Intrigue, spice and all the romance
The Pine Springs series is coming in 2025!
A PR journalist for over 20 years, I write from the Georgian house in West Sussex which I have been renovating with my husband. I am unnaturally obsessed with dinosaurs and quite fond of my children too. I love bonfires, coffee-flavoured ice cream, eye liner on guys, Despicable Me 2, comfy loungewear, antique fairs, sexy forearms, Earl Grey tea and topnotch sarcastic rejoinders. I read ridiculously fast (it's a big problem) and I'm addicted to video clips of ice hockey punch ups. I wish I could hula hoop. I've tried. I can't.
More Than Nothing is my first novel. It is due out in October 2025, along with my second, Every Reason Why.
The title of my third changes daily.
It features as the setting in my upcoming series.
Elenie Dax wants no more than to stay on the right side of the law. But her rocky position in a dysfunctional family of criminals makes that almost impossible.
When Roman Martinez returns home to Pine Springs as the new Chief of Police, he brings with him scars from his spell in Detroit’s homicide department and the hope for more peaceful times ahead.
Sparks fly between Elenie and Roman, the firestorm of attraction taking them both by surprise. But if Elenie becomes a police informant to assist in the downfall of the Dax crime ring, they will need to keep their distance.
Is Roman’s secret support enough to give Elenie the fresh start she’s always dreamed of? Or will Elenie’s high-risk plan and feelings for Roman be the downfall of them both?
Jackson needs to sell the house he's been left. Leah longs to stay. Neither looks like getting what they want.
Ex-foster child, Leah Raven, has been living and working with elderly author, Esther Hale. Amity Court is the first place she has ever called home but, when Esther dies, the old lady leaves the house to her grandson.
Desperate for money to secure his place in the family business, Jackson Hale has no time for the dated Victorian money pit he’s inherited or the annoyingly perky tenant he isn’t allowed to evict.
Leah has been homeless before and she'll do anything to keep a roof over her head and placate her irascible landlord - no easy task!
Tensions are high enough between the reluctant housemates without hidden secrets emerging from the past and a dangerous threat looming in the present.
More Than Nothing - teaser
Elenie
'Elenie tipped her chin to search his face. She looked genuinely taken aback. He was close enough to see the flecks, like speckles on a bird’s egg, in the gray of her irises, and wondered what it would take for her to look at him with less suspicion.'
Pine Springs
Why did I create a fictional small town setting in the US when I live in the UK? Simple. I had this mental image of some key scenes in More Than Nothing taking place in a diner - and transferring these to an English café just didn't work for me! And so Pine Springs was born.
Roman
'His face wasn’t perfect. It was a little too drawn, hollowed around the cheekbones, and the fine line of a well-healed scar ran just below the curve of his jaw, yanking him by the collar out of ‘Aftershave Ad’ territory and into ‘I’ve Seen Some Things In My Time.’'
Every Reason Why - teaser
Leah
'Leah drew back slowly until she was sitting on her heels. He nearly reached out to stop her, had to force himself to keep his hands where they were, fisted in the bedcovers. Her light and energy drew him with a gravitational force. He craved more of it all the time when he’d grown used to wanting less of everyone else.'
Amity Court
My husband and I stayed in a stunning Victorian Villa in Michigan, which became the imaginary blueprint for Esther's house. The updating of Amity Court is based heavily on our own experiences of renovating an old property. (Yes, we also suffer with an extremely temperamental hot water system. Yes, we have to keep the WiFi door open. And, yes, the dessicated mouse fell on my shoulder, just like it did on Leah's.)
Jackson
'There was barely a square inch of him that wasn’t either filthy or sweaty—his hair coated in a thick layer of dust, gray t-shirt more dark patches than light. Even the hairs on his forearms were clogged with grime. He smelled of hard work and stale debris and, damn, if that wasn’t a whole lot more appealing than it sounded.'
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