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Mary knows her husband loves her. She doesn’t care what everyone else says. She knows he loves her because she is certain he has remained faithful to her. Geoffrey is very handsome and arrogant enough to know other women would want him but in the three years of their marriage there hasn’t been the slightest hint of an affair. Mary happily puts up with the humiliation, the sexual demands and the beating, safe in the knowledge Geoffrey truly loves her. And he is always so sorry each time she makes one of her little trips to the hospital. She knows it is her fault really. If only she could...

When war was declared on our small valley my father and others organised our defence. Although I was but a boy of sixteen, I rode out with him. We had eighty men with us and I thought the war would soon be over. Then I learned General Zoin had two thousand trained soldiers. Only two things could stop him, the mountains that stood between us and the Captain, Silo Bracken. Silo was our leader. I wasn’t sure why but I was appointed to look after his things so he could concentrate on tactics. Somehow I ended up as the person who transmitted his orders to our men. Being this close to Silo I ...

The aging general Sen ‘Su wanted to be more than a killer. He wanted to be a thinker. He also wanted to teach the boy emperor, Pean ‘Fu the Innocent and the ruler of a thousand worlds, how to be a thinker. The shadow-men of Golden proved too strong. Dispirited Sen ‘Su fled to his lost home world of Terra, where he had been called Bran Tray. He returned to a home he no longer recognised and to a love that seemed lost to the mists of time. Rhainna, the young girl Bran Tray had left behind was gone. Only the wrinkled old crone called the Heeler-woman remained. The boy, San Tray, came to ...

In the thousand years since the Time of Storms, when the world of the Ancients collapsed around them, John’s people have lived peacefully, hidden in the mountains. But evil finds them and John is ripped from the security of the Community. Despite John’s protests his rescuer takes him to the re-born Sydney. Here he is befriended by a young girl, Holy, and her blind brother, Manon. Their father is the leader of the Worker’s league, the city’s first fledgling union. John is horrified by the harshness and the desolation of the lives of the common workers of Sydney and joins the League. ...

In preparing for his return to Sydney, John has brought his people to the Community of Thunderbolt. All but two believe in him and in his Dream. Before John can make his return he must fight two battles. First, he must overcome Luke, the son of Thunderbolt’s Prime-man, who fears losing his chance to be the next leader. Second, he must convince his father that he is no longer a boy and that his Dream is real. One puts him in a life and death struggle in which John learns his people are not immune to prejudice and hatred. The other forces John to reassess everything he thought he knew and ...

Barbara Wainwright is one of the most wealthy and potentially powerful women in Australia yet when she comes across a pretty girl in a carpark crying Barbara is moved to discover what is wrong. When Emma opens up to her, Barbara is horrified to learn what the young girl is expected to do to keep her job. She makes an instant decision. Barbara takes Emma under her wing, while planning her retribution on the girl’s employer. With Emma safely installed in her mansion, Barbara writes a list. • Help Emma set up her new business. • Take revenge on Emma’s boss, Tony Walker. • Assert ...

Taya’s birth was not a cause for celebration. Her honoured father, as the First Priest, had one task, to sire the next male heir. A task he failed. At first the disappointment her birth caused puzzled Taya. She had read the sacred texts, and nowhere did it say the Promised One had to be a male. Her father had a mere spark of power while she felt it flowing through her like a fountain. Even before she understood the need for secrecy, she hid her powers from everyone. Her many tutors expected nothing from her so were not disappointed. But Taya was fifteen now and she flet changes were ...

When Joe receives a summons from McLaine, the boxer who ended his career, Joe drops everything and heads to New York. McLain’s sister is missing and McLaine is worried she has been kidnapped. And there is a deadline. McLaine has another fight coming up and he needs his head clear for the fight! At first Joe is honored that McLaine trusts him to find her, but what does he know about finding a kidnapping victim? And why does McLaine’s Manager not want him around? Joe soon learns even sisters have secrets and time is quickly running out.

