Shadows of Yesterday

There have been countless heroes in wars throughout history. These are the stories of some ordinary Europeans who found extraordinary courage to survive WWII.

The Delfe Treasure

Aldrick is obsessed with finding his grandfather's treasure. More than half a century and seventeen voyages have failed to locate his ships after they wrecked in Windward Passage, deeply-laden with pirate plunder and homeward-bound from the Caribbean in 1679. Elizabeth, the firstborn of Baron Leigh, was raised in Wa...

Daughters of the King (Completed)

{WATTYS 2020 WINNER} {FEATURED BOOK} Paris, 1663. 500 girls selected by King Louis XIV embark on a journey across the seas from their homeland. Each is given a dowry, and the expectation that they are to marry a French settler, in order to increase the population of New France. They are the historic Daughters of the K...

Tomorrow's Child

This is the sequel to "Charlotte True". It takes up the story of Charlotte Caprice, a young English convict woman, newly landed on the shores of the penal settlement, Terra Australis.

Watching Fritz

This is the third sequel to my award-winning Wattpad Featured Story, 'Posted As Missing', an intense adventure/romance set in the turmoil of World War One Europe. I've grown tired of blood-and-guts war stories, so I've written this series to examine deeper issues. David left the battlefields in the first chapter of t...

A Scotsman's Promise

When French Canadian aristocracy and Scottish pride clash, the results can never be predicted. Micara DeMonae, a budding socialite in late 1700's Canada, is entrusted by her father to a Scottish courier to take her down the St. Lawrence. Her money and status me nothing when she is faced by a defiant, handsome Scot det...

The Way of Peace

To be free from the bondage of her unspoken past, Melanie Thorne leaves Liverpool for a new life in America only to be pawned off to a young tobacco farmer. Who doesn't want a wife and frankly she doesn't want a husband. William Clemmet is a young tobacco farmer and would have been an heir of the dukedom if his fathe...

The Noble Ladies' Orphanage

It's 1674, and the Hapsburg family has been ruling much of Europe for the better part of 700 years. But the dynasty is weakening, and alliances must be formed with local, less-regal people. An orphanage is created to house 12 hand-picked orphan girls: 4 Hapsburgs, 4 Czech nobles, and 4 peasants. All in desperate need...

The Highlander

When Rosaline Perriwell visited a psychic, the last thing she expected was to get thrown back centuries in time, and into the Scottish highlands. Stuck in the past, she has no idea of how to return to the 21st century. Finn McCall has gone to battle with his enemy clan, the McKenzie's. However, on his way to battle, h...

Flying Clean

In 1937, Derrick Hardy went to work on the Desmond farm, hoping only to keep a little bread on the table and a few dollars in his pocket. What he found instead was a family of monstrous tendencies and a penchant for violence. Now, Derrick is on the run from a nation-wide manhunt. He is suspected of kidnapping four o...

The Tudor Witch Book 1 Mistress

1523. King Henry VIII is in desperate need of a male heir. Mistress Katherine Champernowne, a young maiden of noble blood, has been sent from France to the English court. Her mother believes she can produce a male heir for the English King. New to English politics, Katherine finds herself entangled in a war for the Ki...

The Man Inside the Iron Fence (The Boy in the Woods Pt. 2)

It's 1939, and the world is at the precipice of war. But life for one young man in rural America couldn't be better. Jonathon Blackwell is the eldest son of the most powerful family in town and heir to Blackwell Iron and Mining. Unlike many who struggled to survive the final years of the Great Depression, he has ev...

Loyalty Or Honour (Book 3)

The time has come for Hunter, the only illegitimate son of the late Lord Usani, to know the true meaning of family, loyalty and honour. The path ahead is fraught with danger. Three women will compete to win his heart. But which of them is honest and true? The choice will be in his hands but with everything else conten...

My Hands Hold My Story (Rough Draft)

In 1874, Ivy Steele's deafness is more than a handicap. It's a disease. Surrounded by a family that doesn't understand her, she's learned to cope and find solace where she can. Then, the unexpected happens. Her aunt dies, and her uncle sends her away to rejoin her father's family in Montana. Left to fend for herself...

A Minx for the MacKenzie [Highlanders Love #2]

HIGHEST RANKING #6 in HISTORICAL FICTION --- Amhuinn Kincaid, exiled from the Kincaid Clan, has spent the last three years as an outcast among the Highlands. She lived alone with her brother Tamhas, and the two siblings rely on each other. However, when her brother ended up in trouble and captured by their former clan...

CHALLENGES: The Foresters (Sample only, Published at Amazon)

Highest Rank #2. (Published on Amazon. Six chapters available for review.) First impressions can often be wrong. Lori Forester's five older brothers raised her to ride like an Indian, shoot the head off a match with blinding speed, and hunt with skill and cunning, like a brother. Though, she also has the skills of a l...

Ghosts of Culloden

This is an excerpt from one of 40 short stories in the OMP (One Million Project) Fiction Anthology. Historical fiction based around the Battle of Culloden -the last battle to be fought on Scottish soil.

EVIDENCE: A Past-Life Memory (Sample Only, Published on Amazon)

"Sometimes, life calls us back to live again." Maggie Warner has the rare gift of a perfect memory concerning all the days of this life, and some from her past one. Dr. Robert Malone, a neuropsychologist with a memory inducing technology, can prove her claim about a kidnapping no one remembers. The support and encoura...

SWANHILDE

Fate is all. Destiny is written and every single mortal is beholden to the whims of the Gods. Except one. Her thread broke. Deliberately or on purpose? You will find out. Swanhilde possesses an abundance of beauty but not much in the way of wit and character. She is a vain and shallow girl, convinced of her own su...

Spilt Wine

The disappearance of a friend and millions of Francs worth of wine interrupts David's buying trip in France when he pauses to assist and comfort his friend's wife, Catherine. Their lives are threatened, the intensifying circumstances draw them closer together, and they uncover their buried traumas, insecurities and lo...

Silent Night

A dark night. An even darker mission. Mr Rikkard Ambrose is stalking the wintry alleys of London, doing something he has never done before... But does he do it for himself - or is it a sacrifice for someone special? This tale tells the story of an extraordinary moment in the relationship of Lilly Linton and Rikkard Am...

Unknown Diners

Reviewing restaurants is normally a safe pursuit, but Lorne and Catherine face torture and death when they try to unravel organised crime's infiltration of the fine dining scene. Their longstanding friendship deepens when they meet again seven months after she was widowed by murder. While they help each other work th...

Missing

In the early months of the First World War, a young Canadian soldier uses quick thinking and ingenuity to evade capture after being wounded fighting in Flanders. While escaping through Germany to the Swiss border, he becomes intimately entwined with a beautiful woman and her British-Swiss family. A hundred metres from...