When Detective Zac Barrington's high school sweetheart broke up with him right after graduation, he was devastated, but he loved her enough to let her go and never gave up hope she'd return to their small hometown of Broken.Emily Wilson wanted to spread her wings and make her mark on the world. Though she loved Zac Barrington with all her heart, she wanted to branch out on her own, establish a career, enjoy life in the big smoke a world away from Broken. Though she's thought about Zac every now and then, she's never been tempted to return to Broken. Until now.Emily's mother has gone missing, disappeared into thin air. No one's seen her. No one knows where she is. Emily's father is beyond himself with anxiety. Where is she? And why did she leave?When Emily and her father file a missing person's report, the first officer they run into is Detective Zac Barrington. It's been six years since Emily has seen him and she isn't prepared for the tumult of emotions that...

When much decorated Australian Federal Police officer Declan Munro is accused of illegally accessing confidential police files containing child pornography, his world is turned upside down. Fronting the investigation into his alleged criminal behaviour is Senior Internal Affairs Investigator Chloe Sabattini. A veteran investigator, Chloe is taken aback to discover that not only is Declan likeable, but his protestations of innocence are believable. Furthermore, despite her best efforts, she finds herself drawn to him. But the evidence can’t be ignored and Chloe vows to investigate the matter with all of the resources available to her. The more she delves, the more she’s convinced of Declan’s innocence. Someone is framing him. But who? And why? And what does a high ranking Government Minister have to do with it? An innocent man’s life hangs in the balance. Will she discover the truth before it’s too late? And will she be able to handle the fallout when she does?   

All that glitters is not gold...Tom and Lily Munro have been married for sixteen years. They love each other and are happy in their respective, successful careers. With a cute teenage daughter and a son who has never caused them any grief, their life is just about perfect.Then Lily becomes a victim of a school shooting and is left fighting for her life. Tom's beside himself with fear. What will he do if she dies? How will he live without her? And what about the suspicious lump he's found in his breast? Does he have the courage to find out if it's serious?In the midst of his fear and panic and indecision, his daughter begins acting out. With Lily still gravely ill in hospital, Tom's at a loss what to do. He has so much more going on right now. Finding time to delve into the reasons for Cassie's behavior are almost beyond him. He wants to believe it's nothing more than normal teenage rebellion, but his heart is telling him it's so much more...His once-perfect life is falling apart –...

Chanel Munro has landed her dream job as a junior resident doctor at the prestigious Sydney Harbour Hospital. Only two years out from medical school, she can't believe she's been chosen by the highly respected Doctor Leo Baker to be part of his team. She's stunned she's made it through the gruelling selection process. It's well known that he chooses only the best.But an esteemed position on Doctor Baker's team doesn't come without sacrifice. It soon becomes clear the doctor expects her to provide him with certain favors in return for her position on his team and he's not talking about volunteering for the coffee run.Scared, angry and confused, Chanel is at a loss what to do. She refuses to give in to blackmail, but if she takes her complaint to the medical board and they don't believe her, her career will be in ruins. The years of study and sacrifice will be for nothing. Vowing to steer clear of him until she can come up with a viable plan, she keeps a low profile and puts all of...

A woman who thought she could run away from her past... At fourteen, Kate Collins ran away from home. Ten years later, her mother has disappeared without a trace. Faced with no other choice, she returns home. Kate’s convinced her stepfather’s responsible, but he’s a highly decorated police officer. Who will take her accusations seriously? Banished to a small country town after reporting his city superiors for corruption, Detective Riley Munro is never going to accuse the town’s recently retired Police Commander of murder. But Kate’s fear and distress seem genuine and her mother does seem to have disappeared. With reluctance, he agrees to investigate. After making rudimentary enquires, he’s told Kate’s mother is on a cruise. The information pans out. On the verge of closing the case, Riley is taken by surprise when he receives a subtle threat from his boss, the new Police Commander, to leave Kate’s stepfather alone. Why would the new Commander feel the need to warn him off? With his instincts on alert, Riley digs deeper and discovers not only is Kate’s mother in a wheelchair, she also hates the water. Is Kate telling the truth? Is her stepfather, the former Police Commander, guilty of murder? Or is Riley allowing the sad vulnerability in Kate’s beautiful eyes to cloud his judgement? About the AuthorChris Taylor grew up devouring romance books. After working as a criminal lawyer for fifteen years, it was a natural progression to marry her love of romance with the gritty, fast-paced world of crime and thrillers. It is this background that has allowed her to write suspenseful, racy, no-holds-barred romantic suspense novels set in her home country of Australia. From the streets of Sydney to the outback, Chris' novels not only keep you on the edge of your seat, they also take you on a journey across the beautiful landscapes that make up Australia. Chris was a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Finalist in 2013. The same year, she won the Romance Writers of Australia’s most prestigious award for unpublished writers, the Emerald Award. Chris lives with her husband and five children on a small farm in rural New South Wales, Australia. 

