Amazonia

In a story that contrasts the highest ranks of the corporate stratosphere with the raw, elemental power of the Amazon jungle and the high-tech world of biotechnology, three people with a passion to save the world and humanity’s most precious cultural and biological treasure become inextricably ensnared in a race against time to uncover an ancient conspiracy two thousand years in the making.

Amanda – a Would-Be Killer

This tale is about the lives of three people who became friends at university and how their lives became a nightmare.

The beautiful Amanda was torn between Harry and Simon, but was she right to marry Harry when Simon took a job in Norway?

When Simon returned from Norway, he had a great idea and went into business with Harry, maintaining the services of a major hotel group.

One night, Harry was called out as the air conditioning in their client’s major hotel had failed and guests were complaining. On this visit, he saw Simon followed by Amanda coming out of a hotel suite. They were gone before he could get his wits together.

Harry finds out from the hotel’s night porter that this is a regular occurrence so he sets about investigating what is going on. He sets up surveillance cameras and is dismayed what he discovers about Amanda and Simon’s undercover relationship.

When Amanda is told how Simon has been using her, she sets out for revenge and her plan nearly works. At the same time Harry has found out how Simon came into money and set up a disreputable ‘Gentleman’s Club’ where they recruited women from abroad to satisfy their members.

What follows is quite dramatic.

Aftershock

When the ground beneath you starts to shake, there will follow an aftershock…

A normal day dawns, but for two people, lives have taken an unplanned and unwanted path.

Anna can’t remember anything about the night before and struggles to piece together what happened. Mark remembers everything but wishes he didn’t. He even wishes that it hadn’t happened at all.

What follows is the inevitable course of revelation, horror, guilt and shame inflicted on two individuals by the actions of others.

This hard-hitting debut novel highlights the ongoing vulnerability of women and explores the devastating impact of misplaced trust and loyalty.

Africa in my Heart

Africa in my Heart encompasses tragedy, bereavements and recovery as well as protection for the environment and endangered species. It is a murder mystery but at its heart are two love stories: love of a place and romantic love. Beginning with a horrific tragedy, Jessica’s story unfolds against a background of the fight against poaching and her search for her own identity and place in the world. As a result of trying to track down the murderers, Jessica becomes involved with anti-poaching organisations. She and Lawrence become especially involved when they hear there is to be a raid on their friends’ safari park. They go on a mission to save the elephants and rhinos together with the police and anti-poaching organisations. Even as they draw closer together Jessica and Lawrence find themselves in great danger. Can they learn the truth about the murders and save the rhinos and elephants from poachers? How do they themselves escape from mortal danger?

Absent

What happens when you find yourself living a nightmare that you thought only happened to other families? Or that you thought only ever happened in a TV drama?The Spencer family are a hardworking, unassuming, contented, ordinary family – a mother, a father, and three offsprings.Nothing different from anyone else. Until one night, a tragedy unfolds, and their ordinary lives are thrust into total disarray.What they all once knew has all but gone, and now their lives are one big sequence of hurt, upset, uncertainty, and, above all … hope.A roller coaster of emotions that seem to have no end.This story expresses courage, strength, love, and what can happen when a family pulls together and never gives up hoping.

A Voice for Rebekah

In the years following the deaths of her parents and brother in a vehicle crash, Australian Anna O’Reilly is surprised to learn her mother, Elizabeth, had been adopted at birth. Curious to know more and, armed only with her mother’s date and place of birth, St Catherine’s Orphanage in Devon, Anna begins her search.

Because of the time that has elapsed and the closure of the orphanage in the 1950s, Anna believes the possibility of finding anything is remote. She is wrong.

Anna discovers her grandmother was a young Jewish girl, Rebekah Kominski, who struggled to survive and escape persecution in war-torn Poland. At the end of the war, she, with other children, is taken to the Lake District and later assigned to a foster family, but questions remain.

What happened to cause Rebekah to be banished from what was to be the start of a new and better life to an orphanage and a harsh existence? While at the orphanage, she became pregnant. Was she raped? Why and how, after giving birth at aged thirteen, did she disappear?

Anna continues her search until she finds the answers and reveals the shocking truth behind Rebekah’s disappearance.

