Novels
The Ivyford Chronicles Book One - Stand Against The Dark
The sleepy village of Ivyford nestles deep in the Devonshire countryside. Kevin Anderson, the local vet leads a quiet life with his wife and four month old son. As summer turns to autumn and sunny evenings draw in, Kevin disappears without a trace. He wakes to a horror that seems to have been created from his deepest fears. Cut off from his friends and family, he struggles to survive in a strange, yet horribly familiar world.
Seventeen years later, Kevin’s son, Danny is studying A levels at the local college. Danny has been diagnosed as autistic and his life is filled with everyday challenges and obstacles to overcome. With Christmas just around the corner, he befriends Rachel Annis, who will have a profound impact on his life.
Strange shadows stalk the streets and the dead are returning from the grave. Life for Danny and the villagers of Ivyford is about to change. Something ancient and evil is stirring in the darkness.
The Ivyford Chronicles Book Two - Time And Time Again
1949. In a small, terraced house in Teignmouth, George Taylor is bludgeoned to death by his wife, Nancy.
1975. Six-year-old Heidi Jennings receives a visit in her bedroom in the same terraced house, from a woman who isn’t really there. Time fractures and days later Heidi’s parents are found stabbed to death in the early hours of the morning.
2018. Issy Williams, a waitress at The Crab Shack, explodes in the middle of the crowded restaurant. On a windy clifftop, following a showdown with a couple of local thugs, D.I. Blake watches in amazement as a man appears out of nowhere and runs straight off the cliff, plummeting to his death on the rocks below. The identity of the twenty-seven-year-old man raises more questions when it is discovered that he was reported missing in 1975. Aged twenty-seven.
In search of answers, Blake turns to Danny Anderson and Rachel Annis, Paranormal Investigators from the nearby village of Ivyford. Amid allegations of historical child abuse, they find secrets going back over seventy years that will leave the town reeling. Evil is stalking the streets of Teignmouth, bringing death and destruction in its wake. And there is nothing that they can do to stop it.
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