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Forgotten Child
 Alone
Jennifer Lavender was a lonely child. She always felt like second best and desperately craved her parents love.
ADOPTED...When Jenny learns she was adopted everything falls into place. But her dream of finding her real family can never be fulfilled – her mother died alone giving birth. ABANDONED...Determined to break free from the past Jenny runs away and starts a new life. She falls in love with Marcos, a sophisticated older man who gives her the security that she so desperately craves. But is he all that he seems? AGONISED...While Jenny adjusts to her new life, her adoptive mother seeks a reconciliation. Can Jenny battle through the family’s secrets and find out the truth about who she really is? Or will her discovery be more than she can bear?
Lost Angel
 Hope Never Dies
A dramatic new novel set against the backdrop of war.
After losing everything in the blitz, Hilda Stone and her 9-year old daughter, Ellen, are desperate for a miracle. But their world is shattered when a telegram informs them that Doug - their beloved husband and father - has been lost at sea. In the depths of despair, Hilda is one day approached by a strange woman with a message - and both she and Ellen are astounded when the prediction becomes a reality.
Years later, and now a teenager, Ellen makes a shocking mistake - but is rescued by the man who later becomes her husband and the family at last find peace. Their joy is cut short when another tragedy strikes and Ellen becomes obsessed with finding proof of an afterlife. Disappointed she reached rock bottom - until given a sign. But will it provide the answers she so desperately seeks? Lost And Found  BULLIEDMocked by everyone around her, 15-year-old Mavis Jackson is devastated when her only ally, her father Ron, moves away to beat his gambling addiction. Forced to walk the streets in search of junk to sell, the future seems bleak.
BRIBED
BLAMED Desperate Measures
SHAMED… … Rape victim Paula has been terrified ever since her brutal attack.
SACRIFICED… … Now these four women want revenge.Masterminded by Val, they set out to right past wrongs. Family Betrayal
MENACING....The Drapers rule the streets of south London.Everyone's afraid of them - and that's just how they like it.But when tempers flare and a feud spirals out of control,tragedy strikes,leaving eldest son Danny in charge. MANIPULATED.. But Danny has shocking plans for the family business and younger sister Petula becomes the scapegoat for the Drapers’ dirty dealings.
MISSING.....Years later, and the once united clan has now split up. Petula returns to the place she once called home to face her family as well as her demons, unleashing a terrible secret that could destroy them once and for all.... Sins Of The Father
Published by Avon/Harper Collins in 2000 DESPERATE Left to raise eight siblings after her mother's death, 17 year old Emma Chambers faces a daily battle with hunger and her father's drunken rages. She is offered a way out. If she marries landlord Horace Bell ,twenty years her senior - Emma can swap poverty for comfort. DEGRADED But Horace soon reveals his true, sadistic colours. Emma is thankful when he eventually abandons her, until she realises she is penniless and in peril. A chance meeting plants an idea in her mind. All her life, men have taken advantage of her. Now it is time for the tables to turn. IN DANGER
Years later, and Emma has built up a successful business on South London's meanest streets. But then tragedy strikes, and it becomes clear that someone has been watching Emma, intent on revenge Nobody's Girl
Published by Avon/Harper Collins in 2007. Abandoned and alone, you'll do anything to survive! Abandoned on the cold stone steps of an orphanage, only a few hours old and clutching the object which was to give her name, Pearl Button had a hard start to life. Now 16 years old, she's finally managed to escape the cruel confines of the orphanage, and enter the real world. Finding work at a nearby cafe, Pearl is thrilled to start earning her own money, even if she must contend with sharp-tongued Dolly Dolby. But soon she becomes tangled up in the murky South London underworld in which Dolly's son - the cruel but handsome Kevin - operates. By chance, she sees something she shouldn't, something dangerous, and her life is thrown into jeopardy. Can gentle giant Derek Lewis protect vulnerable Pearl from Kevin - and her own heart?
