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Genre: Epic Celtic Fantasy
Inspired by Celtic mythology and Scottish folklore, the ALBA trilogy follows a young guardian as ancient pacts weaken, forgotten powers awaken, and the fate of both humanity and the Sidhe hangs in the balance.
Fading Pact: The Veil of Alba
(Book One)
A desperate migration leads a small clan into the forgotten valley of Gleanntan, where ancient standing stones, old gods, and hidden powers still endure. As mysterious disappearances begin, they must decide whether Alba will become their home—or their grave.
Winter of Spirits
(Book Two)
One generation later, the people of Gleanntan face a new darkness. As winter tightens its grip and the ancient pact continues to weaken, old spirits awaken and survival depends upon remembering the forgotten ways before everything they built is lost.
The Reckoning
(Book Three)
The ancient covenant has finally broken. As villages vanish, memories fade, and the forgotten roads of Alba reopen, Rian and his people must uncover the truth behind the old bargain before the land itself is consumed by forgetting.
Blood Among the Stars
Genre: Science Fiction / Cosmic Horror
Humanity's first contact with an ancient alien civilisation awakens a nightmare hidden among the stars. As war, faith and survival collide, the galaxy's oldest secrets threaten the future of every living species.
Blood Among the Stars
(Book One)
When Earth is invaded by an ancient alien empire, humanity must forge an unlikely alliance to survive a war that spans the stars.
Ancient Echoes
(Book Two)
As the war expands across the galaxy, long-buried secrets reveal an ancient enemy and a truth that could change every civilisation forever.
The Unmaking
(Book Three)
The final battle begins as allies and enemies unite against a cosmic force that threatens the very fabric of the galaxy.
The Golden Province
Genre: Historical Steampunk • Alternative History • Mystery
An alternate-history steampunk trilogy set amid the Australian gold rush, where gold, invention and ambition transform colonial Victoria—and threaten everyone caught beneath the smoke.
THE SOUTHERN GOLDFIELDS
(Book One)
Gold built Victoria. Now something far more dangerous is being dug from beneath it.
In the goldfields of 1858, disgraced engineer Nell Mercer uncovers evidence that the machines transforming the colony hide a deadly purpose. Hunted by powerful interests, she must join miners, immigrants and an outlaw airship crew to discover who is poisoning the goldfields—and why
ENGINES OF AMBITION
(Book Two)
The gold rush created fortunes. Steam will create empires.
As Aetherstone technology spreads across Victoria, new railways, factories and airships promise an age of extraordinary prosperity. But Nell and her allies discover that industrial progress is being used to concentrate wealth, power and control in increasingly dangerous hands. What began in the goldfields is far larger than they imagined.
EMPIRE OF IRON AND GOLD
(Book Three)
The machines are built. The empire is ready. Now comes the price.
Victoria stands on the brink of becoming the most powerful industrial colony in the world—but its prosperity has been engineered at a terrible cost. With the conspiracy reaching into government itself, Nell and her allies must expose the truth and stop a plan that could sacrifice thousands in the name of progress.
Republic Love
Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Relationship Drama
Three interconnected novels exploring love, loss, forgiveness and second chances. Set against the backdrop of coastal Victoria, the Republic Love trilogy follows ordinary people discovering that the strongest relationships are built through life's quietest moments.
Something I Needed
Book One
Oliver Harris never expected to find love when he returned to Warrnambool. As two lives slowly intertwine, they discover that what they were searching for was each other all along.
Burning Bridges
Book Two
Ethan and Rebecca's marriage is quietly falling apart. As years of silence and routine take their toll, they must decide whether love can survive when trust begins to fade.
I Lived
Book Three
Two couples. One shared journey. As old wounds heal and new dreams emerge, they discover that a life well lived is built through the ordinary moments that matter most.
Jurassic Frontier: Series 1
Jurassic Frontier: The Mercer Chronicles
Follow legendary frontier investigator Mercer as he solves dangerous mysteries in a Wild West where dinosaurs are part of everyday life. Blending classic detective fiction with frontier adventure, the trilogy uncovers conspiracies, murder, and corruption across an untamed prehistoric frontier.
Jurassic Frontier:
Cowboy's Last Stand #1
A surveyor lies dead in Coldwater Canyon, and Sable Creek is ready to blame a tyrannosaur. Sheriff Cole Mercer isn't. As more bodies turn up, each one staged to look like a different animal attack, Mercer follows the pattern to a hidden valley no survey has recorded, and to a man he has trusted for years.
Jurassic Frontier:
Valley of Bones #2
Ten men rode north beyond Miller's Pass, and only one came back. Before he died he told Mercer, "they weren't hunting." Mercer leads the recovery party into a valley no map describes, which is full of bones old and new. When one of the party is found dead at the edge of camp, Mercer knows the killer rode in with them.
