All four books in 'Heirs And Descendants', a series of thrillers by Daniel Kemp, now available in one volume! The Desolate Garden: After Harry Paterson's father is murdered, he travels to London and learns that his father had discovered hidden information dating back to 1936 and a large sum of money missing from the Royal Government Bank's accounts. With only mysterious initials and a Leningrad address as clues, Harry and Judith Meadows team up to unravel the mystery of his father's death and uncover the secrets hidden in the bank's files. Percy Crow: Percy Crow escapes from Soviet Russia to Hamburg during World War II, where he sells secrets to British Intelligence. Decades later, Maudlin Paterson sets out to uncover the truth about the royal family's dark secrets, which leads to Harry Paterson and his friends unraveling the clues left behind by Percy. As they follow the sepia images, Harry discovers his great-grandfather's secrets, but at what cost? What Comes Before: Lord Harry Paterson witnesses the death of a woman at a grouse shoot, leading to his forced return to work for the British Security Services. The woman had stolen a top-secret file containing information on a new encryption method that could change the balance of power between nations if in the wrong hands. Harry is tasked with finding the file and eliminating anyone who has seen it, but can he still do what it takes to protect world safety? My Truth, Your Lies: In the fourth book in Daniel Kemp's 'Heirs and Descendants' series, Harry Paterson interrogates his traitorous nemesis, Judith Meadows, at an old Scottish manor on the Shetland Isles. As he works to uncover a cryptic message from a Russian spy and prevent a terrorist attack on two NATO bases in Cyprus, Harry must navigate a web of international intrigue involving a power-hungry South African and allegations of nuclear weapons hidden on a vast family estate.

An enthralling chronicle of the American nineteenth century told through the unraveling of the nation's first political dynasty John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace. When John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began the slow decline of the family's political legacy. In Heirs of an Honored Name, award-winning historian Douglas R. Egerton depicts a family grown famous, wealthy -- and aimless. After the Civil War, Republicans looked to the Adamses to steer their party back to its radical 1850s roots. Instead, Charles Francis Sr. and his children -- Charles Francis Jr., John Quincy II, Henry and Clover Adams, and Louisa Adams Kuhn -- largely quit the political arena and found refuge in an imagined past of aristocratic preeminence. An absorbing story of brilliant siblings and family strain, Heirs of an Honored Name shows how the burden of impossible expectations shaped the Adamses and, through them, American history.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Records of the Town of Newark, New Jersey, from its settlement in 1666, to its incorporation as a city in 1836.

Destined to command his future ruler brother's defense army, Lerial, the second son of Duke Kiedron, discovers during his training that he has a rare power to harness both Order and Chaos.