Deep runs the blood of Midwinter's vine,Bound to the earth by thorn and twine.Amidst the roots and thorns of her ancestral home, Ivy Midwinter is bound by a curse that has trapped her bloodline for generations. The brambles claw at her path, and a Raven watches over her, a harbinger of truths Ivy cannot yet understand.The land is alive, pulsing with an ancient hunger, its roots reaching for the heart of her past. It calls to her with a voice as old ...

After moving back to her ancestral home April finds more than just her beloved grandmother waiting for her. For more than a century, the rural Suffolk house has guarded its secrets. Discovering a lost photo of a mysterious woman, fate draws her into the family's history and the life of her great-great-grandmother, Annabelle. Through dreams and Annabelle's diary April finds grief, loss and secrets. She must unfold the mystery of her family legacy and lay the ghosts to rest.

The Present.Something sinister lurks in quiet suburbia. A Paranormal Team investigate poltergeist activity terrorizing one family in the unassuming Essex town of Manningtree. As night falls, a nightmare awaits them; whatever the motive, it is personal.The Past.England is rife with civil war. Life is cheap, and death trivial. Though, for the common man, another war rages. It spreads like wildfire, preying on the weak. God-fearing folk employ the skills of one man, the ...

Memories are like ghosts. They linger in doorways, whisper with the howling wind when lightning strikes. They are the dark phantoms of my youth. My mind buried my memories for good reason, and I spent forty years believing I could escape them.Until with one phone call, I found myself in my childhood home: Hardacre Priory.I knew from the first step through the door that it was all over. The forgotten events of 1979 leapt to the surface and screamed their truths. Everything I...

From the author and illustrator of Shark Goes to the Dentist!Octopus and friends are enjoying a game of hide and seek when suddenly Octopus finds himself stuck in a plastic bag!Can his friends find him and help him?

My name is Miss Lucy. Let me tell you my story. It is a tale of a father's despair, one man's ambition, in a place where morality and mortality waver.It was the Summer of 1890 when theatre manager and writer Bram Stoker arrived in Whitby. After an arduous theatre tour, his stay was respite before returning to London. However, what he discovered enthralled and beguiled.Mr Stoker and I met each dawn on the East Cliff in the shadow of Whitby Abbey. On a bench overlooking the s...

Mercy Dove is a woman haunted by her past and plagued by scandal. The affairs of Evesham Hall, Mercy's infamous ancestral home, fill the broadsheets. But only society's elite, the select few invited by her stepfather, truly know the depravity of the decaying manor.Tired and eager for change, Mercy invites a new acquaintance to Evesham Hall, young Miss Violette. Her arrival provokes a shift within the walls, altering the status quo, and a much darker, more sinister shadow falls over...

Mercy Dove is a woman haunted by her past and plagued by scandal. The affairs of Evesham Hall, Mercy's infamous ancestral home, fill the broadsheets. But only society's elite, the select few invited by her stepfather, truly know the depravity of the decaying manor.Tired and eager for change, Mercy invites a new acquaintance to Evesham Hall, young Miss Violette. Her arrival provokes a shift within the walls, altering the status quo, and a much darker, more sinister shadow falls over...

My name is Miss Lucy. Let me tell you my story. It is a tale of a father's despair, one man's ambition, in a place where morality and mortality waver.It was the Summer of 1890 when theatre manager and writer Bram Stoker arrived in Whitby. After an arduous theatre tour, his stay was respite before returning to London. However, what he discovered enthralled and beguiled.Mr Stoker and I met each dawn on the East Cliff in the shadow of Whitby Abbey. On a bench overlooking the s...

When death comes suddenly, and grief sits thick, secrets hide, and ghosts remain.After moving back to her ancestral home with her parents, April finds more than just her beloved grandmother waiting for her. For more than a century, the rural Suffolk house has been waiting, guarding its secrets.Discovering a lost photograph of a mysterious young woman, fate draws April deep into her family's history and the life of her great-great-grandmother, Annabelle.Thro...

Death is not an ending...I faced the truth of my family history and my childhood trauma. But adjusting to this new reality meant writing the book I had done my best to avoid.Once finished, I sat absorbed in the last line: Death is not an ending. This is certainly true with my ancestry. In death, all Hardacres return to the Priory. However, I awoke to a solitary existence.Then Josie Scarfe arrived at the door, wanting answers. We were never friends as children, but n...

Book 2 in The Ghosts of Hardacre series.Death is not an ending...I faced the truth of my family history and my childhood trauma. But adjusting to this new reality meant writing the book I had done my best to avoid.Once finished, I sat absorbed in the last line: Death is not an ending. This is certainly true with my ancestry. In death, all Hardacres return to the Priory. However, I awoke to a solitary existence.Then Josie Scarfe arri...