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The search for Mercy begins ...

Mercy ''wakes'' on a school bus bound for Paradise, a small town where everyone knows everyone else''s business - or thinks they do. But they will never guess the secret Mercy is hiding ...

As an angel exiled from heaven and doomed to return repeatedly to Earth, Mercy is never sure whose life and body she will share each time. And her mind is filled with the desperate pleas of her beloved, Luc, who can only approach her in her dreams.

In Paradise, Mercy meets Ryan, whose sister was kidnapped two years ago and is now presumed dead. When another girl disappears, Mercy and Ryan know they must act before time runs out. But a host of angels are out for Mercy''s blood and they won''t rest until they find her and punish her - for a crime she doesn''t remember committing ...

AN ELECTRIC COMBINATION OF ANGELS, MYSTERY AND ROMANCE, MERCY IS THE FIRST BOOK IN A MAJOR NEW SERIES.

Longlisted for the Davitt Awards

Mercy is in exile ...

All Mercy knows is that she is in exile, for a crime she can''t remember committing. Now she ''wakes'' inside the body and life of Lela Neill, a young woman caring for her dying mother.

As her shattered memory begins to return, Mercy remembers Ryan, the mortal boy she''d begun to fall for in another life, and Luc, who haunts her dreams; beginning to awaken to glimpses of her true nature. Will Mercy risk Lela''s life to be reunited with her heart''s true desire?

The search for Mercy continues ...

AN ELECTRIC COMBINATION OF ANGELS, MYSTERY AND ROMANCE, EXILE IS THE SECOND BOOK IN THE SPELLBINDING MERCY SERIES.

Longlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award

Heartbreak. Vengeance. Fury.

Mercy is an exiled angel cast down to earth and forced to live out thousands of different lives for her own protection. Betrayed by her eternal love, Luc, Mercy burns with fury. The time of reckoning is here and now she must wage open war with Luc and his demons.

Ryan''s love for Mercy is more powerful than ever, but loving an angel is mortally dangerous. As their two worlds collide, Mercy approaches her ultimate breathtaking choice.

Hell hath no fury like Mercy ...

AN ELECTRIC COMBINATION OF ANGELS, MYSTERY AND ROMANCE, FURY IS THE FOURTH BOOK IN THE SPELLBINDING MERCY SERIES.

''A RACY STORY OF GOOD AND EVIL IN A WORLD WHERE ANGELS AREN''T ALL SWEETNESS AND LIGHT'' - SUNDAY HERALD SUN

''I AM 85% SURE REBECCA LIM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD'' - STEPH BOWE

''A SINISTER AND RATHER FABULOUS WORLD'' - THE AGE

An angel in exile ...

Mercy is an angel, exiled from heaven. When she wakes in the body of Irina, Mercy discovers that she′s one of the world′s most infamous supermodels on the verge of a very public breakdown.

Against the glamorous background of Milan′s opulent fashion world, Mercy continues her increasingly desperate search for Ryan Daley, the mortal boy she remembers falling for in a past life. But as Mercy′s memories and powers - and Luc''s pull - grow stronger, she begins to doubt Luc′s desires, and his purpose.

The grand scale celestial battle for Mercy′s soul builds to an incredible stormy crescendo as archangels and demons clash in a cataclysmic showdown that not all will survive ...

Mercy is his Muse ...

AN ELECTRIC COMBINATION OF ANGELS, MYSTERY AND ROMANCE, MUSE IS THE THIRD BOOK IN THE SPELLBINDING MERCY SERIES.

''A RACY STORY OF GOOD AND EVIL IN A WORLD WHERE ANGELS AREN''T ALL SWEETNESS AND LIGHT'' - SUNDAY HERALD SUN

''I AM 85% SURE REBECCA LIM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD'' - STEPH BOWE

''A SINISTER AND RATHER FABULOUS WORLD'' - THE AGE

Janey couldn''t wait to see her friends'' faces. Imagine, she thought. I have a stalker. Like I''m some kind of A-list celeb or something.

Who is the sinister ''Fellini'', tracking Janey Gordon through cyberspace? And why is he posting warnings to her MySpace page?

