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A year ago, Kate Mamotte fought back. Her husband died. She lived. Yet escaping isn’t the same as moving on. Desperate for a fresh start, she returns to Perth, where a housesitting gig, a temperamental cat, and a too-helpful neighbor, Ryan, offer a distraction. Then the flowers arrive. From her dead husband. The police think she’s unraveling. But as Kate digs into the past, she uncovers an affair, a child, and a deadly secret worth killing for. The threats escalate. And someone is watching.

When my best friend shacks up with eight gorgeous tattoo artists, I decide it’s time to shake up my life. A ticket to Australia seems like a perfect way to find some desperately needed fun and leave behind the black cloud hanging over me. The cool beach bar I stumble into draws me in with its chilled music and boho vibe. But it’s the nine scorching hot men who own and run the bar that make me want to stay. When they offer me a job, I make it my mission to experience absolutely everything Cloud 9 has to offer. And that includes the owners!

She thought she was rescuing them, but they'll be the ones to free her. Charlotte works for the Sacred Order, a very exclusive laboratory that deals in protecting all of mankind, not that Charlotte is sure just how they do that. One day, she gets a glimpse when she notices a trio of big cats a cheetah, a tiger, and a lion all being abused and experimented on. She takes matters into her own hands and steals them intent on delivering them to a sanctuary.

Jules Wakefield’s family has rescued rabbits for decades, but with her parents gone and her veterinary practice demanding all her time, Jules desperately needs a successor. She decides to run an essay contest–the winner must love bunnies.

Seventeen-year-old Emma doesn't know who she is or where she came from. The not-exactly-legal merchant ship she was raised on is the only home she's ever known, and she's had enough of the captain's lies. Her plans to break free from her three-masted prison are thrown off course by a deadly mutiny, and she finds herself on the run with a target on her back. A charming naval officer becomes her unlikely companion, and though they're constantly running from danger, Emma is even more afraid of the feelings she's developing for a man she'll likely never see again—if she can ever make it home.

I am the giant, menacing monster, known only as the Beast. Sold to the mafia as a kid and trained to hunt, my life revolves around brutality and carnage. My home is a cell made of concrete and iron bars. And there is nothing I won't do to be free. Until her.

Foxes make terrible pets but they’re fantastic wingmen. Sydney Young has dedicated her life to animals. She’s a wildlife rehabilitator on call around the clock for rescue missions all over the state and every last one of her friends are veterinarians. Waiting at home for her is a rambunctious fox too tame to be released.

On a bitter winter’s night in Pine Creek, 1989, central New South Wales, 14-year-old city boy Alec tells his mother a secret before he goes to bed. It’s the last time she will see him alive. In the weeks before, forbidden to go near the new neighbours, Sara is watching when Alec is threatened by a stranger, and later, when he meets secretly with someone familiar. When Alec goes missing, the incidents take on new significance, but in the menacing shadow of her father, Sara knows not to make trouble.

When Last Day comes, and Australia falls, Harper finds herself recruited by a mysterious US marine called Jenna Plural. Unable to go home, Harper and her best friend, Stacey, must go into enemy territory and steal an advanced prototype.

When the Beast took me and dragged me back to his cell, I thought my life was over. In the darkness, he watched me. Yearned for me. Tasted me. He loved my scars, called me a beauty.

Lies can tear people apart but can this one bring a pair of rabbit lovers together in a fur-ever kind of love? Listen to the complete Fur-ever series now.

After receiving a substantial inheritance, thirty-seven-year-old aspiring writer, Theresa, moves to the High Country of Victoria, Australia, to finally write the novel she had always planned. Here, she meets and marries Rick Goodman, a former TV star and local entrepreneur.

Storms are brewing in peaceful Sunrise Bay as Charlie's boyfriend prepares to battle his vindictive ex for custody of their little girl. A night out at a fancy hotel with her book club pals is a ray of sunshine among Charlie's clouds—until a woman falls to her death from a hotel balcony. Was it a tragic accident or something more sinister? The woman's husband claims he was walking on the beach when she fell, but if that's true, why don't his shoes have any sand on them? And, speaking of footwear, why has one of the dead woman's own shoes gone missing?

Romance is in the air, and Charlie's first date with Sunrise Bay's hottest policeman is to the Yule Ball. Organized by Charlie's unstoppable Aunt Evie, the charity ball is the town's biggest fundraising night of the year. A dazzling sapphire necklace is the centerpiece of the auction and the bidding is fierce. But as the auctioneer's hammer comes down, the lights in the ballroom go out. When they come back on, the necklace is gone. Aunt Evie is devastated and Charlie is determined to use her newfound detective skills to find it.

It has been two months since Emma wielded a sword on the deck of the Lady's Mercy alongside the golden-haired Hemmish naval officer with copper eyes. Two months of pins in her hair and napkins in her lap and trying with everything in her to be the person she was born to be, the Charlie Ache never leaving her chest. Circles are appearing everywhere, often accompanied by murders. A house party turns deadly, but not before someone appears who she never expected to see again. Only . . . he might not be who she thought he was.

Everything's panning out for Charlie in picture-perfect Sunrise Bay. She has a new dog, a brand-new photography business, and maybe even a fresh romance with the hottest policeman in town. Plus, her latest photo shoot is double the fun. Identical twins Sam and Jess want photos to celebrate their thirtieth birthday. But the party stops when Sam disappears. Rumors spread faster than you can say "cheese". Is her hot-tempered new boyfriend to blame? What did her neighbor really see?

Charlie was one of the gathered. Survivors of the earthquake that shattered the eastern U.S. and poisoned the land. Those who lived were changed, gifted with strange new abilities, and seized by the government to be turned into weapons. Years later, Charlie and her boyfriend, Tyler, escaped the Base and disappeared, using her power of premonition to stay hidden. But when Tyler learns his twin sister is still alive and trapped inside the Base, he’s willing to risk everything to bring her home. Charlie’s visions turn deadly. She’s seen Tyler captured, bleeding, lost.

The Wisdom Keeper’s Guide to Functional Living is a heart centered journey of self-help in fiction-form. The book is a mix of Eat, Pray, Love meets the magic of Harry Potter with a female lead. The book honestly addresses themes of cancer, pain, and death. Painful experiences become catalysts that transform Aurora into the Wisdom Keeper. The Wisdom Keeper’s Guide to Functional Living will touch your heart.

Charlie Carter's new life in idyllic Sunrise Bay is beachy keen. A wedding could be the big break Charlie's fledgling photography business needs—she's got all her fingers and toes crossed for a perfect day. Beautiful bride: check. Gorgeous weather: check. Dead guest at the reception: definitely not part of the plan.

Now a sharp and adept time-skipper, Scout jumps years ahead to find the world transformed. Technology has accelerated and the people she knows have grown up, or disappeared. Most pressing, the government that she was trying to escape has used the time to prepare for the return of the time skippers. Caught between finding the mother she left behind and time-skipping ahead with Mason, a series of events lead Scout deeper into the tunnel than ever before.