2026 Golden Writer Award
I feel like a cabbage, there must be more to life than home, children and domesticity? The NHS was calling me back after ten years, but who would want to be a nurse? So here it is, the bare and naked truth of nursing. Bums, boobs and basic truths.
When a soldier impersonates his dead friend to uncover the truth behind a 15-year-old murder, he never expects to fall for the friend’s sister, or to be drawn into a dangerous web of smuggling, revenge killings, and village secrets that could destroy them all.
When sixteen-year-old Lizzie, living in a retirement community with her grandmother, needs to get into college, her stress escalates first by being stalked and later being ensnared in an online attack with compromising photos--and she has no control over any of it. Wisdom awaits her among seniors.
A walk on Primrose Hill in May 1977 ends in tragedy for Susan. Her husband, Charlie, is fatally stabbed and her baby, Peter, kidnapped. Her fingerprints are on the knife, but her life is in danger, and it will be two decades before she can prove her innocence.
Deep beneath a vanished civilization, Origin—an ancient multi‑layered intelligence—splinters into rogue minds. When Elira awakens as the system’s lost key, she must stabilize its collapse before rising hidden worlds fracture reality itself.
Land is precious on an island. When they want yours, no one is safe. A mystery set in the Caribbean. A shadowy enterprise is acquiring shoreline land from owners using dubious and deadly means to sell for profit for hotel developments. Two protagonists join forces to stop the latest dispossessions.
When the girl of his dreams asks the man of her dreams to help her find a new partner, what will it take to put their dreams back together?
Searching for a deeper spiritual connection can be a life-changing quest. Where do we find a God alive and active in the complex tapestry of our lives? In ordinary life, by everyday people. God Quest—God Discovered in Everyday Places weaves a rich narrative of God’s presence in daily living.
Before the body count rises, her newfound powers are needed to find a man who’s controlling vengeful skeleton ghosts and messing with the minds of her magical neighbors. And also, to stop an evil entity from killing again. Without ruining her manicure.
A woman with the ability to smell emotions wakes from a coma with no memory of the last decade to discover her talent has returned, her father is dead, and a powerful Russian mobster holds the key to her future—and her past.
In 1936 Seattle, an actor is having the time of his free-wheeling life, until he meets the woman of his dreams, who won’t let anything get in the way of her acting career. When her twin brother turns up dead, together they unearth a horrific set of murders, and a perpetrator who is untouchable.
An inspirational story of love and war based on the true account of Makorongo, an East African serviceman who became a prisoner of war to the Japanese but was repatriated by Hans-Werner, his boyhood friend, before America bombed Tokyo in WWII and returned to the girl he left behind.
The human King wants to cut down the Weegens’ treasured Great Oak Tree for his new throne, and it’s up to young Winklin to stop him – without being thrown into his deadly dungeon!
The tale begins 300 years ago, when The God Jar encounters a terrible wrong. It resurfaces in the present with a mission. It must right that wrong and the thousands like it, but it needs to find the agents for that. Nick and Vanessa, estranged cousins, are chosen, but their task is not simple.
A 66-year old Senior Engineer at ToneDef Communications learns he’s been the victim of social engineering and has inadvertently passed highly classified military radio specs to the enemy. Worse still, the attack was perpetrated by his long-time lover.
In Walking Over Wet Paint, a guarded, emotionally reserved editor in vintage togs collides with a charming oncologist in the wake of her mother’s terminal illness, forcing both to re-evaluate their emotional defenses, past patterns, and ideas of permanence.
A West Texas groundskeeper must navigate grief, a pandemic, oil companies, and an unexpected courtship to save the golf course he tends—and discover whether preserving the past is enough to build a future.
A man sent from the future arrives in Roman Judea, survives the ministry of Yeshua, and travels from Alexandria through Southeast Asia and the Han Empire to the islands of Wa, eventually finding peace as a healer and family man in the remote northern mountains.
After surviving a classified operation that was erased from history, former commander Su-Hwa lives in isolation with fragmented memories she cannot trust. Working in civilian protection for high-profile figures, she begins to notice attacks that mirror tactics from her lost past. As suppressed...
Caught between the inherited values of East Germany and the modern world she inhabits, a successful Berlin novelist discovers her new manuscript has been stolen and must uncover a conspiracy involving alternate versions of herself before her identity is erased.
A JINX IN TIME is a fast-paced speculative thriller about a New York City bicycle messenger, bartender, and emotionally troubled time traveler named Jinx. After the brutal murder of her parents, Jinx experiences wild and inexplicable time-traveling episodes she calls “inversions.” Obsessed with...
A woman loses her only child. Barely surviving the birth herself, she is left with lifelong health challenges. Searching for purpose, she becomes a Sacred Huntress, a Ferry Woman for men dying of AIDS, a ballerina, writer, artist and healer -- all while struggling to reconcile her concepts of death...
A Jewish spy in the Second World War faces a moral dilemma when he’s ordered to arrange the escape of a Nazi scientist.
