Author: lillianaanderson

Always forward. Never back. I’ve lived my life to that mantra. The past should stay in the past, buried along with the discomfort and heartache.Always forward.I’m at the top of my game, dubbed as Australia’s most popular celebrity chef by Voyeur magazine. I’m the youngest chef to ever get a Michelin Star. I’ve travelled the world, thrown everything I have at my career, and I have zero regrets. … I have at my career, and I have zero regrets. Never back.Then I receive an invite to a reunion. Suddenly that past I’ve buried comes flooding back: the girl I waited…

A rock star walks into a room and chokes a movie star before throwing a chair through the window…Sounds like the start of a bad joke. But it’s my reality when I get caught up in the midst of a paparazzi storm brought on by my best friend and her secrets. As a journalist, I’m normally on the other side of the news. When I spend a night hiding from the cameras with Australia’s hottest commodity, … with Australia’s hottest commodity, movie star Jonathan Masters, I’m thrust into the spotlight and it’s not a fun place to be.I want my…

Be careful what you wish for, my mother said. I wished to be a rockstar. And my wish came true. I am the biggest musical talent Australia has ever exported.And I’ve never been more miserable. Constantly on the road, singing to packed stadiums, having any woman I want; it’s supposed to be the dream. And at first it was cool—it was epic—but now it’s… hollow. It’s an endless sea of faces screaming … hollow. It’s an endless sea of faces screaming by name and not a single one of them knowing the real me. I’m lonely. I miss the band.…

Marcus and Theo Bailey. Matiari frontman and drummer. Brothers. They’re on the cusp of rock star success. Then I show up… We have history.Sordid history. One of them hates me. The other claims to love me. Neither are allowed to touch me. Band rules. But working this close to them, the lines of love and hate, business and pleasure are easily blurred. Now I have the power to fulfil their dreams … Band rules. But working this close to them, the lines of love and hate, business and pleasure are easily blurred. Now I have the power to fulfil their…

Everything happens for a reason. So they say, anyway. But, after ruining the best relationship I ever had, I’m struggling to see a reason behind it. Instead, I loathe the man I’ve become. I’m a coward. Somewhere along the way, I stopped living my own life in favour of living for my father instead. What he wants for me, and what I want for myself are two different things. And if I don’t do … things. And if I don’t do something drastic, I’ll lose my balls forever. I need a new direction.Boarding a plane to London, I have only…

“Are you dating him?”I’ve been best friends with David since we were nine, and that question has been asked about us a lot. It’s like people can’t fathom how a super hot, charismatic guy can be just friends with an overly tall, boyish-figured girl. Wait. I think they probably can, because the next question is always a hopeful, “He’s single?”David is always single. But, he’s never wanting. Girls … single?”David is always single. But, he’s never wanting. Girls throw themselves at his feet like he’s some kind of rockstar. But not me. No. I’m just his friend; a fact he…

Divorced and ready for a fresh start, Darcy and her kids move into her grandmother’s small-town retirement community. But with zany octogenarians, an overzealous matchmaker, and one handsome football hero, Darcy is about to get more than she bargained for…

My job had a very specific goal: I found people who didn’t want to be found and delivered them to whoever employed me. After that, well, I tried not to think about what happened while I spent my money on things that made me happy. Resorts, men…I lived life by the seat of my pants because I never knew where I’d be the next week, or who I’d be looking for. When the head of a lesser-known criminal … criminal family hired me to find her son, I wasn’t sure what I was walking into. I had his photo, so…

I’m a tomboy through and through. But when the man of my dreams walks through my door, I want to be all woman. But that’s not how I roll….Skirts and dresses, makeup and perfume. Things I knew nothing about. With my red hair and lanky body, I was just one of the guys. The ‘cool’ girl they hung out with but rarely dated seriously. Not that I had time for relationships anymore. Ever since my grandad … anymore. Ever since my grandad passed, I’d been working day and night to try and salvage the failing locksmith business he’d spent his…

I didn’t have an easy life. Waiting tables for a function centre was about as good as life got for me. There were no tips—unless telling me I had a great arse could be considered a tip—but it was enough for me to live on, barely. Everything else I needed, I took. And I was never caught, except that one time when these brothers and some weird chick busted me for stealing their car. It was their … fault I took it. They shouldn’t have left their keys where I could find them. And it was a sweet ride; I…