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First in the Dartmoor Series

Trade paperback available from
Twilight Times Books
Mary's Child is also available as an ebook from Twilight Times Books, Sony and Fictionwise


Woven around the legend of Jay's Grave,
Mary's Child is filled with hope, love and


The Legend
Aound 1860, men working on a road on Dartmoor unearthed the bones of a young woman. It was thought to be the grave of a young girl called Mary Jay, who had hanged herself at a local farm after being crossed in love. She was buried at a crossroads so that her spirit couldn't find its way back to haunt the living.

The story is written around this legend.

The Story
Sixteen years after Mary Jay is incarcerated in the workhouse she is apprenticed out to the Bennett's farm on Dartmoor. She has no idea it is only a few miles from where she was born, or that she will be returning to the vicinity of the man who darkened her mother's last days.
This powerful man's vindictiveness is boundless. It reaches its dark tentacles into the next generation where it threatens to destroy more lives, including that of Kitty, Mary's daughter.

Writing Mary's Child

in
How I Wrote my First Book, the Story Behind the Story

Twenty authors tell amazing stories about the efforts that went into writing their first book
Anne K. Edwards and Lida E. Quillen, editors. -- 1st ed.

Trade paperback ($15.95 USD retail) available for purchase at Amazon.com



Anne Graham's dream is to become financially independent through her writing. When she meets Graham Kingsley, taken by his charm, she turns to him for assistance when life at home becomes unbearable.
She moves into an apartment on Graham's estate, but her contentment ends abruptly when he takes her to an ancient manor house on Dartmoor and proposes marriage.
Ignoring her feelings, Anne marries Graham, but as their life together begins to unravel, she finds herself caught in a web of deception and treachery.


Used in its normal context, 'winnow' means to separate the chaff from the grain, but there is another meaning of the word, and that is to separate the worthless from the valuable.

In this book of journal entries, essays and poems, we embark on one woman's journey that is at first bitter and agonizing. Then, as we travel through her outbursts of disbelief, denial and resentment; while we empathize with her as she delves into childhood memories she'd rather forget, we begin to see how she's learning to move on to build a new life out of the fragments of the old.

The Winnowed Woman speaks to those who have faced similar circumstances. It will help them to discover self identity and find inner peace, rather than continue on the soul-destructive wheel of continuous mourning.

Gale Islanders' lives are disrupted when Uranus and Pluto move into an unusual planetary configuration. According to the local astrologer, their influence of unearthing and uncovering the hidden will likely reveal secrets people would prefer to keep.
You aren't kidding! Millicent Snood is furious when she discovers what her husband has been having an affair and sets out to rectify matters. Helping her is one of the island therapists, Hannah Moon. After Hannah introduces her to a handsome young lawyer friend, Millicent's life takes a turn for the better. What is good for the gander is good for the goose!