Sweet Sorrow (Abandoned hearts series book 2)

The second book to the Abandoned series is now available on all outlets. I hope you enjoy the second installment. 

Sometimes love blinds you to what is right in front of you. Skylar has pushed aside what had happened between her and Noah and lives life as if everything is normal. It’s only when questions begin to be asked does Skylar begin to question herself. She may be successful at business, but when it comes to love, she becomes blind to what is. Her life is turn upside down once again, just when she thought her husband was being a good man. Everything has changed and now she needs to make sense of it all and decide the way forward. Would she ever be able to trust again? Would there be a man who didn’t hurt her so much? Only time will tell, in the mean time she has to face the darkness that is right in front of her so that at some point she can finally be in the light once again!

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Excerpt

She found him begging on a street corner a block away.

‘Remember me?’ she asked.

‘Who are you?’

‘I asked you about the restaurant owner. You said you knew Lucy.’

‘Who are you?’ he asked again.

She pulled her mobile from her pocket and showed him the Lucy’s picture. He seemed saddened.

‘Do you know what happened to her?’

He was silent.

‘Do you know what happened to this lady? Did you see her leave and get into a car?’

‘Who are you?’ he asked again, and she wondered if he was a bit looney or he was just being cautious.

‘I’m a detective. I’m looking for this lady. Her parents are very worried about her. If you can help me that would be great.’ She put the phone closer, so he could take a good look at her face.

‘Do you know her?’ she kept her voice calm. She would be as patient as she could be. That was the only way she would get answers.

‘She’s really pretty.’

‘Yes, she is. Did you see her at all?’

‘She gives me coffee, but not anymore.’

She sucked in a deep breath. They were going in circles. Did he even know who he was?

‘Have you seen her?’

He was silent, then looked out into the street. She moved towards him and looked into his eyes. He had a vacant look. ‘Sir.’ She changed the picture to Noah’s. ‘Do you know this man?’

He didn’t move.

‘Sir?’

This time he tilted his head to the side and looked. ‘Bad man,’ he said and looked away.

‘Sir. Do you know him?’ She was onto something.

‘Bad man. Very bad man.’

‘Why do you say that?’ he looked around him, crouched, picked up his rucksack and sleeping bag. He started to walk away.

‘Sir.’ She rushed after him.

‘Who are you?’ he said once again.

Hope you enjoy!

- Iris 

Inmate Series book three

Remember the inmate series? Well Trevor and Regina are back and we finally get to know the truth!

A promise is a promise. I promised to finish this series and I have. Book three is now available. I am grateful I was prompted to finish this series. I had no idea how it was going to continue or end because I had forgotten the original story. But the minute I started to write the ideas flowed. The magic always happens in the doing. By the time I was done writing I was buzzing. I had a writing high!

So here it is, book 3 in the inmate series. I had no idea I would enjoy it so much, but then again, I love writing about psychopaths.

Morbid curiosity?

Could it be as Grisolia (2001) says: ‘Our fascination with psychopaths seems to well from a deep, dark place within us a place that yearns for an absence of constraints that longs for unfettered domination of others.’

God forbid!

The truth about Trever is finally revealed. Regina has got herself into deep trouble with a serial killer. She could go to jail or die if she carries out his wishes. But it isn’t just Trevor who’s a threat. There is a lot more to it than that.

Cristiano turns up in the nick of time. A coincidence? Perhaps. But he is the only person she can trust to get her out of the shit she finds herself in. In two days a miracle must happen or her life is over. What happens when she runs out of time? It’s life or death for Regina.

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‘Regina Lawrence, born January 1978, mother alive, no siblings. An only child who was loved and cared for. Married to Taylor, or should I say going through a divorce. Or are you divorced already?’
‘Who are you?’ her heart raced. She was afraid for her life. If he knew this much about her, then he must be working with the same people working with Trevor Stackhouse.

‘You went to Sheffield university, did your masters at Huddersfield university and your research for your PhD at Leeds university. You then worked with the NHS, then worked with a charity raising awareness about mental health. You met Taylor while at a charity event. He was the same as you at the time. Both working for the good of people.’
‘I want to go home.’ She pulled on the bedcover terrified. His voice was calm, he didn’t flinch or turn threatening, all he did was tell her about her life. ‘For a while, as a couple you loved helping the less advantaged, but after marriage, and unable to fall pregnant naturally, you two began to realise just how important money was. That’s when you went into private practice, opened your own practice, became well known and wrote a ton of books.’

‘I know my life, I don’t need you to tell me what I already know.’
‘Oh yes, I do. So, let me finish.’ He seemed to be enjoying this and this was what made her nervous. ‘Taylor became a better lawyer or should I say he started to represent the rich rather than the poor. You can only be Robinhood for so long. But then both your careers took you away from why you went private practice in the first place and you drifted apart.’
‘It didn’t happen that way. You think you know me, but you don’t. All you have are facts. Moments of my life.’
‘This is true, but I don’t need to know every single detail, I just need to know enough. It turns out your husband fell out of love with you and left you for another woman.’
That still stung.
‘I’m sorry he did that.’
‘Why are you sorry?’
‘Because a beautiful woman like you deserves to be treated better.’
‘You mean by someone like you.’ She shook her head. ‘The last time someone said that, it got me into this mess.’
‘Yes, now I’m a little confused about the mess you keep talking about. You’ve been doing so well for so long. Then suddenly your husband breaks up with you, you receive a client who isn’t just a normal client, but a vicious murderer who has killed god knows how many women. I read that in the papers. Not only do you receive this new patient, but you get him to reveal where the bodies are. No one was able to do that. Why you? Is that why you’re in so much trouble, Doctor Lawrence?’

