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Some secrets are worth dying to protect … Professor John Raymond lies paralysed and unable to speak. His colleague, brilliant young medical researcher Breeanna Montgomery, is attacked by a shotgun-wielding stranger. Before the night is over, the man is dead, and Breeanna is fleeing from someone even more ruthless … and deadly. Rogan McKay’s search for his missing brother forces him into a dangerous act of deception as the trail leads him to Breanna. When he confronts her, a shocking chain of events reveals her family’s dark secrets. But nothing Rogan discovers about this woman will be as astounding as the truth behind the experiment Professor Raymond was trying to hide … |
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In a war-torn African country, a mercenary slits the throat of a young native girl. Fourteen years later and half a world away in Sydney, Libby Daniels staggers out of bed in her parents’ harbourside home to see two men crouched over her mother’s battered body. Already in shock, she hears them say ‘Libby killed her’. Terrified, she flees to Brisbane, where she hopes to find help from the grandfather she hasn’t seen for years. Brutally mugged on the city streets, she takes refuge on the doorstep of Conor Martin, a man with his own horrifying secrets. Distrustful and suspicious, Libby and Conor are wary of each other, until past and present collide in a violent attack that forces them to confront their enemies … and their deepest fears. |
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When her father is arrested for murder, Samantha Bretton takes over as skipper of his fishing trawler, the Sea Mistress, determined to clear his name. Brisbane cop Chayse Jarrett, guilt-ridden by the death of a young woman on his last assignment, goes undercover on the vessel, and soon realises that Samantha is hiding something. Secrets that could implicate her father in more than murder. Secrets that Chayse becomes reluctant to uncover. As Chayse and Samantha fight their attraction to each other, the case takes a sinister twist and she is forced to relive the horrors of her past. Then, in a night as deadly and unpredictable as the ocean that threatens his life, Chayse finds new allies, but now faces danger from old and bitter foes. Before that night has ended, even enemies will discover that things are not always as they seem … |
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Artist Kirri Smith is haunted by the memory loss she suffered in New Orleans, and plagued by fear of what it may hide. When American Daniel Brand walks into Kirri’s art gallery on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, their encounter results in a startling revelation – one which will have tragic outcomes for Kirri’s family. A past act of deception has created killers who will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. Kirri and Daniel are flung into a nightmare of suspicion and lies when the killers’ plan takes a terrifying new twist … From the author of Dance with the Devil comes a compelling new novel where danger and obsession collide. |
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In the eye of a storm, as Dr Emma Randall prepares to bury one man, another enters her life with the force of the cyclone gathering around them. Drew Jarrett, his feet and hands torn by nail wounds, has stumbled onto her isolated farm in the O’Connor Valley, with no clue to the identity of the man who has injured him. But he will come to know that someone wants to kill him – and that he wants Emma more than he has ever wanted any woman. Emma fights to deny her feelings for Drew, but the growing danger that surrounds her and this mysterious stranger will create an intimacy between them she could never have imagined. As Emma and Drew join forces, their need to stop a killer will soon be rivalled only by their need for each other … In Dance with the Devil, menace and love meet in a story as suspenseful as it is passionate. |
