Earlier novels

Kerensa lives with her mother, the healer Meliora, on the edge of a small fishing community on the Cornish coast. The townsfolk, who work the runs of pilchard and mackerel that make their way up the Atlantic coast, call on her mother for help with their ailments, but never for her company. Kerensa does not know why.

Curses and superstitions whisper around her as she grows into a capable young woman, fighting for her place among the people of Porth Gwynn. But what has caused the rift between her and the town? And can their traditional way of life survive the changing winds?

A story of love, loss, hope and second chances, exploring the lives of the fishermen and women who made their living from the rough Atlantic Ocean: the hardship they faced, the secrets that divided them and the community spirit that pulled them through.

In 1886 the famous English poet Edward Barrington moves from Derbyshire to a farm on the Finniss River in South Australia. Two years later he disappears. Twenty-five years on, Archie Hargraves abandons his fiancée Clara and travels from England to meet Edward’s widow, Rosalind, planning a biography that will make his name. Returning to England in 1914, he leaves his work to join the war in Europe, and his journal of notes from Australia is never released.

Ellie Cannon, a young PhD candidate at Sydney University, is writing a thesis on one of Barrington’s last known poems, The Fall. It’s not going well. Then a body is found by the Finniss River, 130 years after Edward’s disappearance. Could it be the famous poet? The discovery draws Ellie into the worlds of Edward, Archie and Clara, taking her across Australia and England in her search for the truth.

A historical fiction and mystery crossover about obsession, fear, love, secrets and regret, and the hope that can come from despair.