Author Terry Newman has written a rom com with a difference. With the characters literally falling out of the book and into the real world they try to manipulate the unsuspecting author into a romance. No spoilers here, but if you’re looking for a beautifully written romance, and a giggle, then this rom com is for you.
JJ Spritely, romance author, writes characters that jump off the page. Figuratively, that is. She never expects them to make a literal leap smack dab into her world. But Alex Zurich and Blake Teesdale do just that. And they're on a mission to help JJ write her own personal love story with a man she recently met, Kennedy King Cooper. A history professor, Cooper doesn't see the value of romance novels and he has even less regard for those who write them. Until he meets a woman who haunts his thoughts. There's only one small snag in Alex's and Blake's…
The emotional turmoil Kaya Clark will have to endure during her life is at times a hard read. The author depicts a large and growing family living in a backwater bayou with an abusive father. As the story develops, Kaya’s mother, often battered and bruised, takes flight, then one by one her older siblings leave, but not one turns back to save her. Now all Kaya has is a father that doesn’t know how to bring up and child and relies on her to take care of house. Then, by the time she is around eight years, he disappears leaving her to fend entirely for herself.
There are moments of light and dark in this tale, there is visual imagery that provokes thought, and often I found I had questions which were not always answered. The light in the tunnel are the owners of a shop who take pity on Kaya, and in return for clams she has foraged for, offer her goods. This is an unusual storyline and invokes a deep sense of loss, betrayal and love, and on a lighter note, Kaya has skills that no-one could have imagined, and gives her purpose in life.
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For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be…
Ruth Galloway, an archaeologist is called in to identify a child’s remains found on a nearby beach near her home in Norfolk. As the story unfolds another child’s remains are found, but this time Ruth also finds herself in danger. As in all of the Galloway mysteries, I found this an absorbing, poignant read, and difficult to put down.
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Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier - or are the bones much older?
DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual…
Kathleen Gray—talented, a little wild, at times rebellious, but always popular—has a fun, easy life in rural Somerset, with a doting family. Suddenly, they are gone, everything is changed, and she has only Uncle Jack. Try as he might, he cannot be father and mother to her—he has a business to run and his own life to manage.
Kathleen takes a chance and becomes Kate Westfield, fending for herself in London, with a new life built on her hopes and dreams and new friends. She could hardly have imagined that one of those friends has a shoebox full of answers.
