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She’d do anything for her boy... Vanessa Sawyer knows all about pain. She’s felt it every day since marrying the boy who fathered her baby in high school. All he’s meant are broken bones, broken heart and broken dreams. But he also brought her the love of her life. When her son Wren was born, her baby boy was her salvation. Vanessa watches Wren grow and become a young man she can be proud of. Until one night everything changes, including Wren. One night that her son refuses to speak of. Now Vanessa can’t rest, not until she uncovers the secret that her son has been hiding from her. Will she find the answers she’s searching for or will her quest for the truth take her to a dark plac...
Secrets can kill and Danni Brooks knows that better than anyone. When her husband and two of her three children perish in a devastating house fire, Danni is sure it is arson. She’s even more sure that her and her eldest daughter Mia were meant to die in the fire too. But they are just a normal family. Who would want them dead? Mia doesn’t talk. She can’t. She is locked in her own world where no one, not even her mother can reach her. Desperate for answers, and convinced the truth might help her to reach her daughter, Danni tries to piece together the events leading up to that murderous night and uncover the arsonist. But with so many lies to untangle, what isthe truth? Prepare to have ...
What Lies Beneath Us, is a fast-paced mystery about a mother suffering from postpartum depression, accused of killing her young son, but is it all as it seems?
Ali Ferguson has just moved into Lever Tower with his mum. It's not long before he meets Caitlin and the Alsatian dog she looks after, Falcon, who doesn't take too kindly to being walked on a lead. Caitlin introduces Ali to her best friend, Gez, and together the three set out to discover, firstly, why the foxes have disappeared from the area, secondly, why the owls have appeared and, thirdly, why Miss Osborne has, it seems, vanished . . . And how exactly her disappearance is related to the previous two. With the help of his friends and, significantly, Caitlin's dad, Ali and his mum begin to feel comfortable and happy in their new life without Ali's dad.
“Essex Girl: a young working-class woman from the Essex area, typically considered as being unintelligent, materialistic, devoid of taste and sexually promiscuous.” – Collins English Dictionary Kirsty is a sixteen-year-old girl growing up in '00s Brentwood. She likes WKD, Elton John, Pie & Mash and Charlie Red body spray. She's on a quest to win Sexy Ricky's heart and pass her GCSEs. She also has a secret to tell you. One she can't tell anyone else. Follow Kirsty's story through the house parties and Irish pubs of Essex. From West Ham matches to choir practice, pre-drinks to registration, she will tell you what it's really like to be an Essex Girl.
'If you are looking for a perfect dose of summer sunshine, this is the book for you!' Sarah BennettTaking a chance on love is just the beginning... When Harlow Sands arrives on an idyllic Greek island to work on a big budget movie, it should be the opportunity of a lifetime. But her uncertainty over the direction of her life and the high expectations of Maeve Fennimore-Bell, her domineering Hollywood producer mum, threatens to ruin her summer on beautiful Skopelos. Location manager Tyler Reed has his fair share of demons. His and Harlow’s lives have been entwined for over a decade and now forced to work together, their complicated past begins to unravel. Harlow is desperate to break free a...
Bonnie is just a girl trapped in a place that she doesn't want to be, living a life that isn't hers. She wants to break free from her captivity and see the world beyond the gates. In Bonnie's world, only two places exist, inside the wall and outside the wall. Inside, she knows that there has to be more. Outside the wall is freedom. Freedom is worth more than anything Bonnie decides and when a chance encounter becomes her last hope, she finds herself an ally. But her desire to leave might just cost her everything. Lila is running; from her past and her future. After enduring the brutal death of her daughter Cassie at the hands of someone she loved, she flees her home to seek sanctuary from the horrors of her past. Lila desperately wants to find her daughter's killer and bring him to justice, but just how far will she go? Through the eyes of Bonnie, Lila rediscovers what it means to be part of the compound life and the horrors that come with it. Is Lila destined to be Bonnie's saviour or become the one in need of saving? Little Girl Revenge is the second book in the Little Girl Dead Series.
Severed Heart is about a young woman, Avery Fisher's emotional journey back to her childhood farm. She is estranged from her family and has been since she turned eighteen, ten years ago. Avery begins to have nightmares in which she believes she's going to die. She realises that it is connected to an event that happened when she was ten years of age. Something sinister. Something that had the power to change her life forever. She has spent the last decade running from her family but now she finds herself back in Howlong, a small rural town in New South Wales. She just wants the nightmares to stop, for the truth to come out.Avery heads home to her family farm in search of answers but gets a lot more than she bargained for in the process. Will the truth end up helping or hurting her?Can she move forward with the new man in her life or is he merely a distraction? Was it coincidence that she met him or something more sinister?A decade old missing persons case comes back to haunt the family, causing them to re-examine what they hold dear. Is it family values or family secrets that bind them together?
From the author of Rain and Featherstone comes a story of a sun-drenched, sea-soaked day which changes a boy's life forever. At the start of a summer's day, Ward is waiting on the beach. His friend, Alex, wants him to come to a party at Alison's where there'll be girls and drinks and the possibilities of fun. But Ward is shy and self conscious and struggling to move from under the weight of his powerful father. He'd rather wait on the beach for the surf to come up. As the the sun moves towards its highest point and the girls' laughter carries along the wind towards Ward, the tide changes and Ward is faced with a dramatic event that will change his life forever. This beautiful and intense coming-of-age story captures perfectly the discomforts and challenges of being fifteen years old with the world stretching out in front of you. Sensual, heady, as though dazed by the heat of her pages, Gunn slowly unfolds a tale of danger and sexuality, of mothers and sons and the fathers who rule them, and of the sea.
The use of interactive technology in the arts has changed the audience from viewer to participant and in doing so is transforming the nature of experience. From visual and sound art to performance and gaming, the boundaries of what is possible for creation, curating, production and distribution are continually extending. As a consequence, we need to reconsider the way in which these practices are evaluated. Interactive Experience in the Digital Age explores diverse ways of creating and evaluating interactive digital art through the eyes of the practitioners who are embedding evaluation in their creative process as a way of revealing and enhancing their practice. It draws on research methods from other disciplines such as interaction design, human-computer interaction and practice-based research more generally and adapts them to develop new strategies and techniques for how we reflect upon and assess value in the creation and experience of interactive art. With contributions from artists, scientists, curators, entrepreneurs and designers engaged in the creative arts, this book is an invaluable resource for both researchers and practitioners, working in this emerging field.