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 …

Lochranza

Welcome to Anoone, a world where magic and science share a sometimes uneasy co-existence. Ben Troon is a trainee mage, or wizard, at the Dundonald Academy of Magecraft. He meets Bliss, a fellow student, and they fall deliriously in love. But they are torn apart when Ben is sent to the Magisterium, the heart of Magecraft, in the distant city of Lochranza. When he finds he has lost Bliss to another man, Ben becomes deeply depressed. His mentor, mage and bookseller Ailsa Bleakwill takes his case to the Archmage, Caerlugh. Caerlugh gives him a mission, to travel around the whole of Anoone, and to write a record of his experiences in a journal: the Book.

It is a journey where Ben will discover himself as he learns about his world. He is introduced to his travelling companion, the mysterious Motria, and together they set off into the unknown.

Lokemele's Quest

An emotional and deep journey in which Rosemary (Lokemele) introspectively fights with her personal demons.

Will the pain of betrayal, loss, temptation, and the forbidden fruits of love haunt her until her dying day?

Will a guilty secret be her ultimate downfall?

What role will Keoki play in her life?

And the mysterious, beautiful Ocean Tia - will she be Lokemele’s saviour, or will she add to her woes?

Will Lokemele find her quest for inner peace; or will serenity of her mind, heart, body, and soul forever remain elusive and out of her reach?

Lore of the Jungle

Life in the jungle and life in the city have a lot in common. Self-preservation in the jungle evolved into self-importance in the city. The herd of a family unit evolved into pluralistic herd instincts for a family, then to a team, then to a class and then it toned up to a national identity.

Mark Kenneth tells a story of gaining wisdom from a new university student, Aaron Aardvark, whose grand adventure along the footpath of life is to discover how the world works, or doesn’t.

Lorela: Dog Warriors

Lorela is a red planet…a dead planet! For several hundred years, the human colony of Lorela was thought to have been wiped out but they survived deep underground, out of sight of those who would use them. The lucky ones made it to the mines, locked in away from the harmful radiation. The unfortunate ones wept, surviving as best they could. Over time, the humans that were left breathing in polluted fetid air began to mutate. As the generations passed, all they knew were howls in the dark and the taste of flesh, bitten from that of those who howled with them.

Memphis Grimm was the first to step out to view a tortured landscape; his pack hounded by those who would consume them. Pack Grimm raced across the barren landscape, in search of sanctuary, freedom from the pack lands and a place they could call their own. None could have known how far this journey would take them, not even those who watched from a distance—far across the galaxy, amused at what crawled out from the darkness.

Lost Brothers

Jay and Perry are fraternal twins separated at birth. Their biological mother, Gloria, kept Jay to raise and Perry was given up for adoption. Two brothers living their early stages of life in Paris attended high school together, unaware of their relation, and later became good friends. What would you do if you found out you were separated at birth from your sibling? Although Perry was raised by wealthy loving parents, he lacked confidence; whereas, Jay, raised in poverty, was more of an outgoing self-assured person. In high school, Jay always protected Perry from the typical bullies. They were the complete opposite yet the same. As time passed, their lives moved in different directions. Perry was determined in search of his birth mother, Gloria. Will his search of Gloria lead him to Jay? A friendship bonded by loyalty and brotherly love will be tested. What will be the outcome?

Louisa

Louisa is 15 and living a contented, happy life in London. The Second World War is threatening their peace of mind. Will they all have the strength to survive?

Love and Kisses, Pauline xxx

In a series of letters, Pauline tells how her plea for forgiveness and a frisky rabbit reunite her with Dorothy, Gwen and Freddie, her Australian schoolmates from the 1960s. They thought they knew one another inside out but what happens next, takes them by surprise. No longer bound by the constraints and conventions of middle age, uncomfortable truths are laid bare, and the four embrace their differences.

Climb aboard their white-knuckle ride and immerse yourself in the ups, downs, loops, and spirals of their lives. Laugh with them as their daily round is enriched by a new, warts and all, friendship!

Love And Other Thoughts

I floated to the West

I floated through the water
Through the air and the land
Then I became the raindrops in the sand
I floated in the night
Weightless. No effort was made by me
And all the stars were smiling
In the morning I arrived
From the Middle Kingdom far away
I floated
I floated to the West
That’s what they say

Love and Outrage

This is a story of a love that fights to survive during dangerous times and in violent places. Having fled Latvia to escape religious persecution, Libby Gardstein lives with her criminal brother in the East End of Edwardian London. She struggles to break free from her brother’s dominance to become a teacher of immigrant children.

Strong but quiet undercover police officer, Eddie Nething, works tirelessly to make London a safer place, driven forward by the cruel murder of his best friend and colleague. Eddie is assigned to infiltrate the gang of anarchists run by Libby’s brother.

Against all the odds, Libby and Eddie meet and fall in love. Eddie is torn between his duty as a policeman and his unexpected love for Libby. Libby is split between this new found love for Eddie and her instinctive concerns for her wayward brother.  The stakes are high. They could both be killed if discovered by the antagonists around them. For both Edward and Libby, it is a fight between love and duty.

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?