2026 Golden Writer Award
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.
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 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.
The death of a 49'er while chasing after gold, creates a shock that ricochets around his family, leading to identity confusion, injury, and the reawakening of old wounds. The town's "reforming" minister steps in to help the family heal and forgive; the family he will one day call his own.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If another version of you warned that your life was about to be sabotaged, would you listen? Berlin author Elena Kugel receives an email from “Elena 12,” claiming to be her from a parallel universe. She ignores it until her unpublished manuscript appears under another name. As her past is erased and...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)...
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.
Is this a ghost, an hallucination, or a symbol of unresolved damage? Set over four days in a 1997 context of social and political change - with flashbacks to a 1960s childhood- 75,000 word 'Balancing Act' explores 32 yr old Ana's fight to address the childhood trauma that tore her family apart.
Searching for a deeper spiritual connection can be a life-changing quest. But where do we find a God alive and active in the complex tapestry of our lives? In ordinary living, by everyday people. Through a rich narrative of story-telling God Quest – God Discovered in Everyday Places leads to hidden...
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.
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.
