Zoe Carter stares in horror at the pool of blood lying in the dust at her feet. She has come to the camp site at the bottom of the Mitchell falls, deep in the remote Kimberleys in Western Australia, to meet her boyfriend Martin. But where is he? And where is his boss, the archaeologist Dr Dirk Smithers? Somewhere in this vast, ancient landscape a killer lurks, a killer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. But what is there in the Kimberleys that's so precious it's worth killing for? Zoe's search for the answer takes her from the Mitchell plateau to Darlington Station, a million acre...

In the dying days of the Roman republic, Military Tribune Marcus Fabius Aquila of the VIIth Legion drops a silver coin on the ramparts of Cado's Burg, a hilltop fortress in south west Britannia. What is he doing there - a Roman soldier - eighty years before Britannia is invaded by the troops of the Emperor Claudius? In 1966, some two thousand years later, the coin is discovered by Lynette Mason, a seventeen year old girl volunteering on an archaeological excavation during her summer holidays. Lynette becomes involved with a postgraduate student on the dig. It is an encounter that changes her...

Investigating a polluted lake seemed easy enough when Zoe first heard about it in Australia. But Kenya is a dangerous place and not just because of the unsafe drinking water and the malaria-carrying mosquitoes. There are secrets here worth killing for and people who will lie to get what they want. Zoe's latest adventure takes her on a breathtaking journey through Kenya from a coffee plantation at the edge of the Rift Valley to a refugee camp on the Somali border and a village in the Masai Mara. On the way she makes a discovery that will change her life forever. But first she has to escape her...

The crash of a rock against glass forces Cassie to make a choice. The outside air is poisonous, or so she has been told. Dare she risk it to escape the dome? The alternative is a slow death inside Arcadia. Paul believes the old dome contains wild creatures that threaten the lives of the people of Rangelands. But Cassie is just an ordinary girl, or as ordinary as any girl can be who has lived her whole life locked away inside an ancient dome. With all the obstacles thrown into their path, it seems impossible Cassie and Paul will find a way to be together. But sometimes the power of love can...

On a warm moonstruck night Elise stood at the bedroom window staring down at the shadowy garden below. The bright moonlight made the garden look like a stage: the flat green lawn and the black shrubs surrounding it like cardboard cut outs. A flicker of movement at the edge of the lawn drew her eye. A man, keeping in the shadows as well he might. Next, a flutter of white as Sylvia crossed the lawn, leaving a line of bare footprints on the dewy grass. Elise wanted to stop looking but she stayed where she was at the window, her hand clutching the edge of the heavy curtain. She saw the man step...

This is the story of Samuel Cook, who arrived in Sydney in 1854 and lived the rest of his life in the Inner West. He spent his entire working life with John Fairfax & Sons, including almost 20 years as General Manager. With his two wives, he raised nine children. As a member of the Congregational church he was an active philanthropist. However, his most significant achievement was the establishment of parks and gardens in and around Sydney. Samuel Cook was unusual for his time because he understood the importance of green space, especially in heavily populated parts of the city. He believed...