Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possessions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, his real hurt is just beginning -- he has no place to call home. This is Dave Pelzer's long-awaited sequel to „A Child Called "It"”. In The Lost Boy, he answers questions and reveals new adventures through the compelling story of his life as an adolescent. Now considered an F-Child (Foster Child), Dave is moved in and out of five different homes. He suffers shame and experiences resentment from those who feel that all foster kids are trouble and unworthy of being loved just because they are not part of a "real" family. Tears, laughter, devastation and hope create the journey of this little lost boy who searches desperately for just one thing -- the love of a family.

Cassia Fallon has been married to her doctor husband for seven years when her godmother leaves her a fortune. She is determined to be sensible, to stay in control. Suddenly, for the first time in her life, she is able to do exactly as she likes. She starts to question her marriage, her past, her present and future. The money gives her confidence, and her husband Edward can only look on resentfully as she resumes her medical career, sheds some of her domestic burdens, and re-forms old relationships - one of them of a most dangerous kind. But where did her legacy really come from. and why? Too soon the windfall has become a corrupting force. One that Cassia cannot resist...

Naples, 1750. In the dead of night, three men with swords burst into the bed chamber of the Marquis de Montferrat. Their leader, Raimundo di Sangro – the Prince of San Severo – accuses him of being an imposter, and demands to know a secret he believes the marquis harbors. The false marquis resists and manages to escape, leaving behind a burning palazzo and a raging prince now obsessed with finding his quarry – and his secret – at any cost. Baghdad, 2003. An army unit tracking Saddam’s cronies stages a spectacular raid on a fortified villa and makes a horrifying discovery in its basement: a state- of-the-art, concealed lab where dozens—men, women, children—have died, the subjects of gruesome experiments. The mysterious scientist they were after, a man believed to be working on a bioweapon and known only as the hakeem—the doctor—escapes, taking with him the startling truth about his work. In one of his victims’ cells, a puzzling clue is left behind: an Ouroboros – the tail devourer – a circular symbol of a snake that’s feeding on its own tail. As the power of the symbol comes to light, revealing the centuries of mystery and pain left in its wake, one unsuspecting woman – Mia Bishop, a geneticist – stands at the center of a conspiracy that could change the world forever. From Baghdad to the chaos of a Beirut still reeling from a fresh war in the fall of 2006, to the lost villages of eastern Turkey and northern Iraq by way of epic chapters set in eighteenth century Europe, and in the masterful hands of international bestseller Raymond Khoury, The Sanctuary delivers the same rapid-fire suspense and provocative scholarship that made The Last Templar an international blockbuster.

Neapol, 1750 rok. W środku nocy do pałacu markiza wpada trzech uzbrojonych w szpady mężczyzn. Ich przywódca, książę San Severo, oskarża gospodarza o to, że jest oszustem, i żąda od markiza wydania strzeżonego przez niego sekretu. W wyniku walki, jaka się wywiązuje, fałszywy markiz ucieka po dachach miasta, zostawiając za sobą płonący pałac i szalejącego z gniewu księcia, opętanego odtąd obsesją odnalezienia za wszelką cenę zbiega. Bagdad, 2003 rok. Oddział wojskowy w czasie wypełniania rutynowej misji dokonuje przerażającego odkrycia: natrafia na supernowoczesne tajne laboratorium, w którym śmierć poniosło wiele ofiar ? mężczyzn, kobiet i dzieci, obiektów makabrycznych eksperymentów medycznych. Poszukiwany przez wojsko tajemniczy naukowiec, prawdopodobnie pracujący nad bronią biologiczną i znany wyłącznie jako ?hakim?, czyli lekarz, ucieka, zabierając ze sobą przerażającą prawdę na temat swojej pracy. Zostaje po nim tylko zagadkowa wskazówka: okrągły symbol węża zjadającego własny ogon. Cóż mają ze sobą wspólnego dwa pozornie różne incydenty, które dzielą setki lat historii? Odpowiedź na to pytanie postara się znaleźć pewna niczego niepodejrzewająca kobieta, która znajdzie się nagle w samym środku spisku, który może odmienić na zawsze losy świata.