North
Publisher: Netherwood Press
Length: 220 pages
Release: October 2022
Purchase at: Amazon
Lachlan Haynes has always felt the pull to go north; to the land of heat, wetlands and humidity so intense it sends people mad. So, midway through his doctoral candidature on the medicinal properties of Australia’s most venomous sea creatures, he up-ends his life and moves to Darwin, the northern-most capital city of Australia, and takes a job at Rinydjirinydjimirri Station as the maintenance man.
But the station is not what it seems, and those who live there hide unfathomable secrets. Everyone who has contact with the Lakarriny people whispers of disease and the end of days. When he finds a dead body glowing in one of the property’s mausoleums, the amazing new life Lachlan had been settling into is thrown into chaos.
Arafura was not part of Lachlan’s grand life plan, even if a prophesy might suggest he should have been. If he wants to change their future, he’ll need to find a way to way to convince people to let go of the past. Before the rain comes.
Cover Art by Natasha Snow
BARRICADE
Publisher: Netherwood Press
Length: 342 pages
Release: December 30th 2017
Purchase at: Amazon
The Barricade is all that separates the Northern Russian Empire from what remains of the world’s plague-decimated population. Snaking 8921 kilometres across Eurasia, the Barricade is crafted from the New World’s nanotechnologies. Breathing, thinking, constantly regenerating, it sustains those charged with defending its districts from those desperate to find refuge in the north.
Atop the battlements of District 666, Sasha Stepanova and his team ruthlessly suppress heavy insurgencies, but at a cost. With the loss of one of his men, Sasha feels isolated and adrift. The bitter snows are a harbinger of winter’s early arrival and the town on his southern perimeter is swelling with foreboding shadows.
Transferred from a black operations testing facility, Jett Ioane is not the replacement Sasha is expecting. He’s short, sheltered and untested in battle—a poor replacement for the friend Sasha has lost. But Sasha finds him impossibly alluring. A lifetime of alienation and scrutiny has hardened Jett to the friendship and camaraderie necessary for survival. Struggling to find his feet while Sasha sweeps them out from under him, Jett hesitates to entrust the team with his truth.
Will Jett’s secrets be the key to their salvation, or annihilation?
Cover Art by Natasha Snow
RHINO ASH
Publisher: Netherwood Press
Length: 278 pages
Release: October 27th
Purchase at: Amazon
Ashley Jameson always tries to do the right thing, but that’s hard when your nephew keeps eating crayons, your niece is dressed as a pudding and your obnoxious older brothers crash the church’s Sunday brunch with the guy you’ve been crushing on for five years. Going to work to fight fires is a welcome relief from family obligations, until the Riot Squad arrives to investigate and Ashley once again finds himself dealing with his siblings. Oh … and Finn Hale.
But Finn’s dark past continues to haunt him. As work gets increasingly busy with a string of arson attacks on illegal immigrants, Finn steps in to be the shoulder Ashley needs to lean on, but Ashley struggles to do the same for the man he loves. Juggling family and work can be difficult, but Ashley soon discovers that the real challenge is when it’s not a struggle at all … because you’ll do anything for the ones you love.
Cover Art by AngstyG
WHISPERS OF AUTUMN
Publisher: Netherwood Press
Length: TBC
Release: Coming Soon in November 2017
Purchase at: Free by joining the Blacklist
Shannon Reef transfers to Hayward college looking for a fresh start. All he wants is to finish healing from his accident and manage an uneventful completion of the business degree he’s not even interested in studying. It doesn’t take long for his plan to unravel, rooming with one of the town’s biggest trouble makers and stalked by another. Drawn to the mysterious sons who live beyond Dante’s Gate, Shannon finds himself with friends for the first time in his life and the beginnings of a promising relationship with the beautiful Tristan Lamb.
When his past calls him home Shannon has to find a way to reconcile the life he thought he wanted with the one he’s built for himself, before his name gets him killed.
Cover Art by Natasha Snow
FISHY RIOT
Publisher: Dreamspinnerpress.com
Length: 236 Pages
Purchase at: Dreamspinner / Amazon / B&N
Most people think riot squad officer Taylor Jameson is an asshole. Little do they know his apparent indifference stems from having a meddlesome family always butting into his business. And little does Taylor know he’s about to stumble into a situation that’ll make indifference impossible.
When everything goes horribly wrong at a political rally on a harbour ferry, Taylor encounters Sietta Salisbury. The son of a wealthy politician, Sietta is a revered—but presumed dead—musician, and an enigma who is so strange, Taylor is compelled to look into his background. What he discovers draws him into a bizarre mess of prisoners, politics, and attempted murder that makes him realise what he’s been missing.
Falling in love isn’t hard. Trying to convince someone else you’re worth loving despite your crazy family and the people trying to kill you? That’s a whole other can of worms.
Cover Art by AngstyG