A Novella in 41 sections.The note is a first person journey through recollection of dramatic events. Love lost and damage done.Feedback & ratings, positive or negative, received with thanks.

Could you fall for someone who looks just like you?An apprentice Cartographer, working for a secret society in a city which has just barely made it out of World War II, Lina is just about to embark on her first job assignment in a parallel world. For her, the answer is about to become tricky.Because Karol, the parallel world engineer looking for her help in a missing persons case, is everything she never thought she could be.Including irres...

Why do people drink wine?Throughout history people have extolled the virtues of wine, but what is it about wine that inspires an emotional response that other historical spirits, like beer, simply do not?Through forty years of experiencing and reading about the enjoyment of wine, I don't think that I have ever read anything that adequately explains why people enjoy wine so much. So, I have attempted to capture the essence of the wine experience by touching on culture, law, ...

From Renee Knight,bestselling author of The Secretary and Disclaimer***,*** awickedly suspenseful short story set in the English countryside."As she stood there shefelt a sliver of something shift its weight in her tummy. Excitement? Fear? Shecouldn't decide."Staying with her parents atBeauwater Manor, a luxury hotel in the English countryside, is the happiest

Alex got to keep the minivan, but lost the family he bought it for, his wife Helen and little daughter Sandy. But though Alex has long fallen out of love with Helen, if he was ever in love with her in the first place, he would never give up his daughter. And sometimes, murder is a cheaper solution than divorce…This is a short story of 2600 words. This story is also available as part of the collection Murder in the Family.

'Professor Henry Tomlinson, accredited member of the National Microbiologists Association, author of the best seller 'The Futility of Sheep', widower, father of twins, sat on the chair in his ransacked study and for the first time in his life, asked himself if he was losing his mind.'There are three things which can irrevocably change a man's life - the death of a loved one, a moment of revelation and saying the wrong thing at precisely the wrong time. Unfortunately for Professor H...

Intramuros is the sequel of "Escolta" - After meeting Julia in Escolta, Charles wanders around the ancient walled city of Intramuros where he revisits his memories of Julia. He now faces the grim reality of Julia's absence in his life and questions the universe if they will meet again.

Dizzy Hargraves is just trying to get home after a disastrous holiday spent with her overbearing father.During the train ride home, Dizzy engages herself in a seemingly harmless, obsevational game and unwittingly starts to unravel the hidden secrets of her fellow travellersThe Scientist, The Gentleman and The Witch, as Dizzy has named them seem to know more than their strange behaviour is telling her and Dizzy finds herself taking a detour that catapults her over eighty yea...

I'm dying, well that's what I've been told. How has my life come to this: death, betrayal, friendship, love? Yes, love. I know it's there somewhere, but I'm struggling to make sense of things. How can I, Oliver Beaton-Court, be here in this cabin, looking at my dead wife and holding an axe… Maybe Tom can give me the answers I need, or maybe there are no answers…

Julia stands by her mother's grave wondering why she is struggling to feel the same outpouring of grief as her sister. Perhaps it's because one woman was two very different mothers, and in Julia's case, that wasn't very much of a mother at all.After a lifetime of never feeling good enough, of never meeting her mother's approval, or feeling loved, Julia sees her mother's death as a defining moment of change.Impulsively driving to the coast (the only place she has ever felt p...

"Thoughts and feelings, hinted at before, were suddenly blossoming. He knew then that he'd been waiting for his life to begin…"For years Colin Abbott has put his life on hold, living only for his elderly mother. With her gone he is alone, adrift in a world he doesn't fully understand. On one sunny summer day he sets off from his mother's grave, and attempts to take control, to learn to enjoy his life and maybe even learn to love again.'The Graveyard' is where Colin takes his...

Gems is a series of books written specifically for struggling girl readers. In this title Laura and her family have moved to the coast, and she is finding it hard to fit in. She much prefers being by the sea than going to her new school, and it pays off when she makes her first friend. She finds a little squid and nicknames him Ziggy. Taking him home to nurse him back to health, her dad flushes him down the toilet! Laura gets over it gradually, until a news reporter announces a large conta...