Profile: Jean Smalley

Nigeria 1968. William Montgomery's walk through his first sandstorm unwittingly causes the death of his wife. Crushed by guilt and grief, William exists in shadows, finds as a single parent that he struggles to relate to his twins and he no longer cares a....

When Chrissy is nine a strange man asks her ‘Can I play, too?’ When nurse Chris is twenty-nine a patient dies in her care. When married Christine is forty-two; a chance meeting melds these events, threatens her family life and compromises her son. What is....

Sad and lonely, Fran Morton uses the internet to buy ‘Sea View’, an isolated house in Devon. The farmhouse is as woebegone as she is; and the house has ‘baggage’. Reported to have been a holiday-let property its true function was much more sinister and st....

When Lottie is abducted, no-one will miss her for some time: her boy-friend moved on that day; her friends think she is still with him; her job is in limbo and after spending Easter with her parents, they won't be expecting any contact. 'I'm not Rosemary ....

William treasures his light sabre and likes to pretend he is Luke Skywalker. But when he finds himself under attack in a medieval castle will it save him and his new friends?