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This is a humorous relationship comedy. Lizzie marries Clifford, even though she suspects she’s not in love with him. She soon realises she’s made a terrible mistake, but isn’t brave enough to face into that. She spends the next 25 years regretting but somehow not divorcing him.
A world Percy Field does not like is convinced he is a prophet of God, and he may just be beginning to believe it
In 1936 Seattle, an actor is having the time of his free-wheeling life, until he meets the woman of his dreams, who won’t let anything get in the way of her acting career. When her twin brother turns up dead, together they unearth a horrific set of murders, and a perpetrator who is untouchable.
In 1969 London, where rebellion is celebrated and difference still punished, an anxious art student falls for a swaggering would-be rock star who feels the same, but can't admit it. A volatile push-and-pull relationship begins as they navigate desire, family pressures and artistic ambition.
When three generations of the Walker family chase a silver rush onto native land during the final years of the Apache Wars, Tad Walker seeks refuge from his loveless marriage and father’s constant abuse, which leads him to Ekta, a Chiricahua woman who challenges him to break free from a family curse...
The Unblinking I is the story of three people who meet on a remote island in Thailand. Rune and Greg are tech wizards, and Issy is a woman with a secret. The story moves to Burma where the reader experiences exotic undercover activists, mysterious temple ceremonies, and the true identity of The...
Is this a ghost, an hallucination, or a symbol of unresolved damage? Set over four days in a 1997 context of social and political change - with flashbacks to a 1960s childhood- 75,000 word 'Balancing Act' explores 32 yr old Ana's fight to address the childhood trauma that tore her family apart.
Arachne, a cursed angel who hides a monstrous spider-form, falls in love with Jayce—the woman she once saved—but to save her own life and keep her angelic soul, she must kill her—or lose both.
When sixteen-year-old Mandy inherits a magical key that allows her to guide the dead, she must team up with her fiercely protective childhood friend to navigate a terrifying underworld and stop a fallen immortal from building a soulless army.
What if her hair was not Gold and she met Monkeys instead ? How would Goldilocks' story play out?
Trouble-prone Nick Jones realizes his new teacher is a kidnapper, a bank robber, and worse—hates kids. With his penchant for trouble in tow, Nick rallies his friends to discover a secret tunnel system and save the bank from being robbed. All by unleashing a reformed pirate’s secret weapon.
When rival Cold War intelligence agencies descend on a French seaside town to retrieve critical intelligence, one increasingly sceptical British spy must navigate shifting alliances and bureaucratic absurdity before the standoff erupts into violence.
In 2023, polygamy was proposed in the Malaysian parliament to solve the ‘issue’ of single Malay-Muslim women; this novel imagines that solution in the extreme. In this dystopian romance, Fera, a rebel fighter turned reformed housewife must fight to protect her daughter against an oppressive regime.
The world’s third-oldest person can’t afford his high-end care home, so his fiery granddaughter sets out to make him too famous to evict by murdering the two people who are older.
In Seattle, 1935, a young girl right out of high school, falls in love with a glamorous older man, entering into a world of elegant gowns, cocktails, and dancing. But when he grows more controlling and violent in his pro-Nazi group, the Silver Shirts, she runs away with the help of an actor (Max)...
Buckle up and follow an extraordinary teen named Jake on a journey of pure resolve from the swamps of Louisiana to Kentucky as he finds a life long friend, a hidden vein of compassion, the capacity to forgive and salvation while searching for his mom who abandoned him at the age of ten.
In a city of eternal night where humanity has traded its flesh for digital bliss, an ageing detective—the last Organic in a world of synthetics—hunts down those lost in stolen dreams, only to realize his own memories may merely be implanted scripts designed to keep a "good dog" on a corporate leash.
In Walking Over Wet Paint, a guarded, emotionally reserved editor in vintage togs collides with a charming oncologist in the wake of her mother’s terminal illness, forcing both to re-evaluate their emotional defenses, past patterns, and ideas of permanence.
Thrown into a ruthless world ravaged by warring gods, an ordinary young woman must forge an alliance with a fallen dragon lord to find her way back to her own world and expose the lie on which the gods and their Elites built their power.
After her train to a music festival breaks down, Noelle is thrown into a road trip with her best friend, her longtime crush, and a fate-hating stranger—forcing her to choose between her carefully planned path and the bumpy, pothole-filled road she actually wants.
Gifted with the seventh sense, Elya is thrust into a millennia‑old war between secret orders that have shaped humanity from the shadows.
When two rightfully spiteful postpartum witches curse their town's diet elixir into oblivion, they accidentally awaken a chaotic magic, forcing their picture-perfect community to face the messy, absurd realities of new motherhood.
John Hopkins, a young Irish-American, believes he is worth more than his humble upbringing, so he tries for a job working for George Pullman, industrialist, who is building a futuristic city for his workers. At first, the two men hit it off, but when Pullman’s workers try to unionize, the two men...
In war-ruled Vael, sixteen-year-old Jorium has trained his whole life to kill, but when he alone can wield the forbidden Death Arts, the power sickens him. As his people face ruin, he must balance life and death while falling for a Life Artist boy he is certain hates him.
Based on the wartime experiences of my father-in-law, Pieter Wienk, later known as a Noddy illustrator, Eastbound follows a young Dutch mechanic deported east for forced labour during the Nazi occupation. When he escapes with his closest friend, Jan, the two begin a desperate journey home across war...
Victoria Smoke, a queer country singer on tour, hunts for a magic bullet to kill The Devil who cursed her, at the risk of losing her band, her future, and the family she’s built on her odyssey.
A mind controller teams up with her enemy to seek revenge on those who exploited and imprisoned her.
When Eva and Evan find themselves dateless to a wedding, Evan has the trope-tastic idea to feign a romance, fool their families, and watch the couple get hitched without a hitch. Oh, Evan. As if any trope ever resolved itself that easily.
Ian, a successful consultant, returns to Toronto after 30 years abroad, rekindling a deep friendship whilst confronting unresolved issues from his past. As he reconnects with old friendships, Ian begins to question the nature of home, belonging, and the potential for a future he never anticipated.
Searching for a deeper spiritual connection can be a life-changing quest. But where do we find a God alive and active in the complex tapestry of our lives? In ordinary living, by everyday people. Through a rich narrative of story-telling God Quest – God Discovered in Everyday Places leads to hidden...
Demerara, British Guyana, 1823. Rumours of emancipation reach the plantations. When Jack, Quamina and Kofi believe their freedom is unjustly withheld, they move towards uprising. For Amba, love for Kofi and the struggle to protect her fragile freedom draw her into revolution. Based on true events.
A government “Reaper” agent sanctioned to hunt and kill convicted murderers, learns that his next quarry may be innocent, and that he’s become a target himself.
When a forbidden glyph ignites inside him, a quiet worker in the authoritarian state of Dominia becomes a hunted anomaly, forcing him toward a mythic crossing that could collapse the regime or awaken the world.
