The Whisper of the Sea - My Life of Sex, Crime, Loss and Love

A Fictional Memoir where Thriller, Romance and Comedy collide.

Who can you trust when you fear for your life?

A rambling house by the sea on the south coast of England. Ann manages a gentlemen's retreat where her uncle Richard's wealthy clients play sex games with escorts.

After failed romances with two boyfriends who both have dragons for mothers, she still dreams of finding a man who shares her love of solitude and seagulls.

But just when she meets Simon, her perfect lover, things go horribly wrong at the retreat. A blackmailer who targets a client is murdered.

Ann knows who the killer is, and he knows she knows. She flees to Australia in fear of her life.

The note arrives, menacing, creepy, totally evil:

I know where you are ...

Another house by the sea in the south west of Australia. Ann now has a new life, a new name, never free from the fear of discovery, still yearning for her lost love, still dreaming of revenge on the murderer.

Until the day the police come knocking.

Or are they assassins?

Why are they here?

In every paradise there are dark corners where evil things lurk, patient in the shadows, silently waiting, watching, biding their time.

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The Ghosts of Hayward Hall

A Gothic Mystery Romance set in Oxfordshire in 1975.

Whispers of ghosts and suspicions of murder. A slow-burn romance in a house of dark shadows and painful memories.

The Lindens. A perfect family, reclusive, rich and respected, but haunted by tragedy and with terrible secrets to hide.

Daniel, a man obsessed with his dead wife Caroline, whose ghost he sees on the stairs on moonlit nights. A man addicted to whisky, prone to violent rage, and living in his own dark world.

His sister Mary, desperate to hide the family dysfunction, visiting a secret friend whose name no one in her family knows.

Daniel’s son Ryan, scarred by something that happened when he was a child. Something he will never discuss. Something he can never break free from.

Mary’s son Pat, practical and level-headed, yet dreaming of escape from Hayward.

Jane Walters, nineteen, naïve, vulnerable, alone in the world, invited to stay with the Lindens, her late father’s cousins, in the house where he grew up.

As Jane slowly uncovers past tragedies and untangles past secrets, she becomes an integral part of the strange family at Hayward Hall.

But some secrets remain stubbornly hidden, as if the house itself is protecting them.

Why did her father leave this house, never to return? Who is Mary’s secret lover? Is he the father of Pat? What happened to Ryan? Why is there so much hostility between Daniel and his son?

And can Daniel be trusted? Jane becomes increasingly afraid of him.

Until tensions explode in a terrifying echo of a long ago evil that threatens to engulf them all.

That night the ghost of Caroline is clearly seen on the stair landing. In the morning a man lies dead in the hall below.

Suspicions. Accusations. Did he fall, or was he pushed? Was the woman on the stairs a ghost or the murderer? Or both?

Hayward Hall holds yet another dark secret.

What really happened that night?

A long cosy read full of romance, ghosts, murder, dark secrets and plenty of 1970s nostalgia, with cameos from the 1950s and WW2.

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Searching For Amy

If you love a murder mystery with a generous helping of romance, this book is for you.

Moon Gate. A quiet Lakeland village torn apart by suspicion. Lives suspended while distressed families wait for answers.

Four young women have vanished without trace. Where are they hidden? What happened to them? Is there a serial killer hiding in plain sight?

Two young men, once friends, now suspects, both of them blamed, both of them shunned.

Frank, the lover of missing girl Amy, dispossessed, reclusive and now friendless.

Luke, Amy's brother, spiralling into isolation and depression as his world falls apart.

Then there is Morgan, the strange old farmer, who lives like a hermit with his two huge wolf hounds. Is he the killer?

Fiona - who looks uncannily like Amy - comes to Moon Gate to find her father, stirring old grudges but taking no sides, building bridges between feuding families, wanting to find the girls so the hostility and accusations can end.

Will Fiona be the next victim? Who can she trust? How can she love a man who could be the murderer?

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Lady Caroline's Lover

A Victorian romance brimming with comedy, thwarted love, furtive lust, adultery, blackmail and intrigue.

When Sarah Braidwood is forced to leave her home at Fraydon Vicarage, she is invited by her late father's cousin, Earl Ashbourne, to live at Ashbourne Hall as company for his sister, the wayward Lady Caroline, whose recent failed elopement with a penniless soldier has left her ostracised by Northumberland society.

Lady Caroline has two new suitors, the reclusive and bookish Lord Darnell, whose late wife was unfaithful to him, and Haddon Lee, son of the Ashbourne estate gamekeeper, with whom she falls passionately in love.

But is Haddon Lee really all he seems?

Sarah finds herself increasingly attracted to the enigmatic and brooding earl, in spite of their many clashes over the behaviour of his sister.

She is torn between her friendship with Lady Caroline and her duty to inform the earl that his sister is contemplating an elopement with another unsuitable man.

But the earl has a mistress, Lady Craith, the beautiful young wife of his octogenarian neighbour, and she regards the new addition to the earl's household with growing alarm.

When the death of her aging husband finally frees her to marry the earl, and she finds his enthusiasm for her rapidly waning, Lady Craith schemes to rid herself of Sarah Braidwood.

But will she succeed?

And will Lady Caroline follow her own heart and marry her lover or bend to the wishes of her brother and marry Lord Darnell?

Coming October 2026

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