Books with author clare-dowling

Grace Tynan’s life seems to be perfectly satisfactory: a career in property, two strapping sons and a solid marriage to Ewan, a man who writes advertising jingles for a living. But when she starts shoplifting streaky rashers in a desperate bid for cheap thrills, she realises that something is seriously wrong. Grace gets a wake-up call when twenty-year-old Adam, recently arrived from Tasmania, smooth-skinned and tanned, knocks the side-mirror off her BMW with his anti-nuclear placard. Anxious friends soon notice a change – Grace gives up work, dinner parties and, alarmingly, stops highlighting her hair. But will she really swap her cosy life for a college dropout with a mission to save the world?

Nayela was raised knowing she would lead her tribe one day. The day of her first blood. The day she becomes a woman. What she doesn't know is that the tribe's leader, her father, has been keeping a secret since the day she was born. A secret that could kill her.After discovering the truth about a witch's curse foretelling of her gruesome death, Nayela sets out to make her own fate. But powerful, ancient magic, and the long, sharp fangs of the feral beast thirsty for her blood, are not so easy to escape.