Broken Paradise

In the spirit of "The Kite Runner," this shimmering literary debut traces thepath of two cousins--one who left Cuba at the brink of revolution and the onewho stayed behind.

THE ALLIANCE Second installment to the A Broken Paradise Series. Oh my god! WENI! WENI!, open your eyes! What happened? CUALLI! What's happened to Weni, Cualli?. Sheriton asked, tears already welling up in her eyes. I know this is a little hard to understand right now. I began again, I know right now you're all just thinking about the fact that she's gone, but there is still hope, there is still hope that this can work. THAT IS NOT WENI!! Sheriton screamed at me. What happens if people find out? What if Damson finds out. Tess blurted out. The Alliance will fall apart? Perri mumbles under his breath. Galina wiped her tears. Awen is still in there, that body is still hers. How can you trust her? Tess asked. I don't think it's a case of trust right now.... Ceri said as he got to his feet and walked to Galina and Sheriton. She's keeping my sister alive.

It is 1955 and two cousins, Nora and Alicia, are growing up in Cuba, where the sea is a beguiling turquoise and at night the lights glitter like stars along Havana's shoreline. But revolutionary storm clouds are gathering, and as Fidel Castro comes to power, banks are closed, religion outlawed, and food shortages begin. Nora and her family emigrate to California; Alicia and hers stay behind. But Nora has left her heart in Cuba with her cousin. As the years pass and she becomes a woman, Alicia writes of her marriage to Tony, the birth of her daughter, and the terrible privations ordinary Cubans are suffering. When Tony is arrested for anti-revolutionary behaviour, and Alicia and her daughter's survival becomes increasingly hand-to-mouth, Nora knows she must leave her privileged life in America and return to help them. But Cuba, and Alicia's life as a single parent, is like nothing she has ever imagineda

ECO-ACTION ADVENTURE NOVEL SET IN NEW ZEALAND’S WILDERNESS. Three couples decide to go on an adventure into the mountains riding horses up a big wild river. Their four day ride takes them to a wonderful camping spot. The two leading men in the group had hunted and camped frequently here over the years from their youth. They described it as the most wonderful place – beautiful landscapes, majestic trees, a wonderful river and a great campsite with plenty of game in the bush and fish in the river. They called it their Paradise. The rest of the group are excited to go and see Paradise for themselves. “We’ve dreamed of being here for so long and here we are. Two dreams become one,” said Janey, blowing a kiss to Brent from where she sat on her horse. As their journey progresses there is a dramatic turn of events.

Everything changed the night Jessica disappeared. Lives ruined. Futures destroyed. Hearts shattered. Ten years have gone by, and Jessica's best friend, Rowan, is finally getting things back on track. But when a lost child turns up in town, Rowan is certain the kid is connected to the girl who never came home a decade ago. Rowan seeks help from some old friends, hoping to reopen the investigation into the mysterious disappearance. It's too bad nobody believes her.

THE ALLIANCE Second installment to the A Broken Paradise Series. "Oh my god!" "WENI!" "WENI!, open your eyes!" "What happened?" "CUALLI!" "What's happened to Weni, Cualli?." Sheriton asked, tears already welling up in her eyes. "I know this is a little hard to understand right now." I began again, "I know right now you're all just thinking about the fact that she's gone, but there is still hope, there is still hope that this can work." "THAT IS NOT WENI!!" Sheriton screamed at me. "What happens if people find out? What if Damson finds out." Tess blurted out. "The Alliance will fall apart?" Perri mumbles under his breath. Galina wiped her tears. "Awen is still in there, that body is still hers." "How can you trust her?" Tess asked. "I don't think it's a case of trust right now...." Ceri said as he got to his feet and walked to Galina and Sheriton. "She's keeping my sister alive."

He collected beautiful things. Rare things. Ripped them out of their natural environment and preserved them in all of their dead splendor. The problem was I wasn't beautiful. I was all of the hideous and ugly realities of the world packaged into one broken human being. He came to kill me. That was his business. Death. He ripped me out of my natural environment, the prison I'd created, and locked me away with all of his beautiful dead things. I hated him. I still hate him. But if I was given the choice and the ability to leave this cage, come back to life, I'd stay dead. In all of my hideous splendor. Because my murderer can only possess dead things. And I can only be possessed by someone more broken and ugly than me.

Eonia is Paradise on Earth. The kingdom is breathtakingly beautiful, its residents have eternal lives and supernatural powers, but Adriana is longing to leave all this behind. The princess is haunted by her tragic past, and she also has to bear the burden of being the strongest Eonian, so there's nothing she wants more than to be ordinary. On her eighteenth birthday, she finally gets the chance to go to the human world, and her life takes an unexpected turn.When Adriana meets Adam, a stunningly handsome womanizer, her whole world turns upside down. They fall madly in love, but the secrets she's forced to keep and the serial killer who has been chasing her for decades threaten to tear them apart once and for all...

'Chasing Fears' the first instalment of 'A Broken Paradise'. Awen finally escapes from the family home, from her initial fears and spontaneously decides she's going on a self-discovery mission to America, where her childhood holidays took her and she met her friends. But the moment she leaves her home, with her poor teenage sister Dylis, she's faced with danger and utter terror as it seems there really was a reason her family kept her so secret and it wasn't because of her many gifts that were unnatural to human's such as you or I, it was because Awen is being hunted by beings we can't even begin to grasp, understand, comprehend. And to accomplish any of that you'd also have to believe that they not only exist, but they are human, their far more human than you or I, that the possibility that you and I aren't what we thought, that maybe we're the Aliens of this planet and not Awen and her kind.... In any case, she'll go searching to find out what her family have kept from her, her whole life!. "Ooh!, and do you wanna know what Jesus was really protecting you from?"