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A disillusioned driver for an international adoption agency discovers his estranged ex-girlfriend secretly gave up the son he never knew he had, who is now being adopted by his American clients. When a child trafficking ring threatens the orphanage, he is plunged into a violent underworld...
When a tattoo artist with the power to save damned souls by sinking some ink, though sadly not her own and she doesn't know why, tries to rescue a wayward demon-dog, she must use her talent and good karma index to undo the curse that's got 'em both trapped UNDER THE WHETHER GLASS of Meadowhawk Hall.
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.
After surviving a classified operation that was erased from history, former commander Su-Hwa lives in isolation with fragmented memories she cannot trust. Working in civilian protection for high-profile figures, she begins to notice attacks that mirror tactics from her lost past. As suppressed...
When the wife of MI6 operative Ronan McNeilly is abducted by the world's most feared assassin, he embarks on a relentless pursuit across Europe to stop an international conspiracy, discovering that love, sacrifice, and faith may prove more powerful than the violence that threatens to consume them...
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.
A West Texas groundskeeper must navigate grief, a pandemic, oil companies, and an unexpected courtship to save the golf course he tends—and discover whether preserving the past is enough to build a future.
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 woman loses her only child. Barely surviving the birth herself, she is left with lifelong health challenges. Searching for purpose, she becomes a Sacred Huntress, a Ferry Woman for men dying of AIDS, a ballerina, writer, artist and healer -- all while struggling to reconcile her concepts of death...
After surviving a catastrophic bushfire, 16-year old twins, Claudia and Jake Cairns, relocate to Sydney, Australia. But as information about the fire emerges and Jake grows increasingly self-destructive, Claudia realises she doesn't know what actually happened the day their world caught alight.
A JINX IN TIME is a fast-paced speculative thriller about a New York City bicycle messenger, bartender, and emotionally troubled time traveler named Jinx. After the brutal murder of her parents, Jinx experiences wild and inexplicable time-traveling episodes she calls “inversions.” Obsessed with...
The Nativity Story is probably the best known Christmas story. Its played by children in most Junior Schools and many Christian Churches. The Magi (Wise Men or Three Kings) make a cameo appearance and do not get another mention in the Bible. The making of the Magi tells the story in a different way...
Noah Marshall is an orphan in an orphanage where the residents work as farmhands. When Noah receives a birthday card from animator and creator of the Finlayworld Theme Park: Otto Finlay, he is encouraged to believe that a rewarding life is available for everyone. Consequently, Noah begins to dream...
A man records his experience living with a scholar that resides in the attic, who constantly throws down classic literature and IQ tests from the hatch in the ceiling, cleaning them all the next morning. Until one day, the man gets tired of his antics and decides to rebel against the scholar.
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.
A Pakistani housewife’s anonymous letters to the Agony Uncle of a weekly magazine spark a wave of reader responses, transforming the newly employed housewife into an impetus for social change.
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...
When a reclusive artist dies, her hidden fortune of paintings sparks global fame—transforming the town that shunned her and launching her best friend on a bittersweet journey to bring her extraordinary legacy to light.
A woman loses her only child. Barely surviving the birth herself, she is left with intense health challenges. Searching for purpose, she becomes a Sacred Huntress, a Ferry Woman for the dying, a ballerina, writer, yogini and medium-- reconciling her concepts of death and motherhood with memories of...
After a mysterious storm marks him with forbidden power, an exiled boy must unravel an ancient prophecy, survive deadly hunters, and embrace his destiny as the Tempest King before a forgotten darkness awakens and consumes the world.
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...
In a brutal fae realm where half-bloods are hunted, seventeen-year-old Valerie hides her forbidden fire magic while uncovering a conspiracy that could destroy the throne - and must choose between loyalty to her father or justice for her mother he murdered.
Jude Chariot, a brilliant student on death row for murder, is enlisted by the CIA to test a probe capable of backward time travel. His mission is to record his journey into the past and leave behind a diary that could change history. When the manuscript vanishes, a former CIA operative races from...
Land is precious on an island. When they want yours, no one is safe. A mystery set in the Caribbean. A shadowy enterprise is acquiring shoreline land from owners using dubious and deadly means to sell for profit for hotel developments. Two protagonists join forces to stop the latest dispossessions.
