Fairies are real, but they're not cute winged girls in cobweb dresses. They don't dance in mushroom circles and they certainly don't grant wishes. They're large, angry dragonflies with the ability to drain emotions, and they're massing. A war is coming.At the Australian Nocturnal Academy, the Earth's last dragon is finally starting as an official student. Hoping to make friends his own age, Drago Bethelrath decides to suppress his true aspect and appear as an ordinary were-lizard.

Professor Abbacus has come to the Nocturnal University, a gigantic floating college hidden within a cloud, to teach technomancy and investigate a series of mysterious explosions.With two students, a vampire boy named Malcolm and a tree-girl named Kim, Professor Abbacus learns that there are literally thousands of spirits bound within the machines that keep the school aloft, all in terrible agony and screaming for release. Each time one manages to escape a massive detonation ensues....

One day at school thirteen year-old Tala Somerset discovers that she can read minds. Mutants of any kind are feared in the Oasis, her futuristic society, and she struggles to hide her new talents.But a cruel gang of youths discover the truth and force her to steal for them. Then she meets the Children of the Mind, a secret organisation of psychic youngsters. With their help, and the aid of two friends, Darryn and Sarula, Tala manages to stop the bad boys.However, Tala soon ...

Twenty-two year-old Ricky Fielding decides to dress up as a woman so he can accompany his conservative boyfriend, Mark Holland, to a work Christmas party. Unfortunately Ricky drinks too much and accepts a job offer from divorce lawyer Gary Morgan.The next day Mark tells Ricky to reject the job, but Ricky is desperate for work and believes he can not only dress like a woman but act like one too. To make things even more complicated, Mark's 12-year-old daughter, Rachel, comes to stay...

A powerful criminal organisation known as the Syndicate has managed to infiltrate the Australian government and re-introduce the death penalty. Serial killer John Allen Darkin, who left a bloody trail of thirty-six bodies across Australia, is sentenced to die by lethal injection.Dana Neale swears that she will never forget Darkin, the man who murdered her husband. When he is executed Dana rejoices, hoping she that will finally be able to resume a normal life.Two years later...

What would a group of gamers really do if they were somehow transported to a real fantasy world of myth and magic?One Saturday afternoon gamemaster Sue reveals to her players Blake, Damon and Kiara a large, mysterious mirror she purchased from a local junk shop, for use as a prop in their next adventure. What she doesn't realise is that it's actually an extremely powerful magic artefact known as the Mirror of Albiroth.Always theatrical, Sue recites a portal incantation she ...

What would a group of gamers really do if they were somehow transported to a real fantasy world of myth and magic?The eight adventurers; four gamers from the Science Earth and their Magick Earth counterparts, have finally made it to the gates of the vile kingdom known as the Empire of the Undead. Deep within the Emperor’s palace lies the Mirror of Albiroth, an extremely powerful enchanted artefact the Science Earth travellers need so they can finally return home.But first t...

One day at Stanwell beach, high-school student Elspeth Cameron, discovers a mysterious canister marked with a strangely familiar symbol. That night she realises the symbol matches a tattoo on the muscular shoulder of her favourite rock star – Gareth Jones, lead singer of The Outcast.Elspeth tries to open the container, but it appears to be made from no known Earthly substance. So she wears the symbol she found with it to an Outcast concert, hoping to attract Gareth's attention. Not...

After thirteen years a violent serial killer known as The Plastic Surgeon has returned to stalk the streets of Sydney, killing blonde women and hacking apart their faces in a psychotic frenzy.Frank Saunders was the detective in charge of the first Plastic Surgeon taskforce. His failure to catch this insane predator resulted in the breakdown of both his marriage and his health. Now, thirteen years later. Frank is a bitter, chain-smoking old cop desperate to finish the job. He given ...

Gudday - I'm Vincent Knight, and this is my story. It's not every day a guy gets a whole book written about him, but here it is. It's no War and Peace, but so what? I'd never be able to get though such an enormous tome, anyway! Sorry, I'm getting off the point a bit. I've been told 'keep it short and simple, and no swearing!So what's this story about? Well, to put it short and simply – it's all about me! It starts off with me in English, snapping another kid in the head with a rubb...

Sharon Barnes, a gawky young clerical assistant, has always believed that she is too tall and skinny to be attractive. She is quiet and introverted, hiding behind long hair and baggy clothing. Then, one night when a pipe bursts in her flat, flooding her bedroom, she runs for help. She meets a tall, gorgeous blonde man named Philip Carrington, who immediately recognises the a wonderful, intelligent woman beneath her unassuming appearance, and helps her to emerge from her shell.Sharo...

At Long Beach in California, lies moored a great ocean liner. Once she carried the rich and famous, ordinary travellers, and even soldiers and refugees across the Atlantic. Now she is a thriving hotel and tourist attraction.But why is she haunted by so many ghosts? Why is she frequented by so many ghost-hunters, determined to contact these restless spirits? Why is one particular cabin home to so much supernatural activity?Captain Smith asks Carrie, Joseph and Dylan if they ...