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As a gambler's daughter, Frances was resigned to spending her life masquerading as a boy, learning how to shoot a pistol and fight with a sword. Constantly moving from town to town, it was far safer than being a girl. But when her father dies suddenly, she must pack her bags and return to England, to search for the family she has never met. Hoping to find her place at last, the last thing Frances expects is that she will need to continue the masquerade - or risk her life and her heart. A light-hearted regency romance.…

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A classic 1940's style mystery... "Secretary Murders Widowed Mistress in Adelaide Love Nest!" Vivian Sherlock glanced from the screaming headline on her daily newspaper to the pale young man sitting on the other side of her desk. "Nigel is innocent!" insisted the young man.…

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Short stories, Including 1. My Lucky Day - a woman finds a lost journal on the train... (Chicklit)2. Marianne - historical flash fiction - regency period3. Hen Thief - humour / crime4. Cliffhanger5. A Writer's Nightmare - my entry for - 13 Days of Halloween Flash Fiction…

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"Perfectly happy in our tertiary star system, its thirteen life sustaining worlds more than sufficient to house our modest population of almost eighty billion, we thought we were untouchable. Then they came. Humans. They looked like us, walked like us and the technology they possessed allowed them to talk like us. That is where the similarities ended. Never have such a brutal, bastard race existed and it is the sincerest hope of myself and every single surviving member of my species that never will such a race exist again." Star Clash…

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After summer lightning come the fires... Ken could smell the distinctive scent of burning eucalyptus. Although he was safely inside the house with the windows shut, smoke whispered through air vents and under doors, carried west from the bushfire raging out of control in the hills behind the city.A WINNER in the "Hella Bad Weather" photo contest by @The_Bookshop!(BTW This is basically the same story which appears in my Beach Apples collection, edited after feedback from the contest)…

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Includes a nonfiction article about Mama Yosepha Alomang from West PapuaMy third anthology of speculative fiction short stories.…

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Splinters of Glass is my second anthology of science fiction short stories. Although the settings are different for each story, they share a common theme of strong female characters, smashing through that glass ceiling. All the stories in this collection began life on Wattpad, as entries in various contests and challenges, exploring the diversity of the many sub-genres of science fiction.…

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Beach Apples is a collection of short stories, contemporary, mystery and science fiction, all with an Australian flavour. The Present, Firesticks and Marvellous Matilda's Motorised Horse are three stories from the ebook. Plus a new story, Sherlock. The rest can be found as a FREE download from Amazon etc.…

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Check out my Wattpad birthday story to celebrate 10 years of stories!…