Battle Born

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Kelley Armstrong

Protect the innocent. If there is any one principle that drives hitwoman Nadia Stafford it's this. When she was 13 she failed to protect her older cousin Amy from being raped and murdered. As Wild Justice opens, she fails again, disastrously, when she botches a hit on a man who's been beating his wife. Before she's had a chance to fix things, the wife is murdered and Nadia plunges into despair. To help her find equilibrium again, her mentor, Jack, brings her a gift: the location and new identity of the serial predator who killed her cousin. Vengeance, justice? With the predator in her sights, nothing seems more right, more straightforward, more simple. But fierce as Nadia is, she is shaken to the core by what she discovers about the real events of her past. The wounds inscribed on her soul during the long night when her cousin was killed have shaped her, and justice is wild indeed.

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Raymond Haigh

A frightened child hides amongst the trees surrounding her home. Her mother, brother and sister have been taken away, her stepfather is bedridden, and she is too scared to go into the house to comfort him. Armed guards appear at the gates. Nurses and doctors come and go. Men creep through the trees and take photographs of the house and its visitors. A woman with a big black gun arrives and life becomes dangerous and exciting instead of lonely and boring. Samantha Quest has been sent to protect the girl's stepfather and discover his secrets, sent to protect the things in the rooms with the bricked-up windows. Quest tries to find the girl's mother and siblings while men attempt to murder her stepfather. In a final terrifying confrontation, the child's life hangs in the balance. Can Quest snatch them all from the jaws of death?

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Steve Mosby

Sometimes, there's a thin line between love and hate. Or at least that's one theory for DI Zoe Dolan, who's been tracking the Creeper--a stalker who's been breaking into women's homes and attacking them. But the Creeper's violence is escalating and there's no pattern, no clue as to how he's getting in, and no clue as to who's next--until Jane Webster gets a call to the helpline where she volunteers. It's meant to be a confidential service and Jane is torn: it could be a hoax, but the soft voice at the end of the line has the ring of truth about it.

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Helen MacInnes

A young woman is innocently caught up in a terrorist organization that is under surveillance by an army major she once loved at age fifteen.