Shy librarian Catena likes her quiet life…until a huge naked man muscles his way into her house, insisting he's been woken from his centuries-long sleep to be her personal protector.Catena's life is turned upside down when she's saved by a creature she's only heard about in books. If only her hero's rock-hard abs weren't actually made out of stone.Tor has no memory of his past. All he knows is that he must protect Catena at all costs.Can they unlock the dark secrets...

Between 1922 and 1923, Katherine Mansfield wrote four volumes of short stories:The Garden Party and Other StoriesBliss and Other StoriesIn a German PensionThe Dove’s Nest and Other StoriesThis recording includes all sixty-three stories from the four collections, including a number of incomplete stories collated after Mansfield’s death.This recording also includes an introduction written and narrated by Aust...

A B&B that doesn’t serve breakfast, a dead body, and something strange in the room at the end of the corridor... Pepper knew moving back home wasn’t going to be easy*.*Pepper Jasper moves from Sydney to the cozy town of Lighthouse Bay, answering a desperate plea from her aunts to help with their failing Bed and Breakfast business.She discovers her aunts are more eccentric than she remembered, the Bed and Breakfast does not serve breakfast, and the cottages for lease have st...

Broom Mates is a 10,000 words novella. The other books in this series are full length novels.Goldie Bloom has four problems: her boss, her boyfriend, the fact they are the same person, and the fact that person is cheating on her.After discovering she has inherited an old home on the Gold Coast waterfront, this murder-solving Aussie sea witch packs up her collection of 5 inch stilettos, and moves.She's not expecting to move in with a room mate named Persnickle, just ...

Welcome back to Mugwort Manor . . .Pepper Jasper thinks she’s had more shocks than anyone should have in one lifetime, yet more sinister secrets lie in wait for her. And when one of the guests is murdered, Pepper discovers danger is closer than she thought.Can Pepper remain hidden from those who wish her harm?Lucas O’Callaghan is hiding something, and Pepper is determined to find out what it is.As trouble brews, Pepper races to shift through...

Join Goldie Bloom, a thirty something, high flying real estate agent sent out into the wilds of quiet seaside Australia by the boss who broke her heart.She is hardly expecting to inherit a cranky mystical wombat, discover she is descended from an ancient coven of sea witches, or find herself in the middle of a town with no coffee, but that’s precisely what happens.Goldie does her best to solve a murder, come into her powers, and stop that wombat from terrorising the ladies ...

The Garden Party and Other Stories was published in 1922. A collection of fifteen short stories, it explores themes including life and death, gender and family roles, relationships and duty.CONTENTS:Introduction to Katherine Mansfield, written and read by Susannah Fullerton**“At the Bay”“The Garden Party”“The Daughters of the Late Colonel”“Mr. and Mrs. Dove”“The Young Girl”“Life of Ma Parker”“Marriage à la Mode”“The Voyage”“Miss Brill”“Her First Ba...

What will Sibyl find when she moves to a small Aussie town? Deadly snakes and redback spiders? Sure, but she also finds something unexpected . . .Sybil Potts moves to Little Tatterford, a small town in the middle of nowhere in Australia, seeking to find peace and quiet after the upheaval of her divorce.Although the town is sleepy and nothing has ever happened, her arrival coincides with a murder in the boarding house adjacent to her cottage.Sybil so...

Since her mother died, Rochelle has known nothing but bad luck. Barely scraping through her studies in between working two jobs, while living with her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend, if he’d only listen to her long enough to hear her say it’s over…it’s all she can do to keep it together.Until she meets Ben, a fellow artist who helps her break free. But Ben has dark secrets of his own, and a past darker than Rochelle can imagine…Buried after a botched ritual, Ben wakes as a gargoyl...

Two goblins, a snarky treasure map and the hilarious quest for a lost gem. Magic never caused so many problems.Two goblins, a snarky treasure map and a quest for a lost gem.Sounds straightforward enough. But Sneath and Clutter aren't your usual goblins, and the map has plans of its own.Join the brothers on their hilarious adventure, as they bumble through caves, almost drown in an icy lake and are chased by nasty, magical villains. And all for the love of gold and j...

In the summer of 1839, 26-year-old Louisa Anne Meredith, in the company of her husband, Charles Meredith, sailed from England to the British colony of New South Wales, in what was then New Holland.Four years later, she published a detailed account of theyears since she had left England. A fascinating window into the past, Louisa's impressions and experiences cover the four-month ocean voyage; life within the fledgling city of Sydney; travels across the Blue Mountains to Bathurst; a...

On the outside, Pamela is the perfect lady, spending her days sketching landscapes while waiting for her father to find her a husband, until she meets Ben, the stonemason building her father's new castle, she knows she's found a kindred spirit, with a heart as artistic as her own.But when family secrets come to light and the supernatural steps in, fate has other plans, and their very lives hang in the balance...