The Abductor had wrapped all five bodies in bandages. They looked like Egyptian mummies. The bandages around the head of one had been partially unwrapped. But the patch of dark brown hair and a narrow strip of greying, fossilised-like skin peeping through quickly dispelled the notion that it was a hoax.He gazed in awe at each of the chairs, five of which were occupied. The sixth was pulled out as if the occupant had just left and was expected to return at any minute. A pack of playing cards had been dealt out for six hands.The mummies were very carefully arranged around the table. Some were holding the cards in their bandaged hands with their heads bent over as if studying them. Others had their heads turned at a jaunty angle so that it looked as if they were looking at each other and chatting.*At the turn of the nineteenth century six men committed a heinous act in Drayford Village, for which they were all duly punished. So what does their crime have to do with the disappearance of several of its modern day residents? Craig Gardener, a librarian and local historian, stumbles on the answer. But can the police and he work out who is committing these acts in time to save further victims?

How would you feel if you discovered your mum had lied to you and was really a magical being from another realm? Sixteen-year-old Claire finds out when her beloved brother, Marcus, is snatched away to her mother’s magical homeland, Kelnarium. Discovering both she and her brother have inherited fire magic, Claire is unable to leave Marcus to his fate and follows him into this new realm. But her desire to reunite with Marcus soon becomes a deadly quest. Kelnarium will explode unless Claire does something to close the Rift, a chasm in the sky forged by civil war. With time so short and enemies of magic everywhere, can Claire save Kelnarium and find a way home? She has to try …

In a near future Australia, Minnie thought she'd live out the rest of her life researching and teaching all things Ancient Greece to eager students. Then, Ronnie comes on the scene. Young and attractive, he inducts Minnie into Freedom, a movement dedicated to rescuing climate refugees from government time agents eager to prevent people from 'illegally jumping borders.' Soon, Minnie's caught up in the adventure of a life time. Tasked with rescuing a fellow Freedom agent from ancient Delphi and saving people about to drown as sea levels rise, Minnie soon discovers no one is who they seem. As government agents chase her through time, and a traitor is revealed, Minnie must use all her smarts to survive ... A short novella about time travel, trips to far flung locales in past and present and women going on kickass adventures.

When her aunt, a retired civil servant, dies Sue inherits far more than her estate, she inherits Suranne's List. Little realising what she's getting into, she sets out on a quest to learn what it means and what her aunt was involved in. The mystery of it is quickly solved, but as she works her way through the pseudonymous characters on Suranne's List, it very soon becomes clear that someone will stop at nothing to prevent her reaching the end of it. And when she's down to the last three names she realises that one of them is prepared to kill her by any means necessary in order to avoid identification and exposure.

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