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Alexandria Blaelock
In the heart of the city, Helene King is looking for a sanctuary. She finds a small apartment in a deligtful Edwardian building. Fit for a fairy tale princess. Ridiculously…
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Zelda Smith. Ordinary girl. Falls asleep in a quiet room. Three Scott Fitzeralds. One wakes her with a kiss. One sees her barefoot in a hotel lobby. One stares longlingly…
A yellow orange line frames the sunset landscape. Clouds partially conceal the summer blue sky. Junie's just become Mrs Franco Visille Jnr. It's a blissful first day of the rest…
Georgia Garside is back! Rebuilding her life. And her agency. Looking for a lost girl. Nothing but a long and tangled paper trail to say she ever existed. Just when…
The Robin Hood of Private Investigators is back!
Georgia Garside. Foul-mouthed. Ex-contortionist. Bomb surivor.
Rebuilding her life. And her agency.
Looking for a lost girl. Nothing but a long and…
Life and death. But not as you know it. She saw Him in a dimly lit restaurant booth. Repellent, yet fascinating. Elbows on the table. Holding a glass of red…
An author. An actor. An absolute mess!
It’s a beautiful day at the movie studio. But author Jessica Mason thinks she might send her hero to Egypt.
Then she meets…
Cooking for friends and family can be as terrifying as organising an international peace summit. Stress Free Dinner Parties offers a simple step-by-step plan for getting it all done. So…
Buying clothes seems easy, but getting matching ones that fit you and your lifestyle is more difficult. Signature Wardrobe Planning shares a plan for buying the right clothes at the…
Do Cinderella slippers come in Chelsea boots?
Rosa Velazquez. Heroine. Ran into a burning building. Twice.
Jude Webb. Bespoke shoemaker. Believes his life is complicated enough.
Is Rosa brave enough…
Advice on managing wealth usually means sacrificing things that make life worth living. Holistic Personal Finance shows you how to manage your money according to the life you want.
If Christmas under the hot Australian sun isn’t twisted enough this story turns it up a notch. Matilda May McDonald, so-called crazy-cat-lady. Owner of four dogs. Trapped by her past…
Even the road to nowhere ends up somewhere.
Diana sits in a roadhouse in the middle of nowhere.
An oasis in the desert with great lattes.
At a crossroad. With…
Friends come and go...
Etta and Felicia.
Once upon a time inseperable. Out of contact for fifty years. Coincidentally back in touch.
One changed. The other not.
Until the bitter…
Felicia Clarke; influencer. Old Fashioned. Fiercely independent. Encourages others, but treads her own path. Dead, but fondly remembered.
By some. Get to know Felicia through these five stories.
You can struggle to find the place you call home. It's not a place, it's a feeling. You'll know it when you find it. These short stories are sweet and…
Dwennon; third son of a minor noble. Sent to Court to find a rich wife. Would rather be farming. Someone or something is messing with his clothes. Becoming the talk…
It takes an escapologist labrador…
A darling white weather board cottage. In a eucalypt forest.
With insecure fencing.
Welcomes Millie the golden labrador home.
But when she goes missing…
Dignity…
Georgia Garside. Foul-mouthed Private Investigator. Ex-contorionist. Caught up in the war between a wealthy industrialist and the ex-sugar babe who can’t take a hint. A laugh-out-loud triparte battle of wits…
White weatherboard cottage with a heritage red steel roof. Fragrant yellow roses in the front garden. Gum trees out the back. White picket fence. Bill the postman knows exactly where…
Orphan Finn Cox inherits a cottage. Thinks it holds the key to her origins. Of course she takes a look. Who wouldn't? But when she gets there, she gets more…
Katie belonged to Steve, and she didn't have a choice in the matter. Until she takes matters into her own hands and gets more than she bargained for. A story…
An abandoned Australian outback town. The ghost of a Cobb & Co carriage. A light breeze blows red dust. Li Quan is far from home. The last person in town…
Dot Sayers is a newly minted private investigator. Problem is, she knows there's something wrong with a background check. Can't explain it. Needs to convince her boss to trust her…
Warrant Officer Vivian Ashe. Busy Adjutant getting stuff done on New Mir Station. Old friend Admiral Queenie Baley. Ferrying diplomats on the FFC Argonaut. In a past versus future clash…
After a break in at the White Family Investigations office, her grandfather dies mysteriously on a case, and Lily knows without a doubt there's more than meets the eye. Can…
Derek Ericsson can't get over his son's death. Private Investigator Shirley Weaving, assisted by her late Great Uncle, sees things others can't. With more to the child's death that anyone…
Every detective has a case that got away, and for Phobe Swan, it's the kidnap, ransom and ultimately murder of Lette Walker. A decade later, now a Private Investigator, she's…
Documenting every move criminal mastermind Nick Liang makes, Private Investigartor Susan Murray draws. Part life drawing, part method of loci memory palace, part excuse. Like watching a live action Asian…
Haunted by unanswered questions and her lingering sense of loss, Hazel embarks on a quest to unravel the twenty-three year mystery of Alan Ackerman's disapearance.
Controlled and indoctrinated from birth. Strengthened by a eugenics programme. Challenged by genetic, physical and mental tests. The Directorate's elite enforcement arm unwaveringly supports the regime. Here are five of…
Even the ruthless Security Directorate holds Gala Events. Newly graduated Second Lieutenant Minty Hollister is in charge of the inaugural Distinguished Service Awards. There's a lot riding on it, her…
Success in the Directorate is not guaranteed. From birth to death, citizens face gruelling physical and mental testing. Lieutenant Jemima Hunt runs candidate 124 through his paces. And finds the…
Five more stories from the Security Directorate, a ruthless fascist dictatorship where indoctrination and eugenics programmes ensure only the best and brightest survive to take up postings in the elite…
With his assistant hospitalised, and her replacement so inept, Major General John Simm thinks it can't be coincidence. Can he get to the bottom of it?
Second Lieutenant Cora Meadows is alone when an unfamiliar alarm tone goes off. Does she have what it takes to deal with whatever it is?
Captain Tara Cline forced to work with nemesis Captain Max Wade. Can she solve the crime before he does?
??The Cookie Shop. No one knows how or where it came from. No one sees or experiences the same thing. All anyone knows is you must visit every five years…
Lies, Revenge and Black Magic A beautiful cosy cottage in the mountains. Toasty warm inside beside the wood fire watching the snow fall outside. The perfect romantic getaway if ever…
Dying is just a new beginning.
The scrap of land Asling’s bones lay beneath was unloved. Deeply rooted sunny dandelions dipped their heads in the light breeze.
She had no…
Alone in space… Almost. Edith wasn’t looking for adventure. Didn’t want the glory. Just needed the money. She’s a kitchen hand. Doesn’t know what to do with an empty ship…
Sometimes, seeing is believing. Jessica woke hot and sweaty. With a thumping headache. And dry, gritty eyes. Alone. In a strange room. With no idea how she got there. She…
She’s trained to stand out, but wants to blend in. A dark dingy office. With broken furniture. Genetic anomaly Eve needs black Earl Grey tea with a thin slice of…
Fate leads those who follow
In a dilapidated bookshop. In the red desert. 1,000 km from anywhere.
Erik meets three mysterious women.
Who might just change his life. If he’s…
The ruthless Security Directorate controls your birth, education, marriage and sometimes your death. Captain Seraphina Robinson is about to marry a man she barely knows. Not that it matters. The…
