Hauntings at the Black Cat Inn

Cover of Hauntings at the Black Cat Inn

Out in October, but available now for pre-order at a special reduced price of 99p (99c) – an anthology of atmospheric and ghostly tales by six authors.

Set on the wild Cornish coast they span six centuries and are by turns touching, humorous, mysterious and adventurous. Old wrongs are righted, villains brought to justice, puzzles solved and lessons learned.

Just the thing for the dark nights of autumn!

May 2026

Two books with short romantic reads for the upcoming holiday season:

Love Beside the Seaside – a light-hearted account of the Earl of Wittering family’s adventures at Weymouth and  the efforts of his secretary Giles Porrett to extract the dysfunctional group from disaster, all the while yearning for the Earl’s granddaughter Emily. A hopeless passion – or is it?

Journeys End In lovers Meeting – two short stories and a novella, all set at the end of a journey.

March 2026 news

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My 75th book for Harlequin Mills & Boon is now out!

The Dangers of Deceiving a Duke matches a small town draper with a secret against a duke with a nose for a mystery.

November 2025

Cover of The Alchemy of Love and Death

October 2025

The first in a new series of timeslip mysteries is out now.  The Alchemy of Love and Death introduces historical researcher Abi Shaw, the new owner of Janus House and, much to her shock, portals back to the year 1811.

The secrets that Abi becomes involved in range from the intriguing – a disappearing doctor, through the worrying – a most unsuitable marriage – to the downright dangerous.

The whole cast of the previous Welhampstead mysteries are on hand to help – or, in the case of solicitor Frank Ponsonby, distract, Abi, but when events reach their climax she finds herself in mortal peril, alone with a killer.

You can read an extract here.