Collection: Adult Fiction

Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female lead, Gabriella Paston, is missing. Later that evening her body is discovered in the boot of Gus's car. Detective Inspector Stephen Ramsay and Sergeant Gordon Hunter are assigned to head the murder e...

As proprietor of the Fairytale Bridal Shop in Flowering Grove, Dakota has moved on from her painful breakup with Hudson, her high school sweetheart, but when he returns to derail his sister's wedding, old feelings resurface.

Alfie's mum, Emilia, has been lying to him forever. It's only been the two of them in Ireland, but when Emilia's appendix explodes, she drops a bombshell: they have a family back in Australia, and she and Alfie are going to meet them. When Penny Bains opens the door of her Tasmanian farmhouse to ...

Present day is hard enough for Kierce, but his past isn't through with him yet... MALAGA, 2000. Sami Kierce, a young man backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning. He is covered in blood. There's a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of a woman. Anna. Dead. He begins to scream. ...

Marina is a divorced mother of three preschoolers. Lilah is a shy and lonely librarian. Opal is a broke post-menopausal fitness guru. These three women have absolutely nothing in common - except for the charming, attractive man who's been lying to all of them. Now that he's tied up in a basement,...

The war has begun. Both sides demand Diem's allegiance--or her death. After her disastrous coronation, Diem finds herself at the centre of the conflict between the Descended and the Guardians. With her newfound friends and the man she's falling for on one side, and the mortals she has vowed to pr...

Traci Beller was only thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now a super-popular influencer with millions of followers, she finally has the money to hire a new d...

Leah has a good life. She lives on The Drove, an inner-city cul-de-sac, with her husband Moses and their two children. She and her neighbours - the drovers - look out for each other. Theirs is a safe, community-oriented enclave and that's the way it's going to stay. When itinerants set up camp in...

Following her husband's murder, Lila Culhane battles his pregnant mistress for leverage while preparing for a high-stakes reining competition, questioning her ranch manager and lover's loyalty, and dealing with a growing list of suspects in Frank's death.

Inspired by true story, this is a story about two women's pursuit of truth, survival, and family. When Sylvia's son, Cyril, vanishes during a perilous school trek in the German mountains, her world crumbles. A pre-trip postcard from Cyril hints that his teacher, now lauded for his rescue efforts,...