America!! My American Holiday
I've been quiet lately and as some of you know I visited America for 8 weeks. I wanted to share some of my favourite photos in this album.Cover image taken from Public Domain Pictures…
LIBERTY.✔
Science Fiction -Short Story- 4 Chapters - Silla has been raised to think her way of life is perfect and as life should be. Tarn needs to convince her it's all wrong and that true freedom awaits her outside the domed city.This is one of my stories which has been selected for the L. A. Neo Noir Novel, Film and Script Festival to be held on the 26th May 2018 at Dave and Busters on Hollywood Blvd. A small trailer will be made for the story and shown at the festival. Another of my books - Twenty-Three Hundred - also here on Wattpad has also been selected along with a third book entitled Children of Toil - which was also shortlisted in the Wattys 2021. I'm so thrilled and thought I'd share Liberty with you.…
STOLEN ✔
Something is afoot at Denbury Hall. Samuel Denyer, second son of the duke, can't believe his stepmother's new born son, is his father's child.When Samuel goes missing everyone thinks he is dead.To be woken, chained to the hull of a ship, bound for the slave market in Algiers, is to wake in hell. Samuel's only saviour is a green-eyed girl. A stray found in the woodland of Lytton House. She comes to him each night in his dreams, her whispered words, the only light in his tortured soul.Shay doesn't want to be a lady of the ton. Shay doesn't want to marry. She's a stray and would rather work with Jack, looking after Mrs. Picks' piglets. When Shay returns home from Saint Germaine's Finishing School in Paris, she begs her guardian to allow her to work in the Blue Maids Orphanage for Girls. He has a condition; she must attend the season and be open to marriage.Knocked over by a Bedouin man, with the face of an angel and irises belonging to the devil, Shay can barely breathe, as he stares into her vivid green eyes. Green eyes that have plagued him for three years. A damaged man, an orphan girl. Stolen souls that belong together.…
DESIRE.✔
Forbidden Love. Will she get what she Desires?My entry for Wattpad's Romance Competition - Love: To Be Or Not To Be.…
TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED.✔
A bomb in the silent hours of the night reveals the sinister heart of man and forces his descendants to live as they did thousands of years ago. Exiled from his tribe, Tane must follow the path being laid before him. All is not what he thinks it should be. The grey-haired marketeer has foretold Tane's destiny. Only men who have the power to change the future can look into its eyes. Tane sets out to find his purpose but discovers so much more; Marella, a dying woman, Feena, a beauty in white, ruined cities, and barbaric societies. Can Tane change his realm so the mistakes of the past will never affect the future?Twenty-Three Hundred - Dystopian Fiction, explores love, hate, cultural differences and the reasons we war.Twenty-Three Hundred was selected from over 1000 stories to have a film trailer made for and to be viewed at the L.A. Neo Noir Festival held in L.A. - Hollywood Blvd in May of 2018.THIS STORY HAS MATURE CONTENT. 16 AND OVER.…
CHAINS TO FREEDOM.✔
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND (Now Tasmania), Australia 1840. Jessica has been transported for the theft of a brooch. A crime she did not commit. Beaten and brutalized by Muster Master Pead, she is assigned to wealthy shipping merchant Louis Copeland. A man she refuses to obey.The battle begins. Louis realises she is not who she says she is. His search to find out the real circumstances behind her transportation ignites feelings he has never experienced before.Can he get the stubborn wench to fall in love with him or will he have to send her back to Port Arthur's notorious penal colony and certain death?SOME MATURE CONTENT…
Children of Toil ✔
During the Scottish autumn of 1891, Irishman, Lucan Hayes, a coal miner, loses his wife to childbirth. In his darkest hour, he meets prostitute Meg-Anne Dunn. This brief encounter would alter their lives forevermore. Lucan must find a way to raise his sons while continuing to work as a faceman. Confronted by the challenges of being a widower and single father, he slips deep into despair. In the dark tunnels of the underground, he sees his future as death.A letter from his uncle changes the course of his life. He emigrates to Australia to work in Irvinebank, one of the largest tin mining towns of the time. Australia seemed to be the answer for Meg-Anne except her old life followed. Working the infamous Sachs Street filled with brothels, shanty hotels and gambling dens was to live in hell. Now a new punter has walked into her existence. When Meggy's eyes connect with his, she remembers they are blue, the deepest kind.…
BLACK CAT.✔
Becky Bridgestone isn't the girl she pretends to be. She has secrets. Dark secrets that she doesn't want anyone else to know. There's something about the new boy that scares her. When he looks at her, it's like he can read her thoughts. Rob's move to Kalara High had only one positive. The hockey team. It ranked number one in the state. Its coach, a part of the Olympic training squad. Maybe this place wasn't so bad after all. His new teammates were turning out to be a great bunch of guys. Another plus were the girls connected to the group and in particular, cute little Lizzy Tyson with her dreamy chocolate eyes. Rob has never understood why there is always at least one bitchy slut, at each school he transfers to. Kalara High has two. Katrina Walsh and Becky, the bitch, Black Cat, Bridgestone. Rob hates them. So why is it, he can't stop thinking about Black Cat? Rob soon learns Becky isn't who he thinks she is. Now he wants to help her escape the prison that is her life.MATURE READERS 16 AND OVER!This story written for Wattpad.…
THE MICE DO PLAY✔
Leaving their friends behind was a tough gig but even worse was leaving each other to live in two different cities to study and make their way in the world. Becky and Rob just knew they could make the long distance thing work. There was no reason why they couldn't because they loved each other so much.Didn't they?The Mice Do Play - Black Cat - Book Two. I'm hoping this will work as a stand alone book but to really get to know Becky and Rob I do recommend you read Black Cat first.…
The Evolution of Rohan Wayland ✔
Did Rohan Wayland kill Sally Parks? He wanted to. All his life Rohan has been ridiculed, abused and beaten. It's happening again. Sally Parks and the rest of the staff at Sykes Pathology Lab see him as the weakling he is. At lunch times he hides in the outdated café on Charlotte Street. A place filled with activity, where old men play cards and friends can be made. Ruby the cafe owner, and her husband, Gus the cook. Sid an ex ambulance officer, Harry a retired barrister, and Mal, a private detective, bring him into their circle, but it's Annie Mitchell, the waitress, who lights up his life. When Sally Parks is found murdered, Rohan, is Detective David Days' prime suspect. Did Rohan Wayland kill Sally Parks? He wanted to.…
SHIFTED.✔
Life Shifted when Jed Johnson died. It was a shift which left a gaping hole Charlie's family fought their way through. Charlie locked her mind away. Her father drank more. Older brother Jake turned to drugs. Sister Kerrie snuck out at night. Charlie's mother moved around the house like a shadow. If it wasn't for Katie Callum Charlie might still be lost. When Charlie begins her final year of high school she feels her life has turned a corner.Keean Crone is around that bend with issues of his own. Charlie is lost once more.MATURE CONTENT. Winner of New Beginnings Competition-General Fiction.…