Six years ago Cate Trapani fled emotional blackmail and a forced marriage with tycoon Daniel Garren. But now she’s back, determined to save her brother from a similar fate: his happiness sacrificed on the altar of their father’s business interests and her ex-fiancé Daniel Garren’s ambition. But D...
Someone will catch you on their mobile phone — sodding happy snappers doing me out of a job, and then how’ll that look? A bloke your size picking on an old, fat, short bloke like me?’ The photographer had a point, but Theo had a harder struggle than he’d like to admit in reining in his urge to pu...
Smoke hung chokingly thick in the air. She gasped at the taste of it, and the scorch of it flooded her lungs.“Oh God.” She rolled out of bed. Her feet hit the bare floorboards. The whole house was timber, old timber. In a fire, it would go up fast. She had to get out.She scooped up her mobile fro...
Typically, the Whartons left a communal car at the airport for the family to use to get them to the coast. The kids who’d only just gotten their licenses were typically happy to ferry the car back and forward. Other times, someone who’d driven down, would collect flyers from the airport. Still, G...
‘You’re not sleeping now.’ Brodie pointed out, relaxed and indulgent. They’d just joined the mile-high club. ‘This was one of Vera’s better ideas. I’m going to miss her as secretary.’ ‘But then you’d have to stay on as chairman.’ Jessica shuddered. ‘Not worth it.’ After all the dramas of the Mond...
He pulled her out and positioned himself between her and the block of granite that masqueraded as the Collegium’s new president. Lewis Bennett represented everything Fay was familiar with and trained to respect. Lewis didn’t have grandparents dripping disapproval, trickste...
Liz’s grandfather was the first to leave, finishing his two scoops of ice cream, downing a coffee briskly and squinting towards the sun as it headed for the western horizon. Late afternoon, early evening in Alexandria meant it would be lunchtime in London. “Things to do. Dinner tomorrow night.” &...
Andrew stared at Cali’s footprints on the wet sand. She’d vanished. Lord, he could taste her on his lips, feel the heated press of her body. She was so passionately alive. He wanted some of that furious energy. “Some?” He smiled, unamused. He wanted all of it. From anger to desire, Cali made him ...
Although barely waist high, the white wooden pickets were a protection she seemed unwilling to relinquish. “Get away, Yolanthe. I’ve seen her in my dreams. She’s a demon consort.” “Linda, she’s my daughter.” Fay caught back the power she’d called. L...
Erica, waitress and former member of the Moonlit Hearts Club, was in the diner early. She wasn’t serving, though. She sat slumped at a table near the kitchen, seeming unaware of the curious glances of those popping in for breakfast. Jared, fellow ex-cultist, patted her clu...
Rafe cursed. His frustration brought a desert wind howling into the foothills. Trees bent before him and animals ran. Umar Haya hadn’t the sense to run. His brain had rotted with the evil he planned and his own sense of power. His dirty clawed hands, stained from chain smoking, clutched Rafe’s dj...
Sara said. Khan turned from Filip, his gun and the promise of death, and addressed Sara. “That’s not true. I’ve seen people die in terror and agony. Dying demands courage.” “If I kill you now,” Filip said. “There is no revenge against Vince. He wins.” “I think I have seen my revenge.” Khan looked...
Mrs. Hall had a shed she was willing to rent and he’d affixed a padlock to it. Tomorrow, he’d go in search of tools. He’d read long into the night, getting a sense of Esme’s political ideals and what she aimed to achieve. She wrote well. Not with high falutin’ language, but directly. She wanted p...
Miri’s fingers itched for her camera. The views across Sydney had tourists snapping shots and exclaiming in half a dozen different languages. Her own contribution came without thought. ‘I’m a photographer.’ She glanced at Tad and saw that his attention was for her, not the view. ‘That suits you. ...
Where her family had been loud, indignant and supportive of her stand, he’d simply said, “You did the right thing” and invited her to go to the hardware store then and there. The hardware store was familiar to her from a thousand trips with her dad, brothers, uncles and co...