War is imminent when Ella Stevens applies to join the Eden Venture in the hope of saving her teenage children and salvaging her failing marriage. Amid riots and unrest the family travel to their designated camp where they prepare for a future beyond anything they could have imagined. During a perilous journey through space and time, Ella realises her marriage can not be saved, but is determined to fulfil her dream of finding a better future for her children. Arriving at the fresh new world, filled with hope and endless opportunity, Ella begins to build a life without her husband. However, the...

Belle is nineteen in the late nineteenth century. The world is changing rapidly, but in France, in the district of Verdun, life flows at a slower pace. Belle is in love with her childhood friend and hopes he feels the same way. While visiting the Exposition Universelle in Paris, in the most romantic place in the world, Julien proposes but to her disappointment he does not speak of love. Belle settles for a marriage of convenience, but realises her mistake when she discovers the husband she adores has a terrible secret that could ruin both their families. Can she find the courage to confront...

In the middle of the First World War, Collette is afraid for her fiance, Antoine, who is fighting to save the town of Verdun. They should have been married by now, but the war put a halt to their plans. Her sister Felicity is secretly in love with Antoine but hides her feelings. Only their mother knows of her pain, but Belle is too involved with helping to feed the stricken soldiers to offer support to her youngest. Felicity helps in the casualty station in the grounds of the chateau, assisting the Australian nurses to care for the injured and dying. Collette helps her mother and finds...

Zoe and Kirsty witness a flying saucer landing at a disused factory the day before Kirsty leaves for a new life away from the town. Later, after Kirsty has left, Zoe finds something the saucer left behind. An alien egg. Zoe is excited about the sighting and discovery, but has no one to share the secret with, until she meets Tom who has moved into Kirsty's old house. He suggests they keep the discovery a secret. They are both afraid what the authorities might do to the alien egg. Can they protect it? Will it survive? Will their secret be discovered?

In this two book series, They Take Our Children, an ordinary family are plunged into a world of subterfuge and secrets. Gavin, has long suspected something sinister hiding in his wife's history, but nothing could have prepared him for the truth. Helen's father, George, tries to reveal what he knows about the mystery, but the family find it hard to accept his far fetched version of events as realistic. Weaving between past and present the facts about alien abduction are exposed, and the search for the whole truth begins

Evelyn's comfortable life is interrupted by the outbreak of World War Two when her husband decides to enlist. After a tragedy in the street, her mother, Nora, confesses secrets from the past that rock the foundations of Evelyn's world. After, a telegram informs her that Dennis suffered wounds in action, she has no idea what to expect. His injury changes everything. She discovers more secrets and finds she's been living in a web of lies for years. Determined to fight for the love of her husband and to keep her family together, she faces an uphill struggle. Will she win the fight? Can life ever...