Books published by Ogden Imprint

In 1999, during East Timor's violent struggle for independence, Australian marine biologist Professor Marcus Glasson watched helplessly as a brutal militia leader abducted eight-year-old Noi de Jesus.It takes eighteen years for him to fulfil his promise to rescue her. What he discovers could help him achieve his dream.A rare sea worm, found in the volcanic vents under the Banda Sea, is the source of a serum that, when administered to pregnant lab mice renders their offspring immune to all known diseases. The immunity is passed on through following generations, offering the hope of a disease-free world.Discovering the rescued Noi is newly pregnant, Marcus Glasson sees his chance to test the serum on a human and achieve his dying gift to the world.As the unborn child's father was her sadistic abductor, Noi is taken to Yeppoon, Queensland for her safety. There, Marcus succumbs to years of self-testing his own experiments and dies.Noi is now alone in a strange land with no ID.Fooled by an offer of help, she is violently assaulted.As she lies comatose in hospital, the police pigeonhole her as an illegal Asian sex worker and pass the case to the Department of Immigration, where researcher Kailee Banks must decide the girl's origin.What she uncovers sets her, Noi and her unborn baby on a dangerous course.The estranged adult son and daughter from the Professor's failed marriage have their hopes of a rich inheritance shattered when they learn their father has been living a secret life in Dili, and a codicil has been added to his Will. They conspire with the baby's father for a mutually beneficial outcome.Death, greed, corruption, betrayal and the race to find another worm threaten the survival of Noi and her miracle baby.It takes the Banda Sea to determine the outcome.

Sixty-four years have passed since the end of WWII and the rampart walls of the former Jewish Ghetto, TEREZN, have yet to divulge all the secrets they were built to hide.That is until graffiti dauber Briney Ruza begins having connections with the walls she paints on. Each graffiti is posted on social media as part of her own cheeky game. One particular painting catches the interest of ageing Ghetto surviver Evzen Kravitz, who has never given up hope of one day finding the one item stolen from the parents he lost boarding a death train to Auschwitz.Briney is enticed to Prague thinking this interest in her painting comes from her estranged mother. There she faces the truthand Evzen. Together, through their testy relationship, they uncover much more than expected including corrupt dealings that fleeced many owners and descendants wishing to reclaim property lost to the Nazis and the scheme financing the rise of the neo-nazis.Briney also has her own personal secrets and when she meets Goth lesbian Zoja in Prague, the lives of everyone she meets will forever changeor forever be lost.

Aboriginal Trooper Lewis Dunbar of the Australian 2nd Light Horse Brigade should be elated. The war said to end all wars is finally over and he is being sent home after two years of battle in the Arabian desertsbut he's not!';The horses are staying!' came the order.He cannot abandon Spade, the horse he reared, drove cattle on and faced death in many battles with. He will desert the army and ride off into the Sinai desert to find a new life together.But his plan goes astray when A'isha, a mute Bedouin girl, steals Spade. With Lewis chasing on foot, so begins the perilous journey of two nomads from different continents into the unforgiving heat and sparseness of the desert and the battles against those who threaten them along the way.The winds of the Sinai not only whip up Djinn spirits, good and evil, but awaken those that live inside the three.A gripping tale that builds to a confrontation of all the hidden forces.