COMING SOON:


Ghosts of Haworth, Book 2:

A Question of Witchcraft: A Pendle Witch Haunting


​A young couple are caught up in the craze of witch trials sweeping across the north of England in 1612.
  
A Question of Witchcraft examines the religious and cultural maelstrom that emerged from the ruins of the monasteries, and which led to decades of deadly witch trials.
 
Thousands of people – mostly although not exclusively women - were tried and executed for practising witchcraft during the reign of King James I – the most powerful witch hunter in history The most famous of these trials include Jennet Preston and the Pendle ‘witches’ in 1612.
 
Jennet Preston was initially tried and exonerated for the ‘murder by witchcraft of one Dodgeson child’ in April of 1612. A Question of Witchcraft follows the parents of that child – Edward and Katharine Dodgeson – as they flee Jennet Preston and settle in Haworth, just over the hill from Pendle.
 
As witch fever sweeps across Lancashire and into Yorkshire, the Dodgesons’ nightmare deepens, and they cannot break free of the curse of witchcraft.
 
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In 2019, Lara and her daughter Hannah inherit a cottage in Haworth, and are delighted to relocate to a village with which they already have a deep connection.
 
Hannah immediately recognises the cottage– as the scariest stop on the local ghost tour.
 
Lara is undaunted. She feels it is fate to be living so close to her best friend, Verity’s, guesthouse, and is sure that she can help the ghosts in her new property find rest, and make a happy home for herself and her daughter.
 
But it is not that easy to soothe four centuries of torment.
A Question of Witchcraft is expected late 2019
- keep checking back for updates

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A series of companion short stories will also be published, starting with
Murder by Witchcraft
​on 12th June 2019. Find out more by clicking:

​Ghosts of Haworth, Book 1:

​Parliament of Rooks: Haunting Brontë Country

As featured in The Telegraph & Argus and The Keighley News - Click here to see article

#21 Bestseller UK Kindle Store
#1 Bestseller Ghost Romance & Paranormal Romance
#1 Bestseller in Ghost Suspense & Paranormal Suspense
#1 Bestseller in Literary Historical Fiction
#1 Bestseller in Literary Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Fiction
#1 Bestseller Literary Biographical Fiction
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"Lush and atmospheric, this novel is dark and moody with supernatural elements and accurate historical details." - The BookLife Prize by Publishers Weekly

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Ghosts of Thores-Cross:


Book 1: ​The Haunting of  ​Thores-Cross

Silver medal winner, European fiction - 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards
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#1 Bestseller British Horror
#1 Bestseller Occult, Ghosts & Haunted Houses
#1 Bestseller Gothic Romance
Over 100 5-STAR reviews on Amazon

When a vulnerable young girl is ostracised within her  isolated community in the North Yorkshire Moors and accused of witchcraft, the descendants of her neighbours will suffer for centuries to come. ​



Book 2: Cursed:
A Ghosts of Thores-Cross Short Story
#1 Bestseller Horror Short Stories
#1 Bestseller British & Irish Short Stories
#1 Bestseller Short Stories for Young Adults

A skeleton is dug up at the crossing of the ways on Hanging Moor, striking dread into the heart of Old Ma Ramsgill - the elderly matriarch of the village of Thruscross. And with good reason. The eighteenth-century witch, Jennet, has been woken.

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Book 3: JENNET:
now she wants the children


​‘Jennet will have your heart and your fear in equal measure’
 
‘Through Jennet we see how cruelty can drive even the most ordinary people to hatred and, in Jennet's case, evil’
 
Yorkshire is in the grip of a heatwave, and Thruscross Reservoir has dried up to reveal the remains of the drowned village of Thores-Cross beneath.
 
Playing in the mud which coats the valley floor, four-year-old Clare Wainwright finds an old inkpot, and can’t wait to show it to her best friend, Louise. But when Emma  sees it, her reaction is shocking, and both families are plunged into their worst nightmares.
 
Emma knows what the inkpot portends:
 
Jennet has woken.
 
Now she wants the children.

Ghosts of Knaresborough:
Knight of Betrayal:
A Medieval Haunting


​A paranormal suspense thriller in the award-winning Yorkshire Ghost Story collection, Knight of Betrayal, will plunge you into the vibrant and deadly world of medieval England: Henry II, Thomas Becket - and four murderous knights.

The repercussions of an horrific crime reverberate through the centuries as the 12th century ghosts seek redemption and revenge, with no thought for anyone unlucky enough to get in their way.

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Ghosts of Yorkshire Boxed Set #1

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Includes:
The Haunting of Thores-Cross
Cursed
Knight of Betrayal &
Parliament of Rooks 
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