Detective Sergeant Lachlan Coleridge has seen it all. A veteran cop with more than fifteen years on the force, there's nothing much that surprises him. But when he comes across the charred bodies of two children while searching an illegal meth lab, he struggles to put the memory behind him. In desperation, he makes contact with a police appointed counselor.Ava Wolfe is a psychiatrist currently attached to the New South Wales police service. Her heart aches for the darkly handsome detective who is in such urgent need of help. After years of exposure to the worst mankind can offer, Lachlan Coleridge's spirit has been ravaged beyond belief. She yearns to help him, but she's not sure that he'll let her...To be a cop is to be tough – physically and mentally. There's no room for weakness. If it gets out that Lachlan's seeking help, any chance he has for promotion will be jeopardized. But he's drowning in a sea of pain; of darkness and confusion and it's only a matter of time before he...

Hannah Langdon loves working with the dead. As an embalmer at the Max Grace Funeral Home in the inner city Sydney suburb of Balmain, she is proud of her work and considers it an honor and a privilege to prepare someone for their final resting place.But lately, there have been an alarming number of her co-workers who have been killed in horrible accidents. The fact that these people live on the fringes of Sydney society and have no one to mourn them doesn't ease Hannah's turbulent state of mind. By chance, she reconnects with a man from her past, a man she'd rather forget.Doctor Jared Black is now a highly respected surgeon who works in the reputable Sydney Harbour Hospital, but she remembers him only as the seventeen-year-old drunk driver who killed her high school boyfriend. Now Jared's twin has gone missing and Hannah wants to know why. After all, the last time she saw him was at the Max Grace Funeral Home...What is happening to the people employed at the funeral home? Hannah...

Home is where the heart is...Detective Sergeant Chase Barrington has never forgotten his high school sweetheart. He and Josie Munro planned to marry as soon as she graduated, but fate stepped in and Chase made the painful decision to end it. Unable to find the courage to tell her the truth, he left town without a word of explanation.A decade after graduating high school, Doctor Josie Munro, Child Psychologist, has recently returned to her hometown. When she's appointed by the court to provide a report on a child's capacity to stand trial for murder, it's inevitable that she runs into the lead detective on the case. Unaware of the real reason why Chase ended their relationship, her anger and grief from all those years ago immediately rise to the surface.Being a consummate professional, she has no choice but to complete the task she's been given, but she's determined to keep Chase at a distance and to get the job over with as quickly as possible.As Josie gets to know the child...

As a teenager, Danielle Porter was a wild child. The product of a broken marriage and parents who never wanted children, she did all she could to live up to her reputation, despite the desperate urgings of her younger sister.Ten years later, Danielle has finally gotten her life together. Working as a respected pathologist at the renowned Sydney Harbour Hospital, she's come a long way from the turbulence of her youth. Her sister, Sabrina, couldn't be more proud. Now married to a successful lawyer, Sabrina's also done well for herself. She's living the dream with a husband who loves her and a baby she adores. To Dani, Sabrina has the perfect life.And then Sabrina and her daughter are brutally murdered and nobody knows who's responsible. Is it the maintenance man who was in the apartment or someone far closer to home?Detective Constable Jett Craigdon of the State Crime Command catches the case. Angered by the senseless deaths, he's determined to catch the person responsible. With...

A race against time...Doctor Samantha Wolfe is no stranger to death. As a senior forensic pathologist at the Department of Forensic Medicine in Sydney, she's lost count of the number of post mortems she's performed in the quest to find answers. But something strange is happening in the Glebe morgue. The number of bodies coming through with donated orgnas has surged upwards and there doesn't appear to be any valid reason for it.Has the government's initiatives to increase awareness of the importance of being an organ donor finally paid off, or is there something far more sinister at play? The more Sam delves into the mystery, the more she's certain evil lurks nearby.Detective Sergeant Rohan Coleridge is put in charge of the investigation and he's not exactly happy about it. The last time he spoke to Samantha Wolfe, they were both in college and she accused him of walking out on his responsibilities. Taking on the investigation means significant hours spent up close and personal...

