Bücher von Patrick Morgan

Follow your passion to whatever end.Everybody wants Lance Lonergan to settle down. Get a good normal job, meet a good normal girl, live a good normal life.But Lance wants so much more than that. He didn't move across the country to stand in front of the bright lights of Hollywood and only be an average actor. Lance is determined to be the very best.A random, intimate encounter with an alluring woman proves fateful when that same woman materializes at Lance's latest audition as high-powered casting director Selene Blackwood. Sensing an opportunity, Lance leverages the situation into a major career advancement and begins a symbiotic relationship with Selene.Under the magic of Selene's influence, all sorts of new doors open for Lance-both professionally and personally. But as lines blur and the connection heats up between them, the question begins to emerge: who's using who actually?

Where hate cannot find you...Not so very long ago, Alex Washington had a loving wife, a beautiful home, an adorable dog, and a fulfilling career that fed her soul. And then came the virus, the political unrest, the chaos and violence...With the death of society came the destruction of everything Alex knew and held dear. Forced to flee a crumbling civilization, she took up shelter in a remote summer vacation house turned makeshift forest fortress. All she has left now is her will to persevere and survive-even if only for one day at a time.But though she may think she's safe in a world of solitude, stockpiling, and sanctuary, Alex is far from alone.

Paradise has a price...¿It isn't just a job, it's his dream job. This is everything he's worked for and everything he deserves. One job offer, and Ethan Birch's life changes forever.Given immense creative control, power, and perks, Ethan falls deeply under the company's spell. His Beverly Hills office is a modern mecca, complete with every imaginable convenience and delight. Employees walk around barefoot on floors of summer grass while flowering cornucopias bloom from the ceiling; a utopian fantasyland the likes of which he's never imagined.But beneath this paradise, a dark conspiracy breathes. Ethan soon begins to realize that to have everything he's ever wanted, he'll have to sacrifice everything he's ever loved.

A love without dimension...After a devastating car crash leaves him in a coma for nearly two months, seventeen-year-old David Abbott finally awakens one night in a hospital. Miraculously, he seems to have made a near-complete recovery, except in one crucial area: his memory. Nothing about his life, from his hometown to his own parents, seems familiar. Desperate to fill this void, David visits the scene of his accident. Instead of answers, he finds a young girl, near dead and alone in the woods. The mystery around his own memories only deepens when she awakens and makes a series of unbelievable claims-including that she has been searching for him across time and space.David dismisses her stories as crazed fever dreams at first. But the more time he spends with this enigmatic yet enchanting stranger, the more he starts to question his so-called reality. If what he feels for her is real, could her fantastical vision of their alternate life together be real as well?

The Mannix Era covers the main actors, organizations, events and issues in the archdiocese from 1920-1970. The narrative has four heroes: Dr Mannix, the Archdiocese itself, its weekly newspaper The Advocate, and the well organised Catholic community. It is the story of a Catholic archdiocese in which initiatives were encouraged, to become under Dr Mannix the most energetic in Australia, a self-aware community with high participation rates, but suddenly and unexpectedly, it came to a shattering crash with the great Labor split of the mid 1950s.This book is a sequel to the author's Melbourne Before Mannix. Patrick Morgan was educated at St Bernard's CBC, Moonee Ponds, and at the University of Melbourne. He taught English at the Clayton and Churchill campuses of Monash University and has written and edited books on topics where religion, politics and history intersect. He is a frequent contributor to Quadrant, Tintean and other journals.