Meanwhile, a local boy is snatched, terrifying this close-knit community, and at the orphanage where Pearl lived out her wretched childhood, the past is coming back to haunt its owner- and the secret she has promised to guard for so many years! No Time For Tears
Published by Severn House in 2006 This is the final episode in the Candle Lane series. Heartbreak wreaks havoc in Sally Jone's life when she finds her husband, Arthur, in the arms of Patsy Laurington, her neighbour and friend. Devastated, she returns to her mother's house in Candle Lane, only to find that her refuge is scheduled for demolition.
Patsy is hiding a dark secret, and in her desperation to keep Sally's husband, she schemes and connives to keep them apart. It is only when divorce proceedings are in progress that the shocking truth emerges, but for Sally, it has come too late. Further revelations await Sally when the father she has never known comes into her life. Andrew Munro offers her a way out, a home with him in Scotland, and she now faces the most difficult choice of her life... Another Time,Another Place
Published by Severn House in 2006 This is the second in the Candle Lane series. Set in Battersea, South London - 1966. Sally Jones has a happy family life with loving husband Arthur and an adorable daughter. Though their daughter's given name is Angela, with her wide, innocent smile she soon becomes Angel to most of the family. However, spoiled and precocious, by the time Angel is eighteen months old, it soon becomes apparent that this is no celestial being.
Everything changes in Sally's life when her grandmother has a stroke and the family find themselves moving back to Candle Lane to look after her. Stressed by the lack of privacy, Sally soon starts to have doubts about the strength of their relationship as Arthur becomes increasingly mysterious about where he goes and who he visits. Sally senses danger and her powers of sight are never wrong, and now her daughter also shows signs of inheriting her psychic abilities. When a devastating accident happens Sally could never imagine the effect it will have on her family. The Empty Hearth
Published by Orion in 2006 In this novel I explore the dark secrets that lie behind the well-scrubbed doorsteps of family homes. Set in Battersea in the Fifties and Sixties, the Pratchett family has to contend with coalman Alfie Pratchett's obsessive jealousy. Although Alfie is a bully, his two teenage children, John and Millie, have learned to dodge him and his moods. The main concern of ugly duckling Millie - who looks nothing like her handsome brother John - is to protect their mum, Eileen.
When a serious crisis occurs at the Pratchetts' home, Alfie is forced to watch his whole world gradually collapse around him. Their old life has gone forever, and a new one has begun - one in which rape, debt, alcoholism and insanity play their parts. And redemption is a long time coming. Outcast Child
Published by Orion in 2004 In this evocation of working-class South London set in the 1950's, I explore the themes of love and loss, showing life at its best, brightest and very darkest moments. Drama and heartbreak wreak havoc in the life of young Daisy Bacon, guardian of her Cousin Lizzie who, a grown woman in body and appearance, has the innocent and trusting nature of a child.
When Daisy's mother is run over and killed outside their house, she retreats into a world of silence. Blaming herself for the accident, she is unable to utter a word. When her father remarries, Daisy's family home becomes a prison, with her stepmother Vera as the cruel jailer. It is Cousin Lizzie, who will always remain a child, who brings sunshine back to Daisy's life. However, only when Henry Bacon discovers his new wife's shocking secret does Daisy herself find true happiness, and in a way that she could never have anticipated. A Cuckoo In Candle Lane
Published by Orion in 2003
This is my debut novel, and the first of the candle lane series. Sally's life changes when new neighbours arrive in Candle Lane and she forms a friendship with their daughter. Shortly after her father has an affair, abandoning them and it is Elsie Jones who helps her mother to pick up the pieces. Elsie also recognizes Sally's psychic abilities, and as she grows into a teenager, encourages her to use spiritual healing.
Family life is at the heart of Candle Lane; the ups and downs of marriage and the parent-child bond - ranging from the worst excesses of childhood sexual abuse to a maternal love so devoted that a mother will collude to break a young girl's heart in order to protect her own son.
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