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Seventeen-year-old Danny Usborne is killed on his motorbike when a race against his mate's car goes wrong. Danny then finds himself in the School for Lost Angels. Here he meets teacher, Richard, who sends him back to Earth to stop teenager Cassandra from crashing her mum's car on a joyride, and possible causing injury or worse. With persuasion and newly found magical abilities, Danny manages to prevent Cassandra from doing anything stupid. Back at...
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This is the fifth and final episode in the YA series 'The Guardian Angels'. Danny and Lizzie's final mission to qualify. But it's personal now. In the groups they have to prevent from joining in the riots are: Lizzie's friends, Marianne and Kate, who saw her die; Danny's friend, Harry, who saw him die; Danny's little brother, Kevin, and Kevin's friend, Greg, Harry's little brother. Danny and Lizzie fight to reach their family and friends before their...
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Faith is visited by her late Aunt Geraldine after more verbal abuse from her boyfriend, Darren. Geraldine says she needs a friend in deed to confide in, so Faith talks to her colleague, Jenny, who suggests she takes self-defence lessons with their other colleague, Ben. As Ben teaches Faith, they fall in love. She begins to come out of her shell and grabs life with enthusiasm again. Being a victim of abuse, Faith decides she wants girls to not become...
4) The Friend
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Single mother Fiona knows that her seven-year old son Eddie has autism, but doesn't know much about it and how it affects him, so doesn't know how she can help him. Then Tom appears at the door saying he has come to help them find out about autism and make their life easier. He helps Eddie tell Fiona how autism affects him and how she can help, then helps Fiona by letting her know what autism is all about. This brings Fiona and Eddie closer. But who...
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Corner shop owner Caroline finally gets help with a new manager called Jeff, who's interested in family history. This intrigues Caroline who has heard about the mysterious events in the village. When Jeff starts work full-time, strange things start happening to her. An ancestry magazine a customer likes either goes all blurry, big or 3D, scaring the customer away. Then she sees a white figure, and later discovers it is her late great-grandmother trying...
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Book 4 of Geraldine's Gems romance series. What do you do when you feel sad that your marriage failed to a control freak? Sandra Robertson has let herself go and won't go out. Until her aunt Geraldine comes along and tells her 'Don't Get Mad, Get Even'. She should show Jim what he is missing. Sandra decides to get fitter, slimmer and healthier and joins the local gym, where she meets Troy, a personal trainer. Over a couple of months, Sandra falls...
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25 years-old Mandy Burrows is heartbroken after the betrayal of her boyfriend and her mum, then the heartache of losing her baby, because of this. She decides to move for a fresh start. But after several months, she sees the two people whom she loved once and now hates, bringing back the painful memory. Then along comes her aunt Geraldine from a photo, who tells her that there is 'Plenty More Fish in the Sea' and to think about getting to know other...
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Angel bakes cakes for her uncle's cafe in the village park. She is a goth. Then her uncle gives her a family recipe for chocolate cupcakes with a secret ingredient which has magical powers. When Angel bites one of the cupcakes, she goes all flirty and girly with Pet e, the new delivery lad, whom she fancies. He loves the cupcakes. But when other customers eat them, they think it tastes horrible and criticise them. This causes magical storms that terrify...
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How would you stop a group of teenagers from leaping from a hotel balcony to another? That's Lizzie and Danny's next mission – the group test. With graduate, Alex, they use their persuasion skills, memories and concentration on getting to the hotel where the teenagers are. They lose Alex in a dark tunnel, transporting to the hotel. But with concentration and focus on where they have to be, they get him to find them again. Then when they do reach...
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Tomboy mermaid Aliona reaches her sixteen birthday. She gets newly-grown fingernails but it comes with a condition: '"The emerald you have to find, will lead you to the merboy you seek, but don't take too long, mind, for you only have a week." On her quest, Aliona meets three unsuitable mermen, comes to realise what she'd realise what she'd like in her boyfriend and what she wants to do with her life. Then she meets Dalton helping to rescue a distressed...
