“Finally, you’re saying what you really mean. You should do it more often.”
“I could say the same to you.”
- Between the Lines
Between the Lines
How do two people who use words as weapons, fall in love?
Emma Greenhall, an avid reader and constant dreamer, enjoys a comfortable country life, living and working at a picturesque girls’ boarding school. When a neighbouring boys’ school is lost in a fire, her life is turned upside down.
Her literature classroom, which was once her sanctuary, is invaded by the stern Liam Miller, a fellow teacher who seems intent on making her life difficult. The pair must navigate sharing the classroom and the teacher’s dormitory, with every interaction a battle of wits and an undercurrent of sexual attraction.
For two people who use words as weapons, the answer to revealing their hearts is reading between the lines.
Between the Lines is a 85,000 word Romantic Comedy/Contemporary Romance stand-alone novel.
“Stay out of it, little girl, you’re out of your depth.”
“Two problems there; firstly, my name is Lori, and I won’t tolerate being referred to only by my gender,” she said, pulling a small, modified knife from one of her pockets. With careful aim, Lori sent the knife flying into the most talkative of the brute’s shoulder, where it sent an electrical pulse through his body forcing him to drop to the floor paralysed.
Lori couldn’t help but grin. “Secondly, I am never out of my depth.”
The Moons of Jupiter
The Moons of Jupiter
Book One of The Jovian Chronicles
Lori can speak to machines. At least that’s what everyone says. She knows that’s complete nonsense and that her skill comes from a little bit of natural talents but mostly years of pulling things apart and putting them back together.
Content with her life living on a spaceship named Frank with her uncle, salvaging technologies and trading them in only partially illegal deals, her talents often come in handy. Besides, legality is a nuanced concept on the terraformed moons of Jupiter, so says Uncle Jules.
That is until Uncle Jules is kidnapped and, Lori is left stranded, floating in space. Quite literally.
Following the instructions of an AI, Lori tracks down the solar systems friendliest assassin, Trix who volunteers to help. But when Lori wakes up a piece of cargo in the form of her childhood enemy, Cassius Evander, the heir to the company responsible for the terraforming technology, their journey becomes infinitely more complicated.
With all their paths now entwined, what Lori and her companions find along the way is set to change not only their futures, but the future of humanity itself.
The Moons of Jupiter is a 85,000 word Young Adult Science-Fiction novel, the first of a trilogy.
“Nice suit.”
“All the better to rescue you with, my dear.”
Very funny.”
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erk, I would have added if not for the fear that he might change his mind and leave me in the burning building.
- Persephone
Persephone
A society filled with the world’s smartest people, armed with infinite technology and resources, accountable to no-one.
Renovo is the answer; a new global superpower, hidden away on a secluded island the location of which is a heavily guarded secret. The city is the apex of human achievement but for seventeen-year-old Penny Anderson, Renovo isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
For Penny, Renovo means a ruthlessly competitive new school, a range of suspicious incidents which seem to be targeting her and an irritatingly handsome boy, with a cocky attitude and secrets of his own, who appears whenever there is trouble. Which, with Penny’s smart mouth and relentless curiosity, is often.
Delving deeper into the tangled web of missing students, hijacked androids and an underground rebellion, Penny learns secrets that could destroy this seemingly perfect society but in doing so she risks losing her most precious asset, her mind.
Persephone is a 65,000 word YA/Science Fiction novel, the first in a proposed trilogy.