FUTURE NOVELS

A sneak-peek at the novels to come!

STRAYS

Lost Souls, Sarcasm, and Second Chances

(Currently drafting)

At forty-five, Jo Barnes is bone-tired, stuck in a dead-end job, and quietly convinced she’s missed her chance at a life that actually matters. One endless day stretches into the next, dull but manageable – until a sarcastic, unbearably glamorous stranger turns up on her doorstep claiming to be a fallen Fae noble on “community service.”

Lux never planned on being stripped down to the bare bones of her magic and exiled to the mortal world. She certainly never expected to be assigned to shadow one lonely, deeply ordinary human woman as punishment for defying the most powerful court in the Fae realm. And – after a glittering past as Luxara Aurelia Vaelerian’Tiria, Fae noble of the Seventh Realm – she absolutely never imagined she’d come to care about the damned mortal.

As the two women struggle to find common ground, they stumble upon a crumbling animal sanctuary run by the wise, sharp-eyed Mabel. Not all is as it seems at Meadowridge Sanctuary. Stray animals and strange magical creatures alike seek refuge there – and as Jo and Lux find themselves mending fences, cleaning stalls, and wrangling goats and scruffy little unicorns, the two women begin to realise they make a better team than either expected. Jo rediscovers purpose and dares to dream of a life built on compassion instead of survival, and as Lux watches Jo quietly bloom, she begins to question the power she walked away from – and the true meaning of freedom.

With the sanctuary’s future uncertain and Lux’s past closing in, both women must decide what home really means… and whether love, at mid-life and across worlds, is worth the risk.

Warm, witty, and quietly moving, Strays: Lost Souls, Sarcasm, and Second Chances is a cosy fantasy about found family, late-blooming love, and the courage it takes to start over – no matter how lost you think you are.