This year's annual voyage to Malibu will be unlike any other... Sydney West is no longer a party girl looking for summer boys to occupy her nights. She has found love with Jason King and agreed to marry him. With wedding plans in full swing for the July deadline, everything seems to be perfect. Until someone from Jason's past interrupts their summer getaway... When Jason turns cold and distant, the party scene beckons Sydney to return to her old drink-all-night ways. Only this time the guys at the bar don't hold her attention, but when Sydney's drink is drugged by a so-called friend-she kisses one of them. When Jason finds out, he leaves the beach house to clear his head, but a couple hours quickly turn into days. It's hard to have a wedding without the groom... This summer is nothing like what Sydney had planned, and for the first time she's afraid of the future. Sydney finally figured out what she wants and she isn't willing to let Jason go without a fight. But is it already too late? Sydney will risk everything to... piece herself, and the life she wants, back together again.
A jilted girl... A wicked boy... A forbidden kiss... A happily ever after? Lacey Ryan's perfect life was well underway, until her fianc blindsides her with a betrayal so deep it changes everything. Now her life's gone to hell, and the only way out may be at the hands of the last person she'd have expected to come to her rescue, Tristan Keys-the deliciously sexy player she's fantasized about her entire life. Sure he's arrogant, cocksure, and frustratingly handsome, but he's also offering exactly what she needs, a fresh start planning destination weddings. First class flights, the chance to see the world, and maybe a little harmless flirtation while she's at it. Yes, it's just what she needs. Only there's one glaring problem: Tristan happens to be her brother's best friend. Which means he is completely off-limits. She knows it, he knows it. It's completely forbidden. Even though she's always followed all the rules, suddenly Lacey find herself wanting to break them all. Is he worth the risk? Or will he only break her heart-and possibly her bed springs? There's only one way to find out, and it's going to involve a lot of suitcase packing, merlot and chocolate.
Sydney West enjoys sampling summer boys, but this year, one refuses to be a one-night stand... Twenty-one-year-old Sydney doesn't believe in relationships. Her parents' toxic divorce has taught her love is nothing but a sinister fairy tale. So every summer she parties, hooks up, abandons her lover before dawn, and repeats. .That is until she meets gorgeous local surfer Jason King at the beach... When Jason fails to flirt-or even give her a second glance-she decides something must be wrong with him, and it's safer to stay away. But when Sydney and Jason's best friends hook up and become Malibu's hottest couple, they are forced to spend more time together than either of them cares for. Armed with a sharp tongue, Sydney works to keep Jason at bay... In a moment of weakness, Sydney lets her guard down and confides in Jason, realizing he's more than just a hot guy-he's also a friend. And when Sydney's need for a summer boy results in her falling into bed with Jason, despite her better judgment, she runs away from him by morning. The problem is, he won't accept being another one-night stand, and will do anything to prove... Love really does exist.
Sydney West's new relationship might have survived Malibu, but her transformation from party girl to girlfriend isn't complete... Sydney is back in Arizona, and with the fall semester at her doorstep, doubts about her so-called summer love start to plague her. A bad girl can only stay good for so long. Jason King changed her and made her wonder if love was real. But now, far from his charm, and with the party scene on campus in full swing, the magic is fading... Jason isn't willing to let distance drive a wedge between them... A surprise reunion and a romantic cabin getaway is enough to reignite their summertime spark, but Sydney isn't convinced this whole monogamous, meet-your-parents thing Jason wants is possible. No boy has ever met her mother. Then, when a sudden family tragedy strikes, it sends her spiraling into her old habits of booze and boys. Sydney can only hide from her past for so long... In the fog of drowning her sorrows, Sydney realizes her former party lifestyle won't make her happy. Her one-night stands ended with Jason. As much as she wants to believe in that far-fetched fairy tale ending, she's afraid if Jason finds out about all her summer boys, he will abandon her just like her father did. Jason refuses to settle for the superficial shell Sydney keeps between them, though, and is determined to... Break Down Sydney once and for all.
As a fresh journalist graduate from New Zealand, it was a given that I was excited to land my first job in Sydney, Australia. However, the move across the Tasman was not as easy as I initially thought.This story is about the challenges I faced as I tried to settle in a new city. From being trapped in an Asian beauty salon, to living with a promiscuous old man who I regularly chauffeured around in a vintage Rolls Royce, there was never a dull moment in the land Down Under.
