When seventh-grade classmates Mattie Gómez and Mercedes Miller realize they have the same Colombian father, they hatch a plan to run away from a school field trip to meet him for the first time.

Mia is a somewhat happy seventeen year old girl; she has it all or at least that’s what she thought but after seeing Seth for the first time she realises that she actually has something missing in her life. He seems so perfect for her that the thought of a day without his presence leaves her in despair. He teaches her how to love, trust and enjoy life to the max. And soon she’s completely and utterly in love. This is a girl’s journey in love where every day in life feels extra special but can life always be that special and wonderful when there’s dark secrets to unearth. Mia’s summer vacation starts with a party and ends with a bang, literally. It changes her life forever and makes her realise that it’s impossible to hold on to things for eternity and memories are the only things that could now keep her going.

They’re fixing up properties... and their lives! Jim Tyler reckons he is halfway through his life, and all he has to show for it is a stalled career, a failing marriage, a monster mortgage, and lost hope. Martin Swift is a boyishly handsome playboy who has grown bored after making his fortune in the city. Jim and Martin are best friends, and now they’re going into business together. For Jim, the new venture is a last hurrah – a final chance to instil some sort of meaning into his life. For Martin, it’s a chance to make money and have fun. After all, how hard can property development be? As the two comically mismatched business partners lock horns, the company looks doomed, but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and if Jim wants to break free from his old life for good, he is going to need all the strength he can get.

Even the most ordinary moments are infused with an awareness of the lost past and a kind of prescience of the future. From one setting to another, these poems give voice to the human longing for permanence, home and connection in the face of a constantly changing reality.

In Meet Me Halfway—her first solo venture since 2019's Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why—Samantha King Holmes is ready to dive even deeper into the dynamics of love and relationships with an earnestness all her own. Samantha King Holmes is back with Meet Me Halfway, a new collection of poetry that explores the journey back to yourself after earth-shattering disappointment. A fervent cry in the dark, these poems are a reminder that even after the harshest winter, springtime blooms await us all.

'No boyfriends, no groupies'- that is the standing NBNG rule for Amelia Marsh, the hostile and insular front-man of the internationally renowned alternative rock band 'The Bystander Effect'. Four simple coping strategies have pulled her through five years of tours and eight years of life without having to let her stage face slip and in her mind, she is happy. But like any tightly wound twenty-two year old, you can count on a man to screw it up. Their eyes meet over the university library at an opportune moment and he sees past the arctic cold front to the fragile child that she seeks so desperately to protect. Truths are told in a scorching hot tale of trust sought through lust and love won through tolerance and blissful ignorance. What man wouldn't salivate at the notion of spending weeks in the close company of the band he idolises and his 'dream woman'? Oh, that would be CJ. He has no idea who they are. What a moron.