** Winner of the 2014 Wattys Instant Addiction Award ** Book 1 of the SEIZE THE DAY series In a world of magic and chaos, seventeen-year-old Lannie Brackenbury has only ever wanted to be alone in Aria. Two years after her mother's death, Lannie has finally found a place in the world where she can live peacefully. Bu...
** Go and read Books I and II first, please! ^_^ ** They are presented as a combined book, back over in my profile page. Book III provides some needed background to the Nephilim. It also ties things up nicely for the three friends. A book of endings. It is presented in 3 parts. I hope you guys like it. Thank you all s...
In embarking on a journey to unveil his father's long held secret, a young man finds that in the end, what he discovers is himself. This story is based on the life of my father. Book II is about 90 percent true. :-) For those of you who wonder what 'Hainan Dao' means: Hainan is the island at the southernmost tip of Ch...
(The sequel to Inamorata) Death has long been a subject that preys upon Nightingale's mind. Her life has never been a safe one, not with her past in the bordello and her occupation as a government agent. Death has always been close to her; she used to long for it in her suffering, and now she fears that it will take a...
Veronica Kelly came to Africa to start her life over. Still reeling from her divorce, she is grateful when a handsome stranger invites her to join a tour to visit gorillas in Uganda's wild Impenetrable Forest. A trip that goes desperately wrong when their group is captured by brutal gunmen. Then one tourist is execut...
A collection of paranormal, horror and fantasy short stories woven around old legends, odd characters, the occasional werewolf and the darkness within, some of which have been published or picked up the odd award. There are things you cannot see unless they want to be seen, and some legends linger on despite the mod...
You are now reading Books I and II in a combined format. They are presented here as a single volume. Book I is about a thirteen year old boy's journey into magical healing. It is a time of awakening. Awakening to who you are, what you are meant to be, of friends and young love, of power and its use for good or evil. B...
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This novel is an adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Blind since birth, Elle Duncan has only ever known darkness, but lack of sight has never hindered her ability to perceive the beauty of the world. Her kind and gentle soul is put to the test when her father sustains an injury that threatens their livelihood, and in...
Science Fiction / Alternative History - His life's work complete, Dr Marvin Ledbetter leaves the known universe and journeys backwards through time. But where would you go, what would you want to see? Dinosaurs? Elvis? Who killed JFK? What would happen if your time machine went wrong and started doing things that you...
Layla has traveled all over the world as a stewardess, hoping to escape the memories she left behind in her hometown. After an accident on a flight forces her back to Geneva, Layla is forced to face the tragedy and broken family she left behind in the small upstate New York town, and realizes that sometimes emotional...
In this spin off sequal to the Last Dance, Talia, a Lady in every sense of the word, begins training at the Queen's Shield Academy for Lady Knights upon the insistance of her mother, a woman determined to seat her daughter upon the throne. But after a disasterous first impression will Talia be caught in her dance of d...
Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer...
In the balmy seaside kingdom of Astolat, Princess Gwenifver led a peaceful and content existence, training to claim the throne and unite her kingdom with Camelot's through marriage -- until Uther Pendragon swept in and killed her father and slaughtered her people for her father's supposed treachery. Gwen flees her fal...
Power is a modern pick-a-path book. Each fortnight I will write a new chapter based on what you choose! Power will follow Freya, a young girl in a hostile world. But I can't tell you much more than that, as you are the one who will decide what happens next.
It was hard for Charlotte to let go of her best friend, Dalton, the boy she fell in love since she was nine years old, to make way for her sister, Caroline, who happens to be in love with him too. It was hard for her but in order to make someone happy, even if it meant sacrificing her own, she was willing to let go. I...
"He glanced around the kitchen, scanning the state-of-the-art worktops, the assortments of cookbooks strewn everywhere and the various baking ingredients that were cluttering the shelves. 'So,' he asked, obviously impressed, 'you cook?' I nodded, a smug smile set upon my face. 'Well then, I'll have you know, I like my...
Starting over is hard enough. But when your past keeps coming back to haunt you, it can make moving on from a bad thing even worse. Kate McDouglas is a woman snatched from her old life & transplanted into a new world full of possibility. It's up to her to make the choice to stand strong in the face of adversity, and t...
A boy falls in love with a check out girl at his local supermarket.
A boy buys a mysterious camera which takes strange photographs of another time. [Written in 2008].
Harry Archibald is a little boy with an obsession. He wants to talk to the people of the moon. There's just one problem, he can't find a way to get a message to them. Until now. [Written in 2010][#17 in Science Fiction - 29/05/12].
Trey doesn't know what he wants in life. He lives in the not too distant future where people trade caps for money and take drugs to experience human emotion. Trey doesn't know whether he wants to find himself or a new world entirely. [Written in 2009].
Okay, this one's tricky! See if it throws you for a loop near the end. Don't say I didn't warn you...! A story of two brothers and a time of growing up.
Remember science class and looking at a piece of onion skin under the microscope? It's still onion skin, but it appears completely different when you look it in a different light. People can be like that too. A little boy finds out that his relationship with his grandfather is not exactly what he had thought.
How many of you out there have ever taken piano lessons? How many of you out there were nearly driven crazy by them? This is a story of a daughter and her mother. And a little bit about piano lessons. For you writers out there, this is the challenge. How do you write a story wherein of the only two characters in it, o...
A man wakes from a coma after a car accident. He has lost his memory. If it were you, you'd believe what your friends and loved ones told you, and pick up the pieces from there, wouldn't you? Or would you...?
When Love Runs Red is set in Victorian England and is a mad mix of magic, romance and vampires. "It's Alice In Wonderland, Meets Buffy The Vampire Slayer." Charlotte Elizabeth Watson is a seventeen year old Victorian noble's daughter. Raised to be a 'proper lady', she finds life hard to bear, especially with her wild...
In a Broken City, filled with warring tribes, lives: A girl with no future A man with no past A little lost boy And those who seek to find him.... ....Welcome to Deeta's world. Deeta Richards has never seen the outside world. Before she was born a banking crisis brought civilization to an end and now no one leaves the...
Sixteen year-old Ireland Brady is sure she's losing her mind. After a horrific car accident leaves her barely clinging to life, she wakes from a coma with a renewed sense of gratitude to a world more surreal than she could have imagined, a world which includes Orion Alexander. Darkly handsome, Orion is cool and confid...
