One Who Was With Me

I’m delighted to announce that my tenth novel, One Who Was With Me, will be published this Halloween by Earthling Publications, who did such a great job on my last Earthling novel, The Unblemished. Many thanks to Paul Miller. This book would not have happened without his gentle and patient prodding. You can find out […]

ONE DAY…

These shadows were the same shadows that had swung across the stone walls for decades. Nothing here had changed.

TWO DAYS…

He hurried back to Grace, imagining a man standing over a nude figure chained and unconscious, paying out rope bunched in his fist, separating the tawse at the end of it.

THREE DAYS…

They passed the windows and their shadows — hideously contorted by the flaws in the panes — made grotesque progress across the scarred back wall.

FOUR DAYS…

But for a dim, rosy stain in the rear-view mirror, it was fully dark. Night came on fast here.

FIVE DAYS…

This was not their house.