Books with title The Riddle of the Runaway

Rider the Runaway is set in a future of climate change.Have you sometimes thought of running away from home? You might have a tough time out in the world if you do. Saskia--alias Rider--barely a fourteen-year-old, inspired by riding on a dragon in a dream and longing to see the ocean, runs away.She is lucky to find a nice person, Jeff, to help her. But Rider has to fight a bully, run from kidnappers, and survive a bushfire too.When she meets up with her mother again, they reach a surprising agreement about Rider's future.

When Ahmed is sent down the street on an errand by his mother, he has no idea what was in store for him in the few days or how much longer it was going to be before he got back home. When his friend from school convinces him to do something he should never have done, it sends him to places he had never known existed and strange people doing a lot of strange things

‘Run, run, as fast as you can!’ – the cry rings out in Tiago’s ears as he flees his abusive stepfather and the only home he has ever known.Exposed and alone on the cruel London streets, and fearing for his infant sister’s fate, he will have to learn fast if he is to survive and ever see her again. But when a chance encounter with a beautiful girl reveals a new threat, he runs to the coast where new opportunities and new dangers await. Vulnerable and in desperate need of support, Tiago will have to decide whom to trust if he is ever to stop running and discover the key to his dead father’s past. But will his murderous stepfather find him first? And what about the girl whose help may just have saved his life?

Blurb: Sometimes people think that their life is played out before they are born. If so I feel sorry for the actors who played my life, and for the audience who had to go through it because it is messed up. When people wake they usually think of what they are going to have for breakfast or what they are going to do, but not me all I think of is what my next mission will be, who I will have to betray to get what my master wants done, what I will have to do just to survive. This is my story.

Rider the Runaway is set in a future of climate change.Have you sometimes thought of running away from home? You might have a tough time out in the world if you do.Saskia—alias Rider—barely a fourteen-year-old, inspired by riding on a dragon in a dream and longing to see the ocean, runs away.She is lucky to find a nice person, Jeff, to help her. But Rider has to fight a bully, run from kidnappers, and survive a bushfire too.When she meets up with her mother again, they reach a surprising agreement about Rider’s future.

Mila is a waif-like runaway with a dark secret and a fearsome will to survive. Recruited by a powerful, arms-dealing drug lord against her will, Mila is groomed to seduce and ultimately assassinate the drug lord's fiercest rival for power. Only Alexan Casimir - the drug lord's achingly handsome and enigmatic right hand man and heir - holds the key to Mila's survival in a high stakes play for power. Fusing sexual tension with breathtakingly romantic, action-packed writing, The Runaway (Mila and Alexan #1) is your new high octane guilty reading pleasure.'Sexy and thrilling'

'Run, run, as fast as you can!' the cry rings out in Tiago's ears as he flees his abusive stepfather and the only home he has ever known. Exposed and alone on the cruel London streets, and fearing for his infant sister's fate, he will have to learn fast if he is to survive and ever see her again. But when a chance encounter with a beautiful girl reveals a new threat, he runs to the coast where new opportunities and new dangers await. Vulnerable and in desperate need of support, Tiago will have to decide whom to trust if he is ever to stop running and discover the key to his dead father's past. But will his murderous stepfather find him first? And what about the girl whose help may just have saved his life?