With minute attention to historical detail, this beautifully written novel is at once a murder mystery, a story of passionate love and a political thriller, winner of the Local Legend Spiritual Writing Competition. It is a true page-turner that builds to a terrifying and tragic climax. Teacher Feng, a middle-aged and humble widower, lives quietly in Tang Dynasty China, caring for his beloved daughter Feier. But life changes dramatically when his best friend is murdered and local girls are kidnapped. Feng sets out on an arduous journey of discovery, little suspecting that he is involving...

Golden Jaguar of the Sun blurb for Mauve Square website preview Geeky Texan ninth grader, Adam Winters, can't beautiful Mexican classmate Maria has dumped her hunk of a quarterback boyfriend for him. Her gift of an ancient bracelet linked to the legendary Golden Jaguar of the Sun changes him. But love confounded by jealousy takes the teens on a perilous journey across different dimensions, shadowed by the mystical beast, from a sacrificial Aztec temple to a drug gangsters' jungle hideout and to Xibalba, the 'Place of Fear' of the ancient Maya people. And will the boy discover who the girl...

Rachel, a Texan schoolgirl, takes her hamster, Waffles, for a secret ride on the strange carousel rainbow animal in Houston. She ends up in Colourwallytown where people and houses are painted cheerful colours, and gets mistaken for their new military advisor in an impending war with neighbouring black and white Dullabillieville. The reason for the war appears to be a dispute over the true colour of witches.

She sees a boy in grey climb down from the zebra and leave the carousel in the direction of Dullabillieville, and is certain he's her studious classmate Alec, accused by kids...

Widowed sci-fi writer, Simon Carswell, burdened by guilt from the past, can't understand why his brilliant granddaughter has taken against him. His son attributes the girl's antagonism to her mother going off with her latest lover. When a neighbour's body turns up in the writer's garden, is this linked to the man's guilt or to the voices that emerged from his computer ... voices inspiring his latest novel, Voices, about an alien takeover of Earth via the internet? In z tale of murder, family love and child abuse as seen through the eyes of a grandfather, a father and a young girl, all is not...