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'After a lifetime mourning the disappearance of her young daughter, Laura Fields forms a support agency to help other grieving parents of lost children and finds herself drawn into the dangerous and entangled world of cults.

'The lives of five desperate families collide as the CultAssist team battles to break the spell unscrupulous spiritual leaders have over their loved ones. Will they escape the cults before their lives are destroyed and the families irreconcilably ripped apart?

'Based on true stories from the case files of Raphael Aron, Director of Cult Consulting Australia, Bound by Belief demonstrates how individuals, family and society play a pivotal role in providing protection from the destructive influences of organisations seeking to deprive their followers of their identity and sense of self.' (Publication summary)

'When Jeff, a computer software professional, repeatedly awakes inside realistic dreams in which he’s inside the mind of a young woman, he struggles to find a rational explanation. The woman, he discovers, is real, and he becomes an unwilling time traveler periodically thrust two years into his past, where he experiences her life through her senses.

'An expert logician, he battles with the limitations of logic in his efforts to uncover the explanation for why he has become immersed in this new, supranatural world. Does he have a role to play in helping this woman escape her troubled past and move towards a future of serenity and hope?' (Publication summary)

'Detectives Joseph Paterson and Tessa Mariani must match their wits against an intelligent and highly organised serial killer before there's another victim. The only clues at the bloody murder scenes are a cryptic note and a white rose.' (Publication summary)