Books with title Level 4: Knife Edge

Where there has been love, now there is hate. Two families have been shattered by the divided and violent society they live in. Sephy Hadley - technically a Cross, powerful and privileged - has tied her life forever to the McGregor family. The McGregors are a family of n: noughts:, therefore inferior and persecuted. without question. Jude McGregor blames Sephy for all the tragedies his family has suffered. He and is determined to force her to take sides, and destroy her life . . . just like she destroyed his. . . . . 'Devastatingly powerful' Guardian 'Moving and thought-provoking' Observer

Physical description; 279 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; NOT price clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; Lieutenant Ross Blackwood sells his ancestral home after the death of his father, a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Royal Marines, who died while on duty in Cyprus. Despite his grief and disillusionment, Ross continues his military career. Subjects; Great Britain. -- Royal Marines -- Fiction. Blackwood family (Fictitious characters). Great Britain. -- Royal Marines. Genres; Sea stories. Fiction.

Persephone Hadley is six months pregnant with a mixed-race baby.In their society this fact alone will threaten the child's life every day. To make matters worse, the baby's father, Callum, is dead. He was hanged for terrorism months ago, but his presence still torments Sephy. And she's not alone. Callum's brother, Jude, blames Sephy for the death, and thirsts for revenge...in the form of her life.Obviously, Sephy is not fond of Jude, but when his actions take him to the brink of disaster, his life poised on a knife edge, can she stand by and do nothing? Will she be forced -- once again -- to take sides in a chilling racial drama?

In this harrowing near-future thriller, a teen girl reeling from a recent tragedy tries to do the right thing knowing one wrong move could unravel her society’s fragile order.Persephone “Sephy” Hadley is six months pregnant with a biracial baby, a parentage that could be a death sentence in her brutal society. And Sephy has no one to help her after the baby’s father was hanged for terrorism months ago. As her due date approaches, Sephy feels more and more haunted by her lost love. But she’s not the only one who misses Callum. His brother, Jude, hasn’t forgotten—or forgiven—anything about what happened. And he blames Sephy for Callum’s death. Jude won’t rest until he’s avenged his brother by murdering the girl who got him killed. Jude’s actions bring him dangerously close to meeting the same fate as Callum. With the man who wants her dead poised on a knife’s edge, Sephy must decide if she’s willing to save him from himself.

Teen Sherlock battles a monstrous adversary on a mission to Ireland with his brilliant brother, Mycroft. Young Sherlock has landed in the middle of a tangled web involving a spiritualist whose powers have attracted the attention of governments around the world. At the castle where the medium is demonstrating his "gift," Sherlock finds a household in turmoil. Servants and some of the guests are frightened but who--or what?--has terrified them so much that nobody will speak out? Young Sherlock must bring all his powers of deduction to bear in unraveling his greatest mystery yet.Sherlock Holmes: Think you know him? Think again.Knife Edge is the sixth installment in the thrilling Sherlock Holmes: the Legend begins mystery series from Andrew Lane, which follows Sherlock Holmes' adventures as a brilliant young teen and budding detective.