When Christmas comes to the sleepy town of Hillbury, so does a love letter for Holly Ambrose - a love letter from a secret admirer. Amidst the yuletide balls and Christmas cheer of Victorian England, Holly vows to uncover the source of the letter, but will the self-avowed intellectual fall in love in the process? This...
Shatter (verb) - to smash into pieces; to destroy hope or belief. Ellie Morgan has everything going for her- talent, good friends, and Conner, the perfect boyfriend who she openly states is her entire life. Having just graduated, she is looking forward to moving on from small town life; her only regret, lea...
Shadows of the Lost Child is set in two time periods, the present and the past (early twentieth century). THE PRESENT Aleph Jones is running away but the house he ends up in turns out to be haunted. Or is it just him? For Aleph has a dark secret that’s changed his life. Cressida Sewell needs Aleph’s help. Her daughter...
A newly expanded and professionally edited version of the Boy in the Woods is now available for sale as an ebook and paperback! Buy it at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and many other online outlets. Winner of the 2014 Wattys Talk of the Town award. After a devastating accident takes Jess's parents, a c...
When Catherine receives a shocking call, whilst shopping in Waitrose, her life falls apart. She cannot believe this is happening to her, it is too hideous to contemplate. Her carefully crafted social status is about to collapse, and all because of her disappointing daughter. What has her precious girl done to upset he...
It is Christmas 1528, Catherine of Aragon is still very much Queen and Anne Boleyn is exhausted from keeping the Tudor King entertained. In this short story, she reflects on her life and how she has found herself not a mistress but not yet Henry's VIII's wife. She consults a fortune teller who gives her mixed predic...
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1558. Elizabeth, the last of King Henry's heirs, is a traitor's daughter. Now, she is England's last hope. After five gruesome years, Bloody Mary is on her deathbed. She lives her sister Elizabeth a daunting inheritance: the throne of England. The bishops will not anoint a heretic. A foreign queen plots for the throne...
The vast majority of the writing I have seen on this website is worth less than the change I left upon your mother's nightstand. That means that, by statistical likelihood, your writing probably sucks too. Not in whole, mind you, but when it comes to a few of the trickier bits, you find yourself staring at a blank s...
While I'm not a published author, I like to believe I've learnt a lot already about writing in general. This is a collection of articles, thoughts and personal experiments about our craft.
Pirates! Rum! Pirates! More rum! Naked pirates! What would it be like to find yourself among the scurvy dogs of a dread pirate crew? Follow our hero in a rum soaked adventure from the slums of Bristol to English Tangier. Will there be romance? Will there be danger, treasure or betrayal? Sail on the next tide to f...
From the minute she is sent to Hatfield, Mary Tudors' life, would never be the same again. When Mary Tudor receives the letter she has been dreading for years, it changes her world more than she ever could have imagined. The once indulged and sheltered heir to the throne of England, Mary is cast into the brutal and ha...
Despite living thirty miles from London, Anabelle Latimer knows her chances of finding a husband in their sleepy village are as thin as cook's white soup. Then she discovers a kindred spirit in Mr. Fielding, the intelligent and handsome new steward from Blackwood Hall. It was a great shame that his position in life wa...
Princess Ileana Victoria Adelaide, Princess Royal, is the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and back home from her finishing school. Her head is full of all the modern sensibilities of progress. Unfortunately, her mother does not share her enthusiasm. Instead of talking development and new inventions, built to improve...
Betrayed, imprisoned, and accused of witchcraft... Changeling is the first in a new series for young adult readers - Order of Darkness - from bestselling author Philippa Gregory, now available in paperback. The year is 1453 and all signs point to it being the end of the world. Accused of heresy and expelled from his mo...
"This is a truly special book, one that captured my heart from the very first line...THE ASTONISHING THING feels like a bit of a miracle and we all could use a miracle." --Holly Chamberlin, author of Seashell Season and Summer With My Sisters
Medieval Scotland (Pictland) 650 AD Several tragic deaths... a misunderstanding, and an escape from certain death. After his father's violent death, Kieran and his mother escape to neutral lands. On the cusp of adulthood, the past catches up with him and takes everything he had... well almost. As he struggles with...
In the midst of a storm conjured by a witch's wind Anne Neville's story is only just beginning. Second daughter of England's most powerful noble, Anne's childhood was lived in the shadows surrounded by bloody civil war and overpowered by her elder sister. When her fathers ploys to make her sister queen fail Anne fin...
January, 1915 Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England In the midst of the first world war, lives 17 year old heiress Elsie Kingston, who is at her first soiree. What she doesn’t know is that night, German aeroplanes will invade the town. And the accident will change her life forever. Now, her father is determined to see her we...
Something mysterious happened in 1838... Athenia Reynalds, a 14 year old minx is fed up with her strict parents and dull life. She longs for excitement and adventure... She will make many choices along her quest to find happiness - but will she realise when things are not quite as they seem? Full of suspense, love, h...
"Antiquities of Furness", first published in 1769 purports to give the definitive History of this region of England from the Stone Age to the middle of the eighteenth century. Many of the connections made, and explanations given, in this book now seem implausible and in some cases even hilarious. "The Drustone " is a...
Aethelwin is a Peaceweaver. Niece to the King of Northumbria, she is married at the age of 13 in order to strengthen support against Aelle, the would be usurper of King Osbert's throne. But guaranteeing the support of strangers who have their own agendas is no easy task. Aethelwin finds herself not only on the wrong s...
During her last years my cousin Anne devoted a great deal of time to researching family history. On her death I inherited a black box file bearing the name , William Benson. William Benson was my father. I have no real recollection of him. Of course, I have family pictures inherited from my mother, but most of them a...
The house known as Pemberley stands in an isolated valley on the edge of the High Peak, as intriguing and inaccessible as Sleeping Beauty's briar-shrouded castle. To historian Liz Pargeter it's a mystery to be solved. How can a stately home of such importance have sunk into obscurity? What happened to the former owne...
Amy Dudley's untimely death in 1560 implicates Queen Elizabeth the 1st, in murder. Katherine vows vengeance for her forsaken mistress. When young Katherine discovers Amy dead at the bottom of a stone staircase she knows she has been murdered. The year is 1560 and she vows to take revenge on Amy's errant husband, Rober...
