Somerset Stories

Open Novella contest 2023 (Prompts 73 and maybe 20?) What happened Maddie-Rose? Hundred of years ago Maddie-Rose was a powerful goddess, with the love of her life Oliver on her mind. One day her mother walks into her daughter's temple and finds her grandson alone with no sign of his parents. Now in the modern day, cousins Katie and Frankie will be going on a school trip. Along with Uncle Tom and Miss Adams.

18 years on from a brief but successful pop career, Nella Castle is a woman reinvented. Now a Church of England Curate in a group of sleepy rural parishes, she is forced to face her past as her world collides with the one she thought she'd left in 2004. When one of her churches becomes the centre of a murder investigation, Nella finds that the spotlight she has worked so hard to get out of is back on her. This book is a 'clerical murder mystery' for the Millennial generation, combining a classic parochial whodunnit with themes of early 00s pop culture, identity, breaking from the past, and obsessive fandom reminiscent of Swifties and Free Britney.

Sophie Adams’s life is about to change forever. She and Dad are moving to Somerset where a new mum and a bunch of brand-new sisters await. On Sophie’s first day there her eyes are fixed on the gorgeous Luke Fletcher. But Luke already has a girlfriend, Sophie’s new stepsister Jennifer. Sophie knows her friendship with Luke is dangerous- it could destroy everything. But that doesn’t mean that she’s going to stay away from him……

Jack, a boy from a small country school with polite students and teachers, has his life changed when he moves to hackney comprehensive. A school full of rowdy teenagers and teachers willing to turn a blind eye on the kids who take drugs and smoke for the safety of there life's!