I should've died in that pool. A merman saved me.Seventeen year old Valerie used to want the ripped lifeguards to rescue her, but her perceptions explode after a freak diving accident at the local pool when she’s rescued by a shy, intelligent merman named Wyn.A year before, a drunk driver killed her parents and the only thing that keeps her going is her training—she’s a champion diver—and she still spends every waking moment in the pool. Initially Valerie thinks she...

Beneath the waves, the myths are more than real.This prequel short story for The Mer Archives is about a man - 'C' - just learning how to surf.When C is snatched down into the depths, a half-shark monster moves in for the kill.Another half-fish arrives on the scene.Is she friend… or foe?

"The people of this land had simply vanished. They had left meals half-eaten, jobs half-done. Everywhere was the debris of daily life – knives, forks, spoons, tools, pens and pencils. There were tables carefully laid with plates of fossilised food, and there were work-desks spread with important-looking documents. Human life had once bustled and hummed in this city, but then mid-sentence everything had just ... This was now the realm of spiders. With a hundred years of patient industry, th...

Leo Zamos persuades his virtual PA, Eve Carmichael, to act as his fake fiancée at a business dinner. Thinking he's never met her before, Leo assumes that Eve's appearance will be as neat and professional as the work she's so efficiently performed for him. But soon he realizes how wrong he's been! With her soft curves, and lips that beg to be kissed, Eve is every bit as tempting as her namesake….Eve has accepted Leo's commission reluctantly-how can she, a single mom, refuse the fee ...

A "profoundly creepy and creepily convincing thriller" of religious fanatics and hoax debunkers from the Edgar Award–winning author of Hanging Hill ( Publishers Weekly, starred review)Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes, but when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned.Following the trail of a strange creature caught briefly on film, so ...

Nora Lang needs the most dangerous man she can find!Enter tycoon Blake MacLeod. He normally prefers sophisticated blondes that don't require too much of his brainpower. But Nora's a challenge…the perfect opportunity for a little light relief. Until she acquires some important information that he can't risk being leaked.Now Blake has to make sure Nora doesn't leave his sight—he'll make love to her for a whole weekend!

Old passions never die…Leo Zamos persuades his virtual PA Eve Carmichael to act as his fake fiancée at a business dinner. Thinking he’s never met her before, Leo assumes that Eve’s appearance will be as neat and professional as the work she’s so efficiently performed for him. But soon he realises how wrong he’s been! With her soft curves, and lips that beg to be kissed, Eve is every bit as tempting as her namesake…Eve has accepted Leo’s commission reluctant...

A destructive force...As Emma Randall prepares to bury one man, another enters her life with the force of the cyclone gathering around them.A man fighting for his life...Drew Jarrett, his feet and hands torn by nail wounds, stumbles onto Emma's isolated farm, with no clue to the identity of the man who has tried to kill him. Within days the killer strikes again.An attraction that can't be denied...Emma fights to deny her feelings for Drew, but the gr...

Nora Lang needs the most dangerous man she can find!Enter tycoon Blake MacLeod. He normally prefers sophisticated blondes that don't require too much of his brainpower. But Nora's a challenge…the perfect opportunity for a little light relief.Until she acquires some important information that he can't risk being leaked. Now Blake has to make sure Nora doesn't leave his sight—he'll make love to her for a whole weekend!

The Crying Room movingly explores family boundaries and stories, finding original ways to express the contradictory experience of belonging to a family, and being an individual at the same time.When Bernie Rodgers and her husband move to the coastal town of Ballina, she finds that there is more than a physical distance separating her from her adult daughters. Bernie loves her daughters, but the problem she realises is with the way she loved them.Bernie’s d...

Bride: signed, sealed and delivered!Ariadne Giorgias has been set up! Instead of being welcomed in Australia by family friends, she’s picked up from the airport by a lone, strikingly gorgeous stranger…Sebastian Nikosto doesn’t know what to expect from his contract wife-to-be. But it certainly isn’t the beautiful Ariadne, or the combustible attraction that sizzles between them. Perhaps there might be an upside to this ridiculous arrangement?But once ...

An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challenges the very balance of nature and whose body resists all attempts to contain it.A girl – and later, woman – of unusual size and strength, fitting in is never an option for Jean, but it takes the chaos of war – and, later, America – to persuade her to fully appreciate her extraordinary stature.‘A gorgeous, sprawling nov...