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In a near-future Australia, the death penalty is reinstated. The catch: the family of the victim must carry out the sentence. One family member gets twenty-four hours in a room with the condemned. No cameras. No microphones. They can dole out whatever punishment they decide. The only rule: at the end of the twenty-four hours, the criminal must be dead. When ten-year-old Lucy is murdered, her family is doubled over with grief. While her killer waits them to decide on his fate, psychologist Octavia Tate is assigned to guide the family through their decision.

After a violent interaction with her neighbour, Dove has had enough and paints a provocative question on the tourist route-facing wall of her small subsistence farm. Slowly, the non-male residents of this town in the Sunshine Coast hinterland start to make their own additions. Secrets, shame, hopes, dreams and violent homes are revealed. The town is unsettled. The local 'good blokes' start looking at each other askance, generational divides are revealed, relationships implode and tension builds.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of American women authors whose time has now come again.