Making the same mistake twice is careless, even if your last blunder occurred six hundred years ago. At least in the twentieth century, you don't have to wait till your rotten husband dies to be set free.
When a missing person specialist learns his aunt and uncle were murdered and his cousin kidnapped, he must find the person responsible or risk losing his only living relative.
In a small seaside town where mainly nothing untoward happens there are suddenly two desperate women, a much loved fishing boat skipper in a coma, and a police Inspector who doesn't want to understand that life outside London happens very differently.
This is a humorous relationship comedy. Lizzie marries Clifford, even though she suspects she’s not in love with him. She soon realises she’s made a terrible mistake, but isn’t brave enough to face into that. She spends the next 25 years regretting but somehow not divorcing him.
What is he Ana? A ghost? An hallucination? Or a manifestation of unresolved pain? 75,000 word 'Balancing Act', set between four days in a 1997 British context of political and social change, and a 1960s past, explores 32 yr old Ana's battle to address the shattering trauma of her childhood.
In Seattle, 1935, a young girl right out of high school, falls in love with a glamorous older man, entering into a world of elegant gowns, cocktails, and dancing. But when he grows more controlling and violent in his pro-Nazi group, the Silver Shirts, she runs away with the help of an actor (Max)...
A woman loses her only child. Barely surviving the birth herself, she is left with intense health challenges. Searching for purpose, she becomes a Sacred Huntress, a Ferry Woman for the dying, a ballerina, writer, yogini and medium-- reconciling her concepts of death and motherhood with memories of...
When star banker Emilia Stuyvesant is date-raped by some of her colleagues, the bank closes ranks against her. But she is not alone, and she will not be beaten. Note: This novel is really Romantic Suspense, but with the subject matter (which is not graphic), Suspense is the right category of the...
The Nativity Story is probably the best known Christmas story. Its played by children in most Junior Schools and many Christian Churches. The Magi (Wise Men or Three Kings) make a cameo appearance and do not get another mention in the Bible. The making of the Magi tells the story in a different way...
Heather is forty two and desperate to escape her small, tight world controlled by Mother, so bravely finds a path to trust in the outside world. And in herself.
Inspired by the true life mystery of the missing 411, a selection of seemingly random people disappear in the National Parks across the USA. Finding themselves drawn into a dimension inhabited by horrific creatures, they must join forces to navigate this world and find a way back home.
Inside the magic of the human body every nucleus must specialise what cell they master. The elite choose, the rest are assigned. When Zell fails his exams he’s cast into General Allocation and into the Body Tournament, unaware a virus is about to turn his shot at redemption into a fight for survival
John Hopkins, a young Irish-American, believes he is worth more than his humble upbringing, so he tries for a job working for George Pullman, industrialist, who is building a futuristic city for his workers. At first, the two men hit it off, but when Pullman’s workers try to unionize, the two men...
Trouble-prone Nick Jones realizes his new teacher is a kidnapper, a bank robber, and worse—hates kids. With his penchant for trouble in tow, Nick rallies his friends to discover a secret tunnel system and save the bank from being robbed. All by unleashing a reformed pirate’s secret weapon.
Jude Chariot, a brilliant student on death row for murder, is enlisted by the CIA to test a probe capable of backward time travel. His mission is to record his journey into the past and leave behind a diary that could change history. When the manuscript vanishes, a former CIA operative races from...
Against the backdrop of 1940s England is the coming-of-age story of two irrepressible young sisters and their family. Daring to reach beyond their stations in life, gives rise to repressed aspirations stifled by class, humble circumstances, and the ever-tightening restrictions of war time.
A government “Reaper” agent sanctioned to hunt and kill convicted murderers, learns that his next quarry may be innocent, and that he’s become a target himself.
A chance encounter with someone from her hidden past entangles Angela Jackson in an unsolved murder, a stolen identity, and exposing a traitor in the midst of the British establishment.
He thinks they’re one step away from forever. She thinks they’re barely defined. As workplace romance, sexual chemistry, and competing agendas collide, somebody’s future plans are about to be upended.
A disillusioned driver for an international adoption agency discovers his estranged ex-girlfriend secretly gave up the son he never knew he had, who is now being adopted by his American clients. When a child trafficking ring threatens the orphanage, he is plunged into a violent underworld...
When Jonathan Todd risks his wife's dowry to start a cotton printing business in 1754 Scotland, he begins a multi-generation family dynasty. His progeny will expand with a steam invention and other investments, including one in Vermont. The family will surmount business and personal challenges.
While investigating a criminal mastermind based in the Caribbean, HSI Agent Ryder stumbles across a mysterious woman fleeing her private island villa and flying under the radar. Unwittingly sharing the same ruthless enemy, the secrets they keep from each other leave them both on the edge of peril.
When the ancient Aegean plunges into total war, pulling Helen into its wake, the battles are real, the gods are not, and the dead speak through myth and memory.
A DCI with chronic OCD and a dark past must solve five murders in the corrupt world of dog showing to prove he is worthy of promotion. The trouble is he's afraid of dogs.
