Love at Second Sight

Sinead Thorne is deeply unhappy with her life. She works in a miserable job, is on the wrong side of her captious mother’s judgement, and her only current and constant relationship is with her fridge and wine. She knows something has to change, but she is unsure of what.

That is until she goes on holiday with her best friend and bumps into someone completely unexpected.

Is it just some holiday fun, or could this be the change that she is yearning for? Will it help her find happiness, or will she be left just as miserable as before?

Love Comets

Love Comets is a compelling story of intense, tempestuous and raw teenage passions.

Set mainly in a Manchester suburb in the late 1960s, it follows the fluctuating fortunes of a group of sex-starved boys, friends from grammar school, who are desperate to lose their virginity before going to university.

Central to the novel is Joe’s relationship with Katie. Captivated by her radiant beauty, vivaciousness and sharp wit, his shyness recedes as their love blossoms. Overcoming parental restrictions and painful emotional crises, they engage joyously in tender sexual intimacies as their romance flourishes.

But, after a summer of carefree loving, ominous shadows threaten their idyllic love affair as they depart to different universities. Will their love for each other survive separation? When attractive and sexually confident university friends compete for their affections, how will they react? Will Joe and Katie still be together after an emotionally turbulent term? And when the group of friends meet up again on New Year’s Eve and compare their sexual experiences, will their feisty girlfriends have proved a match for them all?

Love Comets vividly portrays the excitement and vulnerability of teenage lovers as the sexual revolution of the 1960s gathers pace. Full of unexpected twists and turns, dramatic revelations, humorous exchanges and true-to-life sexual discoveries, Love Comets will appeal strongly to teenagers exploring their first loving relationships and also older readers recalling fondly their first loves.

Love on the Vine

Set between the old Cotswolds market town of Stow on the Wold and the Dordogne region of France our heroine finds herself in a life-shattering situation having caught out her cheating husband.

Approaching her 50th birthday and with two children, one away at university and the other out on a gap year in the far east, Lottie will struggle by with the help of a few friends as she ponders where she will go from here.

Heartache and low self-esteem abounds her every waking minute; will she ever recover, can an escape to her elder sister’s holiday villa in France come to her rescue? Join us on a journey that will give the reader an idea of how true friendship works and enjoy an insight into the wonders of the Dordogne countryside that is a must for wine lovers and general tourists alike.

Will a chance meeting with a charming handsome French vineyard owner refuel her passion for life or will a chance discovery ruin it, the journey is sometimes painful but some amusing moments can intercede. Making the right life choices and decisions at the right time will decide how Lottie’s life turns out.

Love or Lust

Have you ever been in love? This book will make you think on this matter of the heart. It takes some men a long time to tell the difference between love and just plain lust. I think the difference is when you change from a ME person to thinking what is best for your partner and seeing to their needs ahead of yours. 

New Beginnings

When Annalise, a single mother, moves to the city with her daughter Penelope in tow, she hopes for a fresh start. She finds a job as a personal assistant to a high-powered recruitment CEO and secures a dream home, but her journey is far from over. As she navigates her new role and the challenges that come with it, she finds herself drawn to her boss, Hunter, a notorious playboy who has sworn off love. Can Annalise and Hunter find their way to each other, or will their fears get in the way? Follow these two characters as they grapple with emotions and attraction in this heart-wrenching love story.

No Mind of Her Own

It should’ve been simple, meet a girl at college, get a good job, maybe marry and settle down.

For Sam Ryder his path was never going to be an easy road.

Not only was the brilliant scientist tasked with finding a fix for the devastating Beta Virus but he also had to fight to save his marriage and his girl.

With almost seventy five percent of the world's male population basically rendered impotent, he would have to struggle to prevent his wife from descending into a world where happy marriages are measured not by the husband’s ability to sexually please their wives but in their willingness to be cuckolded.

Why is this happening? How can his wife turn from loving partner one minute to a depraved porn star the next?

Something that exists outside the normal boundaries of social acceptance was driving her behaviour, all he has to do is find it and stop it.

Failure will mean one of two things – feminisations or death. For Sam Ryder neither choices are acceptable.

Not Exactly Friends

Ageing actor, Charlie Wallace is jolted back to a post-war past to find lost loves and friendships from his tough and brutal schooldays and a summer spent at Connaught Hall – whose consequences follow him today.  Protected by his schoolboy hero, Christopher Mountjoy, Charlie’s infatuation with Christopher’s sister, Isobel leads to the discovery that brother and sister have a darker side. Friendships can be fickle in a world of make-believe, where fact and fiction blur.

