A three day 'Robinson Crusoe' adventure becomes a challenge of mind and body.What could be better than spending a few days exploring an uninhabited island and experiencing having it all to yourself? Unless your island becomes your prison. A contemporary adventure drama.

The hunter becomes the hunted in this adventure short story based in Australia's remote Kimberly. How a trip to one of Australia's most remote locations turns into a struggle for life.(Updated version fixing some edit issues, Feb14)

Some may say Henry has a death wish. As an accomplished daredevil tightrope walker in colonial Sydney, Australia, he is set on achieving 'higher and longer' walks to beat his local nemesis and bettering the famous Charles Blondin's walk over Niagara Falls. With the help and input of his business partner and his sweetheart, he achieves more than he ever hoped for despite suffering the pitfalls of his occupation. Even when a devastating accident forces a change of direction, his imagination ...

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes... though they're not usually escaped convicts.Just like seventeen-year-old Violet Seymour, whose got a criminal record so thick you could use it as a doorstop. Being the only person to ever escape the highest maximum security prison in the steam-and-clockwork powered nation of Arcova, everyone and their mother wants Violet's head on a plate. So when Violet is suddenly thrust into a heroic role, being a link in an ancient bloodline of heroes, she...

Summer camp was supposed to be a time of fun and laughter, but when their school bus crashes and a group of young boys find themselves lost and alone in the unforgiving Amatola forests, their holiday takes a turn for the worst. Now there's something else in the forest with them... and it wants out even more than they do.As Jimmy Hoyer's mother Amanda searches for her missing child, she has no idea just how far it will take her, or to what extremes she may have to go just to bring h...

A hilarious tale of cheap drugs, cheap sex and teaching English - on the cheap!The first edition of "I Woke Up Feeling Thailand" was written between 2002 and 2004, after the author returned from an eye-opening stint observing the lifestyles of English teachers in the Kingdom of Siam.After making the short-list for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Novel, the manuscript was soon picked up by Sid Harta Publishers in Hartwell, Australia (but published i...

Jennie.....the retired Detective Sergeant, George, her husband, a retired Special Air Service Trooper, CEO and sole proprietor of a large security firm. He's into boats.....large boats, she's into horses.....thoroughbreds....they can afford it.Their past catches up with them but George is off delivering a boat on the other side of the world, Jennie, therefore, is left to deal with the threat to their very existence. The tale takes us from the soft folds of the Herefordshire countrys...

Candle's Christmas Chair is a sweet traditional novella set in late Georgian England.A young Viscount, new to his title, comes to buy an invalid chair for his mother, and finds the woman who has been haunting his dreams for three years. He quickly realises that, whatever causes her to flee his courtship three years ago, it wasn't what he'd been told at the time. Now he has until she finishes the chair for his mother to convince her to marry him.A carriage-maker's daughter, ...

A lighthearted, sweet novella set in regency-era England, celebrating the timeless power of romance with just a bit of mystery. Written for lovers of the classic regencies of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.A wounded Royal Navy captain tries to find love in the face of his self-doubt…Phoebe Hartridge runs into serious danger on an icy winter evening. But her rescuer, the mysterious Anthony Sterling, immediately melts her heart and makes her dream of a life b...

Could They Fulfill Their Dreams in this Untamed Land?Driven by desperation, Grace Hawkins must forsake the affluent comfort of her upbringing to save herself from an arranged marriage. Disillusioned by her father's insistence, she forges a daring plan to escape the sinister hand of her intended.Peter Colton sees the Alaskan gold rush as an opportunity to establish his family's fledgling shipping business. An unexpected partnership enables him to pursue those dreams and open...

Nate and Stacey love their great grandmother, but lately all they've done is worry about her health. Stacey decides a story is what her Nana needs to pep up her spirits.Stacey sees an old tattered book on top of the bookcase. "This should be interesting. I don't think you've read this story in ages. I barely remember it."Stacey begins to reads but her great grandmother takes over the story and the two siblings listen. Just before the old woman finishes the story she falls a...