Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

SpecFicNZ presents SpecFicNZ Shorts, three creepy stories celebrating NZ Bookshop Day 2015 - which falls on Halloween. Discover family secrets, spooky shop owners, and mysterious magical artefacts in:"The Shelver", by Piper Mejia"The Bookshop", by Jane Percival"The Box", by I.K. Paterson-HarknessPublished by SpecFicNZ, the New Zealand association for creators of sci fi, fantasy and horror fiction.

A journalist on a cross-country Christmas train scales the rugged terrain of his own heart in this New York Times bestselling holiday tale that inspired the Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie!Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to Los Angeles in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across Ame...

The best of the best …This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian fiction at its very best.Contributors include: Murray Bail, D...

Lisa Kleypas's A Wallflower Christmas takes a trip to Victorian London, under the mistletoe, and on a journey of the heart.With her trademark charm, sensuality, and unforgettable characters, there's no one like Lisa Kleypas to make you believe in the magic of Christmas.The Wallflowers are four young ladies in London who banded together in their wild and wickedly wonderful searches for true love. Now happily married, they join together once agai...

A lighthearted Regency friends-to-lovers tale full of family, the delights of the London season, and an unbelievable number of biscuits.James, Viscount Matheson, would do anything to help his disgraced relatives through a scandal—even take a proper bride. But his fiancée of convenience, Louisa Oliver, won’t set a wedding date, and the beau monde keeps gossiping. James enlists the help of Louisa’s beloved stepsister, Julia Herington, to push his suit forward.

She loved a man who loved crocodiles - a part of his soul belonged to oneLove and terror - two parts shared. Had he hurt others, girls whose photos she finds?She knew she must escape. She fled from him but could not leave this spirit behind - now it possesses her too.It draws her to itself. She finds herself locked in a cage with only this demon for company. Where can she safely go?Susan is an English backpacker who goes on a holiday to outback Australia. She m...

She holds his diary in her hand. Its contents terrify her, What is the awful tale it tells. She knows she must read it to see what is hidden. Can she bring herself to do so. She hides it away and passes responsibility to another.A fisherman finds a unidentified head in a waterhole in Northern Australia. What first appeared to be a crocodile attack turns into murder. Who is this man who no one seems to know.Susan returns to England, pregnant.after her escape, now engaged to ...

At an office holiday party in Bar Harbor, Maine, the guests may be mingling with a murderer: “A likable heroine that readers will cheer for.” —Parkersburg News and SentinelWho better than food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell to book a caterer for the Island Times holiday party? But Hayley’s quest for a cook turns into the pursuit of a killer who caters to no one . . .Office Christmas parties can sometimes mean career suicide—but they...

Four passports are found of girls who vanished in Australia. The girl who found them has disappeared too. Who are these girls? Where have they gone?A diary and search in Australia and across the world give tiny glimpses and fragments, but their stories remain elusive. The police search, friends and families search and grieve in alternate measure, but five girls remain gone, their fate unknown.Anne is wracked by guilt at her failure to save her friend, Susan, who vanished on...

A young woman has had no luck in love, but perhaps the third time is the charm in this witty Regency romance by the USA Today-bestselling author.Ella Quinn’s wealthy, titled bachelors think they're immune to romantic notions. Yet no matter how they try to evade it, love somehow finds a way...In the two seasons since her triumphant debut, Meg Featherton’s heart has been tested to its limits. Her first suitor: a criminal. The second: a cad. ...

A group of youths drive endlessly round their small town trying to avoid the hoodlums out to get them; a young man returns from university to the family farm where he must finally stand up to his father and they both must face the past; two teenagers spend the weekend in the bush on a farm and must come to grips with the realities of loss and grief; a young man working in telesales tries to reach out to another human being in a dehumanised society; a woman recalls the harshness of her chil...