18th/19th Century

Mother and child missing for thirty years. An old stone house with no history. Secrets buried below the floor Glimpsed lives from 200 years past. If only stones could talk. Now a new mystery - the mother’s pendant is found.From the author of The Old Balmain House, this is a story set in early Sydney. Its consequences reverberate through successive generations until today.She bends forward. A silver pendant falls from her shirt, swinging free on a chain from her neck. The name ‘Cindy’ is in silver cursive letters. On its back is a heart symbol and, ‘From Jim’. I remember so clearly the day I bought it. I did not have money to buy my Cindy a wedding ring. But, with twenty dollars I'd...

‘The Life and Redemption of Teddy Miller’ is a rip-roaring adventure story that takes place during the final, tumultuous years of the American Civil War. It is full of horse chases, gunfights and even has a beautiful Pinkerton Detective. But it is more than that just an adventure story; the hero, a young man named Teddy Miller, is forced to grow up and make serious decisions for which he has no experience and no adult guidance. Root for him, cry with him, and cheer for him as he travels from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Virginia to the tip of Florida and back during the last months of the War in search of love and redemption. 'The Life and Redemption of Teddy Miller' is a mult...

It's 1897, and an abandoned wife and mother with a rebellious teenage daughter faces a dilemma: how to earn enough cash for food and upkeep, and maintain respectability? The gossips would have it that her laundry business is a sham. She's too friendly with her customers at the local bordello and the men at the logging camp. When she takes in a border, a doctor who arrives without his bride, then tongues really start to wag. There is a second chance for love, but it's fraught with obstacles and heartache.

In July 1888, the entire population of the Southern Highlands village of Kerosene Creek disappear without trace. A month later, a young woman appears on the steps of Saint Bridget’s Convent, starving, distressed and mute. Her name is Jindy Fiadh Kelly and she appears to be the sole survivor, but she has completely lost her memory. Aboriginal tracker Jimmy Sugarbag calls it “forgetting business”. Amateur psychologist Sister Thomas diagnoses “hysterical amnesia,” and she believes that recovering Jindy’s memory may hold the answer the Kerosene Creek mystery; but  Jindy’s burning need is to discover the fate of her Ngunnawal mother. The three of them return to the abandoned vi...