Collection: Fiction

Set in a strict Puritan community in 17th-century Boston, this novel tells of an adulterous love affair and the retribution that follows. The strength of spirit shown by main character, Hester Prynne, has made her the first heroine of American literature

When Livia Prescott fights off a terrifying assault in a deserted car park, the media celebrates her bravery. After a difficult year watching her father fade away, her business struggle, and her marriage fall apart, it feels good to speak out and strike back.But as the police search for her attac...

When Michael Flint is asked by a colleague to investigate a reputedly haunted house, he is intrigued. Leo Rosendale's childhood was blighted by a macabre tragedy in the grim Deadlight Hall involving a set of twins who vanished.

Madeleine Tully lives in Cambridge, England. Elliot Baranski lives in Bonfire, the Farms, the Kingdom of Cello where bells warn of attacks from dangerous Colours. The teenagers are worlds apart until a crack opens up between them...

The story of a meteor of pure gold careening toward the earth and generating competitive greed among amateur astronomers and chaos among nations obsessed with the trajectory of the great golden object....

Sent to Macon for an undercover mission to infiltrate a drug and prostitution ring, Will Trent hides the facts about his latest assignment from his girlfriend, Sara Linton, when the stakes prove higher than any he has yet encountered...

1950s. When Rhonda Fleming runs away from home the last place she expects to end up is at a Jolly's holiday camp. But a chance encounter with a chalet maid at the train station leads Rhonnie to Mablethorpe and her life changes for ever

'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English castle.

A bitter love triangle, a mysterious inheritance, and power of money motivates, frustrates and activates the characters to a bitter end. Our Mutual Friend is a witty indictment of a society fallen prey to the dawning age of commercialism...

Malcolm McEacharn is the man who brings joy to early Sydney in the form of an iceberg. He brings electricity to Melbourne and becomes its Lord Mayor - but he is driven by an obsession that threatens to destroy him and his world....