A Vanished Hand

What do you do when the ghost of a serial killer taps you on the shoulder and follows you home? Haunted and accused of her secretary’s murder, Kate turns to her glamorous, psychic friend Jane and the mysterious witch Diana. Can they uncover the identity of the nineteenth century serial killer so that celestial justice may take its course? Snow is falling on the ancient walls of Kate’s home town; darkness descends and time is running out…

A Target for the Good

Fed up with the seemingly lack of justice meted out by the judiciary, two fairly normal, happily married, law abiding citizens decide that they would take the law into their own hands.However, it’s not as easy as it first seemed in the pub. Nobody seems to care too much about the rough justice that’s handed out, not even the overworked police, whose job our heroes have managed to lighten.Somebody cared though, big time, even the wives.

A Stranger's Keep

Michael’s world crumbled the week after his honeymoon; his wife was murdered, his best friend betrayed him, and in his line of work, no trust meant death.

With no one to trust, Michael lived in peaceful solitude, till a stranger stumbled into his home and led him to the truth behind his wife’s murder.

Chased by those who murdered her parents for reasons she couldn’t explain, Abigail found shelter in the house of a stranger, unbeknownst to her, she had just stumbled into the lion’s den.

Could he love her and his late wife together? Could he forgive her connection with the death of his wife? Did they ever have a chance at all?

Life gives us chances, it’s our choice to make use of them, or hold on to the past…

A Story to Tell; A Secret to Keep

Family secrets are never a good thing – or are they?

A Story to Tell: A Secret to Keep is the compelling debut novel by Fiona Rich. This domestic noir is full of emotional depth, that slowly builds suspense leaving the reader hungry to delve deeper into the complex and challenging lives of Tim, Libby and Josh and learn more about the secrets that the family hold. It is a story full of intrigue and plot twists that will keep you guessing until the end.

Each of the main characters have faced something traumatic in their lives, they all have their own dark secret that impacts on them psychologically; a secret that could damage the relationships of those closest to them. But will the choices that each of them make to resolve their personal crisis and overcome their psychological traumas release them from their inner turmoil, or lock them in an endless conflict of guilt and deception?

A Smuggler's Snare

Tracey Foley leads an adventurous, suspenseful life, smuggling marijuana to the USA. The trails and tribulations of this dangerous and challenging lifestyle include attacks by pirates intent on killing and looting what they could. Shootouts, threatening to ram the attacking boat, the thrill of the chase and hope of the winds and seas picking up. One danger over, the next was the weather being typhoon season. Every risky day was forgotten when Mother Nature demonstrated its beauty in the calm, serene sailing days with albatrosses, dolphins, humpbacks and killer whales and playful sea otters. Hearts were in mouth when making landfall to offload, the coastguard being a smuggler’s snare. Read about the ingenious diversion plan and missions accomplished. Also, all hope was with the off-loaders making the rendezvous, escaping detection so the mother load made it safely. Many, many what ifs. Payday was also another risk. Will they be able to smuggle luggage loads of $100 greenbacks safely offshore or be intercepted? Job completed or 25 years in jail? A Smuggler’s Snare. 

A Shoelace, a Paperclip, and a Pencil: The Reckoning

Tom Cooper had two strange events during his younger days which it seems might be interconnected. One of them, in Bonn in the mid-seventies, involved his temporary custody of a briefcase containing a shoelace, a paper clip and a pencil. The other was in Belfast in the mid-eighties. Tom begins to believe there might be something hidden in the briefcase: a coded message, maybe for the IRA, especially with Tom being the virtual double of an IRA operative.

Tom and his wife Liz start trying to piece together the links, at first focusing on the contents of the briefcase.

What unfolds is a chain of events which threaten Tom’s and Liz’s lives. Tom twice nearly loses his life and on one occasion his wife Liz does too. All, it seems, because someone, or some people, do not want them to discover the code and try everything to ensure they don’t. From being hunters, Tom and Liz are now the hunted.

Those implicated in the secrets held by the briefcase continue to want Tom and his wife silenced. Meanwhile, Tom has decided “enough is enough” and hatches a plan to reckon with those wanting Liz and him dead. The problem for those around him – including not only Liz, but also the police who have a keen interest in the case – is only Tom knows what the plan is.