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Fate's Hand is an endearing and erotic love story and the first Book in the A Rockstar & A Runner series. This is a captivating Canadian based story between a world-famous rockstar and a single mother, both who have risen above hard life challenges in their past. When fate intervenes and their paths cross, they discover love and passion beyond anything they have ever experienced and show exactly what it's like when two people love with their entire heart, how they can make that one love grow. But with such drastically different lives, can their love survive?Fate's Hand is sure to ensnare you and keep you coming back for more.

Pulmulla is worried her vision of the future will come true.Biligiri just wants to get home. Besides, he's in love for the first time, and will be a father in 22 months.Tant-Meisie is lonely and going around in circles. She meets famous and eccentric people though.Hannibal Solo thought he was retired - until Carroll came along, and she's hard case.On top of this, he has voices in his head."Absorbing and lyrical, and poignant in the elephants' message. Like Heathcote Williams' Sacred Elephant before it, Taken deserves a wide readership."-Gareth Patterson, author of The Secret Elephants and Beyond the Secret Elephants."A writer of striking originality with qualities of daring and humour that are rare. Like Lloyd Jones, Alex has the ability to create a landscape so vivid the reader feels he is walking down a dusty road or in the hold of a ship."-Elizabeth Smither, novelist and Poet Laureate of New Zealand"There is energy and confidence on every page. The way you inhabit your lines is remarkable."-Lloyd Jones author of Mr Pip and Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Award."I was greatly impressed by Taken - an accomplished and poignant story. Here was a writer of considerable potential should he decide to write longer fiction..."- Tessa Duder CNZM OBE, author of the Alex quartet, winner of Storyline Margaret Mahy Medal."I've read and re-read your story, and I think this: It is intriguing, beautifully-crafted, moving and poetic... It brings the knowing eye of elephants to bear on the reader, creating the feeling of injustice I always have when I'm close to them. It's a parable of imperialism. For all these reasons and more, I loved it."-Bruce Ansley, author of A long Slow Affair of the Heart, A Fabled Land, and Coast: A New Zealand Journey, winner Best Illustrated Non-fiction Book at the New Zealand Post Book Awards"Beautiful, eye opening, exquisitely absorbing, gentle and powerful."-Danielle Mathieson, New Zealand artist

When Dallas Church ran full speed to the point of impact, his only goal was to help anyone he could. He did not know or care that being so close to the meteor would change him so drastically. In the year that followed, Dallas would be hailed as a hero, the rookie cop who risked everything to save others, then persecuted and outcast as a monster when the real effects of his exposure to the meteor became clear.Fortunately, Dallas is recruited by an organization promising to use his newly evolved talents to provide security for others. As the team forms, Dallas and his new colleagues must learn to trust each other and to accept their diversity.Dallas soon discovers his power is linked to a greater evil. As he sacrifices everything to save a child, he learns that these events, and he himself, are not what he had believed.

Emily Warrington had a satisfying and predictable life. Nearing the end of her residency, she was soon to become a doctor, the result of many years' hard work and the juggling of work and family commitments. The mother of two children, and with a devoted and supportive husband, she seemingly had it all. But just under the surface, something was wrong. The seemingly perfect life was all too fragile. It only took one incident for Emily's world to come crashing down around her. Everything she had fought for and protected was put in danger. Could Emily pull together the threads of her old life or was it gone forever?

Charlotte grew up being in love with the man she was promised to marry. Aurek was a warrior, a Daeva Prince to equal her Daeva Princess, and meant to protect their people when they took the throne. Where she was spoiled and young, he was patient and understanding. When she had outbursts, he was there to sooth her naive woes. It was a perfect match, just like her parents intended.Until he murdered them.Hiding was something she never thought she would achieve. It was only a matter of time. But hours became days, and days became years. The thought of being found slipped away, becoming nothing but nightmares and memories. Her and her sister made a life in a world filled with technology, hiding amongst Humankind despite being nothing so simple. They were safe, and it was all that mattered.Until he found them.

Invisible Boundaries is the story of two women from different generations and life experiences who fall in love. Add that to a bi-racial union and life gets more complicated. Some of their challenges are up-in-their-face, while others are under-the -surface and subtle. These challenges have them re-evaluating who they are and how they fit into the new dynamics they have created for themselves. As the story unfolds, the characters delve into their self-discovery and share with you their fears as well as their judgements, and yes, their humor as well. It is a story of the complicated social and personal invisible boundaries we all cross daily.

Virgil Colvin, a retired homicide detective, leaves his hometown Chicago to resurrect his honeymoon memories with his dead wife in Ithaca, Greece. There, he befriends the Vathy police chief, Costas Pantakalas, over stories of a shared profession and countless cups of ouzo.One day, Virgil wakes to the violent tremors of the earth to find Ithaca has just had an earth quake. But that is not the only unusual occurrence. In the city's public square, at the feet of Odysseus, someone has dumped the body of a British tourist in the small hours of the morning. He ran to the ends of the earth to escape his former life, but murder had other plans for Virgil Colvin. Together, Virgil and Costas join forces to track down a killer. But in their quest to find the murderer, will they unearth an even more astounding secret?

Emma has become accustomed to the mediocrity that is her life. That is until she meets Luc, a famous DJ and dreamer; one unexpected encounter and intimate moment inspires her to put in to motion all the plans she had ever dreamed about but never actioned.When they unexpectedly meet a year later, their connection is as strong as the first night they met. They find something in each other that they both have, but both need.When emotions run as high and deep as they do with Emma and Luc, it is destined to be both fulfilling and dangerous. Their paths cross and their lives become forever entwined.Seen from both points of view, this story tells of love and dreams, passion and ambition. Can they make it last?

Communities are made up of the people who inhabit them. For many years two neighbouring communities lived peacefully side-by-side. One day their leaders start a terrible conflict. The citizens also got involved, amplifying the animosity. Everyone's hurtful ways adversely affect the environment, the earth and all her plants and animals. Following many years, both communities are left isolated, impoverished, and in a state of desperation. All the citizens in both communities learn an important lesson in cooperation as they need to work together to conquer the mountain that is threatening the extinction of both communities.

Friendship between a cat and a mouse, between an owl and a mouse, between a cat, an owl and snakes? Ridiculous! Can all these creatures speak to, and understand, each other? Can they and their human friends read each other's minds? Why would they want to? Meanwhile, Ridden survives a threat of murder and Hollywood woos both of our gregarious, loving cats. There's nothing boring about this pair!There's a lot of fun in these stories. And a lot of love.