When she woke, she found herself in darkness. She couldn’t move. She was going to die and she had no idea why…

Early one icy winter morning, Detective Alex King is called to a murder scene at a local park. The river is running high, and in the water lies the body of a woman, her wrists tied, and all her fingernails missing.

The victim, beautiful, young Lola Evans, had a troubled past, but Alex’s team can’t find a reason why anyone would want to kill her. The pressure to solve the case keeps mounting, but all their leads run dry.

Then, another body is found in the water.

A disturbing clue suggests how the girls are connected. But who would target such vulnerable girls, and does this mean another life is at risk? Just when Alex thinks she has cracked the case, she realises one of her own team is in terrible danger.

Alex is caught in a race against time to reach the next victim before it’s too late… and some of her team must face terrifying truths from their own lives if they’re to have a chance of catching the killer.

It was a simple marriage of convenience. Just two years. What could possibly go wrong?
Nara couldn’t believe it when her father came up with the crazy idea that she needed to marry Mr. Stuffy himself. Derek Marshall. Sure, he was stinkin’ gorgeous and made her insides quiver. But marry him? She was on her way to getting her dream job as a fashion designer. Well, on her way if you counted getting coffee for someone who had her dream job.

Derek has been in love with Nara all his life. But how can he possibly get her to see it? He’s not cool like the men Nara usually dates. He gets tongue-tied around her. But now they’re married and all he can think about is the clock ticking down until the divorce date.

Can he show her how much he really cares?

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A sunny PA, a grumpy director, and a film to save.

EVIE

I finally have my foot in the door—Hollywood, here I come!

But there’s a problem: Adam Thorne. My grumpy director boss who speaks exclusively in sarcasm and thinks I’m an idiot. He said I was like one of those singing Christmas toys that never run out of battery.

But when the film goes off the rails, I have to win him over and convince him to stay. I’ve given up everything, including a career in medicine, to see my name in the rolling credits. But working with Adam is no easy task—and neither is ignoring how sexy he is.

No, Evie. Not the point.

Though I am starting to wonder if there’s more to him under his brooding, grouchy exterior…

ADAM

People are idiots, especially people in LA.

My friends tell me I have ‘ranty old man energy’, but that’s just because I don’t suffer fools, and I have no time for phonies.

So when Evie Miller joins the film crew, I don’t know how to take her. She’s like a real-life Jessica Day; the human incarnation of cotton candy. Who wears bright yellow gumboots in LA? It literally never rains here.

But then there’s a location scout together, one too many tropical cocktails, and the last motel room in walking distance, and everything changes. Maybe people in LA are genuine after all…

A gentle mystery story laced with warm and insightful humour.

Ian Greefe has always had issues with his parents – the main one being that they aren’t. Settled for many years at the other end of the country, out of the blue he gets a call to arms; he has to care for his mother, who now has Alzheimer’s, while his father is in hospital.
Over the course of a week ‘back home’, secrets gradually come out that make him reassess his views on family life, and come to terms with his own shortcomings as a son and father.
A warm, bittersweet comedy drama full of though-provoking contradictions, here are just some of the quotes from independent reviewers:
So much more than just a comedy – a wonderful, intimate blend of emotions wound up in a slice of ‘real’ life, delivered with mastery.
Bittersweet is the perfect description of this. I loved the humour and poignancy. There were so many brilliant lines that I stopped picking them out and just read.
I loved it, the dialogue was very realistic, the characters were easy to picture.
This is definitely something I would select in a bookstore.
You’re great at really capturing a character with just a turn of phrase or one or two lines.
A cracker.