GIN AND TOXIC

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Elizabeth is precocious, a free spirit, but in the sixties, that isn’t a good thing. She meets Mike, an officer, and sparks fly. Mike introduces her to the world, to life, to love and to gin. But Mike has a dark side and uses his fists to control her. His jealousy and possessiveness are forgiven because she loves him more than life itself. But when he begins to cheat on her, she takes to drinking and is unable to control it. It becomes an obsession and when Mike is away, sometimes for weeks at a time, she finds solace in the bottle. She loses everything, her freedom, her friends and her family.

A heart-wrenching story about one woman’s journey to regain her children, her sanity and her life.

5.0 out of 5 stars Intoxicating!

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2024

Incredibly moving story. This book had me all up in my emotions. I was left feeling like I completely understood where the characters are coming from being that I have parents of my own that battled with alcohol addiction. Elizabeth's story touched my heart and will stay with me for a very long time!

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EVERYBODY’S GOT A BILLY

A collection of real love stories.

Everyone has a first love, someone who touched their lives in some inexplicable way, someone who they remember, either with fondness or with regret. Maybe a shiver when they hear their name mentioned, maybe a yearning when they see their face in person or in a photograph...

This book is a collection of those stories.

A meeting at a nightclub that turned into a perfect match. A man who still remembers fondly the girl he loved when he was eleven. A happily married woman, who can’t explain why she is having an affair with her high school sweetheart. A young woman who had no choice but to break her boyfriend’s heart because he didn’t have ambition. A tale of betrayal and a tale of manipulation. And so much more love…

From the heart-warming to the heart-breaking, these stories are taken from real experiences some filled with pain, some beautiful forever love stories, but each of them unique and personal to its owner, an experience that will remain in that heart forever.

Meet Beverley, she’s timid, shy, struggles in social settings and has health problems that prevent her from living life to the full. She is, however, appreciative of the things she does have, a bond with her sister, Dina, who is so different from her, and the love of Troy, her childhood sweetheart who may be caring, but can also be controlling. 

When Troy leaves, Beverley feels free. She meets Jay, thoughtful and unlike any love she has ever felt before, and a lifetime of happiness beckons. But when Jay abandons her unexpectedly, she feels like her world has fallen apart.

Troy is never far away, and when he returns to Beverley’s life and asks for her hand in marriage, she accepts, realising that it’s better to be almost happy than not at all. But these slivers of happiness are threatened when Jay returns, bringing with him secrets that could destroy her world. A world that is so carefully held together with hope.

How can Beverley ignore the betrayal that has torn apart every fabric of her life?

How can she leave everything she loves, so she can finally be free?

They say opposites attract and that is true with Danny and Fiona. He is athletic, the star of the football team, she is a dreamer, the star of the stage. Sparks fly when they meet and fall in love. 

But can you stay together when you have differences as great as they do? Their love for each other is immense but so is the jealousy that comes with such great love. After three tumultuous years Fiona is faced with the ultimate betrayal that will see her wipe Danny out of her life forever. 

  Fate, however, has other ideas and keeps drawing them back together.  But how can two people who are so different, so unwavering in their life choices, be together when their lives are so far apart? What is it that pulls them together time and time again? 

Is it something deeper, or is it just chemistry? 

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RAMBLINGS…

Tess has the perfect life, a beautiful family and a successful career. But when she meets Brian, she realises what has been missing in her life.
Love. The type that makes your toes curl, that makes you do crazy things.
But Brian has a family that he cannot leave, even if his own marriage, like hers, is a loveless one, and as their romance deepens, Tess cannot imagine a life without him in it.
What will it take for Tess to make Brian hers, and hers alone?
How far will she take what has now become an obsession?

Ruth is young, excited about life and not looking for love. Yet love finds her, and Ruth is thrilled. But she is left devastated when she finds out that her the man she loves has deceived her. Still hopeful, she embarks on another relationship only to find herself in the same predicament.
Ruth becomes disenchanted with love and decides that if she can’t beat them, she may as well join them and begins a journey that will change her very being and endanger her life.
Can Ruth find herself before it’s too late? Or will she become what she has always despised—a loathsome liar?

Mary, still reeling from the loss of her husband, is living a quiet life, running a boarding house in the seaside town of Righteous Creek, her only priorities her two teenage daughters.

But the tranquillity in which she lives is about to be rocked with the appearance of Lawrence, ten years younger and with demons of his own.

And there is more at stake than just a love that cannot be fulfilled. Just when Mary defies her heart, her world is turned upside down again and she must make an unthinkable decision, an impossible choice.

Jennifer’s life is a labyrinth of pain and turmoil as she finds herself trapped in a marriage with her abusive and controlling husband, Jack. But her heart still beats for her first love, David, whose engagement to Jack’s ill sister shattered their chance at a future together.

Years later, fate brings Jennifer and David back together, reigniting their passionate love affair and the hope for the life they always dreamed of. However, with Jack’s hold on her growing stronger with each passing day, Jennifer must find the courage to break free from his grasp and reclaim her life with David. Torn between the man she loves and her commitment to the life she has already built, can Jennifer finally escape her abuse and rekindle the happiness she once had in her own life? 

Alex will never dance again.Her parents and her dreams, all lost in one fateful night.Unable to put her faith in love and happiness, not even for Nicholas, the man she loves, she escapes to Chernut, a country town far from the reminders of her past.Here at the beautiful Lovelet Manor, inhabited by a family who are as lost as she is, Alex finds solace in the picturesque gardens of which she is caretaker,accepting that her life can never be full again.But when she meets Edward in the grand gazebo, she discovers that her heart may not be done with her yet. And for the first time in a long time, she allows herself to be loved.But is she losing her mind?Will the ghosts of her past keep her running forever?Or will Alex find herself before she runs out of time?

Joey is the new kid in town, complete with a sordid past and a tarnished family name, doomed to fail even before he begins. Jenna is the only person who sees beyond Joey’s reputation and they fall deeply in love. But there are already forces determined to separate them by any means necessary. Tommy, the thug, who is hell bent on breaking Joey by brute force, Jenna’s mother, whose connection with Joey cannot be ignored, and Joey’s own past, the strongest weapon against them. Only Tim, the local police officer, shows any compassion to the plight of Joey and Jenna, but is Tim all he seems? And what role will he play in their fate? Can young love survive in a town filled with discrimination? Can Joey and Jenna get out before they fall apart, or is it already too late?

Elena cannot remember. All she has are fragments of a past life that feel foreign to her, only glimpsed in fleeting moments through violent nightmares. Struggling to put her life together and find acceptance, she takes comfort in Luke, a charming boy who seems to like her as much as she likes him. But nothing has ever come easily to Elena—and when she wakes up between blood-soaked sheets next to the body of a man recently stabbed, what little stability she had comes crashing down around her. With no one to help her and no where to go, Elena has to salvage the broken pieces of her life all on her own. If only she could remember…

Meet Rita H Rowe!

Meet Rita H Rowe!

Contemporary fiction
with a sprinkle of romance, a dash of grit and always served with a twist.

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