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 whistleblower turns up dead, a hard-bitten Los Angeles tow-yard owner and her estranged half-brother, an analyst buried inside a corrupt investment bank, are driven toward the same deadly conspiracy linking Congolese cobalt, dirty finance, and the man who ruined both their lives years before.
A grieving teen learns she can hunt her attacker in his dreams. But dreams can’t convict him—and awake, no one will believe her over his reputation. She must decide: keep using the only power sleep gives her, or speak the truth while awake and defenseless, where her dreams can’t save her.
Inside the magic of the human body every nucleus must specialise what cell they master. The elite choose, the rest are assigned. When Zell fails his exams he’s cast into General Allocation and into the Body Tournament, unaware a virus is about to turn his shot at redemption into a fight for survival
Vestige is an upmarket literary novel with book club appeal. Written by a licensed trauma therapist, it blends psychological fiction with a dystopian backdrop while keeping love at its emotional core. With elements of mystery and domestic suspense, Vestige will appeal to readers who enjoy...
Everyone dreams of a different life sometimes. But what if chasing it costs everything?
The human King wants to cut down the Weegens’ treasured Great Oak Tree for his new throne, and it’s up to young Winklin to stop him – without being thrown into his deadly dungeon!
Twenty years after parting from the love of her life, a woman who survived an abusive husband reunites with her childhood sweetheart and discovers their feelings never died ... but murder, heartbreak and the weight of the lives they've built may destroy their second chance.
Aelwen is drawn back to her birth family in the Forest of Dean to save her mother’s missing soul and, in the process, meets the love of this and every life.
When Rosiane Nym tells her friend Amos Frank, a young Sydney physiotherapist, that she has dug up the toe bones of her amputated leg—intending to make a necklace to restore her lost creativity, he is a little surprised; his surprise turns to disbelief when his anatomy training tells him something is...
Searching for a deeper spiritual connection can be a life-changing quest. Where do we find a God alive and active in the complex tapestry of our lives? In ordinary life, by everyday people. God Quest—God Discovered in Everyday Places weaves a rich narrative of God’s presence in daily living.
The tale begins 300 years ago, when The God Jar encounters a terrible wrong. It resurfaces in the present with a mission. It must right that wrong and the thousands like it, but it needs to find the agents for that. Nick and Vanessa, estranged cousins, are chosen, but their task is not simple.
As Europe edges towards war, a Russian ballerina works at the Paris Opera Ballet, dancing for and pleasuring the upper-class men of France. With each night, she sells her body for secrets of the impending conflict. And with each time, she loses a little more of the woman she once was.
Deep beneath a vanished civilization, Origin—an ancient multi‑layered intelligence—splinters into rogue minds. When Elira awakens as the system’s lost key, she must stabilize its collapse before rising hidden worlds fracture reality itself.
To save her kind from an ancient sea-rot that turns victims into mindless weapons, mute princess Bryndis must find the magic song that was stolen from her as a child.
He thinks they’re one step away from forever. She thinks they’re barely defined. As workplace romance, sexual chemistry, and competing agendas collide, somebody’s future plans are about to be upended.
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.
When star banker Emilia Stuyvesant is date-raped by some of her colleagues, the bank closes ranks against her. But she is not alone, and she will not be beaten. Note: This novel is really Romantic Suspense, but with the subject matter (which is not graphic), Suspense is the right category of the...
In a future where every person receives an artificial uterus after birth, pregnancy is managed as civic infrastructure. Kairo Sen (16) is identified as pregnant during a school bio-sync demonstration. He must reclaim his body before the Commonwealth turns him into proof that the system works.
Twice in living memory the wheel has turned—the Aswan Dam erasing Nubia, war emptying Sudan of 14 million. As I trace my family through both, and my own search for identity, I learn that exile need not erase us. Sometimes losing a homeland is how a people are reborn.
A man sent from the future arrives in Roman Judea, survives the ministry of Yeshua, and travels from Alexandria through Southeast Asia and the Han Empire to the islands of Wa, eventually finding peace as a healer and family man in the remote northern mountains.
Gifted with the seventh sense, Elya is thrust into a millennia‑old war between secret orders that have shaped humanity from the shadows.
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.
Eighteen-year-old Loon, a memoryless, shunned outcast hunted for the end of the world virus in his blood, searches for his identity in a dying world after its collapse. As rival factions pursue him, he uncovers a truth: the miracle meant to save humanity is him, and his mother wants him dead for it.
