Books with author jane Andrews

Silke - feisty firemage and private investigator - , has been drafted in at the King's request to disengage the magic wards protecting her renegade brother's estate - a dangerous job. Dangerous, because he is a necromancer with powerful magical skills and a host of Undead at his command. She is joined by the King's special agent, Jan Dufay. Meanwhile, her associate, Lucius Stone, agrees to use his telepathic skill to search for a missing young novice from her reclusive monastic Order of Earth worshippers. Jan Dufay is much more than he seems, while the missing girl is not quite as innocent as everyone assumed. When the two cases come together, Silke and Stone find themselves in deep trouble, needing all their ice and fire magic to survive.

From the bestselling author of 'Flowers in the Attic' comes the first book in the series centred around the Casteel family and its dark and mysterious past. Repackaged to attract a new generation of Andrews' fans HER NAME WAS HEAVEN, HER LIFE WAS ANYTHING BUT Heaven's mother Angel had died in childbirth, and from that moment her father turned against her. Her only allies, it seemed, were her four half-brothers and sisters. When their father, poor and desperate, sold them to strangers, Heaven was left alone and friendless. Her only hope was to reunite her family. But how? So begins the heartbreaking, magical story of the Casteel family, continued in 'Dark Angel', 'Fallen Hearts', 'Gates of Paradise' and 'Web of Dreams'.

The novel that launched Virginia Andrews' superselling career: the tale of four children locked in an attic by their once-loving mother! It was a game of happy families. The four children lived such perfect lives in such a happy, golden family. It was a game of hide and seek. Their father died suddenly. The children now lived alone, hidden in the airless attic. It was a case of tender, loving murder. Their mother promised that they would stay only long enough to inherit her family's fortune. But gradually she forgot how much she adored those children. Millions of readers have been enthralled by this gripping story of a family's betrayal and heartbreak, love and revenge -- which then sows the seeds for the future.

When no one listens, what's the point of talking?Kyle McGinley doesn’t say a word. Fed up with being shuttled from one foster care home to another, he has stopped speaking. But at the home of Scott and Jill Wardman, with the help of a crow, and a swamp, and an excess of blank paint, he begins to think that maybe, just maybe, life could be better.As long as his frigging dad doesn't mess things up.

Rafael Tardeshon was just an ordinary boy in the Zutai Village. But when a mysterious man interrupts his coming-of-age ceremony, his life is changed forever. Now Rafael is banished from his village, accompanied only by his childhood friend Melissa, a crudely drawn map, and his family heirloom, a sword passed down through the Tardeshon house for generations.On his perilous journey Rafael learns of shocking secrets about an ancient Order unfettered by the constraints of fate. As a member, Rafael must shoulder the responsibilities of free will, in a time without it. When the whole known world breaks out into war, Rafael finds himself on the front lines, desperately fighting to rescue his friends. As he struggles to survive, Rafael is burdened with the knowledge that even his smallest mistake could lead to the deaths of those he loves. With surprises and adventure at every turn, young Rafael must learn what it means to be a Walker before his disturbing nightmares become a reality.

Circumstances have forced sixteen-year-old Gil Vichezny to leave Par and search for the father she’s never met, or even wanted to. She knows nothing about him except he was once Captain Halford Avers, dishonourably discharged from Space Force and now a notorious space pirate called the Phantom, with a huge price on his head.Disguised as a boy, with forged ID, Gil starts her journey as purser’s clerk on the Marakova, a merchant space vessel rumoured to deal in contraband and owned by the Cortez family. But from day one she makes a vicious enemy of Moses, one of the Cortez sons, and barely survives by her wits and combat training.When the Marakova is hijacked by the Phantom and his crew, Gil finally confronts her father, but it is not the reunion she imagined.