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Teenagers with superpowers. A secret organization. Aliens on Earth. A weapon designed to destroy a city. Axel wakes up in a seedy hotel room with no memory of his past. A man lies dying on the floor next to him. Someone starts pounding at the door. Axel runs. While staying one step ahead of his pursuers, Axel begins to assemble the pieces of his life. He is the victim of an amazing experiment – he has been given incredible powers – and he is not alone. An organization known only as The Agency has modified other teenagers too. Brodie is a master of martial arts. Ebony can transmute one ...

The year is 2509 and Earth is a rather polluted blue dot that suffers from global warming, overpopulation and not enough people using deodorant. Blake Carter, star agent with the Planetary Bureau of Investigation, isn’t having a good day. First he’s beaten up by a bunch of religious zealots, and then he’s assigned a robot—sorry, cyborg—as his new partner, right before his ex-wife calls to tell him his daughter has gone missing. His car keeps criticising his driving, and finally, to top things off, the world is held to ransom by his nemesis, evil genius Bartholomew Badde. Can ...

Intergalactic travel. A dying friend. An out of control computer. Will Brock survive? His life hangs in the balance when he makes the catastrophic decision to remodify himself. Death looks certain—until Lara and Nigel decide to use unconventional methods to try to save him. Lara will travel inside Brock’s mind to find out why he’s dying. What she finds there will explain what made Brock the person he is. It will also change Brock’s life forever—as long as he survives the experience! At the same time, Sally and Tyrone are sent to the CEAK (Close Encounters All Kinds) Institute to ...

‘It's a fun whodunit with interesting characters, odd plot twists, and red herrings that knocked my sox off. Looking forward to more!’ An accident that’s not an accident. A perilous pizza. A pug who knows too much… No one believes Celia Spalt when she gets up at the Storytelling Tent and tells everyone she once witnessed a murder. After all, Celia’s an old lady, and her mind’s on the way out. But when she unexpectedly dies, Rosie begins to wonder if there could be something more to her story. Celia lived at Sandcastle Village, a gated community that’s supposed to keep its ...

‘This was a fun book to read. It had me laughing a lot throughout it. It also was fun trying to guess who murdered the victim. It was quite a surprise.’ A UFO conference. A cold case. A missing man. Rosie Ryan faces her toughest challenge ever when she's asked to investigate the death of Hailey Lawrence. The writer was on the verge of international fame with her first novel. Did her death really an accident? Or was she murdered by a jealous rival? At the same time, Rosie has to deal with the annual Australian Flying Saucer Association conference. It's being held in Cape Carson for the ...

‘A fun and exciting read from Pitt, with many twists and turns and red herrings.’ A lighthouse murder. A crazy Cupcake Festival. A baffling clue. Reporter Rosie Ryan isn’t looking forward to her latest assignment. She’d rather be doing almost anything else than staying with famous actress, Katy Dark, and her entourage at the old Lighthouse Inn. Even if there is a quirky coincidence among the other guests: all six of them have names that start with the letter C. But coincidence quickly becomes chaos when murder happens and the only clue is the letter C scrawled in the victim’s own ...

A modern day Bonnie and Clyde. A demon child. A missing friend. Sally has a secret—she’s having problems with her superpowers. Big problems. Sometimes her brain hurts so much she feels like her head will explode. To make matters worse, she can’t tell anyone because their mysterious leader, Krait, might take her powers away completely. But now it seems that her problems have only just started. First, she and the other members of NEST have got to capture a pair of deadly bank robbers. This modern day Bonnie and Clyde can turn your whole world upside down. And these criminals aren’t ...

A girl on the run. A kidnapped scientist. A superpowered future. Someone wants Sally Tyler dead! After the brutal murder of her parents, Sally Tyler is left homeless and on the run. Then she is offered the chance of a lifetime—join a bounty hunting organization called NEST and become a superhero. She’ll work with the other members of NEST—Lara, Tyrone, Brock and Nigel—to catch the bad guys the police can’t catch. Lara has the ability to move things with her mind. Tyrone can cling to any surface. Nigel has the brain of a genius. And Brock— Well, Brock has an ability he’d rather...

A DEADLY ASSASSIN. A MYSTERIOUS WEAPON. A NATION ON THE BRINK OF WAR. When the world's deadliest assassin - The Chameleon - escapes from a high-security prison in the English countryside, Jack and his friends vow to track him down in their most dangerous case yet. Travelling to New York, a bustling city filled with airships, steamcars and exciting new ideas, they uncover a dangerous plot that threatens the president's life and brings the nation to the brink of civil war. Can Jack track down the Chameleon in time? And just what is the mysterious Whip of Fire that has the power to wreak ...

Time traveling into the future. A devastated Earth. Loyalties stretched to breaking point. Eager for some rest and relaxation, the team seek refuge on a remote Pacific Island. But all does not go according to plan. A visitor appears from the future with a time-bending mission. They must kill a man by the name of James Price. If they don't, the world is doomed. Their refusal sends them forward forty years in time where they see the repercussions of letting James Price live. The Earth has been devastated and mankind is on the brink of extinction. They need to survive this terrible new world ...

