Meet the Melbourne Girls
Melbourne is known for its laneways, its street art, its coffee culture and fabulous food.
Join Emily, Abby, Calliope, Tiffany, Alice and a whole cast of other characters as they navigate life and love in this beautiful city. And it’s not just about Melbourne – pack your bags for trips to Sydney, Bali, Hong Kong and Queensland’s Sunshine Coast too.
Baby, It's You
A hot new co-worker, and a stranger's bucket list - what could go wrong?
Emily Porter likes lists: daily to-do lists, shopping lists, playlists, reasons to dump her boyfriend lists, reasons to stay with her boyfriend lists.
The one list Em doesn’t have is a bucket list. She doesn’t need one – her life is predictable and safe. Her job is satisfactory, and even though she has a thing about men who wind up back with the woman they were rebounding from – after Em has fixed them up, that is – her love life is also predictable. Besides, her best friends – Susie Turner and Josh Booth –will always be there to see her through her dating disasters.
No drama, no fuss, no surprises – which is exactly the way Em likes it. But when Em finds a stranger’s bucket list in the pocket of a vintage coat and begins to use it to renovate her home – and her life – everything gets turned upside down.
As if dealing with paint-brushes, flat-pack furniture and power tools isn’t scary enough, Em has to contend with Jamie, the hot new co-worker who makes her feel as though she’s the lead character in a daggy pop song and has made it clear he wants to be more than her colleague.
In the meantime, Booth is acting strangely; and Suse has a secret that could threaten everything…
Baby, It’s You is a friends to lovers, office romance set in Melbourne and Bali and is the first book in the Melbourne Girls Series.
Big Girls Don't Cry
Brad and Abby were always meant to be together. Best friends in childhood, they fell immediately in love when they found each other again many years later.
Yet when Brad proposes, Abby says no. She is distraught when, soon after, Brad leaves Melbourne - and her. Something is holding Abby back from saying yes to Brad, and she’s convinced that it has to do with what happened to her father deep in a Balinese rainforest nearly twenty-five years ago.
If Abby and Brad are going to get a second chance at first love, Abby will have to find a way to discover the truth behind the lies that protect the family secrets that have been kept for many years.
Big Girls Don’t Cry is a story about how sometimes you have to deal with yesterday to find love in tomorrow, and how goodbye doesn’t have to mean forever.
Find out why readers have called Big Girls Don’t Cry 'the thinking woman’s chick lit'.
Big Girls Don’t Cry is a friends to lovers, second chance at first love novel and the second book in the Melbourne Girls Series.
Like all the stories in this series it can be read as a standalone novel.
I Want You Back
Be careful what you wish for – especially when it's your ex.
Callie Jones is done crying over Jamie Aldridge. (Okay, mostly done.) Even after he stomped on her heart, she still believes he’s The One—and she’s finally ready to win him back.Step one? Reinvent herself, starting with a spontaneous belly dancing class. What she didn’t plan on: shimmying her way into a whole new life.
Then Jamie reappears, full of apologies and sexy regret, promising he never should’ve let her go. Dream come true, right? Except there’s just one small complication…
A man from her past has resurfaced, and this time, he’s the one doing the chasing.
Now Callie’s caught between the guy she always wanted and the one who might just want her more.
I Want You Back is a flirty, feel-good romantic comedy about reinvention, second chances at first love, and the kind of love that doesn’t play by the rules.
I Want You Back takes you from the streets of Melbourne to winter in sunny Queensland and is the third book in the Melbourne Girls series and the first in the Careful What You Wish For trilogy.
Careful What You Wish For
Tiffany Samuels doesn’t do love. It’s messy, unpredictable, and far too likely to derail her perfectly organised life. If she ever does decide to settle down, she’ll approach it the same way she tackles everything else—strategically, with a colour-coded spreadsheet and a detailed list of non-negotiables.
Jake Stewart? He’s a travel writer with no fixed address, no five-year plan, and definitely not on the list.
But when a flirty encounter turns into something more, Tiff tells herself one night—maybe two—will be enough to get him out of her system. Easy, right?
Only Jake doesn’t play by her rules. And for the first time, Tiff might have to throw the plan out the window… and follow her heart instead.
Careful What You Wish For is a fun, flirty, globe-trotting romcom about letting go, taking chances, and discovering that love doesn’t always come with a checklist.From Melbourne to Hong Kong and back again, Careful What You Wish For is the fourth novel in the Melbourne Girls series and the second in the Careful What You Wish For trilogy.
It's In The Stars
Astrologer Alice Delaney might spend her working day looking to the stars for answers, but after her last big mistake she now plays life strictly by the rules.
Once a hopeless romantic who believed in fate and big cosmic gestures, Alice learned the hard way that the stars don’t always align. These days, she keeps things safe and predictable—her astrology business is thriving, she’s a regular guest on breakfast radio, and she’s dating Tommy: a solid, reliable guy who ticks all the right boxes.
So what if her charming, chaotic neighbour Mac is the one who makes her laugh too hard and feel too much? They’re just friends. Dog-walking friends. With occasional flirty banter. Totally under control.
But when Alice’s past crashes back into her life during a holiday in Bali—and a destination wedding forces her and Mac into close quarters—her carefully curated world begins to unravel.
As the lines between friendship and something more start to blur, Alice is faced with a choice: stick to the safe path, or risk everything for the kind of love that defies logic—and maybe even the stars.
It’s In The Stars is a warm, funny, and utterly charming romcom about missed chances, unexpected sparks, and rewriting your own love story.
From Melbourne to Bali and the Sunshine Coast this friends to lovers romcom is the fifth and final book in the Melbourne romantic comedy series and the third in the Careful What You Wish For trilogy.