Can a dream hold the answer to a violent crime ... and bring two people together?Since the deaths of her father and stepmother nine months before, Mia Petros has suffered a terrifying recurring dream which implies that their deaths were not a murder-suicide at the hands of her father--as the police decided--but a double murder.In Taylor's Bend to clear and sell her father's house, Mia, driven to breaking point by the dream and unnerved by the simmering rese...

In the small town of Taylor's Bend, some secrets are about to ignite...When Taylor's Bend vet Oliver Johnson attends a car accident involving a horse float from a nearby stud farm he's not prepared for an encounter with Krista Laatonen, the billionaire owner's stepdaughter. Beautiful, prickly, and entitled, she is everything he despises about the world he left behind all those years ago. But he can't neglect an injured animal, and there is something about Krista he...

When Australian violinist Nina Lee finds a piece of old sheet music at a rummage sale, she quickly discovers the music is imbued with a supernatural power. Strange dreams of a handsome, passionate, and commanding man playing a beautiful melody on violin haunt her nights and gradually consume her thoughts. Time-traveling minstrel Piers de Crespigny demands that Nina help him in his ghostly quest to be reunited with his lost love Miranda. Obsessed with playing his music, seduced by its power...

A chance sighting leads to second chances – for hope, for family, and for love.Five years ago, teenager Antonia disappeared. With no compelling evidence, the police eventually called her a run–away, and dropped the case. Her teacher, Jax, has always regretted not speaking up about the rumours she heard circling the school that day, but a random sighting at a train station raises the possibility that Antonia is still alive – and not too far away.Antonia's father, Co...

She's been through hell, so risking her heart should be easy...Anxious to rid herself and her twins of the dark memories from their past, twenty–three–year old Antonia moves to the small rural town of Flynn's Crossing. Antonia is frightened but determined to be independent for the first time in her life, so she rents Mango House and settles in to the community to begin the process of healing.Town councilor and local real estate agent Flynn has secrets. Guilt–ridden...

From the author of The Ripple Effect comes a poignant novel about a mother who has given up everything for her kids, and her opportunity to take a risk on something for herself.Annie never thought to use underwear to meet a man, but the trick works on her downstairs neighbour, Hugh. Though he's a handsome English doctor, Annie wants nothing more than friendship. Luckily, neither does Hugh.But their friendship is shaken and their resolve tested when Annie's flatmate...

A sweet, summery, beach–side romance from the author of E for England and The Ripple Effect.Sent to assess a deceased estate in a small coastal town, ambitious city girl Tiffany Holland is initially annoyed by the out–of–the–way assignment. But she soon discovers sleepy Birrigai hides a wealth of surprises: a cross–dressing motel manager, a Kissing College and her client Miles Frobisher, the laid back, surf–shop owning, real life sex fantasy.Tiffany's ambit...

This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading, these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous ploy, but rather an essential, occasionally fraught, by turns escapist and instrumental, deeply pleasurable, and highly contentious activity that has value far beyond the classroom skills or the specific content it conveys. After an ...

A FOREWORD REVIEWS EDITOR'S PICKAt the far edge of town stands a dwelling the villagers call Haggard House—a place as decayed and strange as the family inside.1859, the village of Nomaton, Michigan. After a reclusive childhood within the dank walls of Haggard House, Adam Bolton, at the age of eleven, is finally allowed to attend the village school, providing he obeys his mother, Sarai's, injunction. Against all outward influence, h...

A FOREWORD REVIEWS EDITOR'S PICKAt the far edge of town stands a dwelling the villagers call Haggard House—a place as decayed and strange as the family inside.1859, the village of Nomaton, Michigan. After a reclusive childhood within the dank walls of Haggard House, Adam Bolton, at the age of eleven, is finally allowed to attend the village school, providing he obeys his mother, Sarai's, injunction. Against all outward influence, h...

♥ Will his touch of gold help her or hurt her in the end? ♥The Knight with the Golden Touch :At the wedding of his brother, Sir Kin de Bar tries to save the book of alchemy from the old witch, Hecuba, but it crumbles in his hands. He is then cursed with the touch of gold, and only can stop it from happening by wearing the golden gauntlets. When he secures the position of escort to a beautiful woman, he realizes that he is not the only one keeping secrets. He finds himself a...

♥ Sometimes a prison is a state of mind, and not a physical place.♥The Lady Captive:Rapunzel de Bar has been kidnapped by the old witch Hecuba, and imprisoned in a tower with no doors and only one window. Tired of waiting for her brothers to rescue her, Rapunzel decides to escape on her own. Since she's been cursed, her hair keeps growing longer and longer. She hangs from her braid out the window, and with her eyes closed, cuts her hair, dropping to the ground.The D...