Angelique and Louis are soul mates but they can’t be together for reasons beyond their control; one of them is on the earth plane and one is in the realm of the angels. Their bond is not a physical one but one of senses; each feels the others presence.

They come from very different families: Angelique’s parents are comfortably off but their longed for family is elusive, Louis’ mother is a homeless drug addict.

The angel watches over the human and both of their families, guiding and protecting, and tells their story with an ethereal voice.

Ava Greatbach is a ferry pilot in the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War Two. She has two admirers at the Ferry Pool where she’s based, one male, one female. One is a flirt, the other she is more seriously drawn to.

Wilhelmina Schmidt causes every head to turn as she strides into the room and gives her name at the desk.

She and Ava become close but it isn’t to last as Will is killed in an accident.

However she is a strong spirit and is determined to return to Ava, her one true love, but is there such a thing as reincarnation and will she have any control over whether she can return to earth?

PLEASE DON’T read this book or look inside until you have read Over A Spitfire because it will spoil it completely!

We left Over A Spitfire with a death and a reunion. In this sequel the reincarnated character of Will decides that they would like to trace Will’s family.

Has anyone done that before? What will Will’s family think? Who is this crackpot knocking at our door? But knock at the door they do, metaphorically speaking and here unfolds a story of past connections and new relationships. A family saga with a difference – and what have the 1980s got in common with The Black Death and The Great Fire of London?

When you've brought up your children singlehandedly you don't expect to have to do it again with someone else's, at least Alannah Sherratt didn't. Life with Bernie Kelsall and his daughters was idyllic, but Bernie wasn't supposed to die...
How was Alannah to raise his girls as he'd have wanted, and deal with their grief whilst dealing with her own?

Our pets play a huge role in our loves, our fur babies and grandbabies. Anyone who has ever loved an animal will know how unique and special each one is.
This is a memoir of every animal who has ever been a part of my life. Most of them are featured in my two human memoirs Shadow Across the Sun and Better or Dead but I thought they deserved their own book with lots of photographs to preserve them in time.
Here they are, my furry loves.

Every life has shades of dark and light and sometimes we all need a little help from a higher power. As I approached my 40th birthday my life was in the light for the first time in many years of various hues, then as ill health had plagued my family in the past, it came for me. Life begins at forty so they say. Mine didn’t. It ended.

M.E. also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (C.F.S.) is a very controversial illness for which there is no diagnostic test – diagnosis at present is by a process of elimination – no treatment and no cure. It is shrouded with disbelief and prejudice. At a time when I should have been enjoying my life I faced an uphill struggle with a fight on my hands to survive, when I was too ill to fight.

This is my story.

I had an idyllic childhood - the best, loving family, good friends, beautiful woodland to play in in a picturesque village with quaint cottage sweetshops in the Staffordshire Moorlands in the UK. The only shadow over the scene was illness - always there, and Fate had a vicious blow to deal. In 1967 when I was just twelve years old, my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer. Following a mastectomy she received treatment for the rest of that year and into the next. The outcome wasn't what we hoped for however and we lost her in February 1968. Someone at school told me about ouija boards. Desperate for contact with my mum my sister and I tried it. We were successful and it gave me my belief in the afterlife, a theme that is present in some of the novels I've written since.

A collection of short stories and poems that take just a moment to read.

If you like short stories or poems and need something to fill in a coffee break this collection will fit the bill.
Everyone has their homeward journey from work, through drizzle, dark, the desire to get home safely all we can focus on at that time of day. What if an intimidating stranger hampered your progress?
Angels. Do you believe in them? The continuation of the soul? What if that soul were to be aborted?
Christmas baubles. Beautiful, delicate, symbols of love, joy, a spiritual occasion – or are they?
These are the themes of the first three stories but the collection covers several genres. There’s even a little humour interlaced for good measure.

A collection of short stories and the writing exercises that created them.

The title story, The Journey, is a short, seasonal coffee break read about a December journey to deliver an alternative Christmas present.

Everyone has heard of the wicked stepmother and her brood. They are not reserved specifically for fairy tales, they live and breathe in the real world. Mine robbed me of my inheritance. Now they had to pay.

A story that is an equal blend of fact and fiction.

The book is a collection of short stories and pieces, many that stemmed from exercises at the creative writing group that I used to attend. In some cases I have included the exercise so that anyone who’d like to try their hand might just do that. It is a sort of activity book for creative minds!

A collection of twelve short stories. The first two are ideas that an author character, Celia Wainwright, had in the novel Not Reported Missing. The first line of story number one, Sinister Kisses, came to Celia on a romantic break to Guernsey, Channel Islands during a stroll along the beach. Story number two, Before the Poppies, came from a novel of Celia’s which had been adapted for the screen. This story also has an autobiographical element of mine as the author; an ancestor was badly gassed during WWI. I thought he deserved a tribute. The main character’s name, Lily, was my mother’s name.
Other stories include lost loves, found loves, a couple of seasonal Christmas stories, one amusing, the other with a touch of poignancy.
All short, coffee time reads.

How does a holiday romance in Majorca in 1999 end up in the plague village of Eyam, Derbyshire in December 2019, and where does the coronavirus pandemic fit in? Is history repeating itself? Are plague victims truly laid to rest?
Can the past be relived, memories be rekindled, or should they stay just that, beautiful memories? Lots of people have holiday romances which leave magical memories to treasure – but what if life had followed a different path?
Sometimes that risk you are almost afraid to take can bring you the greatest happiness, and souls, once connected will always find each other.

