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'Mercy is wasted on the merciless."In the reign of Edward III of Windsor, when Roger Mortimer rules supreme in all but name, Matilda Fitzwalter, Lady of Barndale, travels to Nottingham to settle her father's debts when she is ambushed. The band of three thieves are led by one calling himself Robin Hood; a common alias in those parts, once the name of a centuries-old hero borrowed by many a beggar and burglar to protect their identities. After being shown mercy by the bandits, Matilda continues on only to find that her father's debts to the Sheriff have increased, and that she has three months to collect two-thousand pounds or be thrown from her ancestral home.Desperate for money and with nowhere else to turn, Matilda takes inspiration from her brush with the gang of robbers and ventures into the woods to find the one called Robin. With her new compatriots, she plans to rob the Sheriff and all the rich folk of the county, taking a portion of the treasure for herself to repay her father's debts and restore her family's fortune. As the gang grows and their plans become ever more complicated, will their actions come with more disastrous consequences too?…

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The Great Winter just got a little colder as a girl struggling to survive the frozen post-apocalypse plots her revenge against the cult that took everything she loved from her, not knowing she still has more to lose.After getting revenge on the man who murdered his family, Michael Wells suddenly finds himself the guardian of a mysterious baby girl whom he finds in an abandoned cabin, and decides to raise her as his daughter.Abbie Wells grows up in a community struggling through the Great Winter, but on her 15th birthday, a ghost from Michael's past comes back to haunt him, leaving their village aflame and Abbie on the run. As well as surviving in the brutal frozen wasteland, Abbie has to dodge ravanous predators, killer weather, and various groups of territorial survivors, including a radical cult led by a self-proclaimed saviour, all while trying to find the disturbing truth about her own origins.…

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SHORTLISTED FOR WATTYS 2022What should have been an easy payday for a band of British privateers turns into a desperate fight for survival when they find a young woman in the wreck of a schooner.Life is unforgiving for any privateering ship fighting in the Queen Anne's War, but of all the leaky tubs on the Caribbean sea, the brigantine ship, Scourge, and her crew have been dealt a pretty rotten hand. None more-so than her newest member, Martin Hamish, a deckhand looked down upon by his captain and fellow shipmates, but eager to please nonetheless. Down on their luck and desperate for their next prize, the crew's prayers are answered when a burning ship, bursting with unclaimed loot, crashes into the shore nearby. However, their dreams of a free payday are quickly soured when they discover an enigmatic noblewoman in the wreck with a proposition that may well change their fortunes, or end them all together.[Story complete at 88,000 words - next novel in the works]WARNING: Contains violence, gore, threat, alcohol references & scurvy dogs…

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Looking for the next spark of inspiration? Interested in learning about how weird our past as a species was?Join me as I share with you all the bizarre and interesting pieces of history that live in my brain rent-free, in no particular order.…