NOVELS
The Release
The river is life. It gives life and it takes away. It courses through the heart of the valley, nourishing the earth and sustaining the creatures around it.
Polson lives for the river. But he takes it for granted, and betrays the trust of those closest to him. He’s pursued by tormentors and by his own demons, and abandons the world that he knows.
As the river dries up in the heat of the summer, Polson looks for a way to return, sensing that only within the river can he ever hope for redemption.
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
An eight-year-old boy witnesses the violent death of his mother. What will it take to make him believe he is safe, and give him the confidence to tell me who did it?
Simon is a pale, awkward child. But he’s reached out to me. I can see he needs me. There’s no one else he can turn to.
What I can’t understand is his seeming reluctance to come clean and tell me the truth. Something or someone is stopping him from saying what happened that night.
All he needs to do is simply to tell me. Then I can guard him and keep him safe.
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To Every Thing There Is A Season
Ever since he arrived in the village of Nettlesden, Matty has been warned not to enter the wood. It has lain undisturbed for years. The trees creak and groan perpetual pain, yawning an invisible agony at the life that lies buried within. No one has reason to go near, except for Uriah.
But Matty is enthralled by its savage beauty, and entering deep into its heart he begins to discover its secrets. Things that the villagers thought dead and forgotten; and things they thought were alive.
What Matty uncovers prompts shame and denial, setting the village against itself, and threatening all who live there.
Snake
The ley is a world apart. A paradise, a prison. A raw and elemental wilderness; a place of lost innocence. Bowing to seasons, to wind and to fire, to the shocks that nature thrusts upon it.
Within its labyrinth of reed, creatures search and stumble blind. Vengeful, beautiful, unforgiving. Living and thriving, surviving and dying, feeding off themselves.
Into this merciless world the girl is lured irresistibly. She is drawn to it, repelled by it, drowned in its subterfuge and shame.
For What Is Lost
Loss is the only truth we can know. Everything else is a lie.
Six students arrive on a summer island. It may only be a mile from the shore, but it feels removed from reality, as if part of a different world.
Nothing they see appears to make sense.Nothing they say can be trusted.
They find themselves drowning in resentment and fear,and it seems there’s no way to escape.
The Deserter
Living in fear of the unknown, Katie’s instincts are to protect her brothers, while trying to carve out a haven for them in the fragile and unfamiliar world into which they have been thrust.
As the threats around them grow, she strives to keep them safe, while struggling to convince herself they will ever win through.
It is only by gaining the trust and drawing on the strength of those who have turned their backs on the world, that she is able to face into the challenges she encounters and dare to believe they can survive.