Collection: Fiction

When future governor Philip Gidley King sailed with the First Fleet to the new colony, he had his pick of the convict women to look after him. Two years, and two sons later, he set out back to England to provide a report on Sydney and its newly tamed Norfolk Island, as his mistress Ann Innet begg...

Forced away from the outback she both loves and loathes, bush pilot Amelia Fraser has lost everything - except her compassion. Running from tragedy, she finds herself in Settlers Bridge, determined never to let anyone get close to her again. Widower Heath Brennan has channelled his grief into ang...

1988: Thirteen-year-old Andy Miller and his friends - Carl, Brian, Johnny and Gavin - become witnesses to the vicious attack of their classmate, Poppy, and the brutal murder of her sister at a flooded railway line they call the frog ponds. They lead the police to a suspect, a vulnerable older boy...

Texas Ranger Darren Matthews has handed in his badge. A choice made three years before, which served justice if not the law, means that he may now stand trial. And his mother - a destructive force in his life - is the cause of his fall from grace. But it is his mother's reappearance that may also...

Bronte needs a place to lie low. She posted a drunken rant that went horrifically viral. Now - jobless, friendless and broke - she's forced to volunteer as a carer on an isolated rural property. She won't be paid for looking after dementia sufferer Nell, but at least she'll have a place to stay. ...

The student: Li Min, a Chinese student, is forced by her government to transfer from Harvard to Oxford University, where she is recruited to an elite Chinese study centre based out of St Felix's College. The scapegoat: Meanwhile, the centre's newly recruited head stumbles on its more sinister pur...

In Holmes is Missing, PI Brendan Holmes has committed the perfect crime—he’s made himself disappear. Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, ‘the brain,’ Margaret Marple, ‘the eyes,’ and Auguste Poe, the ...

The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed. Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn'...

Rural Dreams takes a look at life outside the big smoke, featuring the kind of characters you might expect in the country - as well as some you might not. A football coach ponders obsession . . . a mouse plague dictates school yard politics . . . a failed playwright asks 'who gets the farm?' . . ...

Two years ago, and with assassins after his head, Bourne knew he had to let Abbey Laurent walk away from his dangerous world. Now Abbey is back and she's married to a top government official. But she's convinced someone is trying to kill her husband, and she wants Bourne's help. Bourne follows th...