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Viking Romance Adventure set on the Norfolk Coast
Published by Satin Romance
Previously these stories were published in The People’s Friend magazine and can now be read in an easy to dip into format. Included are photographs of Norfolk scenes and wildlife taken by the author.
Story list:
Bitter Herbs and Sweet Pills (Previously Lavender and Leeches)
The Sea Stone (Previously The Mermaid's Gift)
The Green Mists (Previously Wonderful Willow)
Carried by the Wind
Love Written on the Petals (Previously Roses and Romance)
Tell it to the Bees
Rivoli’s Gelato (Previously A Taste of Heaven)
The Lucky Net (Previously For Those in Peril)
The Cocoa Tree (Previously Through the Shop Window)
The Runaway Bathing Machine (Previously Surprise At The Seaside)
The Harvest Maiden (Previously In Fields of Corn)
The Silver Darlings
The Matchmaker (Previously Once A Rogue)
The Reluctant Passenger
The Fen-Nightingale
The Lantern Man (Previously Lights On the Marsh)
Ghostly Footsteps (Previously Living Ghosts)
The Marshland Monk
The Seashell Necklace (Previously A Piece of the Sea)
The Rushlight (Previously A Harsh Winter)
Story list:
The Wedding Mask
When Christine receives a mysterious package, Meg notices a curious change in her friend.
Riddles
At a festival of masks, a nightingale asks a riddle that stumps all but the crow . . .
Siren
In another world, Christine Daaé never went to the Opera house. Alone and struggling to survive as a lace maker, she finds herself at the edge of the Seine, following a beautiful song. Yet her father always warned her a monster lives down there.
Drenched Rats
Erik’s home under the Opera house has flooded, and he must find somewhere to shelter from the rain.
Possibilities
Raoul returns from yet another voyage. It has been twenty years since Christine rejected his proposal. When he goes to the Opera, who will he find?
The Dancer
Salome, a dancer for the cruel child-empress, encounters the court genie – a masked man who calls himself Erik. But, when a room of mirrors is designed, death becomes the next courtier.
The Painting
Vignette. Erik peers behind the mirror to gaze upon Christine and draw her portrait.
Fever
Christine has run off with Raoul to fondly look back on their childhood, but when Erik comes for her she slips into a nightmare . . .
Clay
Another world, where a boat from Sweden to France was wrecked, drowning a violinist and his daughter. Slowly dying from loneliness, Erik buys clay from a crone and moulds a woman who will not look at him in disgust. Then the statue opens her eyes, and has nightmares about a shipwreck. Inspired by the Pygmalion myth.
Death And The Nightingale
A party in the Paris catacombs turns sour when Red Death arrives.
Sewer Maze
Christine is dragged below the Opera house and kept prisoner by a devil known only as Erik, but stumbles upon an unusual ally.
Holiday Romance
In 2017, Christine Vålnad flies to Paris to meet her old friend Meg. However, although she has never been to France before, the buildings are too familiar, and there’s talk of a ghost from the Opera house.
As Quiet As A Mouse
It is Christmas day, and when Erik brings Christine her gift he discovers more than a mouse stirring.
Puppets
Christine takes her daughter to a puppet show, but the puppet wears an all too familiar mask.
Masks
Christine surprises Erik when he shows her his collection of masks.
Story list:
In A Christmas Carriage Ride (The Phantom of the Opera), Christine Daae finds herself locked out of the Opera House on a freezing cold night. Before the singer becomes an icy statue, a mysterious cloaked stranger bundles her into a carriage and takes her around Paris. Could he be the Angel of Music, who has been teaching her these past few years?
The Schoolroom Ghost (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) begins with Ichabod Crane destroying a doll his students made of the teacher before him. But when Ichabod hears the tale of the lovelorn teacher, who committed suicide on Christmas Eve, he has a ghostly encounter...
The Dream (Dracula) has Mina fretting over Jonathan, after months without a letter from him. As she tries to go to sleep, lulled by the violent crash of the Whitby waves, a mysterious force whisks her from her bed. She awakens on the back of a monstrous wolf, riding up to Count Dracula’s castle and, oddly enough, she can hear Christmas carols.
Christine’s story is revisited in Reveillon. The champagne is flowing and the party has only just begun, but when she becomes lost in the Opera House cellars and frightened by the unnerving rat catcher, she stumbles into a passage. Blindly wandering in the dark, she comes across a dwelling in the catacombs. Will she bring some Christmas cheer to a lonely soul?
In Lone Spirit, set in the wild, desolate marshlands of the Norfolk Broads, Damson sets out in search of her lost lover. When she is caught in a blizzard, about to give up, the legendary ghost dog known as Black Shuck leads her to what she seeks, finally bringing peace to years of misery.
The Christmas Tree (Frankenstein) follows the creature as he tries to survive the winter. Throughout the cold, pain and hunger, one thing has kept him from returning to the death he was born from. A little cottage in the forest shows him a glimpse of human kindness and Christmas cheer, yet will he ever experience such happiness?
The Twelve Dancing Snow Princes has been inspired by The Twelve Dancing Princesses fairytale, with the setting moved to a Victorian workhouse. Twelve sisters are made miserable by the cruel woman who cares for them, but when they hear a mysterious song, they are led to new beginnings.
The last story, The Final Dance, is set several years after the events of The Phantom of the Opera. Raoul and Christine are invited to a party at the Opera House. However, there are phantoms still haunting Christine, and she must say goodbye to one.
Pocket Novels/Large Print Editions
Lord Winterton's Secret
(Published by DC Thomson & Co 20/01/22)
The Rogue Redcoat
(Published by DC Thomson & Co 27/20/2022)
Lord Winterton's Secret - Large Print edition
(Published by Ulverscroft 01/09/2022)
Available in UK libraries
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