AustLit

'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.

'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.

'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?'