Cirrus@Austlit

'IT’S ALL A LIE.

'Her life.

'Her hopes.

'Her very being.

'Author Alex Sanderson thought she knew what she wanted from life, and it appeared she actually had it. Great career, a new book release she loved, and security.

'Waking up in a cell on an alien slave ship like the main character in her latest book wasn’t on her list.

'As crucial moments that she’d written down in her latest novel begin to play out in real life, including the enigmatic starship XO she’d written as her hero—a man she’d secretly lusted over—she is left wondering what exactly is real?

'Calin Aubryn’s desolate, pain-filled life suddenly brightens when a strange, new creature—a human—is discovered in his airspace. A person who appears to be something quite unique.

'While the war with the Xjaran Swarm still rages around them, with his best friend and battle commander at his side, protecting Alex becomes their first priority. And if he’s truly lucky, the growing awareness between them might erupt into a flame that scorches worlds.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Sold for Pleasure

'Abducted.

'Abused.

'Sold.

'Reece Halliday will find a way back home, even if it kills her. Abducted from Earth and auctioned off on the other side of the galaxy, a scarred starship XO buys her as a birthday present for his boss–as a pleasure slave.

'Ruthless starship officer Calin Aubron will do anything to climb the ranks of the Mendovan Alliance and regain the respect stolen from him. Life has taught him a harsh lesson: there is only duty, position, and honor. Neither Reece nor Calin expect to find a deep, abiding solace in each other’s company, a solace that leads Calin to dig deeper into Reece’s background and her claims of kidnapping.

'But the Rathian slave traders behind the kidnappings refuse to let one small, worthless human derail their lucrative income stream from reaped worlds.

'They will kill her first.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Two years undercover. One relic. No distractions. Templar Knight Cynane Montbard is on a mission, and nothing – not love whisperers, hellbeasts, or even the sexiest daemon this side of hell – will stand in her way.

'Rohan the Red, the deadliest daemon earthside, has been tasked with preserving the balance between hell and earth. But one mesmerizing, stubborn, kick-ass High Priestess is in his way.

'Cyn has a strict no-daemon romance policy, especially for rogues like Rohan. Yet, they must join forces to succeed. And as their chemistry intensifies, secrets unravel and true identities emerge. But when the power of the relic of frankincense is revealed, their biggest risk won’t be love—it will be death for every soul in the human world.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Death comes for everyone. But you shouldn’t have to see your own.

'Isadora Smith’s mother left her one gift - the sight of the future. When a vision of a missing powerful relic brings Isa into the world of the Templar Knights, she’s determined to prove her gift’s purpose.

'Grayson, the icy, dangerous, Templar Knight in charge of the relic of myrrh, has zero time for a civilian on the team—especially his best friend’s little sister. However when Isa claims her visions can locate the myrrh, he grudgingly agrees. Because retrieving the deadly relic is his only priority - if it falls into the wrong hands, the entire human world could be destroyed.

'But when their secret investigation turns deadly, and Gray and Isa are forced into a fake relationship to maintain their cover, Isa discovers the Templar’s sizzling side. And she makes the most of the opportunity - even if it is make believe - because when her secrets unravel, Gray will never want to see her again.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'When you’re a witch on the run, do you trust your heart or your magic to lead you in the right direction?

'Fiercely independent Evangeline has spent ten years studying witchkind’s most complex and potent spells. Now she’s finally starting her life as a spellcaster protecting dangerous relics.

'But when a powerful relic goes missing and Eve is accused of the theft, she has no choice but to ask the sexy, way-too-smooth Private Investigator Raph Smith for help, or risk ending up in a Knights Templar dungeon.

'Raph Smith always gets his missing person—even though the reason why is a closely guarded secret—so finding a lost trinket box should be easy money. But the relic has a deadly secret too … and those who know the truth will do anything to find the artifact, including killing anyone who stands in their way.

'With the Knights Templar, an international crime family, Daemons from the Underworld, and Eve’s own coven on their heels, Eve and Raph are forced to work together. But as the sheets heat up, and with their hearts and heads on the line, can Eve and Raph really trust each other?

'Because what started out as reclaiming Eve’s livelihood, has become a fight to save her life. And the rest of humankind.

'Relics and Legends – where witchcraft is a business and legends aren’t consigned to history.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'What drives someone to climb a mountain, trek across a desert, or sail solo around the world? Is it to satisfy a sense of adventure, a test of personal strength, or just sheer stupidity?

'For Greg Currie, former Navy Reserve psychologist officer, it was none of these. Following a traumatic deployment to Banda Aceh after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, Greg tries to outrun his depression and his problems. He sets sail in his 22-foot yacht, Bekka, to travel solo from Australia to South Africa.

'His journey across the notorious Indian Ocean is beset with problems and near disasters but with steely determination, help from the sailing fraternity, and a lot of luck, he achieves his goal. When he isn’t making repairs to his boat, battling storms, getting lost at sea, and narrowly avoiding colliding with ships, Greg recalls the many challenges in his life. With help from a journal he kept on the trip and hours of alone-time for reflection, he tells his tale of survival.

'But it is more than a sailing story, more than a memoir. Alone: a Sailor’s Life is about a man running away from his problems only to realise that he must confront the demons that haunt him and accept himself.' (Publication summary)

'When an Earl from ‘Elgin’ visits the Acropolis with a Neapolitan artist, it sets in motion a chain of events that leads to the theft of monuments from the sacred Acropolis. Taken away, never to be seen again in Athens.

'The curse of the stolen marbles and artifacts leads to a series of twists and turns that seemingly brings together, the ‘Aegean Seven’ to help reunite the artifacts with their homeland.

