Kirjahaku

Charlotte Wyatt wasn't sure what she was letting herself in for when she agreed to be available for occasional information gathering activities for the Australian Securities Intelligence Organisation. Her first assignment comes at the end of a holiday in Thailand. Having just said goodbye to her boyfriend, who has taken a job sailing from Port Vila in Vanuatu to Bundaberg in Australia, Charlotte Wyatt is intrigued by the opportunity to go to Myanmar to gather information about a missing person. With the help of a mysterious librarian, she finds the information she was sent to retrieve, and then, just as she's making plans to return, the lights go out in Myanmar and the military takes over. With a reluctant passenger, Charlotte runs checkpoints and dodges bullets, in a race to the border.

Charlotte is a fashion designer creating her own wedding dress while delivering costumes for the bridal party of an Indian wedding. It's an arranged marriage and the bride-to-be, who is now staying in Charlotte's fashion design studio, is having doubts. Scott her fianc , is locked up in quarantine spending time alternately writing his wedding vows and competing in a fitness competition with his sailing crew who are also contained in the hotel. Discovery of paint splatters on her own wedding dress is a first clue that the Indian bride-to-be has been kidnapped. Humour is ever present in the daily call between Charlotte and her best friend Miranda who now lives in London, is painfully pregnant and is a self-appointed organiser for their wedding. Best-man Mason, married to Miranda, is a journalist, constantly on the lookout for an intriguing story. Both bridal parties want to ensure that as few people as possible are aware of what's happening in the run up to their big day. While Charlotte wants a simple wedding, her parents want something special. As a result of everything that transpires, something extraordinary results. A mystery and a romance with a healthy dash of suspense, culminating in a surprising start to a happily ever after. All set in the delightfully sleepy town of Bangalow in northern, New South Wales, Australia.

Inconvenient timing and tragedy draws together and then tears apart two friends. Will they risk their friendship for love? Or will their secrets and past mistakes be too formidable? It is the story of friendship. A deep friendship that neither Melissa Brinkley nor Andrew Wyatt were prepared to risk for love. It is a story of heartbreak and hope. Of two people with extraordinarily bad timing. It is a story or relationships within and between families. It is a turbulent story of running away and of new beginnings set between Bangalow, Boston, Brisbane and Byron Bay. A debut novel which will take the reader on an emotional roller coaster ride.

Scott Wyatt had been a constant presence in her life, which was surprising given that he had died before she was born. Because of this, Charlotte Wyatt never quite felt that she was an only child. In fact, some days she felt like the substitute child - born of grief to replace the memory of a child who only lived a day.Discovery of a letter in a bottle that has drifted from Byron Bay in Australia to the Cote D'Azur in France, launches a thrilling journey for Charlotte Wyatt into the world of high fashion, European royalty, paparazzi and the criminal underworld.Substitute Child has six story lines including: A journey across the world to collect a bottle with a message inside Living vicariously as a 'substitute' and getting swept up in someone else's life Love interests from three potential suitors A search for identity and future career direction Analysis of what makes a story go viral and Exploration of Charlotte's relationship with her mother and best friend. There are also fabulous fashions, beautiful places and a few famous folk in walk-in and run-in roles.

Unable to leave Rome due to an air traffic controller strike, Charlotte accepts an invitation to a party on a super yacht. A friend disappears and then Charlotte becomes an accidental stowaway as the yacht heads for Sicily. Inadvertently caught up in the international slavery trade and forced to choose between several unbearable options, Charlotte embarks on a bold plan to save the women captured by the Monk, and in doing so, to save herself. Mystery/Adventure/Thriller with a dash of romance set between Rome, Naples and Taormina in Sicily.