Two people plan to steal a box from his former employer. A young Dutch backpacker, Julia Meier, travels to Australia for a year of travel experience and adventure. She gets involved in a weird but exciting adventure. It all starts when she meets Robby Henson. He was a successful hostel owner, but he lost it all, thanks to his ex-wife. He is broke and needs help. He finds in Julia a perfect victim. She has no idea what his plans are. He promises a job, although she isn't allowed to work or study in Australia. She arrived in Sydney on a double six months' visa what doesn't allow her to work. Thanks to her new friend Robby, she will break that rule. Two people, a Briton and an Aussie woman, plan to steal a mysterious box from a man, they both know. He is a friend of her ex. They plan, they steal and disappear with the mysterious box. Julia meet through Robby a couple of men, who will become her friends and lover. Jonathan, Anton and Konrad all know Robby and his dark past. They all warn her to be careful with the man, she thinks is a cool man. He is good in telling interesting stories, but he is also good in stealing money. She has no idea what he's doing, till it is too late. He finds ways to get access to her money. He uses a simple trick. He claims he fell and nearly broke his lower back and leg in an uncovered hole on a dreadful day in April. He sues the council, who was responsible for not covering the hole. He needs money and uses Julia. She gives him reluctantly money for his court case. He uses her again when they both have enough of living in a hostel, the Bondi Lodge. They rent a flat. It is Julia, who pays for it, but Robby, who claims the place. By the end of her year in Australia, she learns the truth about her friend. She cannot walk away from him without a fight. Two days before she flies to Malaysia, he demands her passport, her money and her flight ticket. She refuses. He steals her luggage, she cannot leave the country. Julia reports him and manages to leave the country. He has one more fight with her in the city of Sydney. She stays in the hotel, where she stayed before on her arrival a year ago. She reports Robby for a second time after he attacks her. She flies out of Sydney with a shaved head and plenty of bruises. Robby knows he underestimated her. She was the first woman who beat him. This story is based on a true event. The author travelled between December 1999 and June 2001 in Australia and Southeast Asia.
Following on from the success of Places We Swim, authors Caroline Clements and Dillon Seitchik-Reardon have now revealed the very best iconic and hidden places to swim, in and around Sydney, and all the way out to the Blue Mountains
Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney? The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney’s famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV’s Underbelly and every other account of Sydney’s criminal history from the 1920s to the 1960s. But she has never had a biography of her own. Despite having over 100 criminal convictions to her name, Kate Leigh is remembered as a local hero, giving money to needy families and supporting her Surry Hills community through the hard times of Depression and war. Here, novelist and historian Leigh Straw teases out the full story of how this wayward Reformatory girl from Dubbo made a fortune in eastern Sydney and became a leading underworld figure.
A joyful counting book celebrating the wonders of Australia's most beautiful city. From Bondi Beach to the Opera House, there's so much to explore in spectacular Sydney Join this colourful counting adventure across the world's most beautiful city. What will you spot along the way?
In leafy, stale St Ives, 16-year-old Raffaele 'Rusty' Leonardi lives with his workaholic mother Fiona and neurotic stepfather Phil. Rusty spends most of his time at the prestigious Clarendon College and rarely sees his estranged father Vincenzo, who lives with his new wife and two young children in the same Inner West terrace that Vincenzo's father bought after emigrating from Italy in the 1960s.Rusty is a strong, confident boy, whose starring role on Clarendon's rugby team has made him the top dog at his Hunters Hill campus. But Rusty has been weakened by unresolved emotional baggage his entire life, a weight he has just started to notice. This includes bearing Fiona's various mental breakdowns over her life, and fielding Phil's constant questioning about Fiona's previous marriage.Rusty is unsure of his place with Vincenzo, whose family rejected him and his mother after they left Leichhardt for good. He feels no more certain in his mother's home, where her unhinged work routine is rapidly deteriorating her mental health.A cataclysmic event catapults Rusty from his dreaded stupor and forces him into action. After retracing the steps of his childhood, and rekindling the memories and relationships he thought were lost forever, Rusty decides what sort of son, brother and person he wants to be.
