Books with author H.A Holmes

Frankie lives in a spacious family home in a popular suburb with her mum, Ruth and dad, Ian. Everything would seem perfect to the passer by, but her mum and dad’s constant arguing causes Frankie to become unhappy and she starts to withdraw into her own imagination. After Ruth’s mother Dorothy is taken ill, she decides to move herself and her daughter to a small rented house in the middle of a council estate, nearby to the hospital. Frankie is horrified by the move and starts to spend much of her time helping an elderly friend of her grandmother's. When a shocking crime is committed, Frankie is sure she knows who the culprit is; all she has to do is prove it...A story of parental separation, class and family relationships, told from each family member’s perspective. As Frankie faces some of the biggest challenges of her life, she learns in more ways than one, that things are not always as they first appear.

Ben Harrow and Charity Jones in Book One of the COSMIC CYCLONE Series: The Silent Planet. A Cosmic Cyclone is about to break!The Human Union has a mysterious enemy it knows nothing about—and the enemy is ready to pounce. To clear the way, it has to destroy the one person standing in its way:Ben Harrow.The COSMIC CYCLONE series tells the tale of the greatest war mankind has ever fought. The enemy craves a galactic empire. The universe is its battlefield.Book One, The Silent Planet: For seven years intergalactic travel and communication had not been possible. Even the best scientists of the Human Union didn't completely understand why. But now the universe is waking up to one another again.All except Kasaganaan, the silent planet. Its silence is brooding, ominous and ill-boding. Has there been an alien invasion?Fearing the advent of a space fleet on his doorstep, the security chief of Terra Gemina wants to scout out its neighbor Kasaganaan. He endeavors to enlist the help of Ben Harrow, the recluse of Harrow's Dale. But the Space Marines are very reluctant to work with him, because General Harrow with this mysterious past may well be the most dangerous being in the universe.When Harrow takes a Marine detachment with him and reconnoiters the silent planet, the adventure and the action into which they are cast push them to their limits—and beyond!Enjoy this classic space opera. You can read Book One as a standalone, even though it's part of a series.***Chapter 1Looking like a morose eighteen-year-old, Ben Harrow lay on his cot and stared at the ceiling. He hadn't blinked in more than seven minutes and neither had he breathed in that time. Lying perfectly still, he concentrated on the sounds that were drifting in from outside. It was the night wind.A sharp breeze had sprung up in the last few minutes, which was unusual this time of the year. There were plenty of storms, to be sure, but they usually occurred only in the fourteenth month and not in the fifth. The gale now howled and buffeted the building, and when Ben finally did draw a breath, he tasted the peculiar air of an electric storm on his tongue.But beyond the storm there was the faint sound of something else, something that Ben couldn't quite pinpoint. If he wasn't just imagining things, something was giving off a deep and steady frequency that crawled into your gut and resonated there.Something was brewing outside.Right now a silent storm was raging in the night sky above his lonely abode. Within a mass of dark clouds, a ball of lightnings was constantly re-weaving itself. Some of its quivering tentacles reached down to Ben's house and almost touched it.When he heard them crackle, Ben sat up and blinked. He'd finally decided to go out and check what was going on—when a sudden gust of wind exploded on him from above and chilled him to the core. He looked up and while he watched, the ceiling was drawn upward and vanished without a trace. A bright white tunnel was forming right above his head. It seemed to rotate and came down on him, and before he knew it, it had sucked him in. His feet left the ground.Ben realized that he was floating up.He picked up speed, until it felt more like falling—in reverse.The walls of the tunnel—if this was a tunnel—seemed not to be solid. They were see-through thin as Ben saw the silver vein of the river in front of his house below and the pond. He turned around and looked in the direction of Gemina City, whose far-away lights he could see from up here.Still accelerating, he now shot up like an arrow, rising higher and higher through giant halls of air, until he saw the curvature of the planet on the horizon and the first rays of the sun sparkling behind it.An awesome force was drawing him out into space!

Zoe is a confident little girl who is not willing to let her age or size stop her from making a difference in this big world. Join her as she shares some of the remarkable things she does to make the world a better place. As you read about the remarkable deeds that she does, be sure to think of ways that you too, can make a difference in our world - even if you are little.

Sigfrid the Dragon SlayerThe ultimate warrior meets the ultimate dragon.A powerful novella of fantasy and magic of 68 pages or 14,000 words.For Sigfrid to gain the hand of Princess Karimhild, King Gunther demands that the young man slay Fafnir, a monstrous dragon.Soon Sigfrid realizes that the weapons of this dragon consist not mainly of claws and fire, but of magic and imagination. Soon he doubts his sanity.He has faithful allies in the dwarfs Titania and Alberic, a forger of magical swords and other useful instruments.Sigfrid fights trolls and meets Huns as he ascends Fafnir's mountain to save Karimhild, who seems to have gone there before him.Includes an exciting bonus short story by G.H. Holmes entitled "The Second Face."

Ben Harrow and Charity Jones in Book One of the COSMIC CYCLONE Series: The Silent Planet. A Cosmic Cyclone is about to break! The Human Union has a mysterious enemy it knows nothing about—and the enemy is ready to pounce. To clear the way, it has to destroy the one person standing in its way: Ben Harrow. The COSMIC CYCLONE series tells the tale of the greatest war mankind has ever fought. The enemy craves a galactic empire. The universe is its battlefield. Book One, The Silent Planet: For seven years intergalactic travel and communication had not been possible. Even the best scientists of the Human Union didn't completely understand why. But now the universe is waking up to one another again. All except Kasaganaan, the silent planet. Its silence is brooding, ominous and ill-boding. Has there been an alien invasion? Fearing the advent of a space fleet on his doorstep, the security chief of Terra Gemina wants to scout out its neighbor Kasaganaan. He endeavors to enlist the help of Ben Harrow, the recluse of Harrow's Dale. But the Space Marines are very reluctant to work with him, because General Harrow with this mysterious past may well be the most dangerous being in the universe. When Harrow takes a Marine detachment with him and reconnoiters the silent planet, the adventure and the action into which they are cast push them to their limits—and beyond! Enjoy this classic space opera. You can read Book One as a standalone, even though it's part of a series.

Zoe is a confident little girl who is not willing to let her age or size stop her from making a difference in this big world. Join her as she shares some of the remarkable deeds she does to make the world a better place. As you read about the things that she does, be sure to think of ways that you too, can make a difference in our world - even if you are little.