After everyone had gone Alice looked for her phone. It was only then she realised that during the fall she’d landed heavily on her smart phone, shattering the screen. She couldn’t contact the first person she thought of. This wasn’t one of her sons, or her brother, or any of the party of twelve skiers over from England for a birthday celebration long weekend.
Alice only wanted to talk to Peter. Her SIM card would go in a spare phone in the next couple of days. Then she would contact him again, though she suspected he would attempt to contact her well before then. Peter had collected two or three phone numbers from the group so contact wouldn’t be lost. Realising this Alice breathed a sigh of relief; he was already an essential part of her life.
Everything would turn out to be amazing in the end. Breaking a leg! What a way to end a perfect day.
Goliath’s Eye
Available soon
Do you want to save the world? David Spencer certainly didn’t think this was his destiny.
He sees himself as very ordinary, an average teenager, not physically strong, and shy. His broken family move to a distant coastal town. Downcast by the move his spirits improve as he becomes closer to his brother Richard, and encounters the iridescent Daisy. With his new friends David becomes involved in a protest to stop a bypass destroying the magical and ancient woodland protected by a Giant. All around that ancient place a strange madness is developing; a slow creeping insanity.
His new home close to the woodland has a history of strange happenings. Things become disturbing when his brother goes missing. Half strangled voices demand retribution against a mysterious figure for the return of Richard. The quiet teenager discovers he’s been elected as the only one who can help. At first David doesn’t realise he’s slowly absorbing the madness – becoming ever more savage in his efforts to free his brother from alien abduction.
Digging deep into it twisted pit of violence after more people are abducted David fights back – he faces a life or death showdown with help from his onetime adversary the Giant.
Both face death second by second in the final battle against the strange force that inhabits the woodland. Not everyone would survive…
All the devil’s pray
Available later this year
Mortimer Sands has spent most of his thirty seven years cloistered away on his mother’s large estate. He knows little of the world, only understanding what his mother – who claims to be a virgin – has told him. Determined to meet others he embarks on a pilgrimage to Santiago De Campostilla. An innocent abroad – Mortimer could almost be the reincarnation of Christ himself. Early in the walk he is befriended by a small dog who watches over him, keeping him safe?
Daily, as he walks, he relives his strange formative years – bathing in black tulip petals, creatures with snakes in his garden, strange thoughts that enslave him. And at night he is tormented by the physical and the non-physical. He encounters a couple who take terrible advantage of his innocence, treating him almost like their slave. With the help of Gladys U Plymsoul he escapes their clutches. His jolly bubbly friend is not all she seems – she wants Mortimer in a very personal way. She wants to drag him towards Satan himself.
Naked and with her physical lust unsatisfied she attempts to murder Mortimer. She thinks he’s dead… On awakening he seeks out Gladys to show her the truth. And reveals his true self…
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