Cirrus@Austlit

'The Lost Man meets Wolf Creek set amid torrential rain; this is pure propulsive storytelling from a major new voice in crime fiction.

'The first drops start to fall when Quinn spies the body. With no reception and nothing but an empty road for miles, does she stop to help or keep driving to safety?

'Back at the iconic country pub where Quinn works, Andrea is sandbagging the place in preparation for heavy rains. Alone with her sleeping son in the back room, she reluctantly lets a biker in to wait out the storm.

'Out on the wet roads, tensions arise among four backpackers on their way to Darwin. They haven’t prepared for this kind of weather and the flooding isn’t the only threat edging closer …

'Chilling, tense and twisted, this compulsive thriller will have you racing through the pages to its terrifying climax.' (Publication summary)

'Jordyn Fairweather has worked hard to reach the top of the magazine world, but now she's in trouble.

'Younger media stars are scrambling to steal her crown, and companies are collapsing around her in the face of a new threat - the internet.

'She's come a long way from small town Beddo, where she obsessed over teen glossies until pushing her way into an internship with Sixteen magazine. But if Jordyn's empire is going to survive, she needs to move fast and keep reinventing herself.

'Spanning the late 90s and 2000s, Media Queen is a compulsive read with an outrageous main character. It comes with the essential ingredient that Jordyn demands of all her stories: juice!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Charli is obsessed with The Train Guy.

'She sees him every weekday waiting for the 8.05am from Roselea Station. She's convinced he's the man for her, but Charli is too terrified to introduce herself - look what happened, when she was brave with Eddie. Now she's newly single and needs to take in tenants to help pay the mortgage.

'The Train Guy would never hurt her. He's too chivalrous and handsome. He's perfect.

'Isn't he?

'Part rom-com, part chase, The Train Guy is the metropolitan love story you've been searching for.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'When reporter Anna is sacked from the newsroom, she limps home for sympathy from her sister and housemate, Holly. But she discovers that Holly is jobless too, after resigning from the Fairweather Report, a celebrated women's website.

'Now, Holly has grand plans for starting her own online media empire, and she insists that Anna joins her.

'Anna's first task? She's whisked away to an influencer tour of Uruguay. It's scary stuff for a reporter who barely knows the difference between hashtags and HTML, but at least handsome Donovan is there to help.

'Life becomes even trickier when Holly publishes Anna's romantic adventures on their fledging website. The sisters become an online sensation, but Anna is furious that her private life is being used for clicks.

'Will the sisters stick together and make a living in this new media world? Or will Anna return to a newsroom again?

'And who is Holly's menacing and persistent troll?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.