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The perfect gift
A DIY personalised all-occasion gift book for adults
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The earth legacy series
Book 1: The Silver Sheep
Would you choose to keep your family safe or change the world?
In a society led to believe that it is dangerous for bare feet to touch the ground, Cleo is used to living disconnected; Disconnected from the Earth, her alcoholic mother, her absent father, and her crazy grandfather. So, when Cleo discovers that she is pregnant at sixteen, she goes searching for a connection.
Ignoring her mother’s warnings, Cleo hunts down her wealthy, estranged grandmother and uncovers the truth behind her family’s disunity and dysfunction. When she finds herself caught in a web of secrets and lies, Cleo must decide whether to keep her family’s secrets and keep them safe, or whether to betray them, expose the lies, and change the world.
Novella: The Silver Maid
You can take the girl out of the town... but can you put her back again?
Wanting to break free from the small-town small-mindedness of her past, Fern chooses to take a job as a live-in nanny, housekeeper, and tutor, in the city mansion of the wealthy Silverson family. When she finds out that her mother, Maria, has had a stroke, Fern travels back to her childhood hometown of Orbeda, a 5-hour drive with her brother towards 2,500 people that she left behind for a reason.
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As soon as Fern arrives in Orbeda, she has to defend herself against her own family, who do not take her, or her job, seriously at all. With old family tensions flaring and her self-worth floundering, in a town where everyone knows everyone, Fern has no choice but to face her past. Then, when Maria's health takes a turn for the worse, Fern finds herself doing the very thing that she was trying to avoid, and what she ran away from in the first place.
Book 2: The Silver Shepherd
Sheep attack shepherds when wolves tell lies
Cleo is a young Australian mother who lives an alternative lifestyle in one of the last remaining hippie communities. She is used to suffering for her choices; Walking around shoeless in a society that considers it dangerous and deplorable is either really brave, or really stupid... but that is the least of her concerns.
Cleo has inherited a secret from her family’s twisted past. A secret that some very powerful people are making sure stays kept, by any means necessary.
A secret that could change the world.
Before Cleo became a mother, she was a fighter and a rebel. But now she stays silent, reluctant to put her child at risk and carrying a heavy burden. However, when a suspicious tragedy strikes her family, Cleo realises that even if she keeps their secret, she is never going to be safe, and her child will never grow up free. No one will.
Something needs to be done, and it needs to be done by her.
The thoughts and feelings series
You Are Woman
Do you wonder how much you are like other women? Do they think like you do?
Experience life in the shoes of a nameless wife, mother, and overthinker, who lacks confidence and can see the best in everybody except herself.
Finding it too easy to fall into the trap of feeling like she doesn't quite measure up, this woman decides to compare what she sees and thinks, with what life is really like, discovering that it is a good opportunity to learn some valuable life lessons.
You Are Viggy
There's something special about the way Viggy handles fear and life. Maybe you can learn from her and become one of the got-it-all-together people. *
Six months ago, Viggy gave an ultimatum, and now here she is being forced to make a decision for the sake of her young nieces’ wellbeing. No matter what she chooses to do, she is going to upset someone she cares about and greatly increase the tension that already exists within the family.
Unable to talk to any of her usual support people, Viggy talks to you, a new and impartial friend, then ends up getting advice from her level-headed police officer ex-boyfriend, Bowie, who she might still have feelings for.
Just when Viggy thinks that she may be able to put some of the drama behind her, breathe in some fresh country air, and get away on a fun camping adventure with her friends, Viggy’s ability to cope is tested as her own wellbeing is threatened.
Apparently, you can be one of the got-it-all-together people and still have stress and drama follow you wherever you go.
You Are You (Living with Dementia)
How can you hold on to who you are, when you can’t remember yourself? *
Progressive. Incurable. Terminal.
Jaclyn and her mother Ruth could be described in the same way: Fit, active, driven, hard-working and clever. Strong and healthy women who go for jogs and bike rides in their spare time, and who actually enjoy eating broccoli. Life is happy, until Ruth’s increasing forgetfulness and uncharacteristic behavior become a cause for concern.
After multiple misdiagnoses, Ruth is diagnosed with younger onset dementia at only 49 years old.
Young people don’t get dementia… do they?
As Jaclyn struggles to deal with the changes in her mother, and the impact that they have on her own life and relationships, Jaclyn transitions from the child being cared for, to the child caregiver; Mother and child roles are reversed.
Eventually, the Ruth that Jaclyn knows and loves is gone, only her body is left, existing as a hard-to-visit stranger in an aged care facility.
What if you watched this happen to your mother, then found out that the same thing was going to happen to you?
