Cirrus@Austlit

'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.

'COLIN - You know my parents' story, the whole world does... but then again they don't, not really. The human world saw those photos years ago of Kevin the Koala being rescued by a firefighter during the worst firestorm the country had ever known. What they don't know is that my dad, Kevin, is a shifter and the moment my human mum and he met in 'person' that was it - true love, mated and I followed shortly after. All my life I've been unusual. Not a shifter, not a human, not really sure what I am.

'AMBER - I'm a freak of nature. Even the supernatural community experts can't explain me. As far as the world knows I'm just another wombat. I was rescued as a newborn by my Fae best friend and we've been together ever since. I'm not really part of the supernatural community - being the only shifter in existence who cannot shift has made me an oddity and uncomfortable in my own fur. Until I met him.

'WE'RE both unexplainable, oddballs who don't belong - So maybe our place is together. Except we drive each other crazy and then there's that little spark inside me that is making itself known whether I like it or not. Can we be friends? Or is the Mountain just not big enough for our kind of magic?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'In the life of a Fae, having wings is everything. Without them a fairy can't find their mate. When fire decimates her mountain home, killing everyone she loves and irreparably damaging her wings, Rhiannon resigns herself to a loveless fate.

'A decade later life has returned to the fire-ravaged bush and Rhiannon has accepted her solitary life. When an accident brings a human veterinarian, Paul, into her life, she finds more than just help for an animal friend.

'From the moment he spots Rhiannon walking along the roadside, Paul knows there's something different about her. The more time he spends with her, the more he wants to get to know her. He knows she's someone special but he also has a feeling she's hiding something. When he learns her secret - that she is Fae - will love be strong enough or is it all just a Fairy Tale?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'This was it, the moment she'd been waiting for. Ready or not world, here she came!
Feeling suffocated by her life and faced with a break from work, Anu decides to 'woman up' and hit the road. Experiencing the freedom of her very first road trip, she sets off on a 5000km trip through the Australian outback with a tiny, impractical car and a tent.

'Ant lives and works deep in the remote outback. Tourists come and go daily, they keep his business thriving but he's never really noticed them. Yet when a shy, intrepid solo traveller catches his eye, he's tempted to pull out all the stops and hope he can swing her eyes his way.

'Buckle up. Ipod driving music mix at the ready. Let's hit the road and see what freedom and camels have in store for Anu.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Welcome to Bigelow Bay, where everyone has a story and gets their own, special, happy ending.

'After years of being moved from place to place Greg has finally put down some roots and he likes his life just as it is. He works hard in his job and equally hard to avoid complications in life; especially the female kind.

'Until he literally stumbles across Helene, a fun-loving free spirit without a home or a past who crashes into his life and complicates everything.

'When opposites attract not everything is how it seems and cake makes everything better.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Frank leads a quiet life and is dedicated to his job, but there is a redhead who keeps distracting him. He's seen her around town and at work and the more he sees the more curious he gets.

'Kasey keeps to herself, hiding from the world. She loves her job and does it well, but after work hours she's alone in her home with a cat and books for company. It's a lonely existence but at least it's safe.

'Until a stormy night changes everything and life no longer seems safe. Now it might become something more. Can Frank break through the walls around Kasey without breaking her completely? And is Kasey strong enough to let him in?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'I'm LAURA and I'm going to have a great life. When I'm an adult I'll move to the city, get a great job, find the perfect man and live my great life.That was the plan anyway. I do live in the city but my life's taken a detour I could never have forseen. I've met lots of people, done lots of things and gone down new paths in my search for love. All along I've done what I thought was expected of me, and I've become someone completely new. I'm not exactly the good girl anymore.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.