A COMING-OF-AGE STORY It was supposed to be the endless summer of sand, sea, and surf. Supposed to be. But, Nick Andrews life is crashing out of control. His girlfriend and his best friend have declared war, his sister's constant interference in his life is driving him insane, and there are money problems that won’t go away. Being seventeen isn’t supposed to be this hard. When cool surfer Marcus arrives in town followed by a string of women, Nick sees that there are easier ways to live. But with his life falling to pieces around him, it’s hard to know who to trust. As the scorching heat of summer grows, events begin to unravel, reaching a shattering conclusion—and a summer he’ll never forget. "This story will make you travel back in time. Will make you remember when you were 17. You will laugh. You will cry. Your heart will be broken.. I loved being inside Nick's mind. I felt his pain and insecurities. The moments of happiness and the loneliness. Every single feeling is strong, I could almost touch them." Beverley C. "It is 1:30am. I have just finished, ‘Summer of Seventeen’. I don't really know what to say. I just felt I had to acknowledge the effect this book had on me. I thought I was going to read a YA story about teenagers out of school for the summer, with all the fun, and partying, and surfing. The last summer before graduating high school. I was looking for a love story. It was so much more! I felt that I was in the head of Nick. I felt his pain, his love, his frustration with his life. Yansi was so special. She was one of my favourite characters." Shirley W.

A friendship between the lost and lonely Caroline, and the unhappy Sebastian, leads to an illicit love that threatens them both.Caroline Wilson is trapped in a cold and loveless marriage with an older man. When her husband finally wins a long sought-after promotion, Caroline feels she has little choice but to follow him to a new home in San Diego. There she meets Sebastian, a young man of 17. For an all too brief summer, their happiness blooms. But external pressures begin to bear down, not least from the overbearing David, and Sebastian’s parents begin to suspect that their son has a secret. Even Caroline’s new friend, Donna, realises that dark passions exist below the serene surface.

I was ordinary. Nice. He was extraordinary. And he wasn’t always nice.Moody and difficult, brilliant and beautiful, Kes scared me and he protected me. He could be incredibly hurtful and incredibly thoughtful. He wasn’t perfect, but he was perfect for me. He challenged me, he took me out of my safe little box and showed me the world could be magnificent. He was everything I wasn’t.*Aimee Anderson is ten when the traveling carnival first comes to her nice little town. She doesn’t expect her world to change so completely. But meeting Kestrel Donohue puts her life on a different path.Even though she only sees him for the two weeks of the year when he passes through her home town, his friendship is the most important of her life. As a child’s friendship grows to adult love, the choices become harder, and both Kes and Aimee realize that two weeks a year will never be enough.

When journalist Helene La Borde overhears a chance conversation on a train, she becomes implicated in one of the great cover-ups in history. Chased from her home, her first clue about the people trying to kill her is at a drug-fumed house among the surfers of Hawaii’s North Shore. Her second clue is revealed by a Shinto priest in Japan, and the third clue – or possibly a dangerous red herring – by an IT and security specialist in Bahrain. When she lands in the bizarre twilight world of conspiracy-theorist super-hackers on America’s West Coast, the danger is chillingly real. Along for the ride is ex-mercenary Charlie Paget. But Helene begins to wonder if he is protecting her or using her. When government agents do more than threaten, Helene is forced to tell everything she knows, or thinks she knows. A final chase through New York’s Holland Tunnel gets Helene to her publishing agent, and the chance to tell her story – if she dares. Helene’s personal cost is high. Set against the backdrop of international finance, government debt and the murky world of computer hackers, ‘Exposure’ is a fast-paced, intelligent thriller that will appeal to readers of crime, as well as action adventure fiction. 

How many times do you gamble on love? When love has knocked you down, should you give it another chance? When does optimism become stupidity?And what happens when the man you're in love with is never still, always moving, always traveling? Do you say goodbye, or do you leave behind everything that you've worked for, everything that you've ever known? Can a traveling carnival be my home?Oh. You thought I had the answers. No, sorry. No answers, just a lot of questions-and a heart that wants to rule my head.Can one person be my home?

Scotland Yard is the headquarters of London’s police force: it is feared by criminals and known throughout the world. But it has a secret – a big, dark, nasty secret… Max Darke is a 20 year old DC who keeps a close but tolerant eye on the demons who haunt the metropolis of London. It’s his job to ensure that some of their beastlier habits (blood rituals, human sacrifice, organ harvesting) are kept under control. But when The Brood – a new and horrifying gang of Level 3 Demons – come to town, things are looking very black for Max Darke. And that’s not the worst of it. Even his assistant isn’t entirely trustworthy – or human – because Sophie Judas is a Level 2 demon. Who or what is the Big Evil that is terrifying (and decapitating) the rest of the demon population? Who and what are the Powers That Be – and which side are they on? It’s not the best 21st birthday you could have. One way or another, work is Hell.