Tom Long

In the Waking World, Jonas Anderson works as a doorman for the Eden Hotel, dividing his free time between seeing his girlfriend, Samantha Birnham-Wood, and visiting his comatose brother Alan. In the Dream World, he is Poet Anderson, a Dream Walker, a guardian of the Dreamscape charged with protecting sleeping innocents from the nightmares that threaten both worlds. But Jonas remains tormented by his own nightmare-his failure to rescue Alan from the...

Talan Skeels-Piggins was paralysed in 2003 when a car side-swiped him and he ploughed his motorbike head-on into oncoming traffic. He was told he had just a 30 percent chance of survival and would never walk again if he lived. Today, Talan and a team of three disabled riders continue to strap themselves to motorbikes and race against able bodied competitors in one of the most dangerous sports on the planet.

Just as Laura decides it's time to move things forward with Diver Dan, his ex-wife pounces into town. Dorothy is sassy, sexy, and suing Bob Jelly. Bob's indiscretion ruined her employment prospects in Port Deakin. During the case, Laura finds it hard to repress her competitiveness. As the trial progresses, it becomes clear that Dorothy may be forced to reveal compromising information.

Carmen, Meredith's free-spirited niece, breezes into town and quickly confides in her aunt that she is both pregnant and on the run from the law. Three chefs storm into town to testify against Carmen, who posed as a restaurant critic in order to obtain free meals. Feeling a little insecure in the kitchen herself, Laura approaches Diver Dan for a few cooking lessons.

With Katrina having absconded with the savings of the entire town, Bob Jelly is contemplating suicide. But when Katrina is caught red-handed through the combined efforts of Max and Sergeant Grey, the town's fortunes take a turn for the better, and then the worse, and then the better again. During this roller-coaster, Bob and Sergeant Grey each face their own moral dilemmas.

As the news of Carmen and Max's affair infiltrates the town, Carmen heads to the city, feigning excitement about a job interview. Max feels guilty, but Carmen insists she is not leaving Pearl Bay because of him. When the new local administrator forms plans to build a tunnel between Pearl Bay and Port Deakin, Meredith and Bob form an unlikely alliance and call for a complete Port Deakin boycott.

A big night out on the town results in a car flying off Pearl Bay's condemned bridge. Several of the locals are under suspicion until Grey points the finger at Reg, the local garbage collector with a drinking problem. If Laura sentences such a popular local, she risks alienation, and when she isn't invited to a Jelly bash, she decides it is time she conformed with the local women.

In just 24 hours, corporate lawyer Laura Gibson's life is decimated. She is passed up for partnership, her son is expelled, and she discovers her husband has squandered their life savings and has been cheating on her. Desperate to escape, she accepts a job as magistrate of a small coastal town and packs her kids into the station wagon, headed for Pearl Bay.

Laura is reluctant to spread the news of her impending marriage, but she is keen to sever all legal ties with Jack. However, when Jack pays Laura what he owes, she feels unexpectedly hollow. Construction work finally begins on the tunnel site, arousing Max's curiosity, and he's not shy about sharing what he finds. Wife-less and facing a lengthy prison sentence, Bob Jelly decides to end it all.

Trouble in the ranks, backstabbing, and a raging hungi debate...Laura couldn't have picked a worse time to join the Women's Auxiliary. Her sojourn into the world of sponge cake and tea rooms is soon cut short by club president Vicki Drury, whose husband soon lands himself in Laura's court. On assignment at a toxic waste dump, Max and Carmen's squabbling takes a personal turn.