When the dysfunctional Twinklebottom family inherited a grand old manor house, it seemed like the perfect escape to the country.

But hungry jealous eyes were watching, and when indecent blackmail letters started to arrive, the equally dysfunctional servants decided to try and help.

The escape to the country then soon became chaos in the country.

On the eve of 1939 twenty-year-old Bess Dudley, trainee teacher and daughter of a groom, bumps into James, heir to the Foxden Estate. Bess and James played together as equals when they were children, but now James is engaged to the more socially acceptable Annabel Hadleigh.

Bess takes up a teaching post in London but when war breaks out and London...

For Alec Dunlop, on a sabbatical to Kenya, the short trip to Laikipia was meant to be therapeutic. Instead he almost lost his life when he encountered the ferocious looking Samburu and his cohort of ivory poachers. ‘The Ivory Towers’, unraveled when Alec was stopped by customs officials at Heathrow Airport. Yet a few days earlier he was convinced that, in...

Fashion designer Thérèse D’Alesandro has recently moved into Westhead Manor with daughter Felicia and stepson Marco. Joining forces with neighbour Ella Benedict, she is about to open a bridal boutique at Ella’s exclusive wedding venue Lawns at Little Court.

Managing his father’s European restaurant chain, Marco has both the looks and charm to guarantee him...

When Belfast’s tourism boom leads to the building of a new hotel, no-one could have anticipated what the development would uncover. The building yields a secret that sets the Belfast Murder Squad hunting for a killer from the past, and reveals a desperately sad personal story and an international fraud.

Meanwhile Craig’s work and personal lives grow...

Melissa Finch thought living in the Cotswolds was a million miles from her previous life. She assumed her abusive ex would never find her there.

Despite distance, time and his new love, he still found a way.

A compelling story of one woman's experience of domestic violence, thinking she had escaped and then…

He Came Back.

Do you wonder what it’s like to go backpacking? At the age of sixty-two, Hazel bought a ‘Round the World’ ticket, rented her cottage out for a year and spent the time exploring eighteen countries, mostly travelling solo.

Never having travelled alone before and with poor navigational skills, Hazel had no idea how she would cope.

To her delight she found...

1949

After receiving treatment for shell shock in Canada, Claire's husband disappears.

Has Mitch left her for the woman he talks about in his sleep? Or is he on the run from accusations of wartime treachery?

Claire goes to France in search of the truth, aided by old friends from the Resistance.

It’s London in the 1980s and for a small group of academics, headed by radiologist Roland Lewin, time travel has arrived. At first, their greatest concern is how to travel into the past without leaving ‘footprints’ which might change the present (and possibly already have!) But, before long, Lewin begins to realise that all is not quite as it seems and...

At the beginning of World War II Claire Dudley joins the WAAF. She excels in languages and is recruited by the Special Operations Executive to work in German occupied France with Captain Alain Mitchell, of the RCAF, and the French Resistance.

Against SOE rules Claire falls in love. The affair has to be kept secret. Even after her lover falls into...

A story of old secrets and new memories on the Greek island of Holkamos.

Miriam had something on her mind and it needed sorting. What she had planned wouldn't go down well with her daughter Heather and Granddaughter Amy, but there was no going back; the tickets were booked she had to face the island again.

Heather was single and she loved her life...

This anthology is a collection of supernatural, uncanny or mysterious short stories and both comic and serious poems, all interspersed with short flashes of fiction.

Threads of Awen showcases the author as storyteller and entertainer.

Emily is rapidly approaching fifty and thinks her life is just plain sailing.

When her husband leaves her for a twenty five year old and her dad dies, it leaves her facing an uncertain and lonely future. She has two friends, Sally who is a gold digger yet hopeless in love and the pretty but dippy Dawn a police officer, who each have their own...

At twenty-four years old, Phoebe Marcham is resigned to spinsterhood, unwilling to settle for anything less than the deep love her parents had shared. That is, until adventurer Duncan Armstrong rides into her home wood, larger than life and with laughter in his eyes and more charm in his little finger than anyone she’s ever met.

Far from...

When a man and woman are found murdered near one of Northern Ireland’s beauty spots, in a way that’s similar to victims discovered over the previous year, the Belfast Murder Squad is called in.

What Craig’s team uncovers leads them to a decades old happening, a centuries old method of killing, and a killer more disturbed than any that they’ve met before.

THE...