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The companion volume to Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks 1 carries more of the in-depth stories of aircraft crashes in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District. The history of flying is told by way of the crash sites, where to this day piles of rusting metal still exist.
2) Peak
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A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
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In the Time of Terror, friends turn against friends, patriots are betrayed, and lovers must pay the ultimate price.1793: British navy commander Nathan Peake patrols the English coast, looking for smugglers. Desperate for some real action, Peake gets his chance when France declares war on England and descends into the bloody madness of the Terror. Peake is entrusted with a mission to wreck the French economy by smuggling fake banknotes into Paris....
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Captain Nathan Peake's adventures continue as he charts a perilous course into the dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There, he encounters two of the most beautiful and scandalous courtesans in history and their playmate, laughingly dubbed Captain Cannon, who is about to win enduring fame as Napoleon Bonaparte. Back at the helm of the Unicorn, Peake joins Captain Horatio Nelson, another young glory-seeker, in a bid to wreck Bonaparte's...
5) Tide of War
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When the tide of war is on the rise, telling friend from foe is a dangerous proposition. It's 1794, and newly promoted Captain Nathan Peake is dispatched to the Caribbean to take command of the British navy's latest frigate, the 32-gun Unicorn, a ship with a tragic history of mutiny and murder. Indeed, her previous captain was found washed up in New Orleans with his throat cut, and the men who did it are still at large. But Peake has greater problems...
6) The Edge
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The International Peace Ascent is the brainchild of billionaire Sebastian Plank: Recruit a global team of young climbers and film an inspiring, world-uniting documentary. The adventure begins when fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello and his mountaineer mother are helicoptered to a remote base camp in the Hindu Kush Mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. When the camp is attacked and his mother taken, Peak has no choice but to track down the perpetrators...
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Maggie Evans is back in Peak Town, Colorado to take over her grandmother's cupcake shop, but problems keep arising. Is it rotten luck...or something more nefarious? To top it off, her former best friend/childhood crush, Colton Denning, won't leave her alone. He's sexier than ever. But Maggie has no time for love. When his best friend comes back into town all grown up, Colton finds his feelings for her go far beyond friendship. Unfortunately, the pretty...
8) Peak Crosser
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In an ancient empire covered by a nearly impassable mountain range, factions within and without threaten to topple a thousand-year-old peace. The Empire's survival depends on the unknowing and unwitting.
Zornan is a simple man who works as a Peak Crosser carrying letters and small items amidst the empire's isolated valleys on his giant hawk. His idyllic life with his wife Calla and their daughters is shattered when a stranger frames him for murder....
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A compelling new historical naval adventure from a master of maritime storytelling. 1796: Nathan Peake, captain of the frigate Unicorn is sent with a small squadron into the Adriatic to help bring Venice into an Italian alliance with Britain against the French. He establishes a British naval presence, harrying the French corsairs that swarm out of Ancona in Italy and confronts the politics of "intrigue, poison and the stiletto" in Venice, but learns...
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Assistant District Attorney Julie Ryder plans to hide out at her brother's ranch house in Peak Town, Colorado after a killer she put away escapes. Hoping for a little peace and quiet, what she gets instead is hot and bothered when she discovers the good sheriff is gone, and his sexy best friend is house-sitting. FBI agent Liam Graham is on medical leave after a career-jeopardizing injury. He's taking the time to rethink his professional choices while...
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Falsely accused of the murder of her best friend, Kayla Jenkins is on the run for her life. She ends up lost in dark, snowy woods off some backcountry road in the middle of nowhere. Frightened and colder than she's ever been in her life, she almost thinks she's hallucinating when a warrior on a white steed saves her. In all his years as the sheriff of Peak Town, Colorado, Jake Ryder has never come across a half-frozen woman alone in the woods. She's...
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For Elizabeth Hayworth, tiny Peak Town, Colorado is a far cry from her life in L.A., but working at her best friend's cupcake shop makes her think things are pretty darn good. Until she's forced to spend time with said best friend's grumpy future brother-in-law. Dade Denning takes the hard work of running a horse ranch seriously. What he can't take seriously is his future sister-in-law's flighty best friend. Lizzy is everything he's not-flirty, outgoing,...
13) Ascent
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Peak Marcello goes to Mayanmar to climb one of the most isolated mountains in the world in this thrilling new novel from bestselling author Roland Smith.
After conquering the mountains in Afghanistan, Peak Marcello goes to Myanmar, a country that has been in the grips of a brutal military regime for more than fifty years, to visit Alessia. When he's invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, Peak can't pass up...
14) Crumbling Empire
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One man's hunt for his family may bring down an empire.
Zornan searches across the Empire of the Peaks to find his wife Calla. He's doing things he'd never have considered before, using his growing magical power to wreak havoc in his search. But his allies are few, and his enemies are even more powerful than he is. He will have to turn to those he does not trust if he has any hope of finding Calla.
Meanwhile, Calla strains under the pressures of...
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Psychologist Jamie Thompson comes home to Peak Town, Colorado to follow her dream of opening an equine therapy ranch. She's stayed away for years because of the boy who broke her heart. But he's long gone. Or so she thought. Chef Tony Ortiz has come a long way. With two successful New York restaurants, he should be on top of the world. But something is missing. When he gets called back to Peak Town to help his uncle, he wonders if the small town and...
16) Wayward Flight
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The Empire of the Peaks is teetering on the edge of collapse, and five individuals must find their way amidst the storm...
Three years after the events of PEAK CROSSER, the story follows Zornan, Calla, Zandia and Crisdan. Dueling rebel factions strive to bring down the Empire. Zornan would like nothing better than to fly free of Imperial political storms, but is pulled in again when his family and friends are threatened. His wife Calla fights her...
17) Coastal Corpse
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Happily settled in her cozy cottage with its resident ghost, Cass Peake looks forward to Halloween. Then another corpse is found on her beachfront. With the support of family and her ghostly roommate, Cass investigates. To her dismay, she finds the murder victim handled her goofy neighbor's trust fund and he was in dire need of money. The suspect list grows with a former husband, another needy relative, and a maybe shady accountant who suddenly disappears....
18) Das kalte Echo
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Ein erschreckender Todesfall: in einer Höhle mitten im wilden Peak District wird ein Rechtsanwalt tot aufgefunden. Eine dunkle Botschaft: Während alte Legenden um Fluch und Hexerei im Ort umgehen, ist Detective Inspector Megan Dalton sicher, dass es sich um Mord handelt. Es gibt nur ein Problem: in die Felswand hinter dem Toten sind seine Initialen und das Bild vom Sensenmann gemeißelt. Und die stehen da schon seit hundert Jahren. Ein tödliches...
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Pagan Peak volume 2
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Ellie and Gedeon link the murder of a German entrepreneur to their killer.
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Pagan Peak volume 4
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In order to catch the killer, Ellie and Gedeon fake a copycat murder.
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