AustLit

'The three Kettle sisters have had a mortifying mishap. Their raucous, champagne-soaked birthday dinner has come to an abrupt end following a violent argument and an emergency dash to the hospital. So who started it this time? Was it angry, hurt Cat, still recovering from the 'Night of the Spaghetti'? Was it Lyn, so serenely successful, at least on the outside? Or was it quirky, dreamy Gemma, the sister who can't keep a secret, except for the most important one of all?' (Publication summary)

'A destructive force ... As Emma Randall prepares to bury one man, another enters her life with the force of the cyclone gathering around them. A man fighting for his life ... Drew Jarrett, his feet and hands torn by nail wounds, stumbles onto Emma's isolated farm, with no clue to the identity of the man who has tried to kill him. Within days the killer strikes again. An attraction that can't be denied ... Emma fights to deny her feelings for Drew, but the growing danger surrounding her and this mysterious stranger creates an intimacy between them she could never have imagined. As Emma and Drew join forces to find the killer, he holds hostage the most innocent life of all. In Dance with the Devil, menace and love meet in a story as suspenseful as it is passionate.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Clan Destine Press).

'Larrikin Australian actor Randy Storm had it all. Swept up by Hollywood in the 1950s, he had the looks, charm and talent to take on the world. But by the 1990s he is forgotten, burned out after a life of movie star excess. When producer Michael Matthews meets the once great Randy Storm, he is surprised to find a man who is at peace with himself. Both he and researcher Janie Callendar set out to discover the source of this inner peace. Meanwhile, his agent Ariel Margoles finds out that Australia's acclaimed film director Patricia Jordan is making the hottest Hollywood film of the year and she sees a chance for Randy to be a star once more. But just as Randy is about to reach his pinnacle, a secret from his past threatens to bring down his greatest triumph.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Last night I dreamt I met a wise man . . . It was the beginning of a journey that would take me into another world. An uncharted world, mysterious and magical. There I would meet the wise man. And I would find myself.

'Journey through the landscape of the imagination, into the depths of the self, into a new and remarkable dimension.

'Donald McDonald brings you his first novel, as beguiling as The Alchemist, as intriguing as The Celestine Prophecy. Travels with a Wise Man is a book for opening doors—an original, enchanting story that will lift your spirit and touch your heart'. Source: back cover blurb.