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July, 1556. En route to France and escape from Queen Mary's men, Jack Blackjack spends the night at a Devon tavern, agrees to a game of dice - and ends up accused of murder. Alone and friendless in a lawless land of cut-throats, outlaws and thieves, Jack knows that the only way to clear his name - and save his skin - is to unmask the real killer.

Can you trust a man who has secrets he won't share? -" "It's been seven years since the brutal murder of Emma Cardale's best friend, Laura, and Emma's only just managed to pick up the pieces. She has a job she enjoys, and a wonderful man in Jack Scarlet, whose dancing eyes and quicksilver moods make her heart sing. But one day she returns home with bad news from work to find an unwelcome ghost from the past on her doorstep . . .

When Shona MacInnes, a crofter's daughter from a remote Scottish island, qualifies in the 1950s to train as a vet, she meets prejudice not only from her father and brother, but also from handsome Ross MacMaster, an islander who is to become a vet himself.

It was, Alvarez claimed, an impossible task. To identify Faber, who had stolen half a million pounds in England. Superior Chief Salas was outraged by such defeatism; even more outraged when Alvarez's investigation caused him inadvisably to trumpet the Cuerpo's superiority to the English police.