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Helen Stevenson is recovering from her previous ordeal, when she had been kept prisoner and was raped. She is now a freelance environmental consultant, working on a holistic energy project for a large estate. She stumbles upon another adventure as ambulance chasing, she investigates a case of pollution. It results in violence, her attempted murder and betrayal. A web of family intrigue is woven around a sophisticated criminal gang, but somehow, she blunders through.

This is a fictional account of the abuse of vulnerable children in the United Kingdom, based on actual criminality. I hesitated to write this, and it has taken three years of heartfelt consideration. I feel for these poor girls, often from broken families but sometimes, girls from good homes who through one unguarded moment, found themselves caught up, controlled by evil men. Hijra or hijrah is the name used for men who live as female in India and Pakistan. There, they often resort to prostitution to make a living, but in England in the 21st century, why would a twelve year old boy take ...

Jeremy had tried to explain to his parents when he was seven, but their reaction had been so destructive that he hid his true feelings and simply withdrew from the family. He feared and disliked his older brother Richard too. By eleven, something or someone had to break and it would not be Jem. A visit to his GP released him and the hidden emotions of those closest to him. That was when he learned about love, love of his family, what remained of it and love of a friend, expressing his real identity at last. Above all she learned to love herself and her new persona, even though she seemed to...

Peter is a loner and a no hoper. His father is in prison, his mother in a mental hospital and he lives in a children's home. He knows his future is without hope and he acts tough and fights rough. He is coming to the realisation that he is on the path to nowhere and then three girls step into his path, three nice girls who treat him to coffee and then a little friendly ridicule. Kayleigh decides to take the boy home and Pete's life changes forever.

James was quite a boy. He had a reputation with the girls and for his daring. His annual skiing trip was a chance for him to show off his athleticism and his devil may care attitude. Too much adrenalin is a dangerous thing and leads many a young man into trouble. When you are skiing off piste, in uncharted territory and in a snowstorm, adrenalin might help you get through it or it might get you into deep trouble. So it was that he found more trouble than he ever imagined and a changed life. A trans novel.

When a troubled boy meets an assertive boy at a boarding school, it could end in disaster. It all comes down to character. Wally, confident and a good sportsman, likes and takes pity on small, frail Simon, clever but with no confidence at all. This unlikely friendship blossoms until a hiatus occurs and leaving school, contact is lost. Eleven years later, they meet again. The affection is still there. Will the reunion upset the triangle.

Edward is a strange child, quiet withdrawn, prone to tantrums and seems to find living in his family difficult. His father is a sports fanatic and he has passed his love of sport to Edward's older brother Nick. Edward runs for sanctuary to his neighbours, the Jennings, whose daughter, Jenny, of the same age, is his best friend. Tragedy befalls the family and Edward is adopted by the Jennings and at last has the courage to be who he really is.

Danny is a misfit, he knows that and so does his mum and sister Rachel. They, fearing for him, watch and wait. His father can't stand the sight of a boy that is so unlike him. It is not only at home where Danny is in trouble. School is a trial, he has few friends and many enemies, so life is difficult. Add to that his 'bunking' off and his thieving from shops in the Mall and you would say, this child will turn out like his father, a criminal. What Danny is not, is a thug. He has not inherited his father's liking for booze and brawling. His deprived and violent home is not the cradle for a ...

Charlie is a troubled child in a dysfunctional family. His brother has personality problems, his parents are growing apart. His father has expectations of Charlie but Charlie has problems too. He is bookish, his brother is all physical activity. As though that is not enough, his parents decide that boarding school will sort him out and he finds himself one hundred and fifty miles from home. He does his best to fit but in life you can only pretend for so long. His salvation is the farm next door, the down to earth Harrisons and especially Jeanette the daughter two years old than Charlie. He ...

I'm so glad that author Nash decided to put out book two, which picks up where book one left off and follows young Trudi's glamorous life through her twenties. In "Trudi (1)" the little boy had become "Trudi the Model" and accepted her benefactor's invitation to move to France where he set her up to live in comfort so she could study medicine. "Trudi in Paris" is a look into the epicurean world of the wealthy, where the rich deny themselves nothing and partake in the finest food, automobiles and designer outfits. In this world, Trudi is able to retain her humanity and continue to blossom as...

