Home Click the image to show my trailer on YouTube! Drawn by the mysterious pull of a house depicted in a painting, Ellen, a young business woman, is compelled to travel to the Lake District to see it. Once there, a transformation takes place and she becomes Lenora, a woman living at the turn of the twentieth century. Fascinated and intrigued, Ellen begins to lead a double life as Lenora in 1902 and as herself in Bristol in 2005. When she returns to Bristol, she retains the memory of what has taken place at Lakeside House. She becomes obsessed with Lenora and wants to spend as much time at Lakeside House as possible. She is sure that she has been sent to help, but she cannot work out how. Ellen has no choice but to see this through to the end: to find out what has brought her to this house and why this is happening to her. This is not what she believes it to be; the reason is far more sinister… Welcome to 2023. I hope it will be better for all of us than the year that has just gone. So far it has started uneventful for me. But I am looking forward to going to Bournemouth this week-end for our annual writer’s conference. It will be great to see my writing friends again. Read More May 2023 I am really pleased to tell you that my second novel: Shadows of the Past is now available on Amazon. This novel is a sequel to The House by the Lake, which has proved very popular. So if you enjoyed The House by the Lake; the story continues and I hope you will find it just as exciting as the first. Shadows of the Past, the sequel to The House by the Lake is now available on Amazon. Ellen returns to her home in Bristol eager to forget the experience in Cumbria. Engaged to marry a famous singer, actor Alistair comes into Ellen’s life. Unwittingly they fall in love, but in him Ellen sees glimpses of a man from the past. Torn between love and mistrust she rejects their chance of happiness and Alistair goes ahead with his wedding. Soon, unable to deny her love they are reunited. But Ellen makes an ill-considered promise, one she will regret but which must be kept. Entangled in a web of lies, she is trapped in deceit- not only of her own making but also that of those closest to her. Facebook Amazon