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outside. In a minute I’ll go down and make breakfast and then we'll start to sort the house out.’

  As she spoke, she tried desperately to keep her voice light and steady and it was fortunate that Ben was holding her in such a tight embrace that, at that moment, he couldn't see her face, nor detect the trembling of her body, for her expression was truly ghastly. Her eyes had become lifeless pools, staring out hopelessly from a face shocking in its pallor. It was as though in that instant she had foreseen the inexorable end of each of those she loved and cared for.

  She began to shiver uncontrollably as immeasurably powerful, ice-cold talons reached inside her body and grasped her beating heart, squeezing cruelly and remorselessly until, finally, she had no choice but to cry out in her abject anguish. Ben drew back his head at the sound and looking up, saw his own uncontrollable terror mirrored perfectly in his mother’s eyes.

  Other Fiction By This Author

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  Tread Softly In My Head

  (A Novel)

  A woman has gone missing and the police have a suspect. They call on the services of Dr Catherine Paradine, a young psychologist, to question him. She has the singular virtue of being a telepath with a native ability to read and project emotion. It seems, therefore, that obtaining the information the police require should be fairly simple. Presumably?

  In pursuing the case, she is plunged into a criminal world, fraught with jeopardy, where the limits of her endurance and ethical integrity are repeatedly tested. Will she discover the location of the missing woman in time to save her? Can she come through her own ordeal unscathed?

  When she is confronted by a spectre from her past, she finds herself sucked deep into a mind seething with self loathing and hatred; a mind intent on only one thing: Revenge.

  The Jester and Other Stories

  (A Collection of Short Stories)

  Twelve enchanting and varied stories…

  …By degrees, he became aware of the plight of a frail looking old lady, whom he perceived to be engaged in a life and death struggle with her umbrella. The wind was gusting viciously, driving great waves of sleet from one end of the square to the other. His attention was riveted to the old lady’s plight, for she was being buffeted and spun in all directions and appeared completely helpless in the face of the relentless onslaught…

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  Ahead, and to our right, lay higher ground leading to the hills that formed the inner part of the island. The moon quietly bid us goodnight and slipped out of sight behind these hills. We were now truly alone…

  Other Places

  (A collection of 33 poems.)

  Part One, includes poems around the subject of love found, love lost or other aspects of love or passion.

  Part Two, includes poems on a wide variety of topics, often including an element of fantasy. Subjects include: The dreams of a cat; The passing of dragons; An extraordinarily beautiful and empathic young girl; An insane genius and my own tribute to Tolkien's Lady Galadriel, from 'The Lord of the Rings', to cite but a few.