To Love. To Be Loved.Though Maria longed for a family of her own, she was not prepared to allow the conventions and expectations of society to manipulate her into a marriage of convenience. To her an arranged marriage or one without love were anathema. However, will she be able to withstand the pressures, demands and expectations of society and church doctrine? Her natural beauty combined with her caring, loving and intelligent character as well as...

Bitches #1Excited at the prospect of her own home this naïve innocent looked forward to enjoying the good company of neighbours she could share with. But …………A short story.

Though reluctant to leave the people she had known for years, Tara was grateful for the opportunity to break her almost twenty-four hour, seven day, work regime. Will the new job be all she hopes? Will she be free from the habitual, unwanted, exasperating, attentions of men, and some women? Will her innocent, naive nature lead her into danger AGAIN?

Despite the job being in a city she did not like, the suggested possible salary caused Tara to ignore her usual caution, if only just to have a look. But she will come to regret it. The people and circumstance were hardly what she had expected as neither were the consequences.