Bøger udgivet af Frances Day

Unearth the sinister secrets buried beneath a veneer of silence in Silence Has Many Faces, a gripping crime novel that weaves an emotional family drama with a 'whodunit' mystery.Every family has its secrets, but for Martha Jane (aka Jane), the truths hidden by her family's silence are as shocking as they are transformative.When the body of a man surfaces on an adjacent property, the quiet life Jane has known is shattered by whispers that it could be Lincoln Kelly - her own father, whom she believed had abandoned them long before she was born. As one revelation tumbles after another, Jane is plunged into a labyrinth of deception where everything she has ever known about her heritage is a meticulously crafted lie.Peeling back the layers of silence and discovering what lies beneath them begins a journey towards adulthood that has Jane redefining her identity and learning the harshest lesson of all - silence can destroy or protect, and she must choose.

Fourteen-year-old Beth is enjoying the school holidays spending time with her family, teasing her brothers, and exploring the family's cattle station on her old horse, Black.However, when Beth's father sends her to start the old petrol pump in one of the paddocks, she encounters an ancient ironbark tree stump ... and she is immediately fearful of it.Before she can race to safety, the portal disgorges a mischievous fairy who has unwittingly opened it from the other side and Beth is scooped up by the fairy and dragged through to a land of magic, danger and creatures that she thought only existed in fairytales. It is here in this new world that Beth learns that she must harness the power of a magic stone and complete an extraordinary task.A mystical destiny awaits her . . . if she survives.