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A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy – and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world.The Manchester United team Matt Busby had built in the fifties from the club's successful youth policy seemed destined to dominate football for many years. Such was the power of the ‘Busby Babes’ that they seemed invincible. The average age of the side which won the Championship in 1955-56 was just 22, the youngest ever to achieve such a feat. A year later, when they were Champions again, nothing, it seemed, would prevent this gifted young team from reigning for the next decade.But then came 6 February 1958, the day that eight Manchester United players died on a German airfield in the 'Munich Air Disaster' – a date to be forever etched in the annals of sporting tragedy.Duncan Edwards, Eddie Colman, Tommy Taylor, Roger Byrne…the names were already enshrined in legend before the air crash, but Munich in many ways earned them immortality. They have never grown old.Jeff Connor traces the rise of the greatest Manchester United side of all time, alongside a vibrant portrait of England in the 1950s, but he also paints a dark picture of a club that enriched itself on the myth of Munich while neglecting the families of the dead and the surviving players. The repercussions and the toll the disaster took on so many linger to the present day.Drawing on extensive interviews with the Munich victims and players of that era, The Lost Babes is the definitive account of British football's golden age, a poignant story of the protracted effects of loss and a remorseless dissection of the how the richest football club in the world turned its back on its own players and their families.

BABY CHASEPregnant Katherine Manchester was on the run and about to become a mom any minute! She had to find a safe place for her baby to be born, fast – and what better place than in rugged rancher Colin Whitefeather's welcoming arms? SURROGATE DADColin had a weakness for strays and beautiful women. And when he delivered Katherine's baby, baby girls were added to his list. Katherine affected him like no woman ever had, but she was afraid of something – or someone.Well, she was about to learn that Colin Whitefeather feared no one – and that nothing would keep him from making them a family.

Amazon warrior Anastasia Duras has spent her entire life training for one thing: to hunt and kill blood-drinking Darklings who refuse to follow the Karpaty Council's rule.Her first mission sends her after a newly turned vampire gone rogue–and into the path of sexy Darkling Jasper Nagorsky. Jasper is on a mission of his own, one that clashes with Anastasia's–but their passionate confrontations arouse a hunger in him that has nothing to do with the bloodlust.Yet dalliances between Darklings and humans are forbidden by the Council. Jasper broke this rule once before and was barely allowed to live. Is their passion worth risking death a second time?

Jazlyn Adams is a journalist who does not know that she has magical lineage.Zachariah Novak is a Darkling and the leader of a revolution against the Karpaty Council, the dangerous governing body of the vampires. Zachariah wants Jazlyn to write a story that tells the world of the existence of the supernatural, even though he knows that it will put her in danger.As he comes to know her, though, he changes his mind and wants nothing more than to keep her safe, even if it means that his quest is destroyed.