It Was Almost Perfect

Dublin, a cosmopolitan city full of beautiful streets with secrets hidden around every corner. This book follows the lives of four women who, despite different backgrounds and social circles, are connected by the same desire for love and fulfilment. This dynamic cast of characters embarks on a journey of self-discovery triggered by chance encounters which will change their lives forever. These random encounters add additional layers to the magical realism in this story of discovery, lust, love, pain, and forgiveness that helps not just the characters in the book, but the reader too, see the “happily ever after” from a different perspective.

Keys to the Heart

Born during WWII the heroine experiences the love of her life at a young age. Her aim is to become a famous concert pianist but there are trials, disappointments as well as success.

Emotional and financial problems scar her adult life, but her heart frequently dictates her subsequent response, with more than one disappointed male admirer. Her life abroad proves exciting followed by another major relationship on her return to England. Will she finally find lasting happiness in her career and love life?

Kit and the Wolf

From Queensland, Australia, comes new author Anne Marks with a compelling romance novel, set in Canada, with many unusual and intriguing twists and turns throughout.

Kit’s whole life was on the verge of changing forever. Snowed in, alone, with wolf packs nearby, she sensed the imminent danger she was in. But even in her wildest dreams, she would never have guessed how a lone wolf would impact her life.

Was friendship with a man she knew little about, enough foundation for marriage, or was there more? The realization shocked her, but not as much as the hidden secrets contained within a box in the store room of her childhood home. How does the reason for these secrets change her life? Will she find the answers to her myriad of questions regarding the mystery surrounding her family and their lives?

This is a moving story filled with love, loss, courage, intrigue, compassion and confusion as Kit is pulled by unexpected emotions she doesn’t fully understand. It is a mesmerizing tale of a young woman with fears of abandonment ingrained into her from childhood, of being torn between the love of two very different men, of forbidden kisses and of the inner conflicts created.

La Vida Loca

“I once read that life was a book. It is a true statement. The next part was that if you don’t travel, you stay on the first page, so while you’re young you should embrace life and travel the world. That part is the bit I have a problem with. Just because you don’t travel doesn’t mean you’re living any less of a life. You’re just rewriting your story, which is what you do when you travel too. No one’s stories have set endings. That’s the wonderful thing about life. We are the ones to write the story we live in.”

A trip abroad offers an opportunity for Isabelle Torres to find herself with her two best friends, Danielle Roane and Catherine Peters, before they go off to university.

The group of guys and girls they end up with are all wonderful, and it is a holiday filled with excitement, romance and many fun times and trips which are sure to change their life for the better.

From secret trips to city breaks, the ten teens were set on finding themselves, but instead manage to find friendships that are bound to last forever.

What can Izzy say – they really are living La Vida Loca.

Living The Dream

Cornwall has the most beautiful landscape you could wish to set your eyes on, made still more dramatic with the evening silhouette of St Michael’s Mount in the background.
That was exactly the view Lori and his Cornish wife, Irene, had as they took over the tenancy of their first public house in the village of Portscatly: a beautiful village with many lively characters, each with their own little story to tell. Jean’s story will tug at your heartstrings, whilst Steve’s tragic tale will show you that a moment of madness can change your life forever. Typical families and friends keep village life moving.
The landlord’s foreign name has not gone down too well with the crowd. “It’s enough to make a man curse,” some would say. “And now they are taking over our pubs too,” some others would say.
So will Lori and Irene win over the locals, as they tirelessly try to get involved with the local community?

Living with Jo

Who doesn’t dream of finding the love of their life?

Lonely, quirky Oliver Birch certainly does, and he knows

who she is. He’s adored her from afar for thirty years.  

But there’s a problem.

Joanna is happily married to somebody else.  

Then, one day, out of the blue, she arrives at his apartment.

And not just to visit. She’s here to stay.  

For Oliver it’s a dream come true, provided he can keep

a handle on where two-dimensional fantasy ends

and reality begins.

Will she be his saviour … or will she gradually drive him

towards the unwelcome hands of a psychiatrist?

Living with Jo is a love story with a difference. It explores a world familiar to many who find themselves single and adrift in later life. Sometimes they come across unusual and imaginative ways to fill emotional gaps in their lives. In Oliver’s case, it’s an imaginative step too far …

Love At First Sight - Part Two: The Other Side

A journey inside the deep-thinking, dark realms of a subconscious mind where the real and fantasy worlds are one.

For those who didn’t meet Jeannette, the fictional character who came to life as she passionately narrated her long-term, emotionally-charged, almost virtual love affair in Love at First Sight: A One-Sided Story; she reappears in The Other Side more determined than ever to conquer the obstacles and emerge victorious in her quest to find peace, love and contentment in a Universe paralyzed by the constraints of control freaks who, at every opportunity, challenge her life lived “in a fictional world”. Overcoming this negativity becomes the driving force in her battle to achieve self-acceptance, often impeded by the haunting, human frailties of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and the inevitable path of self-destruction.

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. 

Marking Time

The scandalously mismatched couple are only marking time, but can they overcome the jealousy and malicious gossip of the town? A gun-wielding madman, a bigamous skeleton in the cupboard and a smuggling enterprise all appear to involve them, while all they really want is to make music – and babies. How disgusting!