Cirrus@Austlit

Cynthia Abell works for Bronson Carlyle, an enterprising crime boss in the city of Melbourne. She's a talented investigator but hides behind a hardened attitude and an inhuman curse.

With a single touch, Cynthia can kill.

Forced into working for a criminal and hiding from any chance at a normal life, she is known, and feared, as Deadfall.

Cynthia believes she is the only one of her kind, but after a series of unusual crimes across Melbourne she realises that something dark is rising. With her partner, Mat, at her side she sets out to uncover the secrets of her employer and the growing mystery of the Post-Humans.

Humanity doesn’t accept people that are different. Even the most amazing abilities make the public uneasy. That is why The League is disbanded.

There are people everywhere in this world that are a little bit different to the rest, but we never notice them, because if we did, we would be afraid of what they could do. The League was a group of young people with special abilities and ambition to make their city a safer place. But when one of them is killed during a mission they lose their resolve and go their separate ways.

Athan Harper was one member of The League and he still lives a quiet life in the shadows and in a dimension that links the minds of all normal humans. When he decides to use his gifts to help some coma patients wake up, he discovers that their dreams were synthetic and that it is part of an extensive corporate plan that has been in the making for decades. He must locate his friends and find this new enemy. One evil man’s ambition will fulfil an ancient prophecy and tear holes in the fabric of reality. Athan will discover that the world is not what it seems and that humans aren’t the only intelligent life in the universe.

Source: Publisher's Blurb

'Supervillain. Pop Star.

'Sometimes the life we're given isn't the life we'd choose for ourselves.

'For the past five years, Dan Galkin has been lying to everyone about just how ordinary he is. But Dan's the grandson of The Mad Russian: one of the world's most powerful, and insane, supervillains. And Dan has powers too. He's a living battery, able to absorb and discharge electricity with his mind. Normally he keeps his powers hidden, but when the old man returns with an offer to make his grandson heir apparent, any chance at an ordinary life is blown apart.

'Miranda Brody thought she wanted to be a pop star, but now she's got the international profile and the entourage, she doesn't recognize the Miranda she has become. After getting caught up in the cross-fire between Dan and his grandfather, Miranda realizes there's more to life than being famous. Staying alive, for example, becomes a high priority. And not falling in love with the pizza boy comes a close second.

'Labeled by society, trapped by expectation.

'Dan and Miranda might actually be able to change everything.

'As long as they don't kill each other first.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'This Mutant Life is a collection of 21 stories where the ordinary world is well and truly gatecrashed by the extraordinary. There are tales of flying boys and miniature girls; dark creatures beneath the waves; scientists losing their mind; and heroes trying their hardest to make the world a better place.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.