This story is available on Amazon and coming soon to other outlets. 

Bittersweet (Abandoned Hearts Series book 1)

So, I started writing this story last Friday. I had it all figured out, or so I thought. On Tuesday while I was writing the scene for that day it took a sudden turn! Noooo! It wasn’t supposed to end that way! I told myself. It was supposed to end the way I’d planned. I had promised myself to stick to what I had planned, but that didn’t happen. I can’t undo a new idea and fighting it just isn’t worth it. I couldn’t chase the idea away, it didn’t matter how much I tried to reason with it. So here you have it, the story told as it wants to be told. Bittersweet!

Everything was perfect until she announced she was pregnant…and then it wasn’t.

Married for six years, Skylar and Noah are the perfect couple. She’s CEO to a big business and he runs his own restaurant. He is tall, sexy and the most wonderful man she’s ever know, and she is beautiful, confident and is often referred to as the ‘ice queen or bitch’ at work. This doesn’t faze Skylar, she didn’t get to where she is by being nice. But one day not feeling like herself, she unexpectedly finds out she’s pregnant. Once the news is broken to Noah, shaken by his response, she suddenly realises how little she really knows him and begins to doubt their relationship.

As she tries to convince him that this might be the best thing that’s happened to them, that life is more than money and chasing career goals, the more he resists, until something strange happens. A shift within the relationship changes everything, but instead of questioning it, Skylar blindly accepts that things were meant to be. If only it was that simple!

Excerpt

PREGNANT

‘Oh my god.’ She burst into laughter. Not a reaction she expected, but it happened. She just couldn’t stop laughing. ‘Really?’ She covered her mouth astonished. ‘Oh god. This is…’ She had no words. She didn’t feel upset or angry, in fact she felt happy. With that thought she put her hand to her belly and rubbed it gently. ‘Is it possible? Am I even a woman?’ She giggled. The times she’d been called an ice queen made her feel as though she had no ovaries, but she knew that wasn’t true. Deep down she was a lovely person.

She flushed the toilet, cleaned up and headed back to her office.

‘You can come in now, Claire.’

Claire walked back in, but noticed that her boss was a little different. ‘Are you sure you’re okay?’

‘Sit down.’ She said.

‘Am I being fired?’

‘Oh, don’t be so dramatic. I have brought you with me everywhere.’

‘Oh, thank god.’

‘Are you serious? You know me better than that.’

‘It’s just you’re acting so strange.’

‘That’s because.’ She stalled.

‘Yes?’

‘I just found out I’m pregnant!’

‘Oh my god!’

‘I know!’

‘Are we happy or…’

‘We’re happy…I think!’

‘Oh my god. Congratulations!’

‘Thank you.’

‘Can I give you a hug?’

‘I’ll let you,’ Skylar teased.

Claire came around the desk and gave her boss and friend a hug.

‘Don’t you dare say a word to anyone. You know what they’re like about babies.’

‘I won’t. My lips are sealed. But what are you going to do?’

‘I will cross that bridge when I get there. For now, I don’t want anyone to know.’

‘Okay.’

‘And to think I had some terrible disease.’

‘Hmmm?’

‘I haven’t been myself. Noah has been telling me to go to the doctor, but I kept putting it off.’

‘What made you decided to take the test?’

‘I’ve been so busy that I didn’t notice that my period was late. It was only when I was sick in the bathroom at the client meeting did it click. That’s what prompted me.’

‘Well I am happy for you.’

‘Yeah… strange. I never really thought about children. I’ve always been so focused on my career that it wasn’t something I thought about.’

Claire smiled.

‘Anyway, I better get back to work. We signed the deal so that’s going to be good news for the shareholders, but now I have to see what my staff have done to bring in more business. I always dread these meetings, especially when I don’t get what I want.’

‘And yet you do.’

She laughed. ‘You’re right I do, but it’s such hard work keeping up this image. It’s going to be tougher now that I am pregnant. I have no idea how I’m going to spin this.’

‘You’ll figure it out like you always do.’

‘I guess, but this is both scary and exciting. I have a little life inside me. So, it’s not like running a business.’

‘You’ll do just fine, just call your sister, she’ll set you straight.’

Skylar laughed, that was so true, her big sister was the only one who could calm her down, or put her in her place when she was getting out of line. ‘Yeah, you’re right, in fact I’ll give her a call now before the meeting, see if I can’t steal a moment of her time.’

‘Good luck.’

 I hope you enjoy the story! This story is available at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Barnes &Noble, Apple bookstore, Scribd, kobo, Tolino 24 symbols, Inktera, Overdrive and Playster.