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  • Moon Sworn by Keri Arthur

    Moon Sworn by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Some nights never end.Some desires never die. . . .She ventures where no one else dares—into realms of peril and pleasure. But will this next journey be her last?Shape-shifting werewolf and vampire Riley Jenson is through with death–causing it, solving it, surviving it. Her soul mate, Kye Murphy, is dead–and at Riley’s own hands...
  • Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French

    Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Wombats are cuddly-looking, slow-moving Australian animals. Their favorite activities are eating, sleeping, and digging holes. Here, in the words of one unusually articulate wombat, is the tongue-in-cheek account of a busy week; eating, sleeping, digging holes . . . and training its new neighbors, a family of humans, to produce treats on demand...
  • Deadly Desire by Keri Arthur

    Deadly Desire by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Seduction that kills. Pleasure to die for. She just can’t resist…Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. And this time’s no different. For it’s no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. But that’s exactly what Riley expects to find at the end of a trail of female corpses used—and discarded—in a bizarre ritual of evil...
  • Outback Spirit by Nicole R. Taylor

    Outback Spirit by Nicole R. Taylor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Opal, snakes, and supernatural beings. In Outback Australia, there’s more than one thing that’ll kill you…and it’s not entirely human.Deep in the harsh and unforgiving Australian Outback lies the sleepy opal mining town of Solace. Frequently bypassed by all but the desperate, there’s nothing spectacular about it…on the surface.Solace is a haven for supernatural outcasts...
  • The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Danger turns her on. Desire turns her dangerous…Riley Jenson hunts evildoers—and does it with a style all her own...
  • Embraced by Darkness by Keri Arthur

    Embraced by Darkness by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    She's hunting a killer—and shattering every boundary she’s ever known…Part vamp, part werewolf, Riley Jenson plays by her own rules, whether it’s her stormy love life or her job as a guardian. But when her family’s alpha male demands that she solve the mystery of a vanished girl, Riley can feel a trap closing in around her...
  • In Too Deep by Jude Watson

    In Too Deep by Jude Watson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    A hint from their parents’ past puts Amy and Dan on the trail of secrets their grandmother Grace would NEVER have wanted them to know. Awful memories begin to crowd in on Amy, just as her enemies circle closer. How far would she go to protect Dan? How much of a Cahill is she prepared to be? Perhaps Grace was right – some secrets are better left buried...
  • Kissing Sin by Keri Arthur

    Kissing Sin by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Two worlds: vampire and werewolf. Danger has never been so seductive!From Melbourne’s gleaming skyscrapers to its throbbing nightclubs, Riley Jenson’s world is raging with danger and desire. A drop-dead-gorgeous werewolf—with a touch of vamp coursing in her blood—Riley works for an organization created to police the supernatural races...
  • The Bone People by Keri Hulme

    The Bone People by Keri Hulme

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage...
  • Night Walker by Aaron L. Speer, Jessica Augustsson

    Night Walker by Aaron L. Speer, Jessica Augustsson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A young woman named Alexandra "Alex" Hensley discovers Sydney is hiding a very dark secret, a revelation that will challenge all she knows and endanger all she loves. Sinister forces, charged with keeping the secret for over two hundred years discover her knowledge and set out to fulfill their duty.The truth will not set you free...
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    australia  oceania  adult  age-gap  anti-hero  book  dark  fiction
  • Finding Trust by Natalie Gayle

    Finding Trust by Natalie Gayle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Finding Trust – Book 1 Centre Games SeriesBrayden and RihannaHe’s hot, sexy, and leads a double life. Sometimes in the limelight, mostly in the shadows. Brayden James holds fast to a secret that’s more than his to share. She’s a singularly focused veterinarian out for a rare night of fun with friends, at a New Year’s Eve rock concert...
  • Blood Kissed by Keri Arthur

    Blood Kissed by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In a world where magic and science sit side by side, and powerful witches are considered necessary aides for all governments, Lizzie Grace is something of an outlier. Though born into one the most powerful blue blood witch families, she wants nothing to do with either her past or her magic...
  • If I Wake by Nikki Moyes

    If I Wake by Nikki Moyes

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Will is sixteen year old Lucy’s best friend. Their lives intersect in dreams, where destiny pulls them together through different times in history. Even though their meetings are more real to Lucy than the present, Lucy is uncertain if Will exists outside her mind. Lucy’s mum thinks there is something wrong when Lucy sleeps for days at a time...
  • Tiger Mine by Angela Castle

    Tiger Mine by Angela Castle

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Licking her wounds after ending a six-year marriage to a serial cheating husband, Julia has run away to her grandfather's house high in the Australian Mountains, hoping to fix the old neglected building up while she contemplates her future, only to discover a huge white Siberian tiger on her door step...
  • Darkness Unbound by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Unbound by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The fight against darkness rages on for the next generation—in New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur’s exciting new series set in the world of the Guardians. Being half werewolf and half Aedh, Risa Jones can enter the twilight realms between life and death and see the reapers, supernatural beings that collect the souls of the dead...
  • Gap Year in Ghost Town by Michael Pryor

    Gap Year in Ghost Town by Michael Pryor

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Let's get this straight - ghosts are everywhere. I can see them. You can't. And, see them or not, they're dangerous. This is why my family has hunted ghosts for hundreds of years to protect people like you.The Marin family are outcasts of the ghost hunting world. They run a two-man operation in inner city Melbourne. Anton has the Ghost-sight, but his father does not...
  • Old Magic by Marianne Curley