Sixteen-year-old Janey is all alone in the world apart from her trio of best friends ... until she discovers a mysterious letter that leads her to long-lost family, thousands of miles away in Italy.

So she heads off on a Roman holiday with a suitcase full of glam outfits courtesy of her fashion-addict bestie, Ness, and a list of must-see locations from her film-buff buddy, Em. It should be a time of sun, food, shopping and cute guys - but there''s someone shadowing every step she takes.

Living the sweet life can be a dangerous thing..

''Lim (Mercy, 2011) writes this flight of fancy with a maximum of frivolity but keeps the thriller element alive via terrifying web-chat brushes with Janey''s online stalker. This breezy romance will hit the spot for any reader in need of something sweet but tart.'' - Booklist

''[F]ull of great friends and good fashion'' - Illawarra Mercury

Whiffy Newton, real first name Alfred, hardly looks like a crack amateur super-sleuth.

His clothes are too short and too tight. He never gets picked first for sports. And he has poor eyesight.

But he's got his two best friends - Doreen and Paz - and together, the three friends form the detective outfit The Agency.

Until now, The Agency has only handled the discreet enquiries of other put upon children at Kentwood High. But The Case of the Dastardly Deeds sees them take on their biggest, their craziest, their most dangerous, case yet.

It was a new world to which we were confined because of a bargain I’d made with Death himself: no paradise for Luc and the exiled, and none for me.

But the moment I made my choice, I was marked for sacrifice, as was Ryan. A price was settled; a debt, escalated. Time. There would never be enough.

It’s been two years since Gia Basso witnessed archangels and demons waging war upon each other beneath the dome of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Traumatised, Gia has been in self-imposed exile on the English coast.

But the sudden reappearance of Mercy in her life, in a new and terrifying incarnation, draws Gia into a desperate struggle to locate Lucifer — who holds Ryan Daley captive in order to keep him from Mercy, his beloved, forever.

Tasked by the archangels to destroy Lucifer, and by Mercy to help her trace and free Ryan, Gia is pushed to the limits of human endurance as she traverses the earth — with the help of friends old and new — to do the impossible.

For Lucifer and his demons have discovered a new way to move freely in the human world. And Mercy and Gia must bargain with the Archangel of Death himself, Azraeil, to get what they want.

Wraith is the fifth dark, thrilling and genre-defying instalment of the much-loved Mercy series from the acclaimed author of The Astrologer’s Daughter.

‘A racy story of good and evil in a world where angels aren’t all sweetness and light’ — Sunday Herald Sun

Someone is stealing all the trousers in Kentwood and, this time, Whiffy’s hapless inventor father, Dr Bruce Newton, has nothing to do with it. Or does he?

Trousers are being daringly snatched in broad daylight, taken apart, and horribly put back together, so that bizarre, two-toned trousers are appearing all over town—sinisterly nailed to the front doors of some of the city’s wealthiest socialites.

Who is behind these ghastly garment murders and what does it all mean? Can Whiffy and the other intrepid members of The Agency stop the perpetrator before there isn’t a decent pair of slacks left in the whole of Kentwood?

There are disturbing developments going on at Chez Newton - the messy home that Whiffy Newton shares with his father.

His dad's started dating again (er, yuk), and Whiffy's not sure if he trusts his dad's new girlfriend, Vonda, who's just a bit too interested in Dr Newton's work for Whiffy's liking.

And there's a mysterious force at work in Dr Newton's laboratory. Whiffy's almost convinced that it's the ghost of his late mother, trying to tell him something - or is it?

Can Whiffy get to the bottom of the spooky goings-on before his father's laboratory and the whole Newton way of life are utterly destroyed?

It's summer at last! And the mysterious Agency for Creative Enterprise has packed Whiffy and his father off on an all-expenses-paid holiday to sleepy Marble Beach so that Dr Newton can finish testing his latest loopy invention, The Hydrolator.

But Marble Beach's residents are being terrorised by a fiend who strikes at the worst time and place - dinnertime and in the vicinity of Marble Beach's only fish and chip shop.

Can Whiffy and his best friends, Doreen and Paz, discover the identity of the Marble Beach Mugger before minimum chips become merely a fond memory for the town's terrified and hungry citizens?

