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Precious Cargo
Fifteen? You think I'm fifteen? You're wrong, minister man. I'm a slave. I ain't got no right to be alive. Precious Cargo promises beautiful and gifted children when all other means have failed, bit it's a lifetime deal. The children are ruled by its gifts, handcrafted toys that nurture their talent and aspirations. The toys also understand what's at stake, for while two Precious Cargo children are born every year, only one survives past age sixteen. Their fate seems linked to a Faberge egg with an impossible lock, the clue to an old, fanatic crime...
368 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 2010
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October 15, 2015
Description: “Fifteen? You think I’m fifteen? You’re wrong, minister man. I’m a slave. I ain’t got no right to be alive.”
Precious Cargo promises beautiful and gifted children when all other means have failed, but it’s a lifetime deal. The children are ruled by its Trustees’ baptism gifts, handcrafted toys that nurture their talent and aspirations.
The toys also understand what’s at stake, for while two Precious Cargo children are born every year, only one survives past age sixteen. Their fate seems linked to a Faberge egg with an impossible lock, the clue to an old, fanatic crime…
Opening: Alex's husband, usually suspicious of everything but his own capable hands, didn't care that this supposed fertility clinic, Precious Cargo, was unlisted.
Brecon Canal basin
Enter Tristyn Honeyman (whom I picture as Hagrid), and he offers advice to Alex and Lloyd.
Bethel Chapel, Talybont
Madonna del Parto by Piero della Francesa
Penarth sea front and pier
The Mumbles Mile
A month of Halloween 2015 reads:
#1: 3* Nobody True by James Herbert: fraudio
#2: 4* The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard: fraudio
#3: 1* Brain Child by John Saul: fraudio
#4: 3* Domain (Rats #3) by James Herbert: fraudio
#5: 3* The Mourning Vessels by Peter Luther: paperback
#6: 2* The Doom of the Great City: ebook short-story
#7: 5* Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury: fraudio
#8: 5* The Dead Zone by Stephen King: fraudio
#9: 3* The Chalice: hardback
#10: WL Seven Gothic Tales
#11: 4* Tales of Men and Ghosts: gutenberg
#12: 2* Shattered by Dean Koontz: fraudio
#13: 5* The Dunwich Horror: e-book: gutenberg
#14: 4* Death At Intervals: paperback
#15: 3* Alone: gutenberg
#16: 3* The Shunned House: gutenberg
#17: 4* The Thing on the Doorstep
#18: 2* Shadows by Saul: fraudio
#19: 3.5* Precious Cargo: paperback
#20: 2* The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: ebook
#21: 2* The Book of Black Magic
#22: 4* Beyond the Wall of Sleep
#23: 3* The Haunting of Hill House
#24: 2* Inferno
#25: 4* Monkey's Paw
#26: 4* The Pit and the Pendulum
#27: 3* William Wilson
#28: 4* The Moonlit Road and Other Stories
#29: 3* The Black Cat
#30: 4* The Cask of Amontillado
#31: 4* The Tell-Tale Heart
#32: 3* The Devil Rides Out
#33: 3* The Omen (I, II, and III)
#34: 3* Cool Air
#35: 3* Young Goodman Brown
#36 CR The Vanity Rooms
3* The Mourning Vessels (first in series)
3.5* Precious Cargo
CR The Vanity Rooms
3* Dark Covenant (standalone)
Precious Cargo promises beautiful and gifted children when all other means have failed, but it’s a lifetime deal. The children are ruled by its Trustees’ baptism gifts, handcrafted toys that nurture their talent and aspirations.
The toys also understand what’s at stake, for while two Precious Cargo children are born every year, only one survives past age sixteen. Their fate seems linked to a Faberge egg with an impossible lock, the clue to an old, fanatic crime…
Opening: Alex's husband, usually suspicious of everything but his own capable hands, didn't care that this supposed fertility clinic, Precious Cargo, was unlisted.
Brecon Canal basinEnter Tristyn Honeyman (whom I picture as Hagrid), and he offers advice to Alex and Lloyd."Just Honeyman."Do they heed? Do they, be buggered! There is an amazing four foot square doll's house complete with a library, a manikin rock group, and an adorable black parkour playing young lad who dares to risk all. Eye-scorching fun!
Bethel Chapel, Talybont Madonna del Parto by Piero della FrancesaPenarth sea front and pierThe Mumbles MileA month of Halloween 2015 reads:#1: 3* Nobody True by James Herbert: fraudio
#2: 4* The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard: fraudio
#3: 1* Brain Child by John Saul: fraudio
#4: 3* Domain (Rats #3) by James Herbert: fraudio
#5: 3* The Mourning Vessels by Peter Luther: paperback
#6: 2* The Doom of the Great City: ebook short-story
#7: 5* Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury: fraudio
#8: 5* The Dead Zone by Stephen King: fraudio
#9: 3* The Chalice: hardback
#11: 4* Tales of Men and Ghosts: gutenberg
#12: 2* Shattered by Dean Koontz: fraudio
#13: 5* The Dunwich Horror: e-book: gutenberg
#14: 4* Death At Intervals: paperback
#15: 3* Alone: gutenberg
#16: 3* The Shunned House: gutenberg
#17: 4* The Thing on the Doorstep
#18: 2* Shadows by Saul: fraudio
#19: 3.5* Precious Cargo: paperback
#20: 2* The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: ebook
#21: 2* The Book of Black Magic
#22: 4* Beyond the Wall of Sleep
#23: 3* The Haunting of Hill House
#24: 2* Inferno
#25: 4* Monkey's Paw
#26: 4* The Pit and the Pendulum
#27: 3* William Wilson
#28: 4* The Moonlit Road and Other Stories
#29: 3* The Black Cat
#30: 4* The Cask of Amontillado
#31: 4* The Tell-Tale Heart
#32: 3* The Devil Rides Out
#33: 3* The Omen (I, II, and III)
#34: 3* Cool Air
#35: 3* Young Goodman Brown
#36 CR The Vanity Rooms
3* The Mourning Vessels (first in series)
3.5* Precious Cargo
CR The Vanity Rooms
3* Dark Covenant (standalone)
December 9, 2011
The man was looking at the envelope. "This . . . thing is a contract. That's why they put you on notice. There are rules, you, see . . . rules they have to follow. 'Listen to your wife, Mr Morrow. Throw the envelope away. Throw it away now."
"What's in it?" Alex whispered.
He turned to her with small dark eyes. When he answered, his words had a lyrical beat. "A dream for one of you, ruin for the other, depending on which of you is faithful.
Each year, two beautiful and talented children, one boy and one girl, are born with the help of a small fertility charity called Precious Cargo. But there is a catch; this is no ordinary charity, and the children are in competition with each other from birth, as only one will survive past the age of sixteen. Honeyman, the defrocked minister first seen in “Mournful Vessels” is on the case, trying to save the children who will turn 16 this year, and prevent a new set of parents from taking up the charity’s diabolical offer.
Unusual and unnerving!
"What's in it?" Alex whispered.
He turned to her with small dark eyes. When he answered, his words had a lyrical beat. "A dream for one of you, ruin for the other, depending on which of you is faithful.
Each year, two beautiful and talented children, one boy and one girl, are born with the help of a small fertility charity called Precious Cargo. But there is a catch; this is no ordinary charity, and the children are in competition with each other from birth, as only one will survive past the age of sixteen. Honeyman, the defrocked minister first seen in “Mournful Vessels” is on the case, trying to save the children who will turn 16 this year, and prevent a new set of parents from taking up the charity’s diabolical offer.
Unusual and unnerving!
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