Collection: Fiction

Disembarking on Ellis Island, Francesca arrives on the shores of America with her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. That same day, aspiring linguist Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center. Ellis, though, is not the refuge it first appear...

Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die in quick succession, she's left heartbroken and destitute, and at seventeen emigrates to Sydney in 1864, determined to build a new, financially secure life for herself. After an apprent...

Welcome to Kent, 1797. Following many years apart, Jane Austen is set to spend the summer with her estranged brother, Neddy. As heir to wealthy widow Mrs Knight's fortune, it is imperative that Neddy stays in his benefactor's good graces. The financial security of Jane's entire family depend on h...

Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems. But a miscommunication in the dark night means no one tied the houseboat to the dock. The next morning, Zeke a...

It’s lonely out on the cliffs of Marlborough Head. Lonely and dangerous. When a body washes up on the rocks below, everyone assumes it must be brutish Edward Parker. Weeks ago, he slipped over the cliff’s edge. Never to be seen again. But on closer inspection, it’s not him. The dead man is Pat Du...

Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving. She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real. There's something strange about the scene . . . Famous artist Elaine appears to have passed peacefully in her sleep as she rested against an ...

Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving. She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real. A stunning wedding in a country house hotel. Fourteen guests. One killer. Rina's friend Bridie Duggan is tying the knot - at her dream venue....

Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving. She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real. A body in the library - and a killer caught red-handed at the scene? Hammy acting, lazy scripting and dastardly suspects - Rina's no...

When Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children's mean girl discovers her talent for finding absolutely anything, new student Antsy searches for a way back to the Shop Where Lost Things Go to be sure Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will o...