All She Ever WantedNot everyone wants to fall in love. For Christina Ryan it is simply a refuge for the weak, lonely and needy. Once she was like that herself but not now. Following a tormented, turbulent childhood, she has reinvented herself to become strong, self reliant and in control. She is everything she ever wanted to be and nothing, not even a man, will ever be allowed to threaten that. But she is also human. When love does enter her life, as unexpectedly as a

Corell continues to investigate the open-and-shut case

Rebus is drawn into the case

But now its population is a dying breed

This is a world dying

but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within

and the course of British political history forever

The last spark of hope rests with the surviving members of the Grim Company: Davarus Cole

Someone is stealing children in Orange County

only a handful of people seem to care

the self-styled Knights of the Round Table

Earth has found a new stability

a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate