Collection: Fiction

Editor Jen Gibbs is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Drawn to the story, it leads her to the Blue Ridge Mountains, a place she'd left behind...

Calais, 1346. Berenger Fripper and his men are stationed in the ancient port city, a city under English control and surrounded by enemies. They are here to defend their newly won territory from the French and their allies the Genoese...

In 1982 police found a five-year-old boy lying still and silent on the carpet. There were no signs of trauma but Jacob died the next day. His mother and her boyfriend went to prison for the crime but could the real perpetrator be the boy's sister, Lauren?

Recently retired from US military intelligence, Judd Ryder is walking home when he sees a man wearing his clothes step out of his house. Moments later, the man is killed in a hit-and-run. Was the stranger the intended victim, or was it Judd?

Sydney, 1942: the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Through a naive young priest's eyes we see into the hearts of a people who fear the end of life as they know it

After serving as a secret agent to protect Princess Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, Maggie is now an elite member of the Special Operations Executive - a black ops organization designed to aid the British effort abroad. Maggie is then sent to Berlin...

Loving Jack - What was a man to do when he came home and found a strange woman in his hot tub wearing nothing but exotic jewellery? Best Laid Plans - When Cody first sees structural engineer Abra Wilson, he thought of endless distracting possibilities...

A collection of short stories. From a woman intent on bizarre revenge, to a restaurant critic with a morbid fear of the number thirteen; and from a man arranging a life-changing assignation, to a couple heading for a disaster-filled vacation...

Caribbean, 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run - from their pasts, from the British Navy and the threat of execution, and from the destiny that fate has written for them. Plantation owner's daughter, runaway wife, pirate - Anne Bonny has forged her own story in a man's world. But when sh...

Renovations at the rectory DCS Fran Harman and Asst Chief Constable Mark Turner plan to move into after the wedding are disrupted when a skeleton is found in her garden. She delves into the Rectory's past owner as she investigates the skeleton's identity

It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve an horrific hostage situation that is spiralling out of control...

A seaside holiday at Shell Cottage in Devon has always been the perfect escape for the Tarrant family. But this year, everything has changed. Following her husband's recent death, Olivia is struggling to pick up the pieces.

Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes...bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy king Tommen. But their enemies are poised to strike...

Set against the background of the war in Vietnam, it follows the life of journalist Paxton Andrews, from Savannah to Saigon, where she becomes an acclaimed war correspondent before returning to the States after seven years,

The story of Matthew Flinders and his bride Ann Chappell. He left her behind for 9 yrs as he carried out great feats of seamanship and navigation, charting much of Australia's coastline, being shipwrecked and later held prisoner by the French on Mauritius

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief.

Will Bertie ever get away from his overbearing mother? And will we say goodbye to a Scotland Street resident Angus Lordie and his gold-toothed dog Cyril as a jaunt to the hills of Tuscany beckons?...

Hauled to a field hospital in northern France in 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness with an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw and her name is Stella Bain...

The small house at Allington is one of Trollope's gentlest and most delightful heroines. the social background and political satire of the story are presented with all this author's usual acuity and broad sympathy.

When facing injustice, the residents of New York City's tenements turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect their rights. The two must track down a cruel criminal preying on the hopes and dreams of innocent women.