The House on the Shore (57 page)

While
undertaking some research
, I came across some photographs of Loch Hourn,
which is technically a
fjord
. It was many years since I’d driven
down
the
22-mile
single-track road to the head of the loch, but I recalled how isolated and beautiful the area was.

At the time, I was working as an administrator on a Scottish Sporting estate and managing my husband’s company involved in the offshore oil industry.
In 1975 Howard Doris
had
opened a fabrication yard for the construction of oil platforms
on the north shore of Loch Kishorn, in Wester Ross.

Mindful of
this intrusion into
the otherwise peaceful
communities
and
their
idyllic surroundings
,
the local council made it
a condition
of the
planning permission
that
the yard
had to be treated as an island, and all deliveries had to arrive by sea.

Thus, the idea for The House on the Shore was born.

Ring of Lies

When English accountant Daniel Elliott dies in a car accident one rainy night, his widow, Grace, is
overcome with grief…and panic.
Daniel was controlling and their marriage loveless, but he always took care of the sheltered Grace.

Or so she thought.

She soon
discovers Daniel kept secrets:
an alias, mob ties, a list of numbers, a mysterious beach house
in Florida…
and a gi
rlfriend who looks like Grace.

Swallowing her fear, she flies to Miami to cl
aim the house Daniel left her.
T
he price of her curi
osity is peril. Underworld figures stalk her.
The other woman has left a damning trail
of evidence pointing her way.
H
andsome, troubled FBI agent Jack West has crossed preca
rious paths with Grace before.
He could b
e her saviour or her damnation.
All she knows for certain is tha
t she longs to be in his arms.

With little to go on and danger at every turn, Grace must depend on Jack to help her navigate the criminal world of south Florida, and find the
truth behind the
Ring of Lies
.

Three Weeks Last Spring

Skye Dunbar needs to get away from London to put a
disastrous affair behind her.
When she rents a cabin in Washington State’s San Juan Islands, the last thing she expects is to b
e accused of computer hacking.

Jedediah Walker is investigating the dead marine life was
hed up on the islands beaches. Walker
he has another problem – an unexpected, beautiful and suspicious
new tenant renting his cabin.
When
he
discovers that the fish contain a high concentration of toxic chemicals, he suspects they are being delib
erately dumped in Puget Sound.
Later, when someone hacks into his computer, he realises it is no coincidence and sets out to find out more about his mysterious new tenant.

However, Skye doesn’t like Walker
from the moment she sees him.
He feels the same. But that’s about to change.