Juliet is a Singer, a Legal Eagle and easing back into her comfort zone! Juliet is a nice young woman. She works as a solicitor. Her boss has big expectations of her, although she doesn't know why. She sings in an all-girl barbershop quartet, called, logically enough, The Coiffeuses. She has set up a gig for the group ... at a naturist resort. Oh ... and she is in a relationship with her boss's son.
Jerry and Fran Tilson ran away to France a few months ago. (You can read the story in New House ... New Neighbours)Today is a big day in their progress towards becoming accepted members of the community. They are having a housewarming party for their new friends and neighbours.After the party there is the visit from Fran's aunt ... the slightly(?) bohemian Gillian. Turns out that it a life changing visit, but for whom?
How can you liven up a boring camping trip with your grandpa and your younger brother? Spencer has the answer: lose the new cell phone you weren't supposed to bring with you. Add a War of 1812 reenactment, a student film crew, an old flame of Grandpa's, Laura Secord's cowbell and a larcenous hardcore history buff, and you get a weekend that gives Spencer his first taste of independence and maybe a glimpse of his future, by way of the past. In this funny prequel to Jump Cut and Coda, the goofy and creative Spencer gets caught up in a War of 1812 reenactment.
Two Weddings and a Naming picks up the story of The Uncovered Policeman soon after the end of Goodbye Blues. As the name implies it is the story of two weddings ..... Whos'and a Naming ..... Obvious if you read the other stories, it is the Uncovered Policeman's baby. I tried hard to write it to be read as a stand alone story but I know the protagonists pretty well by now so if there is anything you dont understand get in touch .... I'll put in the missing facts in the next edition and you will get the rewrite automatically (the joy of e-books).A tale of a fun filled winter for the denizens of the sunny Rags to Riches world!
Even the Dark Creatures are scaredTen years after they first met Mick Crooke, the mild-mannered computer wizard and biker, and his girlfriend WPC Samantha Loch are on the rail of a group of criminals. Tasked by Greggory Lord Marchmont, the head of a small Home Office department to assist the police as they try to track down the source of some exceedingly dangerous synthetic cocaine. This time they have their group of naturist friends and colleagues to help them. Which is just as well, two men are already dead before they start on the trail! Which explains why Mick's Dark Creatures, that lurk in the dark places he doesn't want to see, are frightened!
Eight damaged women plus one ex-Army Officer and a closed holiday resort. Something's going to change. Deep in the South of France, between Narbonne and Carcassonne lies the holiday resort of L'Abeille Nue. In summer, it is a place full of sunshine, warmth and happy laughter. Today, however, is a cold and blustery March day. That said, unlike most resorts in this part of the world L'Abeille Nue is not sleeping. Eight women, all slightly damaged by trying to match the idealised image of the perfect woman, get off a bus from the airport. A couple of them were sent by their loved ones. Some came of their own accord. One has been sent by her boss. The last has been sent to spy by her husband, or has she? What is going to happen to these women While Bees Sleep? This is a stand-alone novella set in the world of the "Rags to Riches" stories.
Dreaming of Summer With Joelle It is 1979, Gary is eighteen years old and single. He will soon be doing his final school exams. He wants to become a teacher of French; so, he is looking for a job in France. Back when he was fourteen, he had been on the school exchange trip to Rheims. He is still in touch with his student host, Marcel. With the long summer holiday coming, he writes to Marcel to see if his penfriend can suggest anything. Joelle, his host older sister gets Gary fixed up with a job in a holiday centre with Marcel and herself. Gary has dreamt of Joelle for four years, of course, he is going. Marcel hasn't been completely honest about the 'holiday centre.' Gary may have packed too much clothing. Day one is a little of an eye-opener. But then he has found an old bike and ... there is Joelle too!
Samantha's school bestie has vanished. Mick has some time and goes in searchIt was deliberate. The car had slammed sideways into my motorbike on a perfectly straight, almost deserted, bit of motorway, on a clear dry summer's evening. After the brief impact, it had eased back into the outside lane and sped away.I had been happily riding along on a warm evening. Then, in an instant, I am sliding along the tarmac at some sixty miles an hour. I can hear my bike tumbling somewhere ahead of me on the road. I slither to a ha This is a page turner of the highest order. I couldn't out it down. Real characters ... even a little bit of sex appeal. An Amazon Customer.A romance set against the dark background of crime and corruption of the early seventies.
The tenth story in the Rags to Riches series There are huge changes afoot at L'Abeille Nue. The naturist resort in the Southern France that Rags and Bea Adiscombe opened on the site of a failed riding stables many years earlier. Now Rags is on a mission at the behest of Bea. It could be a lonely mission. Fortunately, he has a network of friends and family to help him along the way Some are new, like Horse, who takes Rags the length of the most famous road in the world. The journey turns out to be long on sunshine and laughter but as normal rather short on unnecessary clothing!A stand-alone story better read in its correct place in the series!
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