*** The Wattpad #1 and a Most Read Award Winner *** Hubble, bubble, the witch is in trouble, the ballerina's broken and the vet's in disgrace. Living in the Lakes is going to be murder. When Patrick's photographed in flagrante with a local beauty queen, his father delivers an ultimatum: one more newspaper scandal and Patrick will be disowned - no house and no job at the family veterinary practice. Desperate not to lose his easy life in the country, Patrick needs to avoid trouble - and girls like Libby. Until she moved to the Lakes, Libby hadn't had sex on a first date, let alone indulged in a one-night-stand. But after flings with the local policeman and a married man, her morals unravel causing the local rag to dub her 'The Libertine'. Infamous and still mourning her previous career as a ballerina, Libby casts a Wicca spell to summon a new love. Good-looking, honest, non-brown eyes, English, likes animals... in a nutshell: Patrick, a man she's never met. But fighting Libby's love spell will be the least of Patrick's problems when an old lady dies from a ketamine overdose. The drug was stolen from his surgery and she's the third pensioner to die in as many months. Tongues will wag. ***** Caution ***** While Distraction is rated PG13, it does contain strong language and scenes of a sexual nature. Please don't read it if these things offend you. Cx

An Amazon best seller THE POTTER'S DAUGHTER really is a special story of a woman's relationships with her father, her past, and the new man in her life. * * * * * After a promise to her dying mother, Abby Bellen, the estranged daughter of an aging ceramic artist, feels obligated to return to her home on Willow Lake to put her father's life in order. Years have passed since Abby fled the home of her youth and a past she would rather forget. Now Abby has no choice other than confrontation as the long buried rift that exists between the two surfaces and they must together face the failures of their misspent relationship as she discovers, with the help of new romance Mitch Carlson, what she needs to make herself whole. * * * * * The complete novel is available on Amazon or you can listen to the audio podcast here http://bit.ly/pdpcast

A fairytale yes. With an ending, yes. Happy ever after? Perhaps.

Six months ago, Frank McQuire’s life changed forever when he attended a business seminar called “Sales is a Jungle.” The presentation taught Frank to rule over the sales force of his company. Since the presentation, Frank has been able to conquer his competitors one by one. Now he will face his greatest enemy, the lazy but somehow successful, Paul. Frank believes that his boss has sprung a trap for Paul that will allow Frank to easily take him down. As Frank moves in for the kill, he realizes that he is the one actually being set up and is no longer fighting to rule the jungle but to survive.

Sylvie, 16, sees colours, where other people only hear words or feel emotions. She knows she has to keep this a secret - as people disappear to institutions if they get sick in the mind. *** Sylvie likes to dress in Lolita outfits and dreams of becoming an architect. She doesn't understand why she has to get married. It's a government efficiency - have children younger, work harder, longer. She wants to find love on her own terms. Her parents force her into an arranged marriage with Alistair - he's a town planner, an obsessive gamer and has weird tendencies. On her honeymoon, she meets the love of her life, Jarvis ... Now she has to find a way to be with him ... *Originally published on Wattpad in 2014. A major rewrite in 2020-21.

Danny Foster is a typical teenager on the surface. The third child after two high achieving sisters, he just blends into the household, barely noticed. When his sister, Theresa, is paralyzed in a car crash on her way home for Thanksgiving break her freshman year of college, his world is upended and he sinks further into the background. When he finally gets away to college and meets Kim, his sister's double, he must confront issues that have haunted him his entire life.

Chrissy Barker returns to her home town after 34 years away, unsure whether she caused the death of her best friend in 1973. A dark tale of oppressive friendship and the fallibility of memory. Chrissy does not remember the past or, if she does, it's with a photographer's eye - she understands the fallacy. Human lives are albums of brief snapshots - perceptions - with no coherent links. Back in her hometown for the first time in 34 years, she aims to liquidate her inheritance rapidly and leave. She has no reason to stay. Thoughts of childhood & youth, the only man she ever loved, and a drunken argument with her closest friend in 1973 have been purposefully neglected since she ran away. But the past returns, unbidden and cloudy, when she re-encounters elderly neighbour, Alice, and her only other childhood friend, Marion. Neither seems able or willing to fill in the gaps. Each appears to hold a different snapshot album of her life. When she discovers Spencer, the nihilistic lover she assumed dead, alive and producing commercial art for tourists, she must question beliefs which have driven her for 34 years. Memories of the events leading up to Pat's death will need to be recovered if she’s to find out what it is she's been running away from all those years.

When Arthur killed Elvis, he thought he'd made the biggest mistake of his career. He wasn't even close. Having picked up the wrong man at the airport, Vanessa Aldridge can’t imagine what her boss will say. However, when her passenger kills two men, steals the car and abandons her in the centre of Rome dressed only in her lingerie and high heels, she reckons she might be able to take a guess. In jail and out of a job, a visit from a consular official persuades her that the worst is over; and so it is, if you don’t count being kidnapped and forced to cross the Alps on horseback. And she hasn’t even met Arthur Shepherd yet. He’s a cleaner working for Lambeth Council and his chief accountabilities include knifing, shooting, strangling or occasionally shoving under buses, various embarrassments to the nation. But killing isn’t what it used to be. In the old days, enemies dressed badly and lived in Central Europe: nowadays, they’re his line managers. So when a number of his colleagues find themselves on the sticky end of a variety of sharp, heavy or very high velocity bits of metal, Arthur, not unreasonably, thinks he might well be next.