Jurassic Frontier:
The Concord Line #3
A railway bookkeeper is killed at the end of steel. The last thing he said was "ask the ledger." Cassius Doyle then brings Mercer a rustlers' ledger page that lists his murdered sister as a settled account. As the railway races towards its golden-spike ceremony, Mercer, Whitlock and Cassius follow a thirty-five-year paper trail to a name everyone warns them to leave alone.
Jurassic Frontier: Series 2
Jurassic Frontier: The Cassius Doyle Files
A new generation takes the reins as Cassius Doyle leads the Meridian Trust against dinosaur trafficking, illegal breeding, and organised crime. Expanding the world of Jurassic Frontier, this trilogy explores the politics, science, and growing dangers of a frontier where dinosaurs have become the most valuable resource on Earth.
Jurassic Frontier:
Black Market #1
Someone is stealing the territory's rarest dinosaur stock from the very Trust built to protect it. The thieves know every routine and leave trails wiped clean. Cassius Doyle and Abel Whitlock follow the animals into a hidden trade where living creatures become entries in a ledger, and towards a name that frightens even the men who work for it: Bishop.
Jurassic Frontier:
Bloodlines #2
A prized hadrosaur and her unhatched clutch vanish from a locked pen without a trace. Across the territory, thieves who understand breeding as well as secrecy are taking animals with rare traits. Cassius and vet Prudence Okafor must find the leak inside the Trust and unmask the mind the thieves call the Professor before his work is finished.
Jurassic Frontier:
The Last Wrangler #3
The legendary wrangler Caleb Odom has vanished. All he left behind is a notebook with one word underlined twice: Bishop. The territory believes Bishop is long dead, but Cassius Doyle isn't so sure. Reunited with Prudence, Mercer and Whitlock, he follows Odom's trail to a quiet valley called Halcyon Reach, where he must face the man who taught Winthrop's killers their trade.
Twelve Houses
Twelve homes. Six relationships. One community in motion.
The Twelve Houses is a four-book contemporary relationship series set across Melbourne.
Each novel follows the residents of twelve homes as love, friendship, family and neighbourly ties are tested by a challenge affecting the place they share.
From storm damage in Brunswick and redevelopment in Box Hill to a disappearing neighbourhood shortcut in Pascoe Vale and bushfire preparation in Langwarrin, each book tells a complete ensemble story with its own characters, relationships and community.
The zodiac provides the architecture. The people create the relationships.
THE TWELVE HOUSES OF THE WEST
Book One · Brunswick
A brutal winter storm tears through a Brunswick apartment block, leaving twelve residents facing leaks, scaffolding, insurance battles and months of disruption.
For six couples, repairing the building also means confronting the cracks in their own relationships—and discovering what it really means to make somewhere home.
THE TWELVE HOUSES OF THE SOUTH
Book Four · Langwarrin
Living beside bushland means living with fire risk. As another season approaches, twelve neighbours must prepare together—clearing vegetation, protecting access, planning for pets and deciding when they would leave.
When a local fire and smoke threat finally puts those preparations to the test, six relationships discover that being ready for disaster also means knowing who will stand beside you when it arrives.
THE TWELVE HOUSES OF THE EAST
Book Two · Box Hill
When a developer targets The Meridian, twelve neighbours must decide whether to sell, stay or fight for the building they call home.
As valuations, meetings and competing futures divide the residents, six relationships are forced to confront what they want—and what they are prepared to give up to get it.
THE TWELVE HOUSES OF THE NORTH
Book Three · Pascoe Vale
A shortcut the residents have relied upon for years is about to disappear when neighbouring redevelopment closes the way.
What begins as a question of access becomes something much more personal, forcing the residents to confront boundaries, fairness, changing expectations and what they owe the people living beside them.
Unsolved Mysteries
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Some mysteries refuse to stay buried.
Drawing inspiration from unexplained events, strange histories and enduring legends,
these stories explore the space between what is known and what might have been.
Each standalone novel takes a real-world mystery as its starting point, weaving fact,
speculation and fiction into a new story of its own.
The Alphabet of Vanishing
A 1420s apothecary's daughter builds a private language to survive. Centuries later, two researchers must decide what's theirs to decode.
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Ghost Frequency
A 1947 distress signal leads a rescue crew to the Ourang Medan, a drifting freighter whose entire crew has died in terror. Aboard the silent ship, they discover a hidden cargo—and a frequency that turns their deepest fears into reality.
The Green Children
Two green-skinned children emerge from a wolf pit in medieval Woolpit. Centuries later, two researchers discover the children's lost twilight world may have been real.
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