Forty years ago, a young female veterinary student was abducted and taken against her will to an isolated bush location, where around a campfire party of drugs and booze, was tortured and gang raped prior to being bludgeoned to death.Five years ago there had been a Coronial Inquest into her death. A brief of evidence had exposed a gang with eight prime suspects as being responsible. Five of those suspects had since died, but three were still alive to take the stand and answer quest...

Kristy's cat, Misty Blue, is dying. The kitten had originally been Jeremy's gift to her as an emotional compensation for her miscarriage. He had said that when she was ready, they could try again. She had waited too long. Jeremy had fallen sick, and then Jeremy had died. That was two years ago and she still missed him terribly.Misty Blue was his only living legacy, and now she was being forced to have the animal put down. After this, she vowed that she would never have another anim...

Sarah is a single mother with a gorgeous four year old daughter. Her cheating husband walked out of their lives eleven months ago, and since then, there had been no contact or child support from him and she'd been struggling to survive. All her caring friends reckon she needs a man in her life. They are probably right, but she needs the perfect man, a family man who can be a father figure and role model for her daughter.What she asks for though, is for the opportunity to view down ...

The +Horror Library+ anthologies are internationally praised as a groundbreaking source of contemporary horror short fiction stories--relevant to the moment and stunning in impact--from leading authors of the macabre and darkly imaginative.Filled with Fears and Fantasy. Death and Dark Dreams. Monsters and Mayhem. Literary Vision and Wonder. Each volume of the +Horror Library+ series is packed with heart-pounding thrills and creepy contemplations as to what truly lu...

Mandy feels real physical fear for the first time in her life. After a shocker of a day, she arrives home to find her house ransacked, with the perpetrators still hiding inside. After a brief violent scuffle, where she is lucky to escape with her life, her assailants flee, taking with them her treasured antique heirloom ring.Initially the ring had been given to her great-grandfather, as a gift of gratitude for having saved the lives of a gypsy woman and her daughter during World Wa...

Suzanne's heart felt as dark and despondent as the skies she walked under. Relentlessly down came the rain. It was perfect. It blended with her psyche, and washed over her body to dilute her misery and drain it away. Jack was in love with her best friend Jenny. Their twenty year marriage was over, betrayed by a double whammy. She could never trust him again and never take him back.It was then, with lightning flashing and thunder rumbling that she remembered Troy's letter, the only ...

In a sequel to the first book, 'Justice is Personal,' Jamie Wells continues his quest to get justice for his sister Laura. Forty years earlier she had been abducted, gang raped and bludgeoned to death. Five years ago there had finally been an inquest into her death. No one had been charged with her murder, and three suspects out of a gang of eight men named as being responsible, were still alive and walking the streets. The judicial system had failed his family.Taking on the role a...