Stories

A musically based story where a young guitar player takes over for a deceased member of a popular group and is guided by his ghost.

Martin is still feeling the effects of an acrimonious divorce and more recently the death of his mother.

He receives an email that could be a scam. It triggers events that upend just about everything Martin believes about himself. His path forward is not going to be smooth. Can he navigate this new life to make friends, find love and reestablish a family?

Every town has a history. Every town has stories that have been handed down through the ages . . . stories that tell of people or events that may, or may not, be real. Thompsonville is no different. In fact, this town probably has more than most. Here’s another one of them!

Love doesn’t end. Its role changes.

Lonnie doesn’t stop loving Leo.
He stops trying to live inside that love.

Joel's day has been completely normal until he comes home to find his younger brother sitting out on the front steps. After a word of warning, his life abruptly changes when a careless mistake reveals his one secret to the rest of his family.

*Originally part of the 2023 Secret Author Contest: Secrets (Only chapter One)

He woke up in the wreckage of an accident, with no name, no past and no one looking for him. As his recovery begins-body broken, memory gone, something in him doesn't feel lost... just hidden, if he could only remember. Placed into foster care under a name he didn't choose, he must rebuild a life from ash and shadow while the echoes of who he was begin to surface. Because sometimes, the past can't forget you even if it's Encrypted.

A weary immortal being, known only by legend has spent fifteen centuries trapped in our world, hiding in plain sight among humans while quietly searching for the one thing that can take him home.

When a routine news bulletin reveals that a long-lost artefact has just been dug up beneath a future Tesco in Croydon, he realizes the wait might finally be over. A road trip across England of modern-day Arthurian proportions ensues as a mythical wizard, and a cocky young chav race against modern Templars, a meddling MI5, so a living legend can finally return home.

When a beautiful 24-year-old is strangled and dumped on the pristine tenth fairway of Wilshire Country Club, Detective Daniel Vega’s first day back from exile becomes the fastest murder solve in West Bureau history.

One espresso martini selfie, one navy Hermès tie, one panicked rich lawyer, and eight hours are all Danny needs to turn a country-club morning into a career-ending afternoon.

Some people think money and a perfect handicap can buy silence.

Detective Vega is about to prove them wrong, one handcuffed swing at a time.

In the shadow of a crumbling empire, Constantine XI Palaiologos stands as the last hope of Constantinople, a city teetering on the edge of oblivion. As the Ottoman army, sixty thousand strong, masses beyond the walls with cannons poised to shatter the city’s ancient defenses, he grapples with a faltering faith in the God and the weight of a two-thousand-year legacy. Will Constantine’s resolve to fight for the souls of Rome, noble and commoner alike, defy the inevitable, or will history remember him only as The Last Of The Romans, will The Purple Phoenix rise once more, or will it remain a pile of lingering ashes.

Dr Kilroy Frost manages to separate his sexual desires from his professional life as a general practitioner. He volunteers as a sub at his anonymous BDSM club when the urge arises, but struggles with self-disgust afterwards, leading him to a cycle of heavy drinking and tranquilliser use. His life takes a turn after he is saved from a hotel fire by firefighter Todd Hansen. Their paths cross again at the fire station and later at the hospital on the day Kilroy learns of a homicide investigation linked to a member of his sex group, raising questions about his safety and what he should disclose to the police.