'Sensational story-telling.' Australian Women's Weekly'One of Australia's great storytellers, excelling in merging fact with fiction . . . a combination of page-turning drama, relatable characters and real historical events.' Weekend Australian'Sweeping historical fiction at its best.' Better ReadingBlack sheep - there's one in every family . . .Orphaned at sixteen, James ...

A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline and its heart.BOUND FOR DESTINYIn 1788, Thomas Kendall, a naïve nineteen-year-old sentenced to transportation for burglary, finds himself bound for Sydney Town and a new life in the wild and lawless land beneath the Southern Cross.GREED AND HONOURThomas fathers a dynasty that will last more than two hundred years. His descend...

Experience the Ghan's historic journey across Australia's outback, where ancient Aboriginal heritage and modern ambition collide, in a tale as rich and vast as the landscape it traverses.DREAMS OF THE GHANIt is 2001 and as the world charges into the new Millennium, a century-old dream is about to be realised in the Red Centre of Australia: the completion of the mighty Ghan railway, a long-lived vision to create the 'backbone of the continent', a line that ...

A sweeping story of wealth, power, privilege and betrayal, set on a grand sugar cane plantation in Queensland.LEGACY IN THE CANE FIELDSIn 1881 'Big Jim' Durham ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour.SUGAR AND SECRETSThe massive estate becomes a self-sufficient fortress and home to hundreds of worke...

A stunning tale of loyalty and survival from a master storyteller ...In this ancient, harsh place, faint hearts will not last.The Pilbara, late 1800s: Frontier country, the wild west of Australia – a lawless, violent place where treachery is a way of life.Widower Charles Burton arrives in this forbidding corner of the world with his three young children. They've travelled half the globe, from the lush, rolling hills and dal...

Ten full-length erotic romance novels where rivalry is only the first thing they feel. Captains, trainers, professors and princes take defiant athletes and students on hockey rinks, wrestling mats and royal courts, and every rivalry ends with one man on his knees. Enemies first, then his.This scorching hot bundle contains the following full length erotic novels:Pucked By The Rival Gay PlayerThe rival defenseman corners him in the locker room and takes over completely...

From the cotton mills of England to the magnificent theatres of Melbourne - a scintillating journey through the golden age of Australian showbusiness.GOLD RUSH ENTERTAINERS‘So, Will, are you going to come with me and my team of merry performers to the sunny climes of Australia, where the crowds are already queuing and the streets are paved with gold?’In the second half of the 19th century, Melbourne is a veritable boom town, as hopefuls fr...

Despite sustained global attention, policy development, and research investment, the prevalence of intimate partner abuse (IPA) worldwide has not diminished. Ending Intimate Partner Abuse advances the field of IPA prevention by presenting a theoretically grounded and empirically derived model of the earliest warning signs.Integrating psychological and sociological perspectives, this book offers an innovative framework for conceptualising the onset and hidden nature of abus...

A man on the edge.A woman hell-bent on revenge.A cheating husband.A desperate wife.A property empire on the brink of collapse.A family at loggerheads.A predator hiding in plain sight.Who will sink and who will swim?Three generations of a billionaire family are taking their new superyacht on its maiden voyage. But when the yacht sinks, each of them has a different part to play, in this addictive, twist-filled thriller.

Together in print for the first time - including two brand new stories – this collection is an intoxicating mix of suspense, history, romance, supernatural and mystery!The Long Weekend Tracy, Eve, Jet, Mel and Danielle are looking forward – if a little nervously - to their upcoming digital detox. No phones, no laptops – just a quiet weekend in a remote mountain shack. What could go wrong?The Wardrobe When journalist Nancy buys a rundown t...

A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novels by Kate Morton and Elizabeth Gilbert .1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge....

Illya, a nobody in the king's army, he comes to the notice of Prince Ashe, Aldania's heir. Caught in a generations-long war, imprisoned by a mad king, the two discover a deadly history and a ghostly truth beneath. War and betrayal test their new bond to the limit. To end a dynasty of madness, Illya must embrace his hated ability to the lingering spirits of the dead, and look to them for answers.Il