Fiction

It took the murder of eleven perpetrators of corrective rape or murderers of township lesbians before the police made a connection. Was there really a connection or was it sheer unconnected coincidence? In addition what if anything had the execution style murder of young Ian Robertson and his gay lover three years before have to do with all this?

In a world similar to ours, a young man must take his final step into adulthood. After a cruel initiation however, Tibial finds himself torn...between who he is supposed to love, but doesn't and who he shouldn't love, but does.

Felicity and Margaret chat over afternoon tea when Felicity announces she's getting married. Again.

After a huge row between his twin brother and their father, Russell’s mother sends him off to stay with her cousin in Europe, with no explanation. Reluctantly, the shy nineteen-year-old faces the issues which have kept him in his brother’s shadow for the past five years. It’s a twisted path of denial, anguish and unexpected joy, as Russell struggles to deal with long buried emotions and hopes.

In the homophobic atmosphere of Sydney during the Roaring Twenties, gay policeman Constable Paddy Langdon was anxious to avoid any deep emotional commitments. Then he met a young man at a seedy Turkish Bathhouse and they fell deeply in love. Gang violence had become an issue, intensifying when gangs began to use a cheap barbers razor as a weapon of choice; this deadly item being used to cut, mutilate and kill rivals.

Dani is a vampire with a special mission. Crafted in a sterile lab, he has never been human. Kept from society under the watchful eye of Vinicius, his enigmatic mentor, he's naive to the way of the world.

When Vinicius is suddenly taken from him, Dani is left woefully unprepared for the real world. His sheltered existence shattered. Now, thrust into a bustling vampire high school, he must navigate the treacherous halls of adolescence while grappling with the desires of his non-beating heart.

Book Two of The Last Statue follows on from Heart of Black Ice Bay and traces the lives of five new characters across roughly similar timelines.

• Marica is almost duped by a night caller accelerating her future plan to escape the palace;
• Jasmar's instincts tells him to accompany Marica’s siblings on their escape to Loq;
• Tad, a menial in Aulderly, stumbles upon the missing Lore of Invocation;
• Brokerman has to help deal with an emerald explosion that rips through the grounds of the Aulderly;
• Duke Ervine holds together a fragmented empire while a new ruler is being agreed upon.

Jeremy is friends with Kevin and he pulls away when Kevin starts dating Kelly. Kevin eventually realizes that Jeremy is more important

Dylan is a player and he makes some enemies along the way.

An unexpected kiss has an unexpected result. You never forget the first time