I'm the author of forty novels, including 300 Minutes of Danger (for kids) and Kill Your Husbands (not for kids). My books have been translated into ten languages and optioned for TV. I live on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land with my wife, two kids, a handful of chickens and a possum named Oreo.


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Three adventurous couples decide to swap partners in the dark. When the lights come back on, one of the men is dead. The car keys are missing. The phones don't work. And the killer is just getting started...

(First published by Audible as Kill Your Husbands.)

The Wife Swap

Nolan Hawker is undercover at Blu Xpanse, an oceanic lab where a brilliant geneticist is making creepy, super-sized cockroach-like creatures. Her creations have the potential to save the world.

But Nolan isn’t the only one with a secret identity. Someone at Blu Xpanse is an assassin, working for the deadly anarchist group known as Swarm...

Doomsday

The Peak

Everyone thinks Jayden ran away. Zoe knows they’re wrong.

Her search leads her to The 17—a secret group chat, used by anonymous teens to blackmail the powerless. To join, you have to put on a mask and record yourself completing a challenge. The challenges are always illegal. Sometimes dangerous. Maybe deadly...

If You Tell Anyone, You're Next

Josh lives in Axe Falls—a town of mysterious disappearances, terrifying visions, and unusual events. When his best friend’s science experiment goes horribly wrong, and he finds himself running for his life, Josh starts to wonder...

What is really going on in Axe Falls? And will anyone survive long enough to find out?

The Human Flytrap

10 stories. 10 mysterious situations. 10 brave kids. 30 minutes of clues. Mercer stole a secret message. What happens when the spies find out? Hamzi is trapped in a maze. Why is his brother trying to kill him? Charlene’s room escape game suddenly turns deadly. Can she figure out why? Jack Heath’s ten nail-biting and mysterious short stories will intrigue and terrify during each 30-minute countdown, as dangerous situations play out right down to the last crucial moment. Read 10 dangerous stories, in 30 minutes* of reading time!

*Based on average reading speed.