Daniel works in a London bank. He's ambitious to climb the ladder, a high flyer. Even so his life is a mess. He has a problem that has made him a loner trusting no one. His staff member Patricia, brings him out and introduces him to her friends. But do they really like the strange person they've met? Then there's Daniel's family who want him home, his mother fretting. What will they think of the person their son Daniel has become? At the Bank there's danger and betrayal. Daniel finds himself and finds the love of his family too.

This is the sequel to ‘From the Ashes’. We find Saskia and Jenny still at Cambridge University. Her casual friend and the only boy she has ever kissed, Larry Murberry Has disappeared to the USA to study. Saskia and Jenny journey to see Saskia’s father in Texas and Saskia at last makes peace with him. Larry reappears in her life and declares his love, but can Saskia return his love? Larry’s family disapprove too, so the affair seems doomed from the start. Will love triumph?

Sienna Chambers is an unfortunate girl. Her father died in a road accident four years ago and her mother hasn't been able to recover from the tragedy. Sienna is almost sixteen and has to wrestle with a mother who is grief stricken and look after herself and work towards her ambition to be a doctor. She has set herself an difficult target, of achieving a medical degree from Cambridge University. It seems that fate is against her, trouble in school and trouble from the Children's Department and an assault charge hanging over her. It is a good thing she has friends especially Jennie, but ...

The sequel to 'Owning Lili' this tells of her beginning a new life in France, leaving behind her girl friend Emily in England and Chrissie and her Mum moving to and establishing themselves in Lyon, the second city of France. This is a gentle love story, a tale of self-discovery and gradual realisation of contentment.

Deliverance. Craig hates his name. He also hates his brother and he’s not keen on his father. When his mother betrays him, his world has collapsed. Except for Jenny, he has no friends in the World. After Rob his jock brother outs him, there is nothing to lose. Pantonsville has to be history. Will Uncle Jem provide deliverance from oppression?

Chris Ashley is used to a few punches and kicks, that is the usual treatment for boys who present differently to their peers but this time the thugs go too far and Chris ends in the hospital with a skull fracture. Then he goes to France, en route to his father and finds lightning does strike twice, for feeling ill already, he is mugged in Lyon. Every cloud, they say, has a silver lining and he is found unconscious by Mathilde who unwillingly at first, takes care of him. It is when he mentions reading about 'Lili Elbe' Mathilde has a clue to what really affects her charge. Somehow Chris ...

Tina lives in North London and this is her GCSE year. She's a clever girl and life should be reasonably easy, but it isn't. For one thing, her father left seven years ago and Tina misses him. Her mother's new partner is a slob, mixed up in gangland. Not only that, he is ever more attentive to Tina, free with his hands, a slap here and a caress there and she is frightened of what might happen. Tina does what so many children of broken families do, she runs away. Tina does not camp out under Charing Cross bridge, she takes off for Paris and a new life. At first she cannot believe her luck, ...

Jamie is a bright boy and a good actor but sooner or later a lie will be exposed even if he is using the method, that's right, like Marlon Brando. There are lessons to be learned too, who to trust and what to tell. James is on a journey but the trail is long and arduous. Life will never be perfect he realises, but he will settle for the best he can get. Luckily he has sisters to help him and more friends than he ever expected. He has enemies too, hiding behind their faith, the most dangerous of all.

Michael feels hunted, he knows that what he does is not normal. In his muddled mind, oppressed by his stepfather and bullied at school, and depressed, he has become something of a hermit. Not only that, he does horrible things to himself, punishing himself for being this creature that no one understands. Not even he understands. Then Catherine his classmate of five years sits by him on the bus and his pain is displayed. School breaks for the summer and the future looks bleak but Catherine sees his pain and understands it probably more than Michael because he is so muddled and depressed. One...

Sam Caplin is nearly down but not quite out, wrestling with a Private Investigator business that is going nowhere and an inferiority complex that isolates Sam from her family and prevents her making new friends. Then one day into her crummy office steps Caroline, twenty-five, svelte and beautiful with partner trouble. Her partner Daniel just has too much money and there has to be a reason. Sam had been a good police officer, at home and streetwise in London, but when the action moves to Venice, she finds herself all at sea and suddenly, her target has become her guardian angel. That's where...