11) One Good Turn
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55 year old Geraldine Simmonds dies of cancer and ends up in heaven. But to actually get through the gates to join her old lover Keith, she has to prove her worth – by showing that she isn't the uncaring relative she used to be and getting Keith to be the happy, loving man she used to know. Can Geraldine fulfil her promise to do the 'one good turn'? What will happen when she does? Is there a ghost of a chance that she can find out the true meaning...
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'Life in the Old Dog' is the 5th in the series, and is 13,657 words long. Dolores Weybridge is in a quandary. Her husband, Roger, isn't talking to her after a row but she can't remember what it was about, so doesn't know how to put it right. Then her dead sister, Geraldine, visits her, and tells her that she needs to show him there's 'life in the old dog' yet by romancing him again and reliving their memories. Dolores cooks a romantic dinner with...
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This is Geraldine's last mission on Earth, and her most difficult one. Sister, Helena, is trying to organize her 50th celebrations but without success as she upset her family by stealing her daughter's boyfriend. Geraldine comes along and tells her not to give up and say to the family 'Birds of a feather flock together'. Curious, they visit Helena, and finding out that she has also been visited by Geraldine, they help her with the party and getting...
14) A Trouble Shared
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Christmas is meant to be a fun and happy time at work but for workaholic and workaholic Harry Chambers, it is a hectic and stressful time full of deadlines. So when he finds he can't complete a job in time for the new year, he gets stressed. Until his aunt Geraldine comes along and tells him a trouble shared is a trouble halved. Harry finds out what she means when colleague, Carol, sees him upset during the office evening out and talks to him to find...
15) The Red Rose
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Florist Daisy Cummins has been disappointed in love so doesn't want romance. Then she meets Harvey, a photographer hired to help put their website together. When she meets him, things start to happen. The village sign flashes with a new name, and a red rose behaves badly; customers either smell a bad whiff, sneeze or can't smell, but Harvey is OK with it. Daisy discovers the ghost of her great-grandmother in the park and finds out she's the one who's...
16) The Nanny
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Penny Jameson is at the end of her tether with her noisy, unruly children, and not being able to feed her baby. Then a young girl called Vicky arrives. With her calming, authoritative voice, she manages to get the children to obey her, and feed the baby without mess. Her smiles makes Penny think all is well with the world, it makes the wallpaper blue, and Penny never hears her arrive or leave. Penny finds out the truth from her neighbour – she is...
17) The Cameo Brooch
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Archibald 'Archie' Simpson runs the local antique shop. He is given a family heirloom of a cameo brooch by his aunt, who later tells him it has magical powers. Then strange things happen. Archie loves a profit, but when the brooch is in the shop and Gabrielle, the lady he fancies arrives, he becomes generous to his customers. Then ladies who buy his brooch, return it the next day, complaining that it screeches when they touch it, so he offers them...
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Danny and Lizzie have passed their individual tests, and now it's time for their pair test. Helped by their guides, Tom and Barney, who've also died following crashes, they set out to stop two teenage boys from doing a dare to race against a tram, with one of them sticking to the front of it with suckers and the other racing it, to become part of a gang. With persuasion and practice of their new transportation skills, they make the teens see for themselves...
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Paula Anderson is a selfish and nasty bully at work. Everyone avoids her so not to get the sharp end of her tongue, and that includes the new man at work, Gareth Farlow, whom she fancies. Until her mum treats her to a pair of snakeskin boots. When Paula tries on the boots, she is unaware that she has set a chain of weird events in motion, and ones that include her changing to a better person. When she goes to speak nastily to her colleagues, she starts...
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Faith decides to visit her friend, Angel, after another relationship goes wrong as yet again because they don't understand her Asperger's Syndrome. She meets Stan, the local mechanic. He stands up for her when the local residents start criticising her work. Then magical and ghostly things happen: her pictures are seen as misty to 3D to beautiful, and the people who criticise her are scared by mysterious weather in the park. Stan getting to understand...