Romance Stories

This is another romance plus a bit. It is set in the Liverpool area of England against a civil engineering background. To say more would spoil the plot. There is no descriptive sex.

A Poacher's Progress Story
Jack Greenaway's pathway to happiness is strewn with obstacles: a plagiarized novel and his sister's infatuation with a Romantic poet; an old, 15th century, law; a white lady in Brussels and a Black Guard at Chateau Blanchard; attendance at weddings - and funerals; going undercover in Manchester, and helping to foil an assassination plot. He overcomes these difficulties and his future looks assured until a blast from his past causes catastrophe.

A Rivers Region Story
They say the Chinese have a curse - May you live in interesting times. A 15 year old boy has a major change of lifestyle forced on him. We follow along while he adjusts to the changes. However, he lives in interesting times and he must deal with them as well as rising to the challengers presented to him. Through all this his true nature shows and he changes the lives of many others in the city of Rivers, and elsewhere. Set in Australia.

A Rivers Region Story
A young man has a major change of lifestyle forced on him. He becomes a writer, and then something else again. First we read two of his stories about himself, then we follow him as he makes another change to his life and changes the lives of many others in the Rivers Region. In the process he unexpectedly meets his own destiny as well. Set in Australia.

The Paul Robertson Saga
Part of the Westmouthshire universe
After almost a year running from his grief on a road trip around The United States, Paul returns to Westmouthshire for a fresh start at university. But he knows he can no longer run from his problems. He knows he has to turn and face them if he is ever to get on with his life. But that's not as easy as it sounds. New friends. An old enemy. And a voice that haunts his days and fills his dreams. Will Paul ever find a cure for his tortured soul? "A Good Man" *must* be read first.

The Paul Robertson Saga
Part of the Westmouthshire universe
In Micester, Townies and Villagers don't mix. But when Paul Robertson defends the town's heiress, Clarissa Liddington, from her abusive stepfather, an unlikely bond forms. As their forbidden friendship deepens into love, they must navigate treacherous social divides, dangerous rivals, family secrets, and an unexpected inheritance that changes Paul's life forever. Facing jealousy, manipulation, and ultimately, tragedy, Paul begins a journey that will define the man he becomes.

A Story in the Life in the Suburbs Universe
16 y/o Hal Smith is a quiet, unassuming Australian teen boy with a bad knee and no dreams. Taught to help people, he does; without thinking before acting. In Year Ten in a new city and school, it's a year of living in interesting times as he's often in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the right thing. He'd once dreamt of being a world athlete and had the skills to make them true, but lost them helping a stranger; and delivered a Star Performance greater than most athletes can ever do.

A Serendipity Chronicles Story
Serendipity is a sailing yacht, owned by Ted Quinton, who has escaped the rat-race to live a rather selfish life as a free-lance skipper and charter captain. Girlfriends come and go without any serious commitment until Serendipity is chartered by a young woman wanting a few months' adventure while she can; she's newly pregnant.

She was a Mage, and he was a Paladin. Okay... They were really just nerds who met at a party and fell in love. But she was also gorgeous. So, the inevitable happened. Sadly, for her seducer, our hero has a particular set of skills, which he applies to resolve the situation. That might've ended it. But before the two of them can talk, fate intervenes. Now he has to get on with his life with a mere hundred million dollars in his pocket and a cat that isn’t quite a cat. Read on and learn how.