My Series
The Maggie and Marple Mysteries
Maggie Thompson grew up in Waiawa, New Zealand, and, after many years living in the heart of London’s Soho, she returned home to open a bookshop. In the rural town of her childhood she lived a peaceful life until the death of her childhood friend, Lawrence.
As she investigates his death, the amateur investigator hidden within Maggie awakens. Once the genie is out of the bottle it can’t be put back, and Maggie enthusiastically inserts herself into a series of events in her home town and beyond.
Along with her dog Marple, niece Clara, and the members of the Mystery Book Club, Maggie investigates wrong doings with enthusiasm, and sometimes with a cavalier disregard for her own safety.
The World Below
Have you ever caught yourself wondering if perhaps things around you are not quite what they seem?
Pris hadn’t until Snake forced his way into her life. Then what starts out as a simple mission to track down her parents draws her into a whole new world of magic and political intrigue.
Snake has lived his whole life in The World Above, but is aware he has family in the magical World Below. Little did he know when he teamed up with Pris that his past would become his present when he’s thrown into a quest to save a Queen.
Join Pris and Snake as they are forced into a dangerous quest to save a world neither of them have even lived in.
The Guardians of Time
In the shadows between history and time a secret war is waging—a war where the stakes are the future of humanity.
On one side are the Time Fixers, often called the Time Wreckers by their enemies. They believe fixing past wrongs will pave the way for humanity’s salvation.
On the other side are the Time Guardians, who fight for history to remain as it has always has been, believing humankind will find a way to save themselves.
Time Guardian Sigma has pulled together a team of would-be guardians to help him keep history in line; John the pragmatist, feisty Barabal, Alain the inquisitive, and Stanislaus the loyal.
As his team portal through time foiling Time Fixer plots, Sigma is worried they may be winning battles, but they are losing the war—and that’s not just because Time Fixer Isolde has been getting inside his head.
Will the Time Guardian’s win the war? Will humanity survive the battle? More importantly, will Sigma be there at the end?
The Wizard and the Warrior
Centuries ago prophets predicted the rise of a great wizard and a formidable warrior who would save the people of their land. Now an invasion fleet is heading for Aria, is it time for the Wizard and the Warrior to arise and save them all? Runaway bride Aliah wants to be more than someone’s wife. Fleeing his destiny, Seamus has no idea what he wants from his future. Thrown together by fate, the two journey to the nation’s capital; one to warn the king of an impending invasion, the other to do the unthinkable—train to be a wizard. Their chance encounter takes them on a wild adventure where they must face their pasts and decide their future, all while helping Aria prepare to defend itself. However, fate has not finished with Seamus and Aliah. In an unexpected twist, they are placed at the very centre of the conflict facing their home, and must decide whether or not to take up the challenge. With the gods on their side, it should be easy for Aliah and Seamus to identify and locate the real power behind the invasion and find a way to defeat him; all while pulling together a support team and having mid-night lessons to learn how to use their newly acquired magical tokens. Well, it would be if the gods weren’t hiding more than they shared. Aria’s future hangs in the balance, can two runaways tip the scales?
The Maggie and Marple Mysteries
In the shadows between history and time a secret war is waging—a war where the stakes are the future of humanity.
On one side are the Time Fixers, often called the Time Wreckers by their enemies. They believe fixing past wrongs will pave the way for humanity’s salvation.
On the other side are the Time Guardians, who fight for history to remain as it has always has been, believing humankind will find a way to save themselves.
Time Guardian Sigma has pulled together a team of would-be guardians to help him keep history in line; John the pragmatist, feisty Barabal, Alain the inquisitive, and Stanislaus the loyal.
As his team portal through time foiling Time Fixer plots, Sigma is worried they may be winning battles, but they are losing the war—and that’s not just because Time Fixer Isolde has been getting inside his head.
Will the Time Guardian’s win the war? Will humanity survive the battle? More importantly, will Sigma be there at the end?
Sweet Romance
From time to time I write some sweet romance stories, especially around Christmas time. If you like a romance read, why not check out my short stories and novellas
My Books
The Maggie and Marple Series
Love and Mystery
The Love Letter Mystery
A Special Book. A Love Letter. A Mystery to be Solved.
Big changes are happening in Clara’s life, is now really the time to be helping her friend Sassy find the owner of a mysterious love letter? Her boyfriend Tyrone wants her to concentrate on their future, but solving the mystery is just too intriguing to ignore.
