AustLit

'Some people believe that they will do anything humanly possible for love, and some people will move heaven and earth for it. Leigh has always believed that she fell into the first category, but as she feels herself falling for Ryan, she wonders if she's descending into madness instead, clutching madly at her ideals on the way down but losing grip every time Ryan looks at her or whispers in her ear.

'Maybe heroines in books would do better than her but hey, heroes in books have nothing on Ryan. He says he wants to be friends, but he doesn't kiss like a friend. She vows that she won't go any further than kisses, but Ryan's touch does things to her that no written words ever have. Is she foolish for having onto her archaic ideals, when such a passionate affair seems almost written in the stars for her?

'Ryan wants to prove himself to be a man of worth, given that there's nothing he knows about himself as a fact, and he knows that rising above the temptation to seduce Leigh will indeed, prove that regardless of what happened in his last life, he has earned a second chance in this new one. But how can he do that when he wants Leigh so much that he can barely remember what manners are, let alone practice them and restraint? Girls like Leigh don't come easily- and though he senses that he can take whatever he wants from her and get away with it, he starts wondering if maybe the solution to his problems is to give instead.

'But what can he give freely, without knowing if he already belongs to someone else? The author of The Hardest Fall may have all the answers Ryan needs to trigger his memories back, but as the prospect of meeting Kathryn Praser becomes more likely, he starts to baulk, drawing out his time with Leigh before the cover can slam shut between them under the weight of his former life.

'What if he doesn't want to have a soul-mate waiting for him anymore? What if he'd rather get lost in Leigh's eyes, than seek out the ones from his dreams?'

'They’ll do anything to love her…

'Elle Carey has never felt like she has ever truly belonged to anything; not her family, her body, her career as a journalist following in Editor-In-Chief father’s footsteps–none of it. By day she goes through the motions, reporting at her father’s side, playing nice with her over-achieving sister and pretending to be ashamed of her family’s heritage as her father is, but for Elle, it’s all a lie–she exists only to fly and has gone great lengths to keep her passion for the silks and trapeze a secret.

'But when The Harlequin Bros spectacular comes to town, Elle gets the opportunity of a lifetime–one interview, one audition–one chance to live. She knows instantly that both of the beautiful Romani brothers, Archer and Jarrah Harlequin have the potential to steal her breath, but what she doesn’t know is that one is destined to do exactly that, and that the other will stop at nothing to make sure that the curse comes to pass as quickly as possible, yet again.

'Elle expects to return to the paper afterwards with a few fond memories and maybe even an exclusive into the dark underbelly of the circus, but her destiny is not to see her name as a byline, but in the obituaries.

'It is brother against brother, light against dark, demon against demon, temptation against love in this passionate and beautifully cruel story about the corruption of innocence and the illusions we weave to hide our true selves from one another.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Isaac Hayes always gets what he wants, and Charlotte Swift has always resisted submitting to him, only to succumb to his demands to protect her in the end, because she never cared enough about anything to fight for something else. And so Isaac had his true love, polished and gleaming, like so many of his hard-earned trophies.They were content, she was safe, and Isaac was triumphant.'

'But now that Will Furlough is in the post-apocalypse picture, Charlotte's determined to keep him there, or walk out of Isaac's perfect frame all together. Isaac doesn't want to lose her, but now that Charlotte has morphed from being his passive aggressive sweetheart, to his hostile captive, Isaac's got no choice to up the ante to keep her safe.'

'To keep her medicated.'

'To keep her guilt-stricken and indebted to him.'

'To make her his again before Will gets back.'

'She's left him no choice, really and in the end, he knows she'll thank him for rescuing her from herself again.

'After all, the Doctor always knows best, right?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Everybody who knows Leigh Dallas-Hone (a tightly knitted circle consisting of her parents the old women in her mother’s quilting bee and a few of her most loyal book blog subscribers) worries that she’s going to grow up to be an old lady with cats. Everyone, but Leigh that is. Not that she doesn’t think that it’s likely, only that she doesn’t mind that idea because for her, becoming the crazy cat lady is a ‘novel’ concept that will satisfy her bookworm fantasies to a tee.

'But, in the interest of convincing her parents that she truly is looking to do more than her life than read, write about what she just read and then read something else, Leigh decides to undertake a blog tour with a difference; traveling the U.S and Canada for a month, following the paths of her favorite literary heroines footsteps and hoping that finally, she’ll meet a guy who can live up to her fictional standards. She has many stops along her way, visiting some of the most favorite story locations in the world, but what she’s really waiting for is the stop-off in Niagara Falls; seven whole days alone in the setting of her favorite novel, The Hardest Fall. Leigh has the best room booked, the best dress to wear on her arrival and a heart full of hope that a guy, just like ‘The’ Ryan Weaver, her ultimate male hero, will notice her, and sweep her off her feet.

