Be careful what you wish for.She wanted to be famous. But not like this.Ellen Gibson always dreamed of being a star. At a young age those dreams were shattered.Discovering she holds the winning ticket in a 55-million dollar Powerball jackpot, Ellen sees it as her opportunity to be in the limelight. But at what cost?Detective India Hargreaves and her small team are called in to investigate the disappearance of five- year-old Joshua Gibson, but the investigati...

Two paragliders go missing after being caught up in a Dust Devil in rural NSW.A prisoner on day release from Cessnock Correctional Centre disappears from his sister's house in Newcastle.DCI Frank Bailey and DI Rachel Sharp were part of the team which led to the arrest and conviction of the missing prisoner some years prior. When they open an investigation, they find links to both disappearances with a religious community based on a large property called Babylon. Frank suspe...

There's a serial rapist at large in the city of Newcastle who violently assaults and marks his victims. Detectives Frank Bailey, Rachel Sharp and their team are desperate to find the perpetrator before the violence escalates. One woman, who lay undiscovered for some days, has already died from her injuries. Circumstantial evidence leads the police to focus on a number of potential suspects. Family members of the victims are also keeping their eye on one particular man.Solid detecti...

When she was very young, Cate witnessed the murder of her mother. The killer was never found. Cate’s never forgotten the killer’s face. He haunted her nightmares for many years.Determined to keep the image of the man who murdered her mother alive in her head, Cate begins obsessively drawing him, which brings trouble for her at home and at school. However she can’t stop and continues her passion in secret, naively confident and determined that when she is an adult, the police will b...

Detective Inspector Rachel Sharpe becomes suspicious with the deaths of several men and women in their early thirties who attended the same high school in Newcastle. They all appear to be an accident or suicide. There is no evidence that points to them being murdered. Is it just a co-incidence? Before Rachel can look more closely at them, a murder takes precedent over her enquiries and DCI Frank Bailey shuts her investigation down.When a book written by a bestselling author comes t...

A tragic accident on a back country road in New South Wales in 1975 leaves one young woman dead and another with severe head injuries.When Libby Miller regains consciousness in hospital she remembers little of her life before the accident. After weeks of treatment she returns to Sydney with her husband to discover he has plans that don't include her. She manages to escape to England and settles into a new life surrounded by her English family.Twenty-five years later the rem...

How desperate would you be if you lost your only daughter?Annie Huxley, brought up by her grandparents on a remote cattle station, always believed her parents were dead. While on holiday with her family she decides to visit her parent's graves in the NSW country town where she was born. There she discovers the first lie. As she begins to seek the truth, it's not long before she uncovers further riddles.When Annie begins to ask probing questions by email, Len, her grandmothe...

In a quiet Sydney suburb, soon-to-be-married Sonny Day sets off on his bike to catch the train to work. He never makes it to the station. After his fiancée Chrys reports him missing, DI India Hargreaves launches a low-key investigation.Weeks later, a man's body is found, mutilated and buried, on a nearby building site, but it's not Sonny, and with no solid leads, both investigations stall…until a letter arrives from Sonny, claiming he's met someone else.Chrys insists Sonny ...

The end of the world began with a winter storm.Sadie's quiet life is interrupted when a tree crushes the roof of her attic apartment. She's forced to move to a smaller apartment in the building. Then, her aunt guilts her into clearing an ouija board of a particularly irritating spirit.But it wasn't just the roof that was broken by the tree. There was something trapped within the building, waiting. Waiting to wake and bring about the end of the world.Not with screams, b...

Sennett, Godfrey and the rest of Station 86 are trying to put their society back in order after the Core attack. Then a mysterious ship from a dying station arrives, bringing artificially intelligent robotic, murderous dogs.Godfrey, Mason and April must get to the hospital safely, while Sennett is trying to protect Marshal's Joy and Howard. But the AI dogs are nothing compared to the terrors they left behind on their own station.

When she was very young, Cate witnessed the murder of her mother. The killer was never found. Cate’s never forgotten the killer’s face. He haunted her nightmares for many years.Determined to keep the image of the man who murdered her mother alive in her head, Cate begins obsessively drawing him, which brings trouble for her at home and at school. However she can’t stop and continues her passion in secret, naively confident and determined that when she is an adult, the police will b...

An ancient sect is rising in Septa. One that might mean death for Lenore and her daughters.Septa is on the verge of civil war. Lenore, Sultiana, Devon and Victor return to the city to face their uncle. But this danger is soon eclipsed by Brother Brennan, a disillusioned priest of The Creator who is determined to pull Lenore from her throne and put her in her grave.With the princesses missing, and war raging in the streets, Lenore will have to call on every ounce of light sh...