Christmas Australis

<p>A dark Family Secret. A web of deception. Exiles in alien lands. Who will survive their Australian Christmas calamity to celebrate the sun-scorched festive season?</p><p>Harbouring a dark Family Secret prodigal grand-daughter Kate brings her unsuspecting partner home to Christmas lunch with her menagerie of weird relatives…</p><p>25th of December 2056 Mary and her soldier boyfriend Nick are sent to break up an illegal meeting on their space-ship. But old memories resurface forcing Mary to rethink the choices she's made...</p><p>Exiled to an alien land with no means of return the blooming of the Christmas Bells now brings Sara only grief and despair…</p><p>Clara gets more than she bargained for when she plays a new virtual reality platform. Suddenly virtual characters are coming after her in reality. The only way to stop them - is to play the game to the end…</p><p>Nine-year-old Juliette covets her brother's Christmas present a chocolate bar hidden away by her father. Preoccupied by the search she is oblivious to a crisis unfolding outside…</p><p>When a private investigator lands a much needed job just days before Christmas the last thing he expects is to be drawn into a surreal web of deception and justice…</p><p>An Antipodean Christmas feels awfully topsy-turvy to Evangeline and when she goes to buy gingerbread for her father she finds that the weather is not the only odd thing about this festive season…</p><p>Queen Aeria of the Northern Elves reluctantly agrees to help Mrs Claus find her missing husband. Now Aeria is in for an unforgettable experience some uncomfortable truths and a few unfamiliar traditions from the Great Southern Land...</p><p>Set sail with our Narrator - spectral convict mariner Jacob Bloodsworth - as he nets a catch of eight Australian speculative and contemporary Christmas stories bobbing in the ghostly waters off the coast of this Great Southern Land.</p><p><em>Christmas Australis</em> contains a novella two novelettes and five short stories - something for everyone this Festive Season.</p><p>Buy <em>A Frighteningly Festive Anthology of Spine Jingling Tales</em> and treat yourself to eight individually crafted stories from Down Under!</p>