My brother, Max is a well liked person and everyone you talk to says what a well-mannered and polite person he is. Very sports minded, he is a one-eyed supporter of the Penrith Panthers Rugby League Football Club. He also loves cricket and watching the Olympic Games.His love for travelling brought him to the Whitsunday Islands, South Australia, Canberra and Western Australia three times. Shortly he is heading to Brisbane.He received his own unit from D...

He never stayed long enough to be remembered.Drifting from town to town, riding hard and leaving harder, Caleb Rourke made a life out of keeping ahead of trouble—and the ghosts that followed him. No roots. No ties. No looking back.But when a chance encounter strands him in a dying frontier town, Caleb finds something he never expected—quiet… and a reason to stay.It doesn't last.Old enemies ride in with unfinished business, and the past Caleb buried comes cla...

The ruins weren't supposed to matter anymore.But someone was willing to kill to keep them quiet.When gunfire erupts in the broken remains of a forgotten settlement, a hardened gunman finds himself trapped between collapsing walls, unseen shooters, and a woman who knows too much to be left alive. Carrying her through rubble and blood, he fights his way through brick and dust with only a revolver, his instincts, and a single chance to get clear.The ruins offer no cove...

The timber road between Red Creek and Granite Crossing was quiet country—too quiet.Stagecoaches carrying payroll had begun vanishing along that lonely stretch of forest trail, and the few survivors spoke of masked riders who struck fast and disappeared into the trees before anyone could fight back.When drifter Cal Ransom rides into the territory, he isn't looking for trouble.But trouble finds him.When Ransom witnesses an ambush on the timber trail, he learns...

Silas Crow has returned to town, and everyone inside the Broken Horn Saloon knows trouble has followed him through the batwings.Sheriff Tom Kellan wants to keep the peace, but Crow has unfinished business with Jed Nolan—a debt neither man is willing to forget. As old grudges rise and buried secrets begin to surface, the saloon becomes a powder keg waiting for one wrong word or a single twitching hand.Before the night is over, loyalties will be tested, blood may be spilled, ...

Three guns. One woman. And only one man will walk away alive.When a stage robbery turns bloody outside the lonely settlement of Black Mesa, a young woman named Emily Carter finds herself the only witness to the killing. Now three desperate gunmen are hunting her across the desert—each with his own reason for making sure she never reaches town alive.One wants the stolen gold.One wants revenge.And the third wants to silence her forever.Caught in the mi...

When Eleanor Marsh and her husband journey into the mountains to winter at isolated Ghostwater Lake, they expect hardship—but not hostility. As unseen men lay claim to the valley and winter seals the only escape, survival becomes a test of will rather than endurance. With food dwindling and danger closing in, Eleanor must stand her ground against both the cold and those who believe the wilderness belongs to the strongest. Ghostwater Winter is a tense frontier tale of resilience, quiet defi...

No one saw it coming.The trouble started at the bar—but the killing came from above.When a quiet night in a frontier saloon erupts into gunfire, the men on the floor think they know their enemy. They're wrong. From the balcony, a cold-handed shooter turns the room into a trap, cutting men down before they can draw breath—let alone steel.Now one man has to fight his way through smoke, blood, and splintered wood to settle the score. But in a place where every shadow h...

The desert keeps its dead.When drifting cowhand Tate McCall and his grim trail partner Jed Harper discover a sun-bleached skeleton deep in the wastelands beyond Black Vulture Pass, they figure the dead man's story ended long ago. But hidden near the bones lies the clue to a stolen gold shipment—and somebody is still killing to keep the secret buried beneath the desert sand.Hunted by ruthless gunmen and trapped in a country where water is scarce and mercy even scarcer, the t...

An affectionate and hilarious tribute to the childhood of another era, from one of Australia's favourite authorsA memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts Peter FitzSimons's account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and values clear; when people stood by each other in adversity. Above all, in t...

Find out what it takes to keep the Glass Half Full, as challenging life events including grief, loss, PTSD and devastating floods, test this expat step-family to their limits.After enduring divorce and numerous child custody battles, Sarah Jane knew that a fresh start in Australia was their only chance of future happiness and that as a family they were making the right decisions. Living the Australian dream in Alice Springs was everything they hoped for until life-changing events s...

The truly classic Australian story of Tom Kruse - legendary mailman of the Birdsville Track.For the people who lived in the desert between Marree and Birdsville, contact with the outside world was hard and sporadic - but one man was their lifeline: Tom Kruse. For more than twenty years he was the connection with the outside world for the families, station workers and others who lived along the Birdsville Track.Tom delivered everything from the mail and news...