When ten-year-old Andy Warwick witnesses the murder/suicide of his sister and father, his world is torn apart. Twenty years later, despite his tragic childhood, Andy’s a highly respected police negotiator based in North Sydney. He’s living a comfortable life, but still suffers from guilt-ridden nightmares from his past and yearns for a family to replace the one he lost. Sixteen, pregnant and abandoned by those she loved, Cally Savage learned early to fend for herself, but raising a son on her own hasn’t come without a price. It’s a decade after Jack’s birth, but she’s struggling to make ends meet, despite taking on a second job as a cleaner at the North Sydney Police Station. On top of her financial woes, her house has recently been burgled and she’s terrified the perpetrator might return… In desperation Cally turns to the hot looking detective at the station and seeks Andy’s permission to place a “roommate wanted” advertisement on the noticeboard in the squad room. Attracted to Cally’s innocent beauty and intrigued by the vulnerability in her eyes, Andy offers to move in with her. The more he gets to know her, the more he wants to be part of her life. But first, he has to break through the barriers she’s erected around her heart… Just when things appear to be on track, the man who believed for more than ten years that his child had been aborted, discovers Cally’s deceit. Enraged, he vows not to give up until he’s found his son and punished the woman who lied to him… About the AuthorChris Taylor grew up devouring romance books. After working as a criminal lawyer for fifteen years, it was a natural progression to marry her love of romance with the gritty, fast-paced world of crime and thrillers. It is this background that has allowed her to write suspenseful, racy, no-holds-barred romantic suspense novels set in her home country of Australia. From the streets of Sydney to the outback, Chris' novels not only keep you on the edge of your seat, they also take you on a journey across the beautiful landscapes that make up Australia. Chris was a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart® Finalist in 2013. The same year, she won the Romance Writers of Australia’s most prestigious award for unpublished writers, the Emerald Award. Chris lives with her husband and five children on a small farm in rural New South Wales, Australia. 

Ambitious newspaper journalist Savannah O’Neill will do anything for a story, even if it means pretending to be a prostitute in Sydney’s most exclusive brothel. She’s there on a tip-off that underage girls are being held illegally and kept compliant with illicit drugs. What’s more, unidentified bodies of young women have turned up in Sydney Harbour and at least one of them is linked to the brothel. Detective Will Rutledge has vowed to destroy the man he holds responsible for his brother’s suicide. Vince Maranoa is the kingpin of Sydney’s illegal drug industry: He’s also the owner of the city’s most exclusive brothel. Working undercover with the New South Wales Drug Enforcement Agency, Will is determined to put Maranoa behind bars. When Savannah and Will cross paths at the brothel, there’s an instant attraction, despite the fact she presumes he’s a cohort of the crime boss and Will assumes she’s a prostitute under Maranoa’s employ. With both of them determined to pursue their personal agendas to infiltrate the covert life of Maranoa, they will both be left gasping when the brothel’s secrets are finally revealed... About the AuthorChris Taylor grew up devouring romance books. After working as a criminal lawyer for fifteen years, it was a natural progression to marry her love of romance with the gritty, fast-paced world of crime and thrillers. It is this background that has allowed her to write suspenseful, racy, no-holds-barred romantic suspense novels set in her home country of Australia. From the streets of Sydney to the outback, Chris' novels not only keep you on the edge of your seat, they also take you on a journey across the beautiful landscapes that make up Australia. Chris was a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart® Finalist in 2013. The same year, she won the Romance Writers of Australia’s most prestigious award for unpublished writers, the Emerald Award. Chris lives with her husband and five children on a small farm in rural New South Wales, Australia. 

Between heaven and hell...Georgina Whitely loves her job as a midwife at the prestigious Sydney Harbour Hospital. The joy and excitement of helping to deliver babies never fails to bring a smile to her face. But the job is not without its challenges...Ward Seven is where pregnant, drug and alcohol addicted women go to have their babies. It's Georgie's job to not only manage the births, but also to manage the addictions. It breaks her heart to watch tiny newborns suffer from the harsh effects of drug withdrawal. And then there's the stress of dealing with their mothers.But, despite the emotional and physical upheavals a day on Ward Seven can bring, Georgie relishes the challenges. The new mothers look up to her and respect her; they want to keep her close. But babies are dying on Ward Seven and nobody can figure out why.Detective Sergeant Cameron Dawson has spent a decade putting his troubled childhood behind him. Just when he thinks his life is back on track, his sixteen-year-old...