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When Ava Green turns twenty-eight, she discovers that this will be her last birthday. The cancer she thought she'd beaten three years ago is back, only this time it's terminal and she's not going to waste any of the time she has left. All she truly wants is the one thing she's been dreaming of since she was a little girl: a wedding. There's only one problem. She doesn't have a groom. Ava's friends and family rally around her to help her throw the wedding of her dreams - without the husband-to-be. As word spreads on social media, the bridal planning goes viral, attracting the attention of a prominent women's magazine. And when a photographer volunteers to help document the whole event, it becomes heartbreakingly clear that it's never too late to discover the love of your life. "Heartwarming and heartbreaking - you will need tissues." - Hello Magazine. |
THE PECULIAR SMELL OF SECRETSWhen Jack Cartwright moves to the small town of Spring Lake he soon realises that there's something a little different about the town. Children swim in raincoats, old ladies play guitar while getting drunk in caves (and, on the odd occasion, skinny dip) and the most beautiful woman he's ever met pulls a shotgun on him at their first meeting.
Maggie Tanner, the woman behind the trigger, finds Jack to be infuriatingly arrogant and obnoxious. So why can't she stop thinking about him? Jack on the other hand finds Maggie to be delightfully charming, if a touch stroppy. He sets about trying to charm her, with the help of her eccentric parents, Dot and Ray. Will he succeed? Will Maggie’s daughter Willow ever find out the truth about her father? And will anyone ever lift the damn chair? Filled to the brim with characters you can't help but fall in love with, The Peculiar Smell of Secrets is a story about the lengths families will go to in order to protect each other, and the healing power of love. |
LESSONS FROM DUCKSHow do you go on when everything you love is ripped away from you?
Anna Jenkins is sleepwalking through life. Once, she had everything she could ever want, but now she rattles away in her big old house where the silence doesn't just echo, it bounces off the rafters, slides down the window panes, rolls across the bench tops and skids across the floor. With a job she hates and a manager who hates her, Anna divides her time between work, home and the cemetery. It's not much of an existence, even Anna can admit that. But then, she's spent a fair amount of time plotting ways to not exist at all, so it's the least of her worries. Enter some ducks, a handful of eggs, an eight year old boy named after a Sesame Street character and his father who can't seem to keep his shirt on, and things are about to change. Whether Anna likes it or not. |
WHEN STARS COLLIDEWhen Ivy meets Walt at a party she sees past the corny pick up lines (a dare from his friends, or so he tells her) and his t-shirt featuring the immortal slogan, 'Don't hate me because I'm beautiful - hate me because I have big boobs!' and they fall in love.
Not only is he Ivy's first love, he's also her first lover, and she's sure nothing could ever come between them. Their love is simple yet magical, and they delight in the happiness they have created. But when unimaginable tragedy strikes, their future is thrown into turmoil, and Ivy goes searching for answers. Will she find them? Or will she forever be searching for something which just isn't there. When Stars Collide is a story about love, and the journey of one woman to rediscover what is important to her following the loss of her life as she knows it. |