It was just after the Easter bank holiday when the strangers came. They were there when he got home, the trace of too many crème eggs still thick on his lips. A man and woman, Abe and Rhiannon, permanent smilers as they had lots to grin about. The type that had their clothes painted onto…
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NOSTALGIA – KINDLE PROMO POSTER & EXCERPT
Before the infamous black door, where she had stood only once before, fresh tears streamed down her face. The façade of dereliction and neglect belittled the magnificence of what lay within, No. 1 Tyranny Square, which to Jackson was simply the greatest place in the eternity of creation. Staring up into pregnant morning skies, cloaked…
THE WOODEN HEADS – KINDLE PROMO POSTER & EXCERPT
They got a hospital bed put up in the front room, so Grandad didn’t have to go into a home. Palliative Care it was called. End of life kindness. One day, a dark and sad day, a final day…Grandad smiled weakly from that bed and motioned to Mum with a frail wink and a wave….
MY BROTHER’S EYE – KINDLE PROMO POSTER & EXCERPT
Again, there was no reply, just an eerie silence, as he pulled at the flap out of stubborn curiosity, which eventually folded open, just as an envelope would. Firash wrinkled his face in disgust as he pushed his fingers in through the sap-laden pouch made of bark. The familiar flash of the electric blue shell…
THE AMBER MOON PART TWO: OF MOSAICS & MONSTERS KINDLE EXCERPT & PROMO POSTER
Dr. Tan glanced back and smiled before he strode forward and held both swords in the firewall on board the fire chariot. He whistled as if waiting for an egg to boil, and then withdrew the molten hot blades and rushed forward. Tan swung the swords so hard that when the blades met, they took…
THE AMBER MOON PART ONE: OF SHADOWS & DRAGONS KINDLE EXCERPT & PROMO POSTER
Fairy Eight moved across the stage to where a Thief Trials volunteer with Memorabilia etched across his uniform was nervously clutching a large, grey sack. Fairy Eight snatched it from him and the volunteer ran off screaming. She grinned as she dumped the sack at North’s feet. “Tell Seven, that’s from me.” She leaned in…
THE AMBER ANTIDOTE KINDLE EXCERPT & PROMO POSTER
“It happened okay. If it hadn’t been you, it would have been someone else. But in the end you came back. You saved my life. Tan used you, like he used me. He threatened your dragons. You had no choice.” Despite his words, Rosie’s betrayal stabbed at him like an eternal knife in his side….
THE AMBER ROOM KINDLE EXCERPT & PROMO POSTER
A nurse with a cardigan wrapped around her shoulders moved into his personal space. Her face was fuzzy like someone was trying to protect her identity. Fading perfume held off the stench of working sweat and her mouth was moving but he couldn’t hear her words. He wasn’t ready to hear. He couldn’t move. His…
THE CROW STONES: AN EXCERPT
Set in 1985, in the English Countryside, my Low Fantasy, New Adult Gothic Romance, tells the story of two sisters. Lydia & Callie Leonard. One dead. One alive. Here is an excerpt from the opening pages of The Crow Stones. Black wings break the mist. Tendrils of the dark miasma choke me to silence as…
NOSTALGIA – DARK MATTER VOLUME 3 – EXCERPT
Before the infamous black door, where she had stood only once before, fresh tears streamed down her face. The facade of dereliction and neglect belittled the magnificence of what lay within, No. 1 Tyranny Square, which to Jackson was simply the greatest place in the eternity of creation… Staring up into pregnant morning skies, cloaked…
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