'What would happen if the Aegean Seven tried to take the Earl’s personal marbles? What would happen should they enlist Lord Byron to find a way to bring the Marbles home? Along the way, the Aegean Seven stumble across an array of important historical figures in Europe as they cross Greece, Alexandria, Cyrene, Romania, Italy, Geneva, France, and London.

'Set against the backdrop of the looming Greek Revolution, the Aegean Seven is led by Alcibiades and Melina. This is a fast-paced dramedy, providing the reader with a range of historical milestones in Europe between 1801-1817. A Greek style Ocean's Eleven minus Brad Pitt.'  (Publication summary)

'Sunny wants to die. Or not. She hasn't decided.

'What she needs is to be left alone to make up her mind.

'Dr Mataio Brinn lives downstairs and has barely grunted at her in a year. He's weird. No social skills. No social life. But now he's in her face, wanting to carry her groceries, play her guitar, discuss her mental health, her diet, her deadbeat boyfriend.

'He's determined to keep her safe. He moves her in with his aunt and cousin. But keeping her safe means keeping his distance—and she can't work out why he's living by a secret set of rules.

'He has an agenda and she's made it her new mission to uncover what it is.

'Now he says he's put her life in danger. But the only risk Sunny is worried about is getting her heart broken. Because she highly suspects relationships are against one of the Eleven Rules.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'More than 20 years after her abduction at the hands of the elusive Pan, Wendy Darling is all grown up and a successful detective. But when a local girl vanishes in the middle of the night, her past comes rushing back.

'Grieving the death of her mother, Detective Darling wants nothing more than to throw herself back into work. When the Lord Mayor’s daughter, Rosalie, vanishes, she insists on taking the case, triggering memories of her own past abduction.

'For years, Wendy struggled with her nonsensical memories of her captor, who she only knows as Pan. Yet the more she uncovers about Rosalie’s disappearance, the more Wendy is convinced her worst nightmare has come true—Pan’s back. Her fears are confirmed when the girl suddenly reappears and Wendy realises she’s walked straight into Pan’s trap …'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'If you’d always felt invisible, how far would you go to be seen?

'When seventeen-year-old Amy Shipley crosses the threshold of the abandoned house on Flinders Lane, she unwittingly unleashes the curse of a nineteenth-century bloodletter. Haunted by a charming ghost with a dark obsession, she is pushed down a path that leads to blood and pain.

'But it’s a path where she is finally seen. Where she no longer feels alone.

'Unable to ignore Amy’s descent into self-destruction, former boy-next-door Flynn Powell embarks on a mission to save the girl he’s fallen for. But walking that path opens old wounds, forcing him to question whether he’s the hero she really needs.

'While Flynn battles his troubled past, Amy is thrust deeper into a seductive world of secrets and lies. In the fight to save their love, more than blood is going to be spilled, and it might just cost Amy her life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A mystifying time rift. An ancient civilisation. Two worlds collide in an epic fight to the death.

'My boring life is upended when a vision of the mom I never knew has me questioning everything I believe. Eager for answers, I enrol at a boarding school for highly gifted students in Wolfebane, New Hampshire. But the school and its students have secrets that leave me more confused than ever.

'When I accidentally transport to a parallel existence and discover I have a whole other life waiting for me, I'm thrust into a mythological world that thinks I'm their unlikely saviour. Torn between my old life and my new, confronting an ancient evil seems the least of my problems.

'With the help of Joss, an enigmatic warrior sworn to protect me, and my new best friend, the equally hot Quinn, I face my fears. But I'm unprepared for the ultimate showdown against a terrifying adversary…'

Source: Publisher's blurb (2020 ed.).

'Camille’s father just inherited the family manor from his estranged uncle, forcing her to leave her friends and city life just before her senior year of high school for the small town of Woodville, England.

'After seeing a strange old woman lurking on the estate grounds, she embarks on a mission to uncover the history of her new home. What she finds is wilder than she could have imagined—the murder of her ancestor, Caleb LeRoux, on the same day his six-year-old daughter vanished without a trace. And an unforeseen connection to Camille herself, as the only female LeRoux born to the family in over two hundred years.

'With the help of her new school friends, Camille delves into the secrets of the manor, uncovering an all-encompassing truth that will change the entire course of her life—past, present, and future.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'MICHAEL: He's the king and Bigelow Bay hospital is his domain. A lifetime of single minded focus and self disclipine ensured his life was exactly the way he'd planned...

'NIE: Her life is out of control. One moment changed everything. A new home, a new school and new life with new challenges. When your life has become chaos, you hang onto even a small shred of control all the harder.

'MEL: Offering guidence to those who need it most, while battling the darkness that still lives inside her - It's a delicate balance between controlling her past or letting her past control her.

'As lives colide sometimes the only thing you can hope for is some order in the chaos but sometimes the best outcome doesn't come from KEEPING CONTROL.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Bishop returns and nothing is as it appears.

'Off the coast of Norway an abandoned container ship is discovered, its crew slain, and the only clue is a photo knifed to a bulkhead. A photo of Charles Bishop with a note that reads, “It’s all my fault”.

'Bishop leaps into an investigation that takes him from the frozen climes of Scandinavia, to the sun-drenched shores of Venice and the chaotic streets of Istanbul for a final fatal encounter.

'With his own personal history catching up with him in the most violent way possible, Bishop will be forced to confront his past to save the present.

'An all-out adventure with fast-paced dialogue and deception at every turn, Venetian Blonde is unputdownable.'

Source : publisher's blurb