My books
I was writing novels long before I trained as a celebrant, and honestly, it might have been the best accidental training I could’ve had. My books are full of love, lies, and all the gloriously messy bits in between—think heartfelt moments, questionable decisions, and the occasional dramatic exit. I like flawed characters, unexpected twists, and endings that feel earned. Turns out, that kind of storytelling translates surprisingly well to real life (minus the cliffhangers and plot twists... usually).
Getting published was a dream come true—right up until I realised it’s like handing your newborn over to someone who renames it, dresses it in clothes you’d never choose, and leaves it outside in the rain. Still, I wouldn’t trade it. Much. Most days.
Husbands and Lies (2002)
What's a wife to do when she suspects her husband's cheating and can't bear to confront him outright? Posing as 'Sassy', Fran sends a reply to 'Footloose' and sets out to date her own husband... But this increasingly crazy plan leads Max to start to have doubts of his own.
Torn between suspicion and love, life for Fran just got very complicated - can her marriage survive?
The Runaway Wife (2003)
Marion Bishop's life has fallen apart. Her daughter Hope was killed in a hit-and-run accident six months ago, and now Sam, her beloved husband, has walked out. Left alone with her grief, Marion has begun to contemplate the unthinkable.
However, a strange chance encounter makes her realise that life can be worth living. But can she convince Sam to give their marriage a second chance?
Back to You (2013)
Claudia and Marius were a happy couple, that is until Marius vanished whilst climbing in the Himalayas. Eight months on and Claudia's struggling to move forwards amid the well intentioned support of her overbearing family. Her mother wants her to get a chinchilla. Her brother thinks she needs to find someone new. Claudia just wants to be left to her misery. Then one afternoon the unthinkable happens: Marius returns, backpack on his shoulder, tangible, warm and alive! But there's a problem: as real as Marius might seem to Claudia, nobody else can see him.
Nemesis (2017)
Roxanne hasn’t seen her twin sister Zoe in five years, after a massive fallout at their eighteenth birthday party. But now she needs her sister’s help, and to get it she decides to steal her sister’s life. But Zoe is no pushover. She steps into her sister’s shoes and unearths secrets she couldn’t have begun to guess at—secrets that shed a different light on what happened in the past, and provide an explanation for the drastic steps Roxanne has taken.
But there’s still one secret she hasn’t stumbled upon—and that secret will change the course of her life for ever.
Nine Lives (2017)
Disclaimer: I don’t believe in an afterlife, guardian angels, or any kind of cosmic admin department that gives us extra chances. But that didn’t stop me from writing this story.
Christine Buchanan is twenty-eight, pregnant and desperate when she attempts to throw herself from the Forth Road Bridge. The last thing she expects is salvation in the form of Gavin, a disaffected youth with a chip on his shoulder. But in a twist of irony Gavin himself is already dead, having killed himself the previous evening. He's now stuck in limbo with a penance to pay before he'll be considered for entry into heaven. Guided by his spiritual mentor, a bible-bashing angel called Clavis, Gavin embarks on a journey of self-discovery that leads him to discovering the answer to the question that hangs over all of us: the reason for his existence. But by the time he's earned his place in paradise, the very thing that drove him to suicide in the first place has come full circle and he can't go.