Christmas by Candlelight
In this collection of short stories set in a small Cotswold town, Christmas means community, comfort, and second chances.
These five uplifting stories celebrate love, kindness, and the quiet magic of the festive season. There’s a Walking Nativity, lighted candles, gingerbread houses, a broken Christmas tree, and mended friendships.
Curl up with a mug of something warming and step into a world of twinkling fairy lights, homemade decorations, and heartfelt romance.
Christmas by Candlelight— because love shines bright in winter.
The New Arrivals
My latest novel, The New Arrivals, is available here. it’s a sweet, small-town romance where friends become lovers, then face a sinister threat to their happiness.
Grace Knight thinks her life is on track—she’s got a steady job, a successful fiancé, and there’s a fairy-tale wedding on her horizon. Then her glittering engagement ring turns out to be as fake as the man who put it on her finger.
Escaping to a new job in a pretty Cotswold town, Grace rescues a newborn kitten. Teeny the tabby needs the help of vet Ben Whitworth, who is nursing a broken heart of his own.
As Grace juggles her career change with her growing feelings for Ben, the past catches up with her. How will she find the courage to build her new life?
Royal Hostage
(Royal Romances Book 3)
Mihail strides out of Maia’s past to take her hostage. Who will end up in more danger-her, or him?
Princess Maia is engaged to a horrible fiancé who was chosen for her by her family. All she really wants is her independence. When she falls into the hands of rebel leader Mihail, Maia experiences real life for the first time.
Mihail is Public Enemy Number One, and heir to a fierce tradition. He weaves ransoming Maia, his dangerous reputation, and his huge guilty secret into a master plan to overthrow the royal family of Kharova.
He can’t lose – until he discovers his beautiful hostage is the house guest from hell…
Get your copy of Royal Hostage here!
Royal Risk
(Royal Romances Book 2)
Career soldier Athan doesn’t want a personal assistant, and his new PA Krisia didn’t want the job – but a dangerous secret forces them together…
Krisia’s world turns upside down when she becomes personal assistant to Kharova’s notorious Royal Stud, Prince Athan Gregoryanak. Known for his wild ways and heroic charm, Athan is everything Krisia hates— he’s loud, disruptive, and dangerously alluring. As they clash in the royal corridors of power, Krisia is swept up in a firestorm of danger and desire. In a kingdom where duty and desire are at odds, will Krisia and Athan risk everything for a love that will change their destinies?
Get your copy of Royal Risk here!
Royal Passion
(Royal Romances Book 1)
Where Destiny Meets Desire on a Beautiful Greek Island…
A chance encounter in a Grecian paradise leads to passion. Leo is trying to get away from it all, while strong-willed businesswoman Sara is nursing a broken heart. While Leo wrestles with a royal secret and Sara looks forward to career success, they fall passionately in love. Then disaster strikes, tearing them apart. Will Leo accept his destiny? Can Sara really turn her back on him? Royal Passion is a breathtaking blend of aristocracy, ambition, and romance, as two independent people dare to defy the powers trying to pull them apart. Escape with Leo and Sara to a luxurious Greek Island where anything is possible. Especially love…
Get your copy of Royal Passion here!
Legend of Snake Hill
This is my second Pocket Novel for The People’s Friend. It was released on 9th May, 2024.
Issy Macleod escaped to the tiny village of Pentack to make a fresh start and begin a new career. She is now a successful caterer but misses her old life as a primary school teacher.
Jack Hammertide made a big mistake when he abandoned his life’s work as a world-famous musician. In relocating from London to the Scottish countryside, it looks like he is making another huge blunder.
Can joining forces to work for the good of the tiny village of Pentack bring Issy and Jack together and show them the true meaning of happiness?
The Wishing Tree
This was my first Pocket Novel for The People’s Friend. It was released on 24th August 2023.
Jake has rebuilt his life after losing his wife and toddler in an accident five years ago. Emma’s fiancé called off their wedding eight months ago, after announcing he didn’t want children. When Emma opens a nursery next door to Jake and fills it with children, he is grumpy—but she is determined not to let him put her off.
Gradually, their mutual suspicion thaws. Jake offers Emma advice about running a business. In return, she keeps him supplied with home-made treats. When the tree that gives Emma’s nursery its name crashes through the roof during a storm, Jake rescues her business by finding it temporary accommodation. The Wishing Tree Nursery is adapting to that change when another disaster strikes.
Emma takes these setbacks hard. She is tempted to close the nursery, but the determination that stopped her backing down in the face of Jake’s initial opposition makes her think twice. She announces that The Wishing Tree Nursery will stay open. The book ends with Emma and Jake deciding that they want to become more than friends.
Struggle and Suffrage in Bristol
This is the Non-Fiction Commission that led to me going to university as a mature student…
The bright ideas and determination of many mothers, educators, wives, artists, doctors, survivors and pioneers made Bristol great in times of war, civil unrest and hardship. This is their story. It’s a book for lovers of Bristol everywhere. You can find the ebook of Struggle and Suffrage here.
Here’s the opening of Struggle and Suffrage in Bristol…
It’s freezing, pitch black, and silent- apart from the sound of rats under the bed your wheezing children share. Snow has blown in under the door overnight. Fetching all the water you need from the communal well will be a slippery job today. If your husband gives you some money, your family can eat. If not, hard luck. You’ll all have to go hungry. Welcome to the life of a Victorian woman living in one of Bristol’s riverside tenements. Women lurked in the footnotes of history until they gained an element of control, first over their own money, later their vote and finally, their lives. Much of that progress was driven by women themselves. It took a hundred years of hard work, lobbying and violence before their lives improved to anything like today’s standards. The only way was up-and Bristol women led the way.