If you're married to a murderer, you'd better plan his demise stealthily.
When her brother causes the death of one of the Brady family, well-known south-east London villains, Kate finds herself forced into a marriage with the eldest Brady son to pay the debt.
Despite knowing how violent he is, Kate's friend, Janey,
helps her plot revenge, the seduction and then destruction of Kate's husband.
It is a dangerous game to play, as the Brady family is a powerful London crime
family with both money and influence, and very few morals. But it is Kate's
fascination with the seedier side of London life, and her friendship with
another of London's villains, a rival to the Brady family, that introduces
complications neither of them saw coming. Just who is playing whom?
Why do I write what I write? I have a television in my head. I can change channels. I can mute it when other stuff comes along that demands my attention ...but I can't turn it off. As soon as I have any ‘me' time, I turn the volume up and channel hop. So what's on these channels? Well, it's all drama, but a whole range of stuff from dark to light-hearted, from historical drama to modern to futuristic. What I do is watch a few scenes and see if it grabs my attention. If it does, I stay with it and see where it goes. If it's got enough body, I'll turn it into a book! Pot luck on the genre! Of course, it's my subconscious doing all this. The original first few scenes must come from what I've seen and heard over my 62 year lifespan. I read voraciously so some scenes may be from classic or contemporary novels that have stuck in my mind. Other scenes are from observing people and their behaviour. Then my subconscious gets to work to flesh out the novel. Inevitably I skew it towards my interests: people and relationships (especially quirky ones), horses, science and philosophy. I also have a fascination for people's religious persuasions, though I'm atheist myself. In my first book, The Glass Knight, I invented a whole new religion and my heroine's partner (I always lean towards a strong female lead) becomes a sort of cult figure in the sequel, The Darkness of the Knight. My first two books are set in the future after a cataclysmic pole shift (something else that has always fascinated me after reading Graham Handcock's Fingerprints of the Gods). In them I explore what direction humanity would travel in, if things were reduced to pre-technology status and it contains some GCSE science and inevitably, people being people, betrayal, violence and death. I also explore what direction evolution would take if plant life was reduced. They were also written with hidden meanings for the Mensan mind to discover. However, my third book, Seduction & Destruction, is much more mainstream. It is set mainly in the 1970s and 80s and draws on many of my own memories of living in SE London. It still contains quirky relationships, betrayal, violence and death, the gritty stuff of life, but in a much more familiar setting than an apocalyptic future. Less science, less philosophy, though I hope the book leaves people with many questions! Try it and see! All my books can be found on Amazon for £1.99 (kindle version) and they are also available in paperback.
I sat so merry in my abode
Loving hands around me
I dreamt of such glorious days
One day i would see
I remember the day I left
My room
I closed the door behind me
One quick look again
Then walked away
The room which would always remind me
The glorious days I had dreamt
I did merrily spent
How little did I then know
Life turns on a dime
My room is now not as it was
When I closed the door
Behind me
My room now is a prison
But not how one would invision
It is one of sorrow and grief
Sadness burns into the bare walls
I catch my breath
And weep
Why did thou'st doth betray?
The room which once embraced me
I ask with riddled heart
Jagged and torn
Which wicked riddles have I thus sought?
I sit still
I am now my room
No dreams as once before
I age before my open door
In my room long ago
I sat merrily in my loving abode
Loving hands did hold me
All gone
My room and myself
Now one
Two thrust to be together
Forever
Alone