Strong Women Series by Sarah Till
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Strong Women #1
The Little Death
Sarah Till
When Patti moves to the moor she finds the peaceful haven she expected awash with people visiting an old plane wreck. She suspects her husband David is having an affair and when mysterious stranger Gabriel turns up her life becomes increasingly entangled with him and the moor.Patti is an aetiologist. She is studying the pollination of the moor and keeps hives but is distracted by the dark shape of the wreckage in the distance. Her psychic neighbour Sarah is obsessed with la petite mort and when Patti confides her fears about David she advises her to look to Gabriel for comfort. Through him Patti meets Polly, an old woman who she has seen wandering the moor searching for her childhood sweetheart who died in the plane crash. As Patti finds out more about David's infidelity she realises that his actions are much more sinister that she could ever imagine. Is it too late for Gabriel and Patti? And will Polly find the answer to her questions in time?In a frank study of love, life and death, the story follows Patti, Sarah and Polly's hidden secrets and how they understand their worlds. The moor is teeming with life, but death is in the air as David reveals his true colours in an unexpected twist.The Little Death is the first book in Sarah Till's Strong Women Series.If you like intriguing women's fiction with an unexpected twist you will love The Little Death.Get The Little Death now and find out how Patti and Polly become part of the cycle of the moor that took their love.
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Strong Women #2
The Tintagel Secret
Sarah Till
When a woman's body is found in the quiet Cornwall village of Tintagel, Lizzie Nelson fears that her Top Secret will be discovered. Lizzie has moved to Cornwall to guard her secret and to escape from her past. Now she's receiving threatening notes and her past is about to catch up with her.Lizzie has suffered at the hands of her family as they try to make her give up her 'Top Secret' and her son has disowned her. With her Top Secret weighing down on her, and her gradual discovery that her son's life has moved on, Lizzie gets lost in the Arthurian myths of her childhood and becomes destitute.Lizzie is embroiled in a relationship with Jer Thomas, who tells her he is an ex-Hells Angel and questions her closely about the local legends. Hungry for company, Lizzie believes that Jer has fallen in love with her. The village busybody, Julia Scholes, sees Lizzie's decline and is desperate to get her out of the village, considering her 'bad for business'.Detective Inspector Mia Connelly intervenes but Lizzie cannot tell Mia about her notes as they relate to the golden trinket that she is being threatened over, and only Lizzie knows where this is - with her Top Secret. She gradually comes to realise that the piece of scrap, which her mother and father found near Cadbury Castle, has sent her father insane and the rest of her family mad with greed and is the source of the notes. Now someone is coming to get her because she has it.Echoing Morgana Le Faye's story in Arthurian legend and based in Tintagel, where Morgana lived as a child, The Tintagel Secret explores the effect stories passed through generations have on our lives and how some people are driven to kill to get what they mistakenly believe is theirs. With Lizzie Nelson as an unreliable narrator a triple goddess theme based in legend, The Tintagel Secret explores psychological drama up and down the centuries and the real meaning of magic and lies.
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