'But Leigh’s not off the bus for more than five minutes before the sight of a handsome, blue-eyed rock-star styled busker, not just ‘like’ Ryan but identical to ‘her’ Ryan, photo-bombs her selfie, causes her to smash her iPad and unwittingly causes a chain of events to start that not only threaten to ruin her vacation, but her favorite love story for her forever.

'Leigh’s fairly sure that Ryan Weaver, the street musician is merely trying to milk his likeness to a fictional god for all it’s worth, and is determined not to fall for his act, because Scarlet O’Hara would never be so gullible, and Anne Of Green Gables would never get close enough to a strange man to allow him to take advantage.

'But this is Leigh’s story, not theirs–at last. And she’s always been prone to pretending that she doesn’t see the plot twist coming, just because losing oneself in a story and ending up with a broken heart is a lot better than losing oneself to a mundane life in which a heart is never given freely enough to be broken.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Good girls don’t smoke.

'Good girls get their immunisations.

'Good girls die in the first five minutes of the zombie apocalypse.

'It’s a good thing that Charlotte’s only been pretending to be a good girl. Her naughty streak is either going to save her life, or get her devoured. And there are worse things going bump in the night, than the red-eyes.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'For over one thousand years the matriarchs of the Court family have been zealously working to ensure that the myth of the Mermaid remains exactly that: a myth. But their task has not been a small one, and sacrifices have been made in the process; men have fallen, lives have been taken and hearts have been broken beyond repair. The Mers of Seaview think that they have experienced firsthand what a broken-hearted and powerful Merman is capable of doing in the name of vengeance–but they don’t know the half of it. Now, stirred up by Ardhi’s quest for vengeance, their greatest, oldest and most powerful enemy is ready to rip the ocean floor out from under everyone’s feet and make his wrath known after one thousand years of waiting for the opportune moment to strike.

'Ivyanne has always suspected that she was cursed, but she didn’t know that the curse was their creator’s doing. And now that she’s uncovered the staggering link between Anna L’Autienne’s darkest secret, and every single tragedy that has befallen her and the people she has cared about over the years, she knows that she has to put a stop to the vicious cycle before she loses everything.

'But Ivyanne cannot do it alone–she needs help, and she needs the help of the one person she has no right to ask anything of. But will he rise above his broken heart to become their champion when he learns just how his family has already lost to the sea in the name of the Court family? Or is he as damaged by the Siren song as their greatest foe?

'Ivyanne has had her happy ending–but whether it is her Happily Ever After remains to be seen.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'In a time when women were considered possessions, a girl was born with the conviction that she belonged only to herself-a conviction that would cost her everything she valued in the name of progress, but elevated her to a status unequalled by any man before then or since; Guardian of the ocean, and mistress of the moon.

'A coming of age story beginning in 1044 B.C and spanning centuries- See how fifteen year old Anna L'Autienne, a french peasant and apprentice apothecary, took the vulnerabilities plaguing the women of her time and wielded them as weapons against everyone who tried to possess or suppress her.

'The untold story behind the mermaid myth and the origin of feminine wiles are one and the same, born in the name of vengeance but kept alive in the spirit of love and concealed under the surface of the ocean to this very day.

'Nothing was the same after the first siren sang.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'It’s not easy being an adopted, astraphobic ballet dancer from Canada, trying to make friends in a new country, but when eight year old Callie Clay saved the boy at the gorge on her first day in Horizon, she scored two best friends, a red baseball cap, and a reputation for being a risk-taking weirdo.

'Eight years later, Hunter and Ryan had been given pamphlets on what to do when they started noticing girls, but nothing could have prepared them for the changes that came over their tomboy friend and so they handled it as hormonal teenage boys do; badly. One moment, they were a band on the precipice of their first big gig and the next, Callie is having a nervous breakdown and running naked into the eye of Cyclone Addison and when she returns, it's not as the sweet girl next door but a fallen goddess with only one purpose; to shatter one of the men she's trying desperately not to fall for, using the other, for the sake of The Harmony, and to save her own neck.

'Take a trip back in time to when the music defined lives, the butterflies of first love consumed every thought and strap yourself in for a ride to Oblivion and back. Passion, anguish, sex, drugs and Rock’N Roll- Unchained Melody is an epic Paranormal Romance served with a pair of Doc Martens and a trip down Melody lane!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Hope has left the mermaid kingdom, and fear taken its place. Ivyanne is the most valuable resource the mermaid kingdom has left, and for every second that Ardhi exists and remains concealed, her life is in peril. As a result, Ivyanne now finds herself barricaded within the most gilded of cages in her usual town of residence, Airlie Beach, gateway to the Great Barrier Reef where she passes time learning her new responsibilities, mourning her personal losses and trying to ignore the one subject everyone wants her to focus on-selecting the future king once and for all. But try as she might to forget what her heart knows it cannot, as the moon draws the waves to the shore, so the siren will draw men to the rocks.

'And they’re through being patient. 
In a strange new fortress built for the sole purpose of protecting someone important, Ivyanne is being watched twenty four hours a day by the only merman she can trust herself to be in close quarters with-Garridan Loveridge, Tristan’s uncle and professional bodyguard.