Will Clara find the owner of the letter? And will she still have a boyfriend if she does?
The Soho Nights Mystery
London’s Soho in the seventies is all glitz and glamour masking a sinister underbelly. Having grown up in small town New Zealand, Maggie Thompson leaps at the chance to live and work there. When she runs into her childhood crush, Daisy, she becomes a part of the Soho scene in a way she could only have dreamed of. Excited and exhilarated by the bohemian culture, she thinks life can’t get any better, and that’s when her world crashes around her. In a single night Daisy rejects her, their friend Duke goes missing, and Maggie is introduced to the darker side of Soho.
Can Maggie help Daisy track down Duke while nursing a broken heart? And can they do it before he is lost to them forever?
Murder in the Manuscript
A hidden diary. A scrap of paper. An abandoned puppy.
Could these three clues mean that Maggie’s friend Lawrence didn’t die from natural causes? Maggie believes so and intends to investigate—even if her broken ankle is slowing her down.
Fresh from heartbreak, Clara travels from Sydney to country New Zealand to look after her injured great-aunt, only to find Maggie set upon investigating her friends death.
As the two women dig into how Lawrence died, they uncover a not-so-wholesome side to the township of Waiawa, one which Sargent Richardson would rather they stayed away from.
With help from her Mystery Book Club, will Maggie find out the truth about Lawrence’s death? And will Marple the dog find her forever home?
Body in the Book Shop
A hidden body. A silk ribbon. A bouquet of flowers.
When a body is found in the walled up recess of her bookshop, Maggie’s dead father falls under suspicion for murder. Determined to find the truth about the unidentified victim, Maggie starts her own investigation against the wishes of the local police.
When Marple uncovers a bouquet of flowers and a ribbon in the debris of the demolished wall, Clara is happy to track down their origin to help clear her great-grandfather’s name, and to distract her from worsening relations with her ex, Tyrone.
Then Marple reveals some more disturbing evidence. Can the Mystery Book Club solve the puzzle before long buried wounds are reopened?
The World Below Series
The World Below
Have you ever caught yourself wondering if perhaps things around you are not quite what they seem?
Practical and pragmatic Pris has never even considered the possibility. That is until someone breaks into her home claiming her parents have been abducted and taken to a magical world.
Snake has always known he is a gnome, and that there are all manner of magical creatures living, not only in his home town of London, but in the wider world as well. Now he must convince a very human girl she is actually an elf, and that she must join with him and enter the World Below to save both their parents.
Entering The World Below isn’t simple as it seems—scattered around England are the magical creatures and riddles that will grant them passage. They only have days to reach them all, and someone is working against them to ensure they never make to the magical realm.
Unsure who to trust, can Pris embrace her magical heritage before she loses her parents forever?
Snake faces his own dark secrets as he fights his growing attraction for Pris, knowing they can never be together.
When everything seems against them, will Pris and Snake make it to The World Below in Time?
The Minotaur’s Maze
Snake said let’s go on a quest in a magical realm to save our parents—how hard can it be? After all, we made it to The World Below.
Pris had no idea what she was letting herself in for when she said yes. She certainly did not expect to be thrust into a magical maze heading towards a confrontation with a freaking minotaur!
When Percival agreed to guide the two creatures from The World Above on their quest, little did he know the stresses of the maze would threaten to pull Pris and Snake apart, and that he would be tested to his very limits.
Will the three creatures overcome their own demons, and the obstacles the maze throws at them so they can defeat The Minotaur and claim their prize?
The Unseelie Court
Magic is real! Dragons are real! And I am an actual Elven Princess!
Pris has a lot to get her head around, but no time do it because she and Snake have been sent to a magical court in The World Above to save The Queen and the very fabric of magic itself—and she is racing to the rescue on the back of a dragon.
While Pris is riding high, Snake is still trying to figure out why he is here and not back in The World Below freeing his mother. The Dragon Queen’s reassurances that he and Percival are being there is critical does not have him convinced.
In a castle suspended in time in the middle of a Scottish town, Snake, Pris and Percival must navigate court politics and resolve personal problems while trying to convince the King of the Unseelie Court to save their Queen. Just when they are making progress the court comes under attack.
Will Snake and Pris succeed? Or will the price be too high for them to pay?
