When Peter forged travel documents during Stalin’s formidable reign to see his parents in a Siberian labour camp before they perished, he knew he was facing the life-or-death challenge of his life. What followed in the years after that journey could not have been foreseen by Peter or his countrymen. In 1941, the Ukraine was invaded by Hitler’s army and remained under its control until its retreat two years later, taking Peter and his young family with them, as workers in Germany’s labour camps...
Sadistic Hamish McMurtrie ‘Hacka’ Blanchard hatches a brutal but brilliant plan, the cold-hearted brutality of which shocks even the hardest-nosed policemen. With the aid of three former cellmates, he contrives to kidnap two federal politicians and demand a $5 million ransom from the government. Nothing could go wrong. But Senior Sergeant Ken McLoughlin and his partner Tony Delarosa have other plans. In a dangerous race against time, they sweep through the sun-drenched Great Barrier Reef, the...
Sixteen year-old Air Cadet Willy Williams and his instructor are forced to make an emergency landing in their light aircraft at an isolated cattle station in the vast wilderness of Far North Queensland. As the repaired aircraft is taxiing to take off, a woman rushes toward them screaming for help. Behind her is an armed and dangerous criminal desperate to protect the secret he’s hiding at the station—at all costs. The man takes aim at the airplane and fires, thrusting Willy into the most...
Fourteen year-old Navy Cadet Andrew Collins enrols in a SCUBA diving course on the Great Barrier Reef to impress Muriel, the girl of his dreams. There’s only one problem: Andrew is terrified of diving, not to mention the sharks, eels, and every other dangerous critter inhabiting the Coral Sea. Despite his fears, Andrew inadvertently stumbles onto an old family mystery: the mysterious disappearance of his grandfather, lost at sea many years before. The deeper they delve into the mystery the...
For over 10 years, Samantha Honeycomb has changed the lives of its readers forever. Universally admired since 2006, Samantha Honeycomb has spread its alchemy around the world. Scott Zarcinas’ masterpiece tells the magical story of Samantha Honeycomb, who is wrongly punished for breaking the ancient laws. She is expelled by the queen into the wild and untamed Crazy Lands, her only hope of redemption an impossible quest—to find the fabled hive of Beebylon and bring back its secret of infinite...
Joe Harper ('Pop Pop') is a beloved grandfather, decorated war hero, and family patriarch. He is loved and respected by everyone that knows him especially his family but a stroke has brought his past under a cloud of suspicion because Joe came out of a coma no longer able to speak but has been heard murmuring German, a language he does not know. The Grandfather weaves the story of Joe's Harper from his heroic war efforts in WWII as a member of the 508th Infantry Regiment of the...
Kennedy Logan is gorgeous, talented and in love with Drake Collins. She thinks it's the real thing; he's in for the sex. But she's not going to give up winning him without a fight. Because Kennedy doesn't give up—after all, she hasn't quit searching for her biological mother who abandoned her at birth. But things get to a point where it all becomes too much, resulting in a failed suicide attempt. Her life then gets considerably worse when her overbearing mother, Dorothy...
Charismatic young pastor Hezekiah Cleveland and his wife, the beautiful and ambitious Reverend Samantha, certainly have their hands full with managing their less-than-perfect marriage and their drama-prone congregation in this exciting debut! There's Danny St. John, who opens up Hezekiah to the underworld of being «on the down-low.» Then there's Samantha's secret lover, Reverend Willie Mitchell, also Hezekiah's biggest nemesis, who's in cahoots with her to take over...
When Mecca's parents are killed in front of her by a family friend, she learns that true friends are few and far between. She is taken in by her aunt, and soon finds out who is really riding for her and who is just around because they fear the wrath of Aunt Ruby. Making a deal with the devil doesn't seem all that bad when you're sitting on top of the world, with endless amounts of money and designer everything, but it's not long before her beloved Aunt Ruby is snatched away...
Ten-year-old Claire adores her brand-new baby sister, but her mother doesn't feel the same. Trapped in the suffocating culture of the small-town South in the early 1960s, Claire's mother tries to cope with her own mental illness and all the expectations placed upon a woman of her class. While Claire's father remains too dazzled by his beautiful wife to recognize the impending dangers, Claire is left largely on her own to save herself and her baby sister–with mesmerizing and...