Holy Moly
Something in the mountains is feeding on despair…
Katie vanished after stopping for coffee in a quiet Blue Mountains town. No one knows what happened to her, but Claudia can feel something closing in.
Since childhood, Claudia has possessed a strange ability. Frightened of what might happen if she ever pushed it too far, she has limited herself to “small corrective actions” – minor interventions that gently nudge the world back into balance. However, following a devastating betrayal, Claudia’s own world is coming unstuck.
While Katie languishes in a concrete cell fighting for her life, a malevolent force is drawing the two women together, feeding on their emotional pain, twisting their grief and shame into something far more dangerous.
To save Katie, Claudia must sacrifice her own recovery to unleash the full might of a power she barely understands.
Set against the haunting backdrop of the Blue Mountains, Holy Moly is a supernatural thriller about survival, trauma, and the terrifying forces that prey on us when we are at our weakest.
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Coming Soon
HELL’S BELLS
For anyone who has ever done something really stupid …
When the host of The Sunny Morning Breakfast Show, Tony Healey, wakes from a drunken, drug-fuelled blackout, he is overwhelmed by the sheer scale of his lapse in judgement. Dying of thirst under a scorching sun, his phone is dead and all around him is nothing but baking red dirt for as far as the eye can see.
With his career hanging in the balance and his wife threatening divorce, Tony needs to get out in front of this.
On the run with two fugitives, Tony’s situation is going from bad to worse. Who are these criminals and what do they want with him?
Also … and not to put too fine a point on it … where the hell are they?
Coming Soon
HAIRPIN
For anyone who has ever found themselves in a lonely place …
When his wife, Margot, dies after a battle with cancer, Alan struggles to find a new way of life. How is he going to handle people without Margot?
When his grandson, Henry, goes missing, Alan is forced to confront more than Henry’s disappearance. Thrust into the centre of the investigation, Alan must manage his own grief whilst mending the rift with his daughter and draw on strengths he never knew he had.
Because somewhere out there, Henry is still alive.
And time is running out.
About the Author
Melissa Dufficy writes suspenseful, emotionally charged fiction about ordinary people pushed to their limits. Her work explores personal resilience, humour and creativity, and the enduring strength of family and friendship. Holy Moly is the first in a loosely connected trilogy. Hells Bells and Hairpin are currently in development.
Melissa lives in the beautiful coastal town of Newcastle, Australia.
You can contact her at melissadufficy@gmail.com.