Debut Novel Out Now

an unholy alliance by
kate hamilton

Canberra is a tidy town perfect for hiding secrets. Frank Phelan should know. Standing outside a grimy toilet block in the bitter cold, he’s about to discover one of them.

A rumpled thirty-nine-year-old, Frank was cast into the political wilderness two years ago by Australia’s longest-serving Labor Prime Minister, Bill Falco. Now he’s in a dead-end job and at a loose end.

Unexpectedly, he gets a call. Bill wants to see him – he needs a favour. Frank is reluctant. However, following a brutal scuffle on his porch that night with a masked thug, he heads for Sydney for an audience with Bill.

April Moreland, an athletic and ambitious journo, knows exactly what she wants. After running into Frank outside a cancer clinic, she fervently hopes Frank can help her.

But if they thought looking for a missing person in Nimbin, the grass capital of Australia, would be simple, they were mistaken. Soon they are fighting for their lives against incompetent kidnappers, corrupt cops and a destructive flood. Meanwhile, someone lethal and malicious is watching them…

Will they escape death and locate the missing woman?

Will Frank find himself in Nimbin?

Does April get what she wanted?

Sometimes you must look death in the face to begin living again.