When Yuan’s brother runs from their home in the fabled Bodyn Temple, Yuan is granted permission to bring Jamus back. He travels on foot across the dunes of the deep desert to the sparsely inhabited lands of The Tribes. Here he reluctantly takes on two travelling companions, a crippled Plainsman and Synce, a Sister of Lutan. Lutan is the Moon God of the desert people. Together they pass through the Peaks of Ishan to the fertile lands that lay beyond. Here water flows in streams and rivers and even falls from the sky. The land is green and full of fat sheep and contented cows. Even the sun ...

After a minor traffic incident on a lonely country road, Joe Falcon wakes to find he is tied naked to a wooden frame in a dark cellar. The one time boxer is helpless as his captor explains he is going to hold him for ten days. One day for each toe. Joe’s only respite is a short daily visit from his tormentor’s beautiful sister, Layla. At the end of the ten days Joe is dumped deep into the woods and left to die. Scared and alone he makes himself a promise. He is coming back – for Layla.

From the outside Jacquie Saunders appears to have it all, young, sexy and now very rich. When she married a wealthy, older man everyone assumed she was a schemer. But the marriage was about love not money. When Alex died she was heartbroken. As she struggles to cope with his loss she is weighed down by the responsibility of looking after his adult son and the family business. Tristan’s anger is understandable; it is the business she has no idea about. Then Jason Hardy tells her of an offer to buy the business. The offer seems the answer to all her prayers. But is it as good as it seems. ...

When a small town constable sees an elderly woman scavenging in the bins behind the general store he is not sure what to do with her. The woman seems confused and speaks only French so he enlists the help of the local school teacher as translator. They are shocked to learn the woman thinks she is in Occupied France and that the war is still going. The following day the woman has recovered and is once more speaking in English. They learn her name is Mary and they coax Mary into telling her story. She is at first reluctant, saying that the story is not really hers, but the story of how a ...

The year is 1977. The Vietnam War has been lost. The fear that the communist tendrils would spread throughout South East Asia have been realised. In the steamy jungles of Laos a Princess is being sent by her father to what he hopes will be safer shores. She is gripped by fear knowing nothing of this new land or the life that awaits her! The Princess finds herself living the dangerous life of a fugitive, on the run in time of political instability. When her father is tragically killed, she is thrown in with a group of young women travelling to Australia. On their arrival they are taken to a ...

Joe is alive but Layla is dead. She is gone and lost to him forever and Joe blames himself. Without Layla he is left only with questions without any answers. Like, what is he going to do with the rest of his life? Feeling sorry for himself, Joe heads to a Bar to drown his sorrows. A young lad is hustling Pool when his victims turn on him. It’s four against one and they are all bigger than the boy, but it’s none of Joe’s business. Suddenly Layla is there. ‘Can’t you help him, Joe?’ He knows she can’t really be there, but she is. He watched her die, but she seems so real. One ...

Louisa is considered a rare beauty in the young colony of South Australia. At eighteen she is blossoming into womanhood under the strict control of her wealthy father, Angus Huntington-Smyth. When Louisa discovers she is with child, her lover runs back to England and Louisa is forced to confront her father with the news. Angus demands the name of the father. When Louisa refuses to give it to him, he takes a bullwhip to her. In a frenzy, powered by anger and shame, he whips her to a bloody pulp. Near death, a groom rushes her to a doctor. Angus has only one piece of advice for his daughter: ...

Rachel has escaped Eva’s sweatshop but has she jumped from the frying pan only to find herself in the fire? Is she ready for Eighties Australia? Is Eighties Australia ready for an intelligent, beautiful, young Asian woman? What of the women left behind? Will she ever find them again? Will they ever be saved? Rachel will face many challenges in her quest to stay free, challenges that will test her endurance and her determination to make her father proud.

Coming Out of Religious Darkness is a very good resource for all people who want to gain a better understanding of the religious narrative. It can be beneficial for religiously-minded people who desire to possess a more extensive view of what their faith is based on. It’s a very valuable tool for truth-seekers who are new to doing more thorough research that can help them on their journey for truth. In addition, it can serve as an affirmation for non-believers in their decision to forgo religion in their lives.