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.
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 a flood destroys his anthill, a young ant who once dreamed of wings is swept into a foreign world, where he must survive exile, grief, and the loss of everything familiar — and discover that freedom may not mean escaping home, but finding the courage to build one anew.
As their world tears apart under celestial storms and imperial war, three young women—a dutiful caregiver, a captured noblewoman, and a lone avenger—descendants of the Pleiades star cluster, are sought by secret factions racing to protect those prophesied to either save or doom their dying realm.
When her picture-perfect city life collapses, she moves to the small costal town and ends up running its tiny, underfunded museum, armed with nothing but a diary, her wit, and a scooter that barely tops thirty-five kilometres an hour. Written in deliberate foreign English. Entirely its own.
A Southern interior designer who built her whole life around being useful finally has to ask the hardest question she's ever faced: keep performing the version of herself everyone expects, or find out who she actually is. At forty-three, she's about to find out if she's someone worth knowing.
A grieving detective’s hunt for the lethal Domino Killer collides with a series of memory-wiping bank heists. Smashed into a metaphysical war where a cabal is manipulating time itself, Jaydon Lynch must balance the scales to save the people he holds dear.
This is Apoterasis: the transformation of a mortal into a monster, where a lost girl will tumble from one evil lair to the next, pulled into a secret war between monsters who trade unholy blood to their goddess for power, threatening to erupt from the underworld and engulf the world above.
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.
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.
For ten years, Callan's father has been trapped beneath a cursed sleep. His search for a cure leads him into Tir Nan Og, where humans live under brutal Fae rule, deadly blood-sports enforce obedience, and a forgotten power within him could spark a rebellion.
A woman with the ability to smell emotions wakes from a coma with no memory of the last decade to discover her talent has returned, her father is dead, and a powerful Russian mobster holds the key to her future—and her past.
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.
A mysterious collapse forces City oil broker BELLE into therapy, where she must confront the truth behind her missing memory, the musician she cannot stop loving, and a life she no longer recognises.
In a city where the genetically enhanced rule and a hungry wilderness presses in from all sides, a young soldier who's spent his life crying wolf finally stumbles onto a real conspiracy—dragging him into a fight for humanity's future that makes earning his redemption harder with every step he takes.
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.
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.
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.
OFFCUTS, set in Amsterdam during WW2, tells the story of Merel Van Loon, a grieving mother asked to take in the Jewish unborn child of the man who was responsible for the death of her son. Merel saves the infant and her shattered heart begins to heal, only until the mother returns for her child.
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.
A world Percy Field does not like is convinced he is a prophet of God, and he may just be beginning to believe it
When a missing person specialist learns his aunt and uncle were murdered and his cousin kidnapped, he must find the person responsible or risk losing his only living relative.
Rosemary's Baby x Alien - After a devastating miscarriage, an interior designer relents and joins her hubby's 3-year space gig as non-essential personnel where they can try again only to discover that she must find a way to leverage her inferior status to survive this doomsday experiment from hell.
During the Christmas of 1969, two Cardiff constables search for a child who repeatedly goes missing, despite the hostility of a community obsessed with the end of the world.
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)...
Leah Azemar is trapped in the world of the dead, she just doesn't know it. But when a boy comes asking unanswerable questions, and Leah realises her whole world is a lie, her memories start to return. And the more that do, the more she realises how badly she needs to return to the living.
What is he Ana? A ghost? An hallucination? Or a manifestation of unresolved pain? 75,000 word 'Balancing Act', set between four days in a 1997 British context of political and social change, and a 1960s past, explores 32 yr old Ana's battle to address the shattering trauma of her childhood.
After forty years on the run for a crime she didn't commit, a chain-smoking American pushing eighty and a pregnant teenage runaway embark on a madcap road trip across France. As long-buried secrets surface, both must decide whether family is inherited—or chosen.
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...
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.
When the girl of his dreams asks the man of her dreams to help her find a new partner, what will it take to put their dreams back together?
Torn from her pregnant sister and forced to compete for the title of living goddess, a slave must convince a kingdom she is divine before rival claimants, invading armies, and the truth behind an ancient prophecy cost her the only family she has left.
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.
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.
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.
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.
