Books with author Richard Hack

Take the Leap. Merlin is a good-looking woman and madly in love with Arthur, but that's only the start of the story. Tertia, Unita and Marlene know what they want to be... detectives with a difference. Bored with the lack of opportunity in 5th century Camelot, they start up the Temporal Detective Agency and use the great Merlin's Time Portal to relocate from Camelot to the 21st century. Mostly because the cases are more interesting, but also because the toilet facilities are so much better. Things start slowly until one Sunday morning, Tertia finds herself replacing Nelson's statue in Trafalgar Square and involved in the thefts of the Koh-i-noor diamond and the Mona Lisa. The Agency follows the trail to South Wales in 1734 where they come up against a gang of vicious smugglers and ship wreckers led by their deadliest enemy. Help comes from an equally unexpected source, but the Temporal Detective Agency's first case could also prove to be their last!

In precisely the same spirit as Abelard and Heloise and Romeo and Juliet, Paul and Juliana are a fresh young couple who embody the near-impossible notion of perfect love. In this elegant, timeless, and lyrical love story, they walk the fine line between forbidden romance and tragic disaster that is the stuff of ageless myths. Paul is a sloppy genius who would rather sing and play his guitar on a street corner than take the SATs and have his pick of Ivy League schools. Juliana is a lovely musical prodigy kept under the thumb of her old-fashioned, Viennese-born parents. Author Richard Hawley revives the classical romance in order to ask age-old questions: Is true adolescent love possible? What is perfect love? And what is perfection? Paul and Juliana leave the answers up to you, while promising to take you on a magical journey of both personal and epic proportions.