Bøger af Stephen Williams

Super Chainsaw Squad DX is a stylish explosion of sex, violence, and tentacles-a psychotic fusion of Sailor Moon and H.P. Lovecraft. The dusty town of California City is under attack. A cult led by a gunslinging valkyrie has appeared in the night and they've brought chaos with them. Something is sleeping beneath the Mojave Desert-the heretics are going to wake it up. Standing against this threat is the Super Chainsaw Squad, a trio of magical girls who balance vigilante justice with cute boys and calculus homework. As they begin to gather clues about the mysterious death of their friend, their investigation quickly spirals into a race against the apocalypse.

After a strenuous training camp, Lorelei "The Lance" Didion is prepared to defend her championship title in front of a sold-out crowd. But before she steps in the cage, her and a few close friends decide to spend a week at the Zhong Kui Inn and Spa to recharge their batteries. What was once a monastery has been renovated into a luxury resort-but dark secrets have spun their webs in the cracks behind the new paint and plaster. Inside, they're greeted by the Innkeeper. She's intelligent, ready to tend to their every desire-and is an undercover harvester for the Triads. With her companion, a warrior who keeps his face hidden behind an ancient dragon mask, they begin their task of collecting the entourage's organs to sell on the Red Market. The only way for Lorelei to survive is to fight-what she was born to do. But what will happen when she comes up against violence far deeper than anything she's ever experienced?

A graveyard. A corpse. A flock of ravens. In fairy tales, death comes in many forms. When something escapes the underworld and begins to consume the birds' kingdom, their knights are sent to defend their ancestral home. Will the noble corvids repel this creeping threat, or will they suffer a fate darker than their feathers?

Theodosius I, a towering figure in the history of the late Roman Empire and the early Church, was the last Roman emperor to rule a unified empire of East and West. His reign from 379 to 395 represents a turning point in the policies and fortunes of the late Roman Empire. In this fascinating biography, Stephen Williams and Gerard Friell examine Theodosius's life and character, placing the military, religious, and political struggles of his reign in the context of the troubled times of the empire. Drawing on literary, archaeological, and numismatic evidence, the authors describe how Theodosius was summoned to the throne after the disastrous Roman defeat by the Goths at Adrianople and was called upon to rebuild the armies and put the shattered state back together. They show how Theodosius instituted a new policy toward the barbarians, in which diplomacy played a larger role than military might at a time of increasing frontier dangers and acute manpower shortages, and how a series of political misfortunes led to the separation of the Eastern and Western empires despite his efforts. They also discuss Theodosius's importance in the Christian Church. Baptized in 380, Theodosius established the Apostolic Catholic Church as the only State religion; unlike Constantine and the other Christian emperors, he suppressed both heresy and paganism and enforced orthodoxy by law. By fully exploring these various facets of Theodosius's life and reign, Williams and Friell present a new and absorbing picture of this important emperor.

When Ryan and his crew kidnap Edric Samuels, the teenage son of a billionaire, it doesn't take long for fractures to appear in their carefully constructed plan. The walls close in and the once good friends are suddenly at each other's throats. Things look bad-but they're about to get a whole lot worse. Edric is not an ideal prisoner, and soon pacifying the boy is their only option. Sometimes they use a needle, other times, their fists. But what his captors don't know is that each time he falls down the rabbit hole, Edric's nightmares are training him to be a killing machine. Are these hallucinations from the drugs . . . or are they something much darker? Once set on this path of revenge, Edric won't stop until his enemies are hollow shells of blood and bone.

'Mr. Philpott; Jennifer's first visit to Somware' is the curious story of a little girl and the most wonderful adventures that may be found within only the most loved of gardens, by the most devoted of gardeners and curious of children. This is a story about magic, gardens, and muddy fingered adventures. Jennifer and her Mother have slowly restored her Grandmother's old garden on Krom Drift Farm in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa. With every new flower that blooms the magic in the garden grows stronger and long forgotten secret pathways that are hidden within it reopen. On a quiet day, while playing alone in the garden, Jennifer accidentally discovers a magical land called Somware. In her first visit to Somware, Jennifer learns that there are no boundaries to any garden, and that hidden pathways link gardens around the world with the most curious and muddy of young adventurers. In this first adventure, Jennifer meets Mr Philpott and his wonderful new friends. After much tea drinking and cake eating, she goes on an even more adventurous journey. With the help of her new Meerkat friend, Jennifer tumbles into the gardens of Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire.

AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER WITH AN ASTONISHING TWIST.A bloodstained coat. Three missing women. One dead body.Detective Mary Hume reckons she's seen it all. But she's never seen anything like this.It begins with the discovery of a broken body in a lift shaft in an old Victorian warehouse.The post-mortem reveals the bloodstains on the dead man's coat belong to three different people. DNA identifies one of them as Julie Cross, whose body was discovered six months earlier, covered in horrifying wounds.Maverick ex-police officer Raine was hired to look for Julie. She didn't find Julie in time. But she's determined to find out who killed her.So, who does the rest of the blood belong to?Chalk-and-cheese detective duo Raine and Hume are in a race against time to uncover the truth before more young women die.Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Lynda La Plante, Karin Slaughter, Biba Pearce and Angela Marsons.

Detective Mary Hume is on the trail of a vicious serial killer. A killer who leaves a baffling code carved into the skin of his victims. Can you crack the code?

The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilisation of Byzantium.

Diocletian and the Roman Recovery is both a portrait of one of Rome's greatest and most original rulers, and a political study in the emergence of Absolutism.

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