Melissa Gunn – författare

It was just another rainy day in October when Freya's house fell into the sea. Freya isn't your average suburban school kid– she's a demigoddess. But even a demigoddess can't hold back the sea. After a violent storm, Freya and her family are set adrift in a world where the weather comes with attitude, and rising sea levels are as much about personality clashes as climate change. School isn't a walk in the park either, not when Freya's classmates could be demigods, trolls or weres. All Freya wants to do is keep her cat fed and her family together. A friend wouldn't hurt either. Over the years she develops her own powers, but will those be enough to achieve her modest goals - or will her world wash away once again?

Metamorphosis isn't all it's cracked up to be. But when a private investigator with dryad ancestry has to find her ex's killer, she might have to embrace it.Ngaire is desperate for a case to pay the bills. She needs to feed herself and her teenage daughter, not to mention paying the rent. But the case she gets turns out to be more challenging than she was prepared for when it turns out to be a murder investigation. As a part-dryad, she's able to use some non-standard investigative procedures. But partial metamorphosis isn't much fun, and it's not something she wants to advertise either. As the information she obtains leads her closer to the person who killed her ex, she finds herself obliged to moonlight as an arborist, a job she's really not cut out for. Can she find the murderer, or will it be too hard to separate the wood from the trees? Find out in this quick read.

She knows who killed her ex - but can she bring the killer to justice? Part-dryad private investigator Ngaire has her work cut out for her as she continues to moonlight as an arborist, cross words with orcs and elves, and most important of all, keep her daughter safe from a rogue real estate dealer. There's something deeper at work in the city too. While werewolves bay about territorial rights above ground, a secret network is forming below the city. Can Ngaire tap into the network to solve her problems, or will her reluctance to metamorphose keep her from accessing this critical resource?

It's hard to do the unexpected when you come from a family of seers.Sibyl's family are descended from the same bloodlines that provided the oracles in Greece. She's even inherited the name to go with the talent. But she's just failed her prophecy exams. Worse than that, her dog has disappeared and none of her far-seeing family can find him. When her aunt prophecies that her dog has gone where he's needed most, Sibyl decides she's had enough of the seer lifestyle.Setting off to seek her fortune without the benefit of predictions, she'll be lucky if she avoids being bored to death by her fellow passengers, being eaten to death by dragons or dying a metaphorical death by bad poetry. And that's not counting the terrifying driving on dangerous roads. Sibyl is someone who tends to think first and act afterwards, if at all, but when she spots an elemental incursion while gazing out the bus window, she will have to do more than just think. Can she save a small corner of the world without the help of an oracle?Seers and Salt is the first book in a cosy and fun new urban fantasy series set in a magical version of Aotearoa New Zealand.