‘It’s going to happen,’ she would tell me calmly. ‘I even know when. It’s a twist in my stars. It’s written there, and we have to accept it.’

Avicenna Crowe’s mother, Joanne, is an astrologer with uncanny predictive powers and a history of being stalked.

Now she is missing.

The police are called, but they’re not asking the right questions. Like why Joanne lied about her past, and what she saw in her stars that made her so afraid.

But Avicenna has inherited her mother’s gift. Finding an unlikely ally in the brooding Simon Thorn, she begins to piece together the mystery.

And when she uncovers a link between Joanne’s disappearance and a cold-case murder, Avicenna is led deep into the city’s dark and seedy underbelly, unaware of how far she is placing her own life in danger.

Pulse-racing and terrifyingly real, The Astrologer’s Daughter is a stunning, original novel. It will test your belief in destiny and the endurance of love.

A Kirkus Best Book of 2015

Kirkus Best Teen Books of 2015Kirkus Best International Teen Books of 2015Kirkus Best Teen Books of 2015 for an Adrenaline RushShortlisted, Prime Minister’s Literary AwardsShortlisted, Aurealis AwardsShortlisted, Davitt AwardsA CBCA Notable Book for Older ReadersShortlisted, the Forward INDIES Book of the Year AwardsLonglisted, Gold Inky Award

From the bestselling author of Mercy.

Longlisted for the Davitt Awards

From the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of the Mercy series and The Astrologer’s Daughter comes a chilling ghost story linked to the compelling Mercy universe. 

Since her parents died in a freak motorbike accident, Sophie Teague’s life has fallen apart.

But she’s just enrolled at a new high school, hoping for a fresh start.

That’s until Eve, a beautiful ghost in black, starts making terrifying nightly appearances, wanting Sophie to be her hands, eyes and go-to girl.

There are loose ends that Eve needs Sophie to tie up. But dealing with the dead might just involve the greatest sacrifice of all.

Dark, thrilling and unrelentingly eerie, Afterlight will take you deep into the heart of a dangerous love story, revealing the otherworldly—and deadly—pull of past wrongs that only the living can put right.

‘As in her triumphant The Astrologer’s Daughter, Lim carefully unspools her tightly plotted fantastical mystery with a reluctant, socially maladroit heroine and an unlikely partner at the center. Her insistent focus on murders of people at society’s fringes and the ability of teen girls to right truly foul injustices are both most welcome…Readers will hold out hope for a second installment set in Lim’s richly imagined world.' - Kirkus

‘Lim’s murder mystery is much more than its tightly constructed plot, with rich character development, intriguing concepts about the afterlife, and profound depictions of grief…But it’s Sophie’s narrative tone that stays with the reader; this courageous and believably flawed outcast is a memorable heroine.’ - Booklist

‘Afterlight has all the ingredients that make up an enthralling read...For those who just like an exciting read that pulls at the heartstrings and ensures some terrifying moments, Lim has ensured that the action is fast paced and the characters are really believable.’ - ReadPlus

‘Rebecca Lim has crafted a tense and eerie tale, complete with a demanding ghostly apparition and a stirring romance.’ - Readings

‘I am 85% sure Rebecca Lim is not of this world.’ - Steph Bowe, author of All This Could End

Have you got a passion for fashion? Six best friends, three stories in one!

Prunella prefers surfing to fashion. Yet somehow her ginormous height and broken nose attract a talent scout at a local modelling competition - and her besties insist she try out. Does she have a shot at the prize?

Abby is the secret author of a blog loved by fashionistas everywhere. But when Abby blogs about an upcoming fashion collaboration, she learns firsthand the danger of spreading rumours. Will her cover be blown?

Zooey is set to become a world-famous fashion designer: the girls at school rely on her styling talents, she secretly makes one-off designs for an exclusive city boutique - and when a celebrity is snapped in one of her creations, speculation is rife about the hot new label ''Zipper''. But when Zooey''s parents forbid her from applying for a coveted magazine internship, what''s a budding style icon to do?

This new bind-up contains three original titles ''Cover Girl'', ''Sista Fashionista'' and ''Star Style'' - fun stories for readers aged 8 - 12 celebrating fashion, diverse friendships and body positivity.