Open Your Eyes
Champion pro surfer Wayne ‘Danno’ Daniels has only ever felt in control on the water. So after separate unsolved attacks 15 years ago that left his wife Helen with brutal injuries and his closest friend dead, he abandoned his marriage, son and life in Australia to chase fame overseas.
Kade ‘Mado’ Maddern is Wayne’s best mate and doubles as his sports agent. While his own pro surfing days are behind him, there’s nothing Mado won’t do for Wayne. He’s demonstrated this time and again. He’s had Wayne’s back throughout his whole career, even though Wayne was responsible for Mado losing his.
Caleb Mann is a crack journalist, walks the walk and talks the talk. He’s just the guy all the A-list socialites want at their parties and he knows it. But he has grander plans in life and believes Wayne is just the person to help him fulfil his dreams.
Wayne’s now back home. Helen pleaded for his return: a surprise given they’ve been comfortably living separate lives for so long.
But home is where the demons of Wayne’s past linger – it’s time for them to be exorcised. Purchase on Amazon.
Kade ‘Mado’ Maddern is Wayne’s best mate and doubles as his sports agent. While his own pro surfing days are behind him, there’s nothing Mado won’t do for Wayne. He’s demonstrated this time and again. He’s had Wayne’s back throughout his whole career, even though Wayne was responsible for Mado losing his.
Caleb Mann is a crack journalist, walks the walk and talks the talk. He’s just the guy all the A-list socialites want at their parties and he knows it. But he has grander plans in life and believes Wayne is just the person to help him fulfil his dreams.
Wayne’s now back home. Helen pleaded for his return: a surprise given they’ve been comfortably living separate lives for so long.
But home is where the demons of Wayne’s past linger – it’s time for them to be exorcised. Purchase on Amazon.
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Wild at Heart
Billy Wade is a moody pre-teen in his last year of primary school. His parents own the deteriorating Highlands Reptile Park, and they’re at their wits end with him, which is why they let his uncle Mike, estranged from the family for over a decade, take him in for a couple of weeks.
Mike once had grand plans to make the reptile park a must-see animal sanctuary, but that’s all in the past. He now lives on his rural property in the vicinity of Billy’s parents in the Southern Highlands of NSW. With him lives his best friend Norman, a talking huntsman spider the size of a sheep.
Bennett is a mysterious foreign investor, and has his eyes set on the reptile park. But he has a dark side, and Billy is also in his sights.
What will happen to Billy? What will become of Norman?
Spiders aren't scary. Humans are.
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Mike once had grand plans to make the reptile park a must-see animal sanctuary, but that’s all in the past. He now lives on his rural property in the vicinity of Billy’s parents in the Southern Highlands of NSW. With him lives his best friend Norman, a talking huntsman spider the size of a sheep.
Bennett is a mysterious foreign investor, and has his eyes set on the reptile park. But he has a dark side, and Billy is also in his sights.
What will happen to Billy? What will become of Norman?
Spiders aren't scary. Humans are.
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The Front
“Harry,” Bob Wood said, “murder is the only true crime. Everything else is just a matter of opinion.”
Trey Wood never met his late grandfather Bob, but he believes he did time. Having learnt a lot about Bob through family stories, in Trey’s search for answers he has an unfinished novel exploring his grandfather’s last years. Life took over and Trey hasn’t touched the manuscript in almost two decades, but when he escapes to an isolated town on the south coast while grieving his wife’s death, he resurrects the script.
Trey’s peace is disrupted by the arrival of English crime author Phyllis (P.D.) James, in town to research her latest novel. She effectively colonises his life, and while he despises the way she treats him, she pays good rent; and he needs the money.
Meanwhile, Trey develops a friendship with his neighbour Samantha, a stunning and mysterious woman with has her own dark past. Samantha helps him see the beauty in life and he quickly falls in love with her. But for them to be together Trey must first come to terms with his family’s deep secrets while dealing with the guilt of moving on from his deceased wife. He also has to contend with Samantha’s abusive cousin and fight for survival against her violent ex-partner.
Phyllis discovers Trey’s manuscript and senses so much potential in his writing she offers, as a peacekeeping deal, to him help to uncover the mystery surrounding his grandfather using her own contacts.
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Of Poisoned Minds
Andrea Griffith seemed to have it together. She was very attractive, extremely popular and held a successful career as a journalist. So why did someone want her dead?
The body of a Chinese boy is then found in the early hours. He was murdered before being callously dumped in a causeway. A branded mark on his neck leads to the Gui - a secretive Chinese organisation.
Somehow the two deaths are linked...
Andrea’s husband Robin, a prominent doctor, is devastated by his wife’s death. Detective John Morton wants to believe that Robin is the prime suspect but there’s just one problem; the murder attempt was aimed at Robin as well.
Morton is led into the sinister Chinese underworld, lured by the beautiful and mysterious Ming Lee. He’s also at loggerheads with his own partner Detective Regina Gardner while she struggles with depression following the death of her close friend Leigh Baxter.
Leigh’s death, Gardner learns, was not so straight forward either. Furthermore Gardner holds a personal secret and it’s not only driving a wedge between her and Morton, her relationship is on the skids and she’s pushed to the limit.
Something has to give in this nightmare.
There’s only one problem with nightmares … you’re seldom in control.
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The body of a Chinese boy is then found in the early hours. He was murdered before being callously dumped in a causeway. A branded mark on his neck leads to the Gui - a secretive Chinese organisation.
Somehow the two deaths are linked...
Andrea’s husband Robin, a prominent doctor, is devastated by his wife’s death. Detective John Morton wants to believe that Robin is the prime suspect but there’s just one problem; the murder attempt was aimed at Robin as well.
Morton is led into the sinister Chinese underworld, lured by the beautiful and mysterious Ming Lee. He’s also at loggerheads with his own partner Detective Regina Gardner while she struggles with depression following the death of her close friend Leigh Baxter.
Leigh’s death, Gardner learns, was not so straight forward either. Furthermore Gardner holds a personal secret and it’s not only driving a wedge between her and Morton, her relationship is on the skids and she’s pushed to the limit.
Something has to give in this nightmare.
There’s only one problem with nightmares … you’re seldom in control.
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Static
When three colleagues are brutally gunned down by a psychotic killer, Morton and Gardner become the only ones who can bring justice.
However, emotions are stirred when it becomes clear the prime suspect is a long lost relative of Gardner. The struggle between family loyalty and loyalty to the Force leaves Gardner searching for answers. She must now face the demons that have haunted her and torn her family apart.
As Gardner struggles with the mind of a young killer, she is forced to question her own judgment and the true meaning of innocence. Her future is on the line.
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However, emotions are stirred when it becomes clear the prime suspect is a long lost relative of Gardner. The struggle between family loyalty and loyalty to the Force leaves Gardner searching for answers. She must now face the demons that have haunted her and torn her family apart.
As Gardner struggles with the mind of a young killer, she is forced to question her own judgment and the true meaning of innocence. Her future is on the line.
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Elephant Speak
When Detective John Morton’s closest friend is murdered, he and his partner Det. Regina Gardner find themselves dragged into a deadly game by a sadistic killer bent on revenge.
A close friend and reporter receives threats from the killer and becomes another victim as the body count rises…
With every move they make, their tormentor is always one step ahead.
Everglades Psychiatric Hospital in Sydney’s North Shore holds the key and its secrets run deeper than Morton and Gardner could ever imagine.
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