AustLit

'Happily married and still living in Tuscany, Belle and Andre pursue their dreams of starting a family. They’ve commenced fertility treatment and are hopeful it will result in a pregnancy. But a surprise bombshell from Belle’s best friend, Riley, puts their treatment on hold.

'Riley announces that she’s marrying her partner, Emilio, and asks Belle and Andre to fly to Sydney for the wedding. But this is not the only surprise waiting for Belle when she arrives in her hometown.

'Someone she loves dearly confesses devastating news to her, rocking her to the core. Belle’s world falls apart as she and Andre must decide if they will stay in Sydney, putting their dreams of having a baby on hold. One thing Belle knows for certain, she won’t lose another person she loves.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'We lived for them, craved them, set them free.

'Invincible. We were the wild ones.

'Criminal defence lawyer Marley Kincaid appears perfect from the outside – beautiful, intelligent, successful. Nobody would guess she was falling apart on the inside. Ever since tragedy rocked her life two years ago, she has sought solace in alcohol.

'When Marley hits rock bottom, her sister intervenes, sending her to White Cedar, an island off the coast of Nova Scotia in the vast and wild North Atlantic Ocean. There she is expected to attempt sobriety and recover, but life on the island is more challenging than she ever expected.

'New friendships and an unexpected love see her through the dark days, but in that place of forever, can Marley weather the storms to carve a new life, or will the regrets of her past pull her under?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A lover’s game. A chest of clues.

'Come find me... I’ll be waiting…

'1929: On the night of her engagement to austere banker Floyd Clark, Charlotte Greene meets enigmatic Sydney Harbour Bridge engineer, Alexander Young.

'Their encounter is brief, but their attraction instant.

'During a second-chance meeting, Alex invites Charlotte to play a game with him, one of daring clues and secret meeting places. She accepts and they embark on a thrilling lover’s chase across the city.

'But with her arranged marriage to Floyd looming, will she have the strength to let Alex go?

'Present Day: Paige Westwood is helping her boss establish a publishing company in his newly-purchased Playfair Street house in The Rocks, Sydney. In the attic, she discovers a chest of old clues that lead the reader on a journey across the city.

'Paige contacts the former owner, Ryan Greene, who explains the clues belonged to his great-aunt Charlotte, who once lived in the house, but who mysteriously disappeared in 1929.

'Together, they follow Charlotte and Alex’s clues to unravel a fascinating tale of lies and intrigue, of two lovers bound by hope, but also by deceit. Can they solve the mystery of Charlotte’s disappearance or has all hope been lost to the past?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'We'd hurt each other, my soulmate and me…

'Faith James is found on a remote beach in the south of Spain with a head injury and no recollection of how she got there. Recovering in hospital, she is desperate to return to her twenty-five-year-old, single life in Sydney.

'The rules were crystal clear. She broke them all…

'1918 ... When Rose Porter arrives on the shores of Sydney with little money, she must take a job as a parlourmaid at the mysterious North Head Quarantine Station. It's a place of turmoil, segregated classes and strict rules concerning employee relationships.

'Tuscany, 1984: On the evening of the annual Medieval Spring Festival, a child mysteriously vanishes without a trace, shattering the tranquil existence of a small town. Her body was never found.

'Thirty-five years later, Belle is living a peaceful life in a Tuscan farmhouse with her fiancé, Andrea, when she stumbles across a box buried beneath the old pepper tree on the farmhouse grounds.

'Belle Hamilton is a romantic at heart. She's engaged to the love of her life and dreams of marriage, children and a happily ever after. Belle’s world is close to perfect until one afternoon she makes a decision she can't take back. In the blink of an eye, Belle’s life spirals out of control. She loses everything that is dear to her and is forced to flee to the other side of the world where she meets Andrea, a local bartender from Rome, and develops an unexpected friendship with him. Their connection is powerful but can they break through the complications of past hurts and a long-distance relationship to make it work, or will one terrifying night in Paris end it before it had a chance to begin? Interwoven is the first book of the Belle Hamilton novels; a story of love and fate and how it can all balance upon the decisions we make.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Belle Hamilton is struggling to find her feet. She's trying to move on from that terrifying night in Paris a year ago but is finding it difficult. She’s plagued with nightmares and her long-distance relationship to Italian boyfriend, Andrea, is challenging.

'When her father suffers a heart attack, Belle rushes to his bedside and overhears a whispered conversation that was never meant for her. A flood of revelations follows and suddenly, Belle’s entire world is turned upside down. More importantly, the mysterious death surrounding Riley’s mother thirty years earlier, comes into question. Was her death an accident? Did she jump or was she pushed? And why is nobody talking?

'Belle and Riley embark on a quest to Scotland for answers. Amidst the raw beauty of the Highlands, they must unravel the past and piece together secrets that were carefully buried three decades ago. They are confronted with lies, betrayal, secrecy and the biggest mystery of all; what really happened to Bridget Alexander?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.