Zoe Melville: 5 books

For a hundred years the Princess Melody has been a captive of Alura, the Witch of Howling Rock. She has lived in a bewitched painting, only called forth to service her mistress and kept as a pampered and beautiful plaything. On midsummer's eve Alura, who long ago tricked the gods themselves, offers...

Dreanna, called the Wildling, has travelled over the most dangerous lands in the Ten Kingdoms. She has survived the Glass Tundra and the Broken Mountains. She has bested monsters that would make a seasoned adventurer turn white with fear. On her return from battle with the Dragon Knight, she flees...

I had only popped to the village for groceries when the storm came on - rain unlike anything I'd ever seen before, hammering down from the skies. Within seconds I was soaked to the skin and lost in between pelting sheets of stinging cold grey rain. Rubbing my freezing arms and shivering in my thin...

Jo Davis is in a rut - lonely, closed-off, and secluded, she passes her time writing and running. All of that changes when a shaft of light appears from the night sky, blinding Jo and bringing her from her own quiet lonely world into one where she meets an explorer called Calida. In the beautiful...

It's a long, hot summer, and Jen needs to blow off some steam. When someone new - someone attractive - starts taking the same train as her into work, Jen decides to pass the short, stifling hot journey with a harmless flirtation. As the days pass, Jen gets bolder until she takes the plunge and acts...