Saving their parents brought them together, will saving the world tear them apart?
The World Between
Arriving with the Unseelie Court refugees in the World Between, Pris, Snake, and Percival find magic is failing fast and the elven elite are moving to dethrone the Queen.
Along with some unusual allies, they each have ideas about how best to save their worlds but, just when they need to work together, they are pulling apart.
Will they be able to save the Queen, unblock magic, and heal the breach between magical creatures before their worlds are changed forever?
And, more importantly, will they be able to do it without fracturing their friendship?
The Guardians of Time Series
Swagman
What if the Swagman did not die when he jumped into the billabong? What if he ended up in medieval England embroiled in a plot to set a new king on the throne? For once in his life Swagman John is lost for words. Accused of stealing the lamb he rescued fears being thrown in jail. But instead of protesting his innocence he backs into the waters of the billabong and falls. Certain he is dead, John cannot believe the lamb when he tells him he has been brought through a time and space portal to Medieval England. When Mistress Barabal and Squire Stanislaus stumble upon John in the New Forest he is taken back to Winchester Castle where he actually finds the King has been killed and his brother Prince Henry is about preparing to take his place and his new friends are assisting him. Suddenly talking lambs are the least of his worries. Caught up in political intrigues he does not fully understand, John finds dungeons and magic are not just for fairy tales, and that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to see William the Conquerer’s other son crowned king—even as far as murder. Just as John wonders if going to prison for stealing sheep was not a better option all along, he finds there is an even more sinister foe meddling in with history. Against such odds how can John set history straight so he can return home to his family?
Alchemist
Would you Travel 900 years into the future to save the lives of some dogs? Alain, Apprentice Apothecary and sometime Alchemist, is on a high after saving the life of his king. After all the excitement he is not content to slip back into everyday life. So when he is offered the chance to travel with his Master to the future and investigate a strange disease in dogs he leaps at the chance. Taken through a portal to The New Forest in 2017, Alain finds life in Medieval England had not prepared him for a world full of machines where everyone lives in manor houses and there is no real magic. Uncomfortable and homesick he regrets leaving the comforts of home until his new friends decide to help with his investigation. Just when returning home is a real option, they uncover a sinister plot behind the animal illness that threatened more than just family pets. Will Alain risk everything he holds dear to stop those who threaten the future of mankind?
Soldier
Lee would never have believed Hampshire, England could look like this; a barren, over-grown deserted shadow. Then again, what did he expect a post-apocalyptic world to look like?
With nothing to do until Christmas, want to be soldier Lee decides to travel to the future with a shape-shifting time guardian and an eco-warrior to prevent the end of time. Joining a troop of soldiers hunting down a dissident, Lee overcomes his initial fears of the strange world he finds himself in, and begins to believe they may actually be able to prevent time from ending.
Then he finds out the person they are tracking is a reincarnation of his friend Alain, he begins to wonder if they are actually on the right side of the fight. Lee now faces a dilemma; should he be a good soldier and follow orders, or should he put his friend first?
Captured and imprisoned far from home, Lee must decide whether his desire to follow orders is more important than his need to do right by his friend—even if it means risking the future of humankind.As Southern England teeters on the brink of war, will Lee choose to save his friend or the world?
Suffragette
When Izzy agreed to take Basia from post-apocalyptic Hampshire back to early twentieth century London, she had no idea of the political powder keg she was walking into.
Tired of trying to prevent humanity hurtling towards the future she saw in Basia’s world, Izzy has returned to her own timeline to decide whether she will go on fighting, or pick up the threads of her old life working as a journalist in London.
Basia had agreed to her soulmate’s dying wish for her to carry on his work uniting the people on war torn Hampshire, England. Not ready to take on that responsibility, she took Time Guardian Sigma’s advice and has gone back in time to learn about women’s role in social change from Time Fixer Izzy.
The two girls are in London for less than a day when their plans are derailed. Amidst violence and public outrage against them, advocates for women’s suffrage are marching to London, and Izzy is sent to Winchester to cover part of the march for a newspaper.
