Cirrus@Austlit

'Hitchhiking along the Hume Highway, a woman hunts for her daughter's killer. Driven by guilt and the desire for revenge, the mother is set on a path of self-destruction. As the search becomes an obsession, the lonely highway begins to transform her...'

Source: Back cover.

'In the newly-formed penal colony of Sydney, plague and starvation are a constant threat. But this time isolation has a more sinister edge. In 1919, a reclusive Sydney doctor with a dark history and a fear of treating patients is drawn into a situation beyond even his control. Beneath the bustling noise of present-day Sydney, Jacqueline's accidental discovery while on an archeological dig unearths more than just a rotting corpse.'

Source: Back cover.

The small south-west Australian town of Tillbrook has a secret, one that has been kept for over a hundred years. The Dervish Carnival is run by people who are neither human or animal, but live in the woods and howl at night.

Uptight hack David Hampden needs a good story, one that might revive his ailing career. His laid-back brother Paul, an amateur photographer, just needs a life. David drags Paul to Tillbrook to cover the carnival, but what they find is something much darker. (Back cover.)