A passionate encounter with the girl has consequences too, when the actor is forced to abandon the stage. Past and present again collide and more events from long ago return with implications of their own. Can Charlie keep his memories safe and will he ever be reconciled to what took place at Connaught Hall that summer?

“Peter Fanning’s pleasure in language, literature and the theatre shines through this gentle, sometimes dramatic, story of growing up and falling in love in the 1940s. A sympathetic study of the agonies of self-discovery, it has romance, charm and a glorious English setting."

- Heather Neil, writer and critic, Literary Editor Times Educational Supplement.

Nottingham Lace

Solitude and loneliness are a natural part of life. It happens to everyone at some stage. It is not confined to the ‘social misfits’ or the ‘losers’ in society. Those perceived as successful, with abundant friends and progressive careers, they can succumb too. James was a case in point. He led an outwardly successful career, had several intimate romantic liaisons with beautiful women, but he faced a late middle-age crisis. The cumulative effect of those interludes from early childhood experiencing loneliness and despair and his naivety with the opposite sex were beginning to envelop him. Giving up became an attractive option.

He pondered whether his destiny was to resemble the beauty of an artistic piece of Nottingham Lace or the miserable deathly trap of a Spider’s Web. James had chosen a path from a heavily restricted list. After college, he joined the RAF and then became a musician. Through several romantic encounters and raw sensual intimacy, James begins to learn that relationships with women go much deeper than purely the lust and the physical.

A series of career transfers, failed relationships, lead to bouts of loneliness and solitude, driving him to the edge of sanity. At a crucial point, he was prevented from going over the edge in his darkest hour by his pet Alsatian.

Finally, his anguish is resolved by a tragic mishap. This brings him back on track to reality before it became too late to recognise his first and only true love.

Off to Milos

After a broken marriage, and a few dates later, the high spirited Catherine makes an impulsive decision: she goes on a holiday to Milos. She wants to learn to enjoy life again on the idyllic Greek Islands. She soon discovers the heavenly food, the sublime beauty of nature and even meets a few ‘Greek demigods’. On the Island, she also gets to know Yiayia, an old, wise woman who had apparently predicted her coming. But exactly what role does she have to play on Milos? Her life takes a romantic turn she could never have dreamed of.

C.M.M. Dellamonte takes the reader on a romantic trip full of adventure, humour and stimulating experiences. All against the friendly setting of this paradise Greek Island.

Off to Milos will make you laugh, cry, float and enjoy the gentle rhythm of the Aegean Sea.

Olivia Taylor Fashion Dreams

Olivia Taylor, a stylish and creative genius, has a serendipitous and life-changing opportunity while navigating the convoluted world of haute couture. The 35-year-old British designer embarks on a career in fashion, which she discovers, she is ‘tailormade’ for. The dream job versus ruthless reality. Glamour versus drama. And to escort her through the conflict and cutthroat competition on this roller coaster journey, she depends on the loyal support of her precious friends and loving dog, Duke.

Olivia is surprised and immediately curious when she stumbles across a miniature version of her namesake, a young orphan, nicknamed ‘Liv’. The little girl is captivating, with her lookalike features and natural charm. But something is about to turn her own world upside down in the realm of both work and romance. Olivia, through no design of her own, meets the handsome and mysterious Damien, which forces her to reconsider her notions of love. Will her whirlwind lifestyle even allow her to explore the possibility of a committed relationship? Only time and fate will tell.

Her innate spirituality and sensitivity, coupled with her uncompromising self-belief will stand her in good stead, in pursuing her true calling in life. Adhering to those strong instincts, Olivia is able to seamlessly shift gears along the path of destiny and arrive at the best decision she has ever made, regardless of the extent to which her project threatens to tie her up in knots…

One Chance

The story revolves round a girl named June, her everyday ups and downs, her romance and how tragedy changed her life forever. June, raised from a very young age by her grandparents, lived a sheltered life, abandoned by her mother, who had tried to make contact down through the years, only to be ignored by June’s grandmother, who had held a grudge from days gone by. Meeting Matt brought her such joy, the seas that brought them together would one day divide them. Exhilarating joy…only to end in tragedy. Why didn’t she grasp her opportunity with both hands? What was it that was holding her in this place?

One Mind Two Hearts

Life can take you to amazing places, it can take you to sad and lonely places, but love always brings you home. Follow your heart, your dreams, never dwell on failure and sadness. Your inner strength will guide you on the right path and you will never be alone.