Cirrus@Austlit

'Renegade female mercenaries and hired killers.

'A treasure hidden for a thousand years.

'But old secrets never die – and some treasures should remain hidden.

'Inside a planet wide labyrinth of mining tunnels, metal processing, acid waste levels, and abandoned cities is a thriving, genetically engineered ecosystem of predators, prey, and mutant humans. Constantly evolving and always hungry.

'It's a race against time as the teams fight to survive the planet and each other.

'There are no prizes for coming second.' (Publication summary)

'Explore the strange journeys of human and not so human in this collection. An eclectic mix of time travel, apocalyptic futures, alien contact, poems, and sentience outside the human bandwidth.

'The second meteor. A future soldier reminisces. The perils of robotic guardianship. Encountering a plague planet. Cryogenics ain't all it's cracked up to be. Alien encounter. Deep space skating. Recovering with some help from Star Trek. A portal guardian's earthly desires. A mission gone wrong. Time travel can fix anything. Rats are people too. For the love of cats. Universal music. Martian exploration. Against the Bugs, Earth needed a hero. What was Vessel 8 incubating? Future soldier muses. Deep space writing burnout. What are the marks in the sand? A scarf of truth.

'Escape the everyday with twenty one short stories, flash fictions and poems.' (Publication summary)

'Explore the strange paths that love travels in this collection. An eclectic mix of later in life love, angsty poetry, comedy, tragedy, memory and the paranormal.

'A fish laden comedy. An ode to beautiful men, The love of a forest god. What happens after the funeral? An eternal love. Finding a new path. Autumnal thoughts. Rescued from the church. Windows and past loves. A fresh start after grief. An appointment that must be kept. A chosen fate. Last memories of love. What will she find in the moonlit forest? Even a heart of stone yearns for forgiveness. The last journey.

'Escape the everyday with eighteen short stories, flash fictions and poems.' (Publication summary)

'Always wondered what it would be like to be a geologist? Or how about an archaeologist? Say g’day to Sandra and Dan in this contemporary romance set in outback Australia that is full of laughter, science, danger, and the occasional possum.

'Geologist Sandra knows it is out there—the El Dorado find that will save the future of her beloved town of Broken Hill. She has dedicated her life to finding it and will let nothing stand in her way to keep her promise to her prospector grandfather.

'Archaeologist Dan knows how fragile the past can be. History can be erased by the ambitious. It is his job to protect it —no matter what the cost. Dan believes Sandra’s exploration may threaten ancient sacred sites. His arrival in town disrupts all her plans.

'As they explore the desert region together, their building attraction is hampered by mutual misunderstanding. Sandra’s reputation and job are under threat, and her friend’s lives are in danger. Dan must decide where his loyalties lie.

'The harsh Australian desert will challenge them both, tear apart their hopes, test their love, and threaten their lives.

'How will the present save the past and the future?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Tales of Imagination

'Explore the strange byways of imagination in this collection. An eclectic mix of science fiction, award winning romance, comedy, the past – the future, and the just plain weird.

'A love that can never be.

'Ethan—latest guardian of the Arwen pendant—finds his heritage of time travel a burden he can scarcely endure. Rowena—last of the line of Daman—is a soldier in the Celtic army, forced to perform deeds that haunt her. Both tormented by visions of the other, separated by barriers of time.

'A time that should not exist.

'Rowena flees the catastrophic end of her time but is trapped by an ancient family pact with an evil goddess. Desperate to save her, Ethan crosses over into her timeline, where his parents never met, and Daman—their greatest enemy—rules.
The past is ruled by a man who knows the future.

'Thirty days to stop a goddess taking over her body. Thirty days to save his timeline. Together they will fight their way through an altered history to the dark past of Stonehenge.

'But time is running out—for everyone.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A portal closed for 2,000 years.

'An ancient religion twisted by modern greed.

'A love that crosses the centuries.

'An ancient druid pendant shows archaeologist Janet visions of Roman soldier Trajan. The visions are of danger, death, and love—but are they a promise or a curse?

'Her fiancé Daman abandons her before the wedding, her beloved museum is ransacked, and a robed man vanishes before her eyes. Haunted by visions of a time she knows long gone, Janet teeters on the edge of a breakdown.

'In the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall and 2,000 years back in time, Janet’s past and present collide. Daman has vowed to drive the invaders from the shores of Britain and march his barbarian hordes to Rome. Trajan swears vengeance against the man who threatens both his loves—Janet and the Empire.

'Time is running out—for everyone.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.