
Scarlett's Story
Scarlett’s Story: The Sequel to The Amethyst Necklace, is an emotional, gripping historical novel, about one woman’s fight to overcome adversity, and the courage, hope and bravery of the resistance fighters in occupied France during WW2. Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop and Dinah Jeffries.
It is the summer of 1918 and the Spanish Flu epidemic hits East Sussex, leaving Scarlett Cunningham an orphan at the age of nine. Determined to escape her roots, Scarlett yearns for a better kind of life, while hiding her strange gift of second sight from the seeing eyes of the world.
Scarlett chooses wealth over love when shipping tycoon Eric Johnson offers her a way out of her bleak existence. However, the outbreak of WW2 brings a chance meeting with Eric’s son, Frankie. Scarlett recognises the mysterious stranger she so often sees in her dreams, and falls hopelessly in love.
As war rages across Europe, Scarlett denies her feelings, sending RAF pilot Frankie away believing she doesn’t love him. After completing a mission over the city of Stuttgart, Frankie’s Spitfire develops engine trouble on the way back to base and he crashes over enemy-occupied France.
While Scarlett waits anxiously for news of Frankie, can the bravery of the resistance fighters save his life in a country where Hitler’s spies are everywhere?
It is the summer of 1918 and the Spanish Flu epidemic hits East Sussex, leaving Scarlett Cunningham an orphan at the age of nine. Determined to escape her roots, Scarlett yearns for a better kind of life, while hiding her strange gift of second sight from the seeing eyes of the world.
Scarlett chooses wealth over love when shipping tycoon Eric Johnson offers her a way out of her bleak existence. However, the outbreak of WW2 brings a chance meeting with Eric’s son, Frankie. Scarlett recognises the mysterious stranger she so often sees in her dreams, and falls hopelessly in love.
As war rages across Europe, Scarlett denies her feelings, sending RAF pilot Frankie away believing she doesn’t love him. After completing a mission over the city of Stuttgart, Frankie’s Spitfire develops engine trouble on the way back to base and he crashes over enemy-occupied France.
While Scarlett waits anxiously for news of Frankie, can the bravery of the resistance fighters save his life in a country where Hitler’s spies are everywhere?
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The Amethyst Necklace
A sweeping tale of secrets and lies, perfect for fans of Tracy Rees, Kate Morton and Lucinda Riley.
Can unlocking the past be the key to the future?
1941
It is wartime England and as Reilly fights for his country Ruby waits anxiously for his return. The devastating news that he has been killed in action throws Ruby into a spin. She finds herself pregnant and alone but is offered a way out. Only when it is too late she realises her mistake, and by then she is powerless to prevent disaster.
2018
India had hoped that restoring her grandmother Ruby’s Victorian home, deep in the Sussex countryside, would distract her from the break up with her boyfriend. When she discovers that Ruby’s lover Reilly is buried in the nearby churchyard, and died while serving time for murder, India is determined to discover the truth. But the old mill in Isfield harbours a terrible secret, and India soon finds out that one tragedy can easily lead to another.

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Bird in a Gilded Cage
A passionate story of love, women’s fight for equality in the early twentieth century and friendships that test the very limits of endurance.
Fighting for the right to vote in Edwardian Britain, but is the price of freedom too high?
The Suffragette movement in the early 20th century is at the heart of this dramatic story of Beth Hamilton-Green and her bid for freedom.
Fighting to break free from her overbearing and manipulative parents, Beth is pressured towards leading a life devoid of any choices, and to quietly conform to the social standing of the era.
Determined not to succumb to her parents’ demands, Beth befriends the headstrong Suffragette, Alice Sparks, and finds herself drawn into a savage fight for the emancipation of women. Beth shuns her restricted but privileged way of life to join Emmeline Pankhurst and her brave band of women from the Women’s Social & Political Union in their determined fight for equal rights.
When the handsome and mysterious Finn McGuiness appears in Beth’s life, Alice’s declaration of undying love throws Beth into confusion. The real fight has only just begun as Beth becomes embroiled in a powerful struggle, not only for her own survival amidst the Suffragette activities, but with the pull of divided loyalties between Alice and Finn. Beth is pushed to the very edge of reason and the resulting events lead to tragic consequences.
Bird in a Gilded Cage is currently being re-written and will be re-released in 2022.
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