Tess Barker isn’t seriously interested in Billy her gardener; he’s just an aethsetically pleasing addition to her view a couple of times a month. Besides, he wouldn’t be interested in an old thing like her…
He brings news of a shooting, unnerving Tess.
Who is the perpetrator and are any of them in danger?
Tess’s brother introduces the new woman in his life whose jealousy upsets the balance of the family and Tess is afraid she will lose Nigel – then she finds the gun…

N.B. Mile End station is fictitious to this story and is not based on an actual place.

The Willows Dip series
Book 1
A Lapse of Sanity
a ghost story
Life will never be the same for Chloe Hetherington following a life changing accident. Rowan Cottage in picturesque Willows Dip was a dream home but dreams become nightmares in moments and changes have to be adapted to.
In an effort to alleviate her worries she takes a walk and during that walk stumbles upon a derelict cottage. Curiosity gets the better of her and finding the door open she enters and encounters the ghost of its occupant. That sets in motion a quest to find out more about the old lady and she visits a spiritualist church.
Her next walk, this time in the woods backing onto her cottage, is equally if differently disturbing. The woods are home to the enigmatic Nathaniel O'Keefe, a part Romany gypsy, and their meeting upsets everything that Chloe holds dear.
Outside forces intrude upon her life and she has choices to make, but will they be the right ones, and what effect will they have on hers and her family's lives?

Book 2
After the Solstice
The sequel
Is it possible to love two men at once? Chloe Hetherington knows that it is and in an ideal world she could have them both, but life is not ideal. Society dictates that she can only have one and she believes she has made the right choice. Outside forces intrude into her life though and she sets out on a quest to find happiness. In pursuit of that happiness lives are upturned and the truth about baby Josh's parentage only serves to bring more confusion to her life.

Willows Dip
Book 3
Free Flight
Mourning the loss of her soldier husband Constanze Curtis opens a bird sanctuary in the picturesque village of Willows Dip. She'll never find another man like Kev and so she dedicates her life to her birds, but then a shopping trip and a black Audi TTchange everything and Connie's eyes are once again wide open.
As she develops her sanctuary she advertises for volunteers and one of them is the attractive and charismatic Nathaniel O'Keefe who is intent on facing his demons.
Characters from the first two books have moved on and their lives entwine with Connie's but whilst she is making new friends she is sharing her life with a supernatural guest and a most unpleasant neighbour.
After the loss of a baby as well as her husband she wonders if she'll ever have the happiness that her friends have or is she destined to spend her life alone?

Willows Dip
Book Four
Nana Crashitt foolishly falls for the charms of the young man with the pretty face and the blue eyes whom she opens her front door to. Constanze her granddaughter has warned her about opening her door to strangers but Nana can’t help herself, she just has to see who’s there and he’s got such a lovely face. Not so his morose companion, but well, it can’t hurt to let them give her a valuation on her treasures can it?

It can. It’s a mistake that costs her her life and Constanze vows to track down the killers and make them pay, but where to start? There is only one witness, young Jake Hetherington on his way home from school and he tells the police all that he knows.

There isn’t a lot to go on, but a child with a crystal ball and Nana’s determined spirit will not be thwarted until justice has been served.

Although not set in Willows Dip there's a link to the village later in the story.

A new wife and a vengeful ghost. Not a good mix.

Letitia – Tish – Stanyer makes husband Theo promise never to remarry if she dies and he complies just to pacify her. She isn’t going to die.

She does – and he does remarry. Tish isn’t happy. Her spirit cannot rest with another woman in her domain, sampling the delights of her husband. Theo belongs to her – Sheena will have to go.

A short story collection that slots in after Willows Dip book six.

The villagers of Willows Dip are a nosy bunch, all peeking into the lives of their neighbours and usually getting the wrong end of the stick.
What does the man carry out to his van at 4 a.m? Why does it take Mr Bathroom so long to wash his hands? Who are the swingers and what goes on behind closed curtains?
Willows Dip is a quintessentially English village, a pretty chocolate box setting, but quiet it is not; it all happens in Willows Dip!

Willows Dip
Book Five.
Young photography student Josh Hetherington-O’Keefe is out walking his border collie Izzy over the common at dawn and photographing the wildlife when Izzy becomes interested in a pile of rags dumped beside the rushes. On closer inspection Josh sees that it is the body of what looks like a middle aged man and shaken by the discovery he calls the police. There is no identification on the body. All that there is is a wallet containing a few pounds, a photograph, and a key.

Who is the man? Who is in the photograph and where is the door that the key fits? The ghost of the man’s body has its own voice and frustrations at the lack of memory. Villagers old and new all speculate on the mystery and during the course romances flourish as life continues to unfold in this quintessentially English village.

Mystery and romance: first love, young love, older love and love in between. Willow’s Dip is a good place to be – for some.

This is a family/village saga but will stand alone as a story although the main characters from previous books in the series, also Whisper to Me, are featured as well as new ones.

Willows Dip
Book Six
Willows Dip is a fictional village. Covid-19 is very real. This story tells how people's lives in a fictional village reflect the lives in actual villages, towns and cities across the UK and the world as the pandemic takes hold, claims lives, changes lives.

A collection of twenty sonnets on a variety of themes: family, holidays, lost love, tarot and psychic readings, wildlife, pets, diverse topics.
Inspired by the author’s love of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, Summer’s Day. A sonnet has a certain structure and rhythm; a special type of poem.