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Shaking Trees
Abby Eaton Mystery #1
Secrets hide within the branches of every family tree.
Abby Eaton thought she had life under control until she lost her job, her husband went AWOL, and her children proved a huge disappointment. After the arrival of a mysterious package she is compelled to rise above her misery and unravel the puzzling last months of a relative’s life. Abby’s quest turns perilous when a menacing stranger stalks her around the Australian countryside of Shadow Creek.
60 years earlier.
A chance meeting in a Stanthorpe apple orchard gives Marion Douglas the incentive to break free of her father’s manipulation, and forces Ben (Banjo) Patterson to drop his guard and fall in love. Overcoming obstacles, their relationship looks promising until tragedy strikes. Grieving, Banjo discovers startling evidence that leads him to question what he believes about Marion.
Can revelations from the past help Abby restore control of the present? Can new discoveries enable Banjo to survive the future?
Shaking Trees is an evocative, suspenseful mystery—with a touch of humour—about love, loss and deception, and the fear that keeps the truth hidden from even those we love.
Saving Dragonflies
Abby Eaton Mystery #2
Sometimes to protect those you love you must bury the truth.
With just one week until the opening of her bookstore in Shadow Creek, Abby Eaton's burning curiosity provokes her to interrupt her hectic schedule and investigate the identity of a close friend's father. Following leads from an old group photograph, she inadvertently angers several village locals-including her disapproving husband-ignores warnings, and discovers that digging up the past can be a dangerous game.
Shadow Creek 1978: The Sweetman brothers-widower Carl, and Vietnam veteran Leo-both struggle with unresolved guilt until the arrival of the alluring Faith Crosby offers each a chance for renewal. But they are not the only ones captivated by this unconventional city girl. When emotions run high, desperate acts are shockingly concealed.
Forty years later, who has most to lose if their long-held secret comes to light? Abby is about to find out.
Rich in character and mystery, Saving Dragonflies is a compelling glimpse into lives impacted by trauma and the compulsion to shield others from the painful truth.
Stirring Ghosts
Abby Eaton Mystery #3
Dare to believe the worst.
When Abby Eaton agrees to help her sister open a country mansion as a luxury guesthouse, she expects hard work—not horror. But Grassington Estate holds more than faded grandeur. Whispers of its haunted history draw Abby into the tragic legacy of the Greenwood family. As eerie events escalate into deadly danger, she must untangle truth from illusion. In a house where nothing is as it seems, whom should she fear most: the living or the dead?
The Past
For generations, the Greenwood women have endured grief and treachery. Olivia, desperate to break the cycle, takes fate into her own hands, while her daughter, Elodie, turns to her uncanny psychic gift for protection. Yet what can finally drive evil from Grassington? Will deliverance come from a future stranger—one compelled to face the darkness head-on?
Stirring Ghosts delivers another intriguing Abby Eaton mystery. Weaving an immersive dual timeline into a tale of loss, betrayal, and vengeance, it will keep you spellbound until the very last page.
Flames to a Moth
Three friends. Two voices. One terrible secret.
Bryden James is dead.
When his body washes up at the edge of a lake, none are more horrified than Ashley McCabe and Campbell Druery. Was his death retribution for a manic vendetta against powermongers, payback for decades of torment, or in reprisal for what happened with their involvement one dreadful night in 1992?
Forced to recall a friendship formed in childhood and set ablaze as adults by longing, manipulation, and betrayal, Ash and Cam realise if they are to survive the future they will need to meet face-to-face. Estranged for so long, will coming together to confront the truth stifle the pain of the past or fan it into a consuming fire?
Told in dual narrative, Flames to a Moth is a gripping coming-of-age thriller that exposes how the same power that draws people together can, over time, tear them apart ... or worse.