Cirrus@Austlit

'Bridget Gallaway is an ordinary seventeen-year old teenager who is thrown into extraordinary circumstances. She is in her final year of high school and is studying hard to earn a place in a top university, to study law. She lives with her family, including her grandmother, who suffers from dementia. She is trying to live a normal life but is shackled by her childhood best friend, Jordon. After a number of insidious incidents in her personal life and a series of bizarre events at school, Bridget turns her back on her family and friends and attempts to reconstruct her life in a new environment, but things only get worse. It is a suspense that delves into identity, obsession, and the impossibility of friendships when they have been poisoned by envy. Will she succeed and forget the past!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'EVIL EYE is a novel about Thea’s struggles to fit in with her family that hails from supernatural stock. She is outcast from supernatural family rituals and from devising evil concoctions to administer to the family’s enemies. The Kingston family is dominated by women – led by their mother Ethel, who has five daughters – Helena, Satria, Freda, Savannah and Thea. The children are all female by choice, decided by Ethel, whose ambition was to only breed women, in order to keep the bloodline strong.

Ethel generates a world of evil around her family, all spun from her supernatural beliefs taken from a coveted book, which has been passed down through the Kingston generations.

'It is the story of struggle against evil, but also about love and freedom.' (Publication summary)