a child. Even more shocking is the mysterious stipulation in the will that requires her to remain at the Keep for 3 months before she could claim her inheritance. How could she do that when the the dauntingly handsome Byron Carstairs wants her gone and the spine chilling howls echoing up from the bowels of the ruin urge her to escape while she still can? But Phil is made of firmer stuff than that. No monster or man will keep her from what is hers, and only love can drive her away. For Byron, Phil is a light in the darkness of his duty-bound life. In only days, she manages to spin her magic around the hearts of all who dwell within the sanctuary. But no matter how much they need her, it is no kindness to keep her there. She deserves far better than a burdened man and a castle filled with monsters. For her own good, he must drive her light from his dark world.

Having the werewolf contagion has advantages, Lily, a terminally ill invalid, discovers when she is infected by a beast in the walled garden of her home. However, along with renewed health and strength come challenges. She must leave her home and loved ones to move to an ancient Keep in Yorkshire, spend three nights a month locked in a dungeon and, most challenging of all, deal with the unexpected attentions of an attractive man whose wolf is determined to claim hers as its mate. Will, the tough Scottish enforcer of Breckenhill Keep has always found his werewolf side easy to bear. But when he meets the fragile Lily his angry, closed-off way of life is turned upside down. His wolf wants hers, and though he knows he's not good enough for the young, innocent woman, he must convince her to accept him. Because a thwarted werewolf who has found his mate is a very dangerous creature.

Brennwen, the White Raven, has been cursed with the gift of prophecy since birth. Shunned and condemned, because of her albino colouring and strange dreams of catastrophe, she has lived her whole life in fear. But a dream that her son, reincarnated into a Roman family, is in danger, forces her to face her fears and go in search of the child, before her prophecy has a chance to come true. Gaius Annius Bibulus has lived an unimpressive Roman patrician's life since leaving the army and settling in Britannia. His only cause for pride is his motherless son, Cal. When the boy is kidnapped by Celts, as part of a plan to start a bloody rebellion, and a pale Celtic Seer predicts the event and what is to follow, he has no choice but to heed her warnings and let her lead him to where she dreams 'her son' can be found. As the unlikely pair chase across Roman Britain in pursuit of the four-year-old child, love grows between them. But as time runs out for Cal, it also runs out for the reluctant lovers.

When Hakon's Key, Bree Sanderson, was killed in Chicago, 1986, so was he. How then was it possible for him to send a message for help to his people in the future? In New Atlantis 2350, twenty years after Kon died, a message from him is uncovered. Rescued and returned home with his Key, Kon finds a lot has changed while he's been away, not least the fact that another man now wears his body. As Kon tries to come to terms with his radically different world, he must also come to accept that Bree is the one person who can bring him fully to life after hundreds of years of numb existence. But back in her own time, someone wants Bree dead, and it's up to Kon to find out who and why. He must untangle the complex weave of time to save her, because the woman he has come to love can't remain in his future Utopian world if history records her as having died in 1986.