But Garridan knows that against the threat of a madman who can bend the weather to his will, one protector is not enough, and so he assembles a guard to keep Ivyanne safe.

'And so they come-the strongest of all mers, Marked and free, man and woman-dangerous and lethal-all questing for the chance to take out the threat, and claim the knighthood offered as reward. Ivyanne’s home gradually overflows with love, frustration and fear, and as the full moon draws nearer, the withdrawals hit the sirens hard and chaos ensues. Ivyanne will see that the system isn’t working anymore-something has to change-starting with her.

'And not too far away, the hunter waits still, corrupted by power, inspired by an ancient evil and determined to link his name with the royal bloodline any way he can. All he needs for that to happen is the full moon, and an overpowered queen.

'Heads Or Tails thrusts you into the lap of luxury and chaos. Tempers boil, temptations get out of hand, hearts will race and dreams will be shattered in a bloody battle for the ultimate prizes-Ivyanne’s heart and the King’s crown.
The mers are about to learn a valuable lesson-that fate can surprise you as much as you can surprise yourself and that nothing in life is guaranteed.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A dream can become a nightmare in a matter of moments, and Ivyanne Court is living proof of this. She thought choosing between three potential husbands she was indifferent to was the worst thing that could happen to her, but she was so very wrong. Choosing between two she cares deeply for is that much worse. Especially when there’s a chance that one moment of irresponsibility has already predetermined her future.

'Hands tied, heart bound, still mourning the loss of her best friend, Ivyanne cannot believe that having her unspoken wish granted could cause so much misery among those closest to her. The mers are no longer looking to the queen for guidance, or the princess for her decision- but the moon, for they believe that what it reveals as it wanes will illuminate Ivyanne’s path, whether she agrees, or not, for as tides sculpt the sand, the moon shapes their kingdom.

'But is it that simple? Is a heart divided, merely a heart in denial?

'In the distance, hidden in shadow but forever watching, someone thinks it is.

'Someone is convinced that the princess has created conflict in her heart, and will find resolution only by stepping into his arms instead. But he knows she will not listen to him and a quest begins, a journey from The Great Barrier Reef to the Antarctic Ocean, seeking allies to assist him, creating division within the kingdom for the first time in one thousand years. He believes that the moon’s power is dwarfed by his own, and if the princess can’t find a way to rule the men she thinks that she loves out of her heart, that he is going to take them out of her life any way he can. His whole life, other people have drawn the lines in the sand, but now, he is carving his own, deep enough to draw blood.

'Three Rings sees a shift in the mer way of thinking, but for a kingdom that was previously the pinnacle of perfection, this will be a jarring lesson to learn and will resonate from the community they have claimed as their own, to the furthest reaches of the Mediterranean, drawing fresh souls to Seaview, fresh jealousies, fresh insecurities, and fresh wounds. For what lies beneath is power previously unimagined, and one man is about to bend it to his will.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Mermaids have three purposes in life; To breed, to protect their environment and to keep the knowledge of their existence limited to pages in fairytale books.

'Ivyanne Court is the personification of a mermaid princess-Breathtaking, pure, kind, sharp and strong, she is the envy of everyone she has ever met, human and mer alike. And yet she hasn’t known a day’s happiness since she came of age and was forced to abandon the human boy she loved, Lincoln Grey.

'Ivyanne has always known that she was to marry one of ‘The Marked Ones’ sons of a carefully cultivated bloodline created for the sole purpose of breeding with the royal family, and she had resigned herself to it. But now two betrothals have been severed in cruel twists of fate, leaving her untouched and lonely at twenty-eight, while being frozen both physically and emotionally, as a sixteen year old girl.

'When her parents declare that she can choose her next match, Ivyanne is overwhelmed by the weight of her decision, specifically because her best friend Ardhi, has put himself, and his heart, forward in an unprecedented declaration that cracks the foundation beneath her. Ivyanne begs permission to return to the Seaview Resort while she weighs her options, to live and work as a human, and gain some peace.

'But when she arrives, she is startled to learn that Lincoln has never left the Seaview. He is now the owner, and he has been waiting a decade for her return. The moment their eyes lock, Ivyanne knows that their chemistry hasn’t faded any more than her memories, and though she tries to push him away, the siren inside her draws him closer.

'But Ivyanne’s belief that her life couldn’t get any more complicated dissolves when Tristan Loveridge, the most arrogant and desired specimen of merman within the kingdom, arrives at the queens bidding, to lure the princess into a swift marriage. And Tristan Loveridge has never failed at anything. Only this time, he gets caught in his own magnificent net, because he has finally met a girl who's raw sexuality and brilliance, eclipses his own.

'And as Ivyanne is torn between what her heart wants, and what her body and kingdom demand, her best friend Ardhi is lurking in the shadows, growing angrier with each passing minute, and vowing to do whatever it takes to win the crown-with catastrophic consequences for all.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.