Bøger af Minerva Taylor

When James and his parents move from the United States to London, England, they buy a Mini. James loves the little car, which is just his size and dreams of driving it through the streets of London. Then James faces an an emergency. Find out what happens. Does his dream come true?

Thundering bulldozers shake all of Mole Town! Shafts crumble! Tunnels collapse! Stones rain down from above! Terrified mole citizens are blasted out of their burrows. Humans building above ground unknowingly threaten to destroy Mole Town and the very lives of the moles. Against all odds, two small mole brothers embark on a dangerous mission to battle against the giant human builders. Can the brave brothers save their fellow moles and the mole way of life? Can they keep their family and friends together? Will they survive this dangerous mission?

People from another world, secrets uncovered, lies corrected.

(Did one or more of the Tsar's children survive the 1918 brutal massacre in Ekaterinburg?In 2002, Deputy Sheriff Roo Yoder is thrust into the hunt for a hundred- year- old treasure and a killer when his high school friend, now a successful financier, is murdered. The only clue in his hands - a fragment of a 1900's stock share certificate - worth a fortune if the other half can be found.Roo, accused of the murder, goes on the run to New York. In hiding from both the police and the killers, while investigating the crime, he turns to his lover, Katya for help, and suspects she is betraying him with a Russian oligarch.It seems as if nothing Roo knew and nothing he believed in, makes sense any more. The only thing propelling him forward is the case he must solve in order to prove his innocence.Roo throws himself into the murder investigation and discovers in his uncle's chequered past during the Russian Revolution, a connection to the Romanovs, and a clue leading to the certificate.His life upended, his future uncertain, Roo travels undercover six thousand miles to Baku in search of the document. Stalked by the killers, Roo and an exotic dancer, who has her own secrets, risk all to find the other half of the stock certificate and prevent an international crisis.This historical and contemporary thriller examines how one man's past can change another's present and questions why some mysteries are never solved.

For fans of Steve Berry, Dan Brown, Robert Harris and Kate Mosse's historically accurate thrillers, a riveting page-turner questions if the Romanov dynasty really ended, suggesting the 'one designated by blood' may still be alive. Ipatiev House, Ekaterinburg Siberia, July 1918: On the eve of his execution, in a desperate attempt to save the Romanov Dynasty, Tsar Nicholas II signs in secret his last Ukase, an irrevocable royal edict, bestowing untold riches and power on his legitimate heir, 'the one designated by blood'. New York City, 1970: Christina Gartner, a young socialite divorcee befriends her new neighbor, Mme. Antonova, an elderly White Russian émigré who escaped the Russian Revolution with her two children. The charming Mme. A. captivates Christina with stories of her escape, but are they the truth? The friendship catapults Christina into a cat and mouse game with a ruthless aging Bolshevik on the hunt for the Tsar's long lost and explosive Ukase so he can take control of the Russian government and the country's mining riches. It's up to Christina and a NYC cop to find the Ukase and the secrets of the Blood Stiller, before the sinister émigré conspiracy in contemporary New York does.