‘I enjoyed the humor in this book I found myself laughing out loud.’ Death. A castle. A posse of cats. Rosie isn't sure what to expect when she gets an invitation to Carlyle Castle. The castle has stood in the heart of the Australian countryside for years, inhabited only by its reclusive owner, Alex Carlyle, and his two servants. Alex is convinced that one of his children want him dead. The question is - which one? Alex wants Rosie to watch and listen when the family come to visit, but all does not go to plan, however, when death strikes unexpectedly. To make matters worse, the murder ...

LONDON UNDER ATTACK. A MYSTERIOUS CREATURE. A POTION THAT PROMISES UNLIMITED POWER. After a series of bombings across London, Jack, Scarlet and Mr Doyle are drawn into yet another baffling mystery: the sighting of a monster in the underground sewers. Before they can investigate, the team must travel to Spain to chase down a deadly group of terrorists. But just as they close in, Jack and Scarlet are kidnapped. Can Mr Doyle find them in time? While, back in London, the monster is now on the loose. Will his true origins be uncovered before he wreaks more deadly destruction across the city?

Times are tough in the small town of Yallaroo where Ally Simpson has lived her whole life. The entire area is in drought and people are going broke or moving away. So when Ally hears about a competition to win the trip of a lifetime to visit the Smithsonian Museum in the USA, she knows she’s got to do everything she can to try and win. Ally enlists her best friends Harmony and Ping to help. Her plan? To send a video camera to the edge of space, and prove once and for all that the earth is round. At first, Ally is pretty sure she’s got the contest stitched up. But then, as one disaster ...

Why would anyone send thirteen year old Molly Springer a telescope? She has no interest in astonomy. Not yet, anyway. But by pointing the telescope at the stars and planets, she develops a new understanding of herself and her place in the universe. This is something she sorely needs because it takes her away from exercising. And while everyone needs exercise, Molly has a secret that even she doesn't understand; she has exercise addiction. It's a little known addiction, but it's an addiction that can kill. In this coming of age novel, Molly Springer learns that winning running races isn't ...

A deadly virus. The return of an enemy. The most dangerous prison on Earth. Life is never boring when you’re a superhero… Axel and the team get more than they bargained for when they settle into their new home outside Las Vegas. A surprise attack results in Brodie, Ebony, Dan and Ferdy being taken hostage and held in a secret location by cult leader, Jeremiah Stead. Stead wants their help in opening an encrypted device called Barricade. If they refuse, it’ll cost them their lives, but agreeing to Stead’s demands will mean handing over control of a deadly virus that could kill ...

A kidnapped girlfriend. A magical sorceress. A planet under attack. A world that faces two threats. The Tagaar are an ancient race of warrior aliens. They’re determined to make our planet their own—and they intend to use our teenage superheroes to help them do it. Kidnapping Brodie, the Tagaar promise her safe return—if Axel steals the deadly Stonekiller weapon. It’s a weapon that can turn a person to a block of stone—but they do not die. Instead, they are condemned to exist as a living statue forever. And the person they want Axel to use it on is the Russian President… If ...

Welcome to London. A city of smoke and fog, filled with airships, steamcars and towers soaring into space... Jack Mason was a circus acrobat before his parents died. Now an orphan, he’s trapped inside Sunnyside Orphanage, the gloomiest place in London. That’s until the famous detective, Ignatius Doyle, employs him as his new assistant. And when Scarlet Bell seeks assistance to find her missing father, they’re flung headlong into a baffling mystery spanning centuries. What could the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci and a secret society have to do with Scarlet’s missing father? And how is...

AN ANCIENT ARTEFACT. A MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY. A DEADLY ATTACK. Jack, Scarlet and Mr Doyle embark on a hunt across Europe to locate the Broken Sun - an ancient artefact said to lead to the lost city of Atlantis - when it’s stolen from the British Museum. But just as the Broken Sun is within reach, Gloria, their beloved secretary is mysteriously poisoned. In a race against time to find the antidote, the team uncovers a deadly plan that will strike at the very heart of government. And no one has banked on another shocking discovery - that Mr Doyle's long-dead son may still be alive...

The kidnapping of a young girl. A brother returns from the past. Shared premonitions about an end of the world disaster. Sometimes the past comes back to haunt you… Lara meets the members of the Brain’s Trust as she follows up on her premonition of Earthly destruction. The Brain’s Trust are a group of precogs who welcome her as one of their own. They’ve all had similar visions about the end of the world. They know it’s going to happen. The problem is working out how to stop it! At the same time, Tyrone is contacted by someone he never expected to hear from again: Flynn, his ...

A mysterious death. Traveling through time. Unrivalled power. The return of an ancient enemy. Our team of teenage superheroes have always sought the answers to their origins. What are their real names? Who are their parents? Why were they chosen to be superheroes? But sometimes searching for answers leads to more questions. When The Agency are called in to investigate the murder of a teenager, our teen superheroes are soon drawn into the mystery. It immediately promises to propel them into the greatest adventure of their lives. Who is the mysterious teenager who ended up dead and why was he...