The Wizard and The Warrior Series
Beginnings
The Prophecy When the new power rises and the Wizard and Warrior meet, old and new blood will combine to save one and all. When Nataria invaded and conquered their southern neighbour there was a time of Great War and strife. The land of Aria has been at peace for two generations, but now it faces a new threat from a would be conquerer. But there is much more to this threat than meets they eye! Is it the time the old prophecy predicted, when Aria would have need of the wizard and the warrior? Book One: Beginnings Aliah and Seamus have run away from the future their parents have planned for them. As they journey northwards through Aria they learn more about each other and the growing threat to their homeland. Could they really be the wizard and warrior of the prophecy? Are they destined to save their home from the greatest threat it has ever faced?
Trials
The Prophecy When the new power rises and the Wizard and Warrior meet, old and new blood will combine to save one and all. When Nataria invaded and conquered their southern neighbour there was a time of Great War and strife. The land of Aria has been at peace for two generations, but now it faces a new threat from a would be conquerer. But there is much more to this threat than meets they eye! Is it the time the old prophecy predicted, when Aria would have need of the wizard and the warrior? Seamus and Aliah have warned the King of the coming invasion, and are now on a mission to Hand to ask for the Duke’s help in the war to save Aria. It is not enough that they must face Seamus’ past to secure the support of Hand, but it seems they cannot escape the prophecy of the Wizard and the Warrior. Will they find out who The Wizard and Warrior really are? And will they do it in time to stop the coming invasion?
Battle
After the decimation and the fall, When the new power rises And the Wizard and Warrior meet, Old and new blood will combine With the two who are not what they seem. The key is the Ember Casket, to trap and calm the chaos, Or send it beyond to save one and all. Aliah and Seamus won their first encounter with the god trying to take over their home, so you would think they would be confident in their ability to banish their foe from Aria’s shores once and for all. Instead Aliah channels all her energies into becoming the best warrior she can be, and Seamus wonders why they are even bothering given they are doomed to fail: he even goes as far as to call their group “mice nibbling at the feet of a giant.” With a spy in their midst, the defence of Hand to organise, not to mention a mountain of scrolls to read through, can the Wizard and the Warrior free Aria from the greatest threat it has ever faced?
Admina’s Argument
Who in their right mind wants to be Queen? Frustrated by an old enemy and distracted by border rumblings, Aliah really doesn’t have time to deal with a disobedient daughter. Tried of being told what she can and can’t do, Princess Mina rails against the constraints of her position. Why can’t her mother understand that all she wants to do is join the guards and travel the land? As Queen Aliah weaves family tales, of princesses and witches, boys who disappear and humans who can fly, will her daughter realise the importance of these stories and rise to the challenge? And will she do it in time to face the new threat to their home? Along with the new stories Admina’s Argument, Emer’s Tale and Prophecy, this book also includes Amelia’s Tale and Into The Shadow. Although it can be read on its own, it provides a between The Wizard and The Warrior Series One and the new series starting next year.
Sweet Romance
Mistletoe Mix-Up
Floral fantasies, festive lies, and a love that just might bloom.
Abi thought romance could wait while she built her floral design business—but fate had other plans. Just her luck that the first man to truly catch her eye turns out to be the groom in her latest Christmas wedding gig.
Except William isn’t really the groom—he’s just helping his brother pull off a secret romance. But falling for the wedding florist? That wasn’t in the script.
With twinkle lights overhead and a secret between them, can William and Abi untangle the truth before the big day—or will Christmas end in heartbreak?
Festive Fling
No Christmas parties. No big family meals. No dramas.
When her parents take off to Fiji for Christmas, Kayla decides she wants a Christmas sea-side break from her demanding job, and even more demanding ex. That’s what Kayla needs—but it’s not what Kayla gets.
Soon after arriving at her beachside rental she finds herself joining in festive activities with her neighbours. There’s a plus side though. Dreamy Fraser seems interested in her, but a holiday fling isn’t in Kayla’s plan.
Just when she’s starting to consider a change of heart, her ex-boyfriend and boss arrives, followed closely by her mother.
Can she deal with these interruptions to her holiday, and will Fraser wait around while she does?
First Kiss
That First Kiss is everything. It can start a romance, end a relationship, bring back memories, or even leave you cold. First Kiss short reads are 45 minute, bite sized slices of life built around that First Kiss, with a touch of sweet romance. So grab a coffee and read.
Includes:
Christmas Kiss, A New Years Kiss, Valentine’s Kiss, Easter Kiss, A Kiss From The Past, Virtual Kiss, The Lost Kiss, Purrfect Kiss, The Kiss Not Taken, Beach Kiss, A Kiss In The Dark, Illicit Kiss