AustLit

'Anything can happen when you're on the journey of a lifetime in the remote Australian outback ... even romance.'(Publication summary)

'Duncan needs a hero -- he just isn’t expecting her to turn up on his front porch under a tattered red umbrella.

'Marianne needs a new venue for her dance school to escape the unwanted attentions of a creepy groundsman, so the For Let advertisement in the newspaper seems like a lucky omen. Enquiries to 241 Hope Street, Clementine Springs, between four and five pm, today only.

'She plucks an umbrella from the stand in the hallway and sets off to make her enquiry. Her dance school business means everything to her; since the injury which destroyed her career, it’s the only dream for her future she has left. And today, she’s feeling lucky.

'Duncan doesn’t leave his house. Not today, not yesterday, not since he left the hospital all those months ago with steel pins holding his leg together and the words of a dying teenager imprinted forever on his brain.

'Turns out, he doesn’t mind living grumpy and alone in his big old house. At least, that’s what he’s been telling himself.

'But then one day a young ballet teacher knocks on his door and pirouettes her way straight into his heart. Duncan’s going to have to find the courage to forgive himself if he wants a chance at living in the world again. And now he’s got a reason to try.

'On the shore of a lake deep in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, Clementine Springs is home to a heart-warming cast of characters. The Umbrella Diaries is Marianne and Duncan’s story.'

Source : publisher's blurb

'Two lonely hearts ... one matchmaking dog.

'Katie is lonely, but she's hiding it from everyone by working long shifts at Redwood Cove Airport and volunteering with her therapy dog, Rose, on Heartbreak Row at the local animal refuge. She put her emotions into a holding pattern a year ago when her uncle died, and that strategy is working just fine ... at least, it is until her sister goes missing.

'Anton is a celebrity thriller writer, but when the real world started imitating the plot of his last blockbuster, guilt made him lose his nerve. Now he's hiding away in Redwood Cove writing the puzzle page for the local newspaper. Nothing has stirred his interest for months, but then Katie comes knocking on his door.

'When Katie's sister went missing, the only clue she left behind was a torn out crossword from Anton's puzzle page.  Thrown together on the hunt for Katie's missing sister, Anton has his own difficult truth to face: he needs to come to terms with his guilt if he is going to find a way of keeping Katie (and matchmaker Rose) part of his future.'

Source : publisher's blurb

'Meet Charlotte & Jack. They're about to break up.

'Love second-chance romances? Ever wondered about that long-ago first romance that crashed and burned? And I Always Will is a prequel story to award-winning second-chance romance Tropic Storm.

'​​​​​​​Charlotte is young and naive. She's just moved to London and has finally freed herself from her toxic family. She heads out one evening with her friends Antonia and Sabrina and her world is changed when she meets the American guitarist playing a gig at her local pub.

​​​​​​​'Jack has one year to fulfil his dream to make it as a musician. If he doesn't get a recording contract, he is committed to returning to work in the family business back in the States. His dreams change the evening he lays eyes on the girl who he's going to lose his heart to.

'​​​​​​​Fate, however, has other plans in store for Jack and Charlotte. They just don't know it yet.'

Source : ​​​​​​​publisher's blurb

'A mystery philanthropist holds a New Year's Eve party every year, and this year the party is being held on a mega yacht in Sydney Harbour to raise money for the Community Heroes Foundation.

'This annual party is famous! Tickets cost a thousand bucks a pop, they sell out in seconds, but guess what?

'There are secret tickets. Golden secret tickets. And all you have to do to win one is be nominated by a member of the public for being a community hero.

'Will you receive a golden ticket this year?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Fun and flirty editor Antonia is a dreamer in her personal life but a force to be reckoned with at her job in charge of the international news team at a London magazine. She heads off to the Caribbean for a four-day mini-break to attend her friend Sabrina’s wedding, and discovers the pilot of the sea plane is none other than her ex-fling: the man who dumped her three years ago on her last Caribbean holiday and broke her heart.

'Intense loner Tyler is on the run, and he’s not sharing his secrets with anyone. Trouble is, he’s on the hit list of a powerful drug lord, and he’s about to get caught. Now is so not the right time to find the English girl he lost heart to strapped into seat 2A of his amphibious plane for a 45-minute journey to the Manatee Cays.

'Wild plane rides, wild chases, and wild passion are headed their way as Antonia finds herself accidentally on the run (in heels!) with a guy who isn’t who she thinks he is.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Sabrina Gray runs away to the Caribbean to escape the trauma of her sister's suicide and the wreckage of her surgical career. An accident results in her waking, far out to sea, on a yacht with a handsome stranger.

'Ben Ryan, out-of-work billionaire and turtle conservation volunteer, is sailing to an isolated coral cay with much needed equipment. He is both suspicious of, and drawn to, the sad-eyed stowaway on his boat.

'Doubts rise, as does the tension between them. Why won't he turn the boat around? Why is she so cagey about her life?

'Ben is shot by egg thieves and Sabrina finds herself face to face with her worst nightmare. Will she miss out on her one chance at love and redemption?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Celebrity blogger Charlotte Jones is having a bad year. She's been trampled in a riot, her therapist has told her to take a break from work, and she's developed a crushing case of anxiety. If she can just make it to her holiday hotel in Oahu, everything will be okay ... or not! When she boards her plane, she finds herself strapped into a seat next to the man who sold her out nine years ago.

'Hotel executive Jack Diamond is having a bad year. He's used to pressure: running the global family business, supporting his widowed mother, and trying (and failing) to make his little sister understand why her grungy boyfriend is bad news, are problems he can cope with. But the police just called to tell him his general manager might be a crook, his mother's had a stroke, and his latest business deal is going bad. If he can just make it back to the family hotel in Oahu, everything will be okay ... or not! He boards his plane and finds himself strapped into a seat next to the woman who ripped a hole in his heart nine years ago.

'Jack and Charlotte are in for some turbulence as old hurts and rekindled passion gate-crash their plans. And just when it seems they may finally overcome their past, a tropic storm threatens to wipe out their chance of a future.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Lady Miranda is a scholar, but in secret. In high society London, such pursuits are frowned upon. She agrees to meet a mysterious man in the conservatory at midnight to purchase a rare dagger – a dagger reputed to be cursed.

'She meets more than she expects when she enters the conservatory; and now, it seems, fate is in pursuit of her.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Sally’s dive salvage business is just about broke, but finally her research has paid off. She’s found treasure, gleaming jewels of it, in the warm waters off Fiji. And she needs it valued, quickly, to stave off ruin for her business.

'Pete is a big city museum curator. He works in airconditioned comfort among the finest antiques on earth, but he’s never forgotten the lost treasure he based his college thesis on. The lost Raven treasure.

'When he sees an emailed photo of a jewel found in Fiji, he books himself on the next plane. He and Sally both discover that not all treasure is to be found beneath the waves.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Lisa is so alone. It's Christmas, and she arrives back in the States from her research station in the Pacific Ocean to discover her grandmother, her only living relative, has passed away. She makes her way to her grandmother's empty mountain cabin, needing the solace of home.

'Ryan needs a break. Catching an evil serial killer has tested him to the limits. But it's Christmas, and he's looking forward to some much-needed alone time in the isolated mountain cabin he's just bought.

'Lisa and Ryan are in for an unwelcome surprise when they both turn up to the same mountain cabin looking for refuge.

'But a case of confused legal ownershp is just the start of their problems. A snow storm is on its way, and in a van, lurking in the woods, is a threat that may just claim their lives ...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.