    Old Magic by Marianne Curley

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Jarrod Thornton is mesmerizing, but Kate Warren doesn't know why.The moment the new guy walks into the room, Kate senses something strange and intense about him. Something supernatural. Her instincts are proven correct a few minutes later when, bullied by his classmates, Jarrod unknowingly conjures up a freak thunderstorm "inside" their classroom.Jarrod doesn't believe in the paranormal...
  • The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay

    The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Now in paperback   The Magic Pudding is a pie, except when it’s something else, like a steak, or a jam doughnut, or an apple dumpling, or whatever its owner wants it to be. And it never runs out. No matter how many slices you cut, there’s always something left over. It’s magic.   But the Magic Pudding is also alive. It walks and it talks and it’s got a personality like no other...
  • The Echoes by Evie Wyld

    The Echoes by Evie Wyld

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the award-winning novelist, a ravishing new novel set between London and rural Australia, both a love story and a ghost story.Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still here, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the apartment they shared and begins to realize how much of her life was invisible to him...
  • Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur

    Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson and her twin brother, Rhoan, work for Melbourne’s Directorate of Other Races, an organization created to police the supernatural races–and protect humans from their depredations. While Rhoan is an exalted guardian, a.k.a. assassin, Riley is merely an office worker–until her brother goes missing on one of his missions...
  • The Chronicles of Fire and Ice by L.L. Hunter

    The Chronicles of Fire and Ice by L.L. Hunter

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    * Please note: this edition is out of print. *Is love stronger than race?The world is changing as we know it, the human race is dwindling, but so are the angels. In order to preserve their bloodlines they have bred with humans, creating a new race called Nephilim. But there is one race that is more endangered than humans or Seraphim, Archangels...
  • Water and Fire by Demelza Carlton

    Water and Fire by Demelza Carlton

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A steamy contemporary medical romance involving a sexy doctor, a naughty nurse, a midwife on a mission and a mysterious predator in Albany, Western Australia. Working as a student midwife in an Australian country hospital is never easy, but Belinda finds more trouble than most...
  • My Scarlet Woman by Shelley Munro

    My Scarlet Woman by Shelley Munro

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Middlemarch Mates, book one.Emily Scarlet's husband left her for his secretary and died in a car accident; all on the same day. Now, six months later, Emily has emerged from her chrysalis of painful memories. And to prove she has what it takes to attract a man, she's determined to experience one perfect night of passion.An ad in the newspaper catches her eye...
  • Crow Country by Kate Constable

    Crow Country by Kate Constable

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the author of the Chanters of Tremaris series comes  a contemporary time travel fantasy, grounded in the landscape of Australia Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from Crow. And Crow has work for you...
  • Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik

    Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik’s Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more than just perennial bestsellers—they are a worldwide phenomenon...
  • Shadowglass by Erica Hayes

    Shadowglass by Erica Hayes

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to secret world hidden behind shadowy fairy glamour, where thieving spriggans rob you blind, beautiful banshees mesmerize you with their song, big green trolls kick heads at nightclubs and vampire Mafiosi rule the streets...
    Categorized as:
    australia  oceania  book  contemporary  dark  dark-fantasy  demons  fae
  • Gypsy Hunted by Andrea Drew

    Gypsy Hunted by Andrea Drew

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Reluctant psychic Gypsy Shields (she prefers the term "intuition consultant") finds herself in trouble when, on her way home from a blind date, she interrupts a kidnapping in progress. Her heroic attempt to intervene is repaid with a collision between the attacker's van and a brick wall. She awakens in hospital, paralyzed on her left side and unable to speak...
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    australia  oceania  book  crime  fiction  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson

    Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Steven de Selby has a hangover. Bright lights, loud noise, and lots of exercise are the last thing he wants. But that's exactly what he gets when someone starts shooting at him.Steven is no stranger to death-Mr. D's his boss after all-but when a dead girl saves him from sharing her fate, he finds himself on the wrong end of the barrel...
  • Maya by Jostein Gaarder

    Maya by Jostein Gaarder

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norwegian evolutionary biologist estranged from his wife Vera; and an enigmatic Spanish couple, Ana and Jose, who are absorbed in their love for each other...
  • Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier

    Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier

    Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    "My mother named me Reason."Reason Cansino has lived fifteen years in the Australian outback with her mother, Sarafina. They're on the run from Reason's grandmother Esmeralda, who believes in magic and practices horrifying dark rituals. But when Sarafina suffers a mental breakdown, Reason is sent to the one place she fears most - Esmeralda's home in Sydney...
  • The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks

    The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    You can't get a decent haircut, you live on guinea pig blood and, even worse, most of the world's population wants to kill you. For no good reason, Nina Harrison became a vampire in 1973 and she now spends all of her time with a bunch of vampires in a vampire therapy group...
  • Shadowfae by Erica Hayes

    Shadowfae by Erica Hayes

    Rated: 3.27 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Steal souls.Live in hell.Never die.In a city infested with psychotic fairies and run by sadistic vampire mafiosi, life as a soul-sucking succubus rarely involves lacy lingerie, hot guys or great sex.Instead, Jade must spend her nights seducing gangsters and murderers, or simpering as a trophy girl for hell's minions...
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