❝Hey, it's Verona. Leave a message!❞You find a phone while bushwalking in the Australian outback. Intrigued, you take it back with you and charge it. There's no password, so you unlock the screen easily. To find the owner of the phone, you decide to listen to the voicemails. You only mean to listen to one, but end up listening to them all.You learn about a twenty-year-old university student named Verona.…
Completing everything on that list was the hardest thing I ever had to do.Not because I lost you, but because I had to learn how to love myself. [commissioned entry for the To The Bone short story contest]…
Dustin isn't particularly pleased when his mother's freshly divorced best friend, Cathy, decides to temporarily move in with them. It means a whole lot of late-night gossiping, chick flicks, and mood swings. But things get interesting when Cathy turns up at the doorstep with more than just baggage. She brings along her daughter.Constantly travelling between two parents who refuse to talk, Ashley is forced to leave her life behind as she moves halfway across town with her mother. Thinking she's going to be spending her nights with two single and drunk, middle-aged women, she discovers there's a touch of testosterone to the household. And that testosterone comes with glasses and dimples.But what starts out as simple interest, combined, the two manage to create menace and mischief; the lack of privacy pushing them to breaking point. And it's only a matter of time before everyone realises that Dust and Ash are the results of one complete and utter disaster.…
Holden Peters expects nothing exciting to happen during the summer before his final year of high school. But in a spontaneous act of bravery, he saves his pretty next door neighbour from drowning and is deemed as a local hero.Thanks to his newfound reputation, he's given a job as a lifeguard at the local pool. But the responsibility of saving lives quickly takes its toll on him and he realises that it's impossible to save everyone.Some things are just out of his hands.…
In a desperate attempt to escape the paparazzi, multi-millionaire musician, Levi Scott, asks the girl next door for help. So when Dawn Halliday answers the door at three in the morning, the last thing she expects to see is a celebrity with a request to climb out her window.…
A body positivity movement, in which Belle Moore emphasises the beauty of our birthday suits.…
[This book has officially been published and only a sample remains. See inside for details.]Nora Montgomery's primary goal was to remain seemingly unnoticed until graduation, and that meant staying away from Ryder Collins. But when both she and Ryder are selected to participate in the local police department's handcuff demonstration, they find themselves inescapably chained together. The tension between them is thick; filled with unresolved issues from their past friendship.But things get a whole lot worse when the officer loses the key and the pair are forced to accommodate each other until a replacement is available. Being handcuffed to the opposite gender was sure to introduce some extremely uncomfortable situations.Things are about to get awkward, right?2013 Watty Awards WinnerMost Popular, Mystery//Thriller…