Books with author Vi Hughes

Spirit of Prophecy - a highly acclaimed, award winning novel from a best-selling author: If you murder your soulmate to save your tribe, when and how will revenge and retribution arrive? Karma is coming for you.Olympic event rider Juliet Jermaine may run, but can she hide……?‘’This is one awesome, imaginative novel with a splash of Stephen King, and worthy of a cult following.” 5* Reader Review Publisher DescriptionA gifted psychic but an emotional wreck, Rosetta Barrett is much more than a simple Detective seconded to a sleepy, rural English constabulary. She's part of the International psychic CID, and a high-ranking member of EPIS (Elite Paranormal Intelligence Services) a super-secret, Inter-Governmental, global organization, based underground in Dulce, USA. EPIS is tasked with dealing with the new realities of the twenty-first century – the rise of AI and ensuring robotic, deep-learning doesn't lead to humanity’s destruction; alien visitation and cracking their telepathic communication codes are also part of the remit. Plus expanding psychic powers including prophecy, in order to automate crime prediction and prevention.When Juliet Jermaine's Olympic Champion horse Gothic, and his teenage stable-hand rider are callously murdered, in what appears to be a terrorist-inspired road-rage incident, the police are baffled. Even EPIS are behind the curve, as this doesn’t fit any MO they’ve ever come across before. Plus, with the arrival of some rogue E.T.’s back at the Dulce HQ, the time portal is dangerously malfunctioning. So, Barrett will have to rely on old fashioned door-to-door detective work to try, and unravel the cause and effect buried way back in the past. Linear time is running down, meanwhile can they stop the incidents from speeding up, and the death count inexorably rising?The murder investigation takes first Rosetta, and then Juliet to Southern Ireland, where they both fall for the devilishly handsome, Irish-traveller, horse dealer, Tommy Rafferty. Does Tommy know more about the road rage deaths than he's letting on, and ultimately will he betray his soul mate, Juliet, to save his clan?With Barrett’s ex-husband, a power-obsessed Foreign Office Diplomat to Russia being a prime suspect, and Jermaine not taking the karmic connection seriously, Rosetta is under intense pressure. She knows only too well that Wrongs not Atoned = #HIT-REPEAT. For all her experience and gifts, has Detective Barrett more than met her match? Is she simply in way too deep this time, with no chance of ESCAPE? ***********************“An engrossing tale with nuanced themes and a genuinely complex heroine.” Kirkus Professional Reviews.“Overall, a superb novel that has everything a reader would want in a story.” Red Headed Book Lover“The plot is original, very well thought out, and much more intricate and extensive than anticipated.” Readers' Favorite.N.B: This book was previously published under the author’s pen name of J.J. Hughes.

When lightning strikes the school playground, Annie's dog loses her bark. After Mike's dog loses his bark as well, he and Annie decide to do some sleuthing. Searching for clues, they discover that the new school custodian, Mr. Duffy, is somehow involved in these strange events. Finally Annie and Mike solve the terrible secret of the Graveyard Hounds-disembodied howls with the power to bring disaster on the entire town. As a teacher and a principal in Vancouver, British Columbia, Vi Hughes has had many opportunities to sleuth out mysteries and share scary stories with students. Vi has written several children's books, including Aziz the Storyteller. The Graveyard Hounds is her first novel.

Barny, or Barnaby Maksimillian III to give him his full name, is cat royalty - a pure bred Russian Blue national champion. He lives a well-fed quiet and pampered life with his family Lord & Lady Marchbanks and their children. When he and their daughter Jemima are ‘Catnapped’ it soon becomes clear that Barny has to be brave and attempt a rescue mission. His quest is filled with danger, new faces, new places and many exciting adventures. Follow his journey and find out whether Barny gets home in time to save Jemima. Fiction for younger readers aged 6+

Solomon is a large black cat. He lives in a second floor London apartment with his owners Rachel and Tom. Unable to go out on his own he spends hours each day looking out from his sunny seat on the windowsill, dreaming of running through the grass in the park across the road. Desperate he plans an escape to realise his dreams. Little does he know that this is the start of a much bigger adventure involving trees, queens, underground trains and feral cats not to mention a fight for his life.

Bertie Bones, archaeologist, receives a secretive and mysterious phone-call from Salvador Gonzales a TV executive who has him travelling to Mexico, then across deserts and deep into the Sierra Madre mountains. Meeting some old friends and making some new Bertie gets caught up in a secretive and undercover expedition to search for the long lost gold of the Aztec emperor Montezuma. Things do not go exactly as planned though and Bertie finds himself in danger, helped only by an unexpected stowaway….

This delightful collection of three board books is perfect for toddlers acquiring language skills. Each page features a full-color photo of a familiar animal followed by a two-word text that includes the animal’s name and a verb to describe what the animal is doing, e.g. Penguin splishing/ Horse splashing. At the end of each book, a young child is shown having a bath, having a nap, or playing. The rhythmic cadence of the text, the rich vocabulary, and the vivid photos are ideal for sharing with a toddler.

In Play Time, each page features a full-color photo of a familiar animal followed by a two-word text that includes the animal’s name and a verb to describe what the animal is doing, e.g. Cat pouncing/ Dolphins somersaulting. At the end of the book, a young children are shown playing. The rhythmic cadence of the text, the rich vocabulary, and the vivid photos are ideal for sharing with a toddler.

Jenny & Darla were raised in the mountains of North Carolina and experienced life in a nature setting - everything was based on friendship, family and community. There were no modern day gadgets for entertainment only the great outdoors. Boy was it fun! Enjoy the adventures that led these two girls up and down the mountains searching for treasures, graves, and caves while running through briars, lakes and Laurel thickets. This was just their younger years, imagine when they got a little older, the trouble these two could get into!