98,000 words | Completed | Seeking representation
Before We Were Us
What if that feeling isn't love at first sight? What if we've been together before, many times, in many lives — we just don't remember. How many more chances do we have to get it right?
Sue and Ray meet and experience an immediate, inexplicable recognition. They fall in love, but neither knows that they have loved each other before — or that they will do so again.
Across five incarnations, they repeatedly find each other, but carry emotional wounds, fears and destructive patterns from one life into the next. Without any memory of what has gone before, they cannot understand why the same betrayals, choices and fears keep resurfacing.
Their lives take them from Renaissance Florence in the 1430s, to the Scottish Highlands in 1918, 1970s London, and future lives in 2050 and 2096. Four of the five incarnations lead back to west Scotland in some way.
Watching over them is Daniel Saturn, a mysterious spiritual guide who remembers every incarnation and tries to help them break the cycle.
At its heart, the novel asks whether being soulmates is enough — or whether we must understand the patterns we carry before we can change them.
Five lives. Two people. One love story.
95,000 words | Completed | Final edit
The Donor
A heart transplant, a murder and a passionate lesbian affair. At first she hadn't thought to ask how those three things might be connected.
A gripping commercial novel about love, identity and obsession. When publishing mogul Cait Farrow receives the heart of Jerry Blundstone, she begins experiencing disturbing changes in her behaviour and finds herself drawn into the life he left behind.
As Cait becomes increasingly caught up in Jerry's unfinished story, she is drawn towards Mia, his widow, and unknowingly falls in love with her. At the same time, she becomes obsessed with finding Jerry's abducted daughter and uncovering what happened to him.
Her search takes her deeper into the criminal world surrounding Jerry and towards the London crime syndicate responsible for his daughter's disappearance.
As Cait struggles to understand what is happening to her, the novel explores identity, love, obsession and the strange possibility that part of another life can remain inside us.
A heart transplant. A missing daughter. A criminal world. And a woman beginning to wonder where her own identity ends.
