Writing Award 2022

Xiamara and Judith are slaving and saving working two jobs for college tuition in Puerto Rico. The Caribbean dream for the girls is a frustrating frugal existence. Xiamara wants a shortcut. She takes their savings and buys a boat—convinced it’s a sailboat in the rough.

Betsy has found a new life following the death of her mistress and friend, Margery. She has a husband, a daughter, and life is perfect, until a series of events pulls her into the murky underworld of prostitution and yet again, Betsy is witness to the hell women of the 19th century endure

Christina Robertson became a successful nineteenth century portraitist, despite the trauma of bearing and losing so many babies. In 2019, Alex struggles to conceive and her marriage is in trouble. Her quest to uncover her ancestor Christina's story leads to St Petersburg and changes her life.

Claire gets a second chance at love when she discovers she can see the ghost of her almost-boyfriend, Finn. The domino effect of his death leads to Claire healing parts of herself that she didn’t know were broken.

Kemal Yasilhark is standing on top of one of the tallest skyscrapers in London, trying to talk his best friend Tariq from jumping off. They exchange a look and access the memories of their life as teenagers and the time when Kemal himself was forced to face the darkness.

When two girls from opposite sides of the tracks befriend each other, all that seems to lay ahead is glitter and gold. But in the world of female relationships, there is a fine line between friends and lovers, allies and enemies, predator and prey.

When a teenage girl divulges a shocking story in her therapy session, Michael doesn't know what to believe, until the violent men she speaks about ambush him, giving him a choice: compromise his principles and betray the girl, or his brother dies.

The third in the Eye of The Unicorn series is as fast past and action packed as the first two. The story continues with the Elidorsan civilisation growing as deep unrest threatens to destroy them all. Life changing decisions have to be made to ensure the survival of their race once more.

Deadlines suck. Particularly when you have a six-month deadline to find one of the universe's most wanted criminals, who happen to be a race of human weapons made from the essence of gods. What's even worse? Finding them.

When Wendy and John purchase land to fulfil their dreams of building a horse facility they thought they had the perfect place. Little did they know that they have the neighbours from hell living next door. They find themselves battling with supernatural forces hell bent on destroying them.

Alone on a deep space pleasure cruiser with only the AI for company, engineer David Bockerat becomes embroiled in battle of wits with a supernatural force hell bent on destroying the ship. Can he defeat this horror unleashed by the previous engineer in a cat and mouse chase before it kills them all

My debut paranormal romance (79K words) is about a woman whose life takes a tragic turn on her way to St. Maarten for a much-needed vacation; when her flight crash-lands, she discovers her ability to protect the souls of the weak from "the soulless"—with the help of the man sent to steal her spirit

A book about three lives, all genetically linked because of a teenage dalliance in seventies London.