Adrienne Nash

Chris Ashley is used to a few punches and kicks, that is the usual treatment for boys who present differently to their peers but this time the thugs go too far and Chris ends in the hospital with a skull fracture. Then he goes to France, en route to his father and finds lightning does strike twice, for feeling ill already, he is mugged in Lyon. Every cloud, they say, has a silver lining and he is found unconscious by Mathilde who unwillingly at first, takes care of him. As a consequence, his life changes completely and what had been a bleak future, becomes full of joy and hope.

James was quite a boy. He had a reputation with the girls and for his daring. His annual skiing trip was a chance for him to show off his athleticism and his devil may care attitude. Too much adrenalin is a dangerous thing and leads many a young man into trouble. When you are skiing off piste, in uncharted territory and in a snowstorm, adrenalin might help you get through it or it might get you into deep trouble. So it was that he found more trouble than he ever imagined and a changed life. A trans novel.

Daniel works in a London bank. He's ambitious to climb the ladder, a high flyer. Even so his life is a mess. He has a problem that has made him a loner trusting no one. His staff member Patricia, brings him out and introduces him to her friends. But do they really like the strange person they've met? Then there's Daniel's family who want him home, his mother fretting. What will they think of the person their son Daniel has become? At the Bank there's danger and betrayal. Daniel finds himself and finds the love of his family too.

Jeremy had tried to explain to his parents when he was seven, but their reaction had been so destructive that he hid his true feelings and simply withdrew from the family. He feared and disliked his older brother Richard too.By eleven, something or someone had to break and it would not be Jem. A visit to his GP released him and the hidden emotions of those closest to him. That was when he learned about love, love of his family, what remained of it and love of a friend, expressing his real identity at last.Above all she learned to love herself and her new persona, even though she seemed to have a multitude of oppressors.

A love story.Oliver is a troubled boy until one day in the forest in what he intends is his last hours, he meets his saviour Charlie. That is the beginning of an unshakeable friendship of two children and a partnership in which they save each other.It is no surprise that as these two ten years old children grow, their souls become inseparable. Different schools cannot prise them apart nor diminish the love they feel for each other, both bound in opposite directions but somehow bound together on a journey to their nirvana. On their voyage of discovery they become whole persons training for their divergent careers yet remain one entity.

Jack was never a happy boy, shy, withdrawn and small, too pretty to be a boy and therefore perfect as the object of bullies' attentions. He disguised his real persona by posing as a rock star and he is a really gifted guitarist but that does not save him from a beating now and again. He was also clever and applied himself so he shone in school as an A student, not an endearing quality to those who just want to mess about and play the funny men.Jack suffers an illness for which there's no cure and he knows his life will never be 'normal'. He tells his mum he hates everything about his life from the town where he lives to his so called friends.Then there's the Bank raid and Jack is a witness.That's when the police become involved in Jack's life and come up with a scheme that makes Jack's life so much more complicated.

Michael feels hunted, he knows that what he does is not normal. In his muddled mind, oppressed by his stepfather and bullied at school, and depressed, he has become something of a hermit. Bot only that, he does horrible things to himself, punishing himself for being this creature that no one understands. Not even he understands. Then Catherine his classmate of five years sits by him on the bus and his pain is displayed. School breaks for the summer and the future looks bleak but Catherine sees his pain and understands it probably more than Michael because he is so muddled and depressed. One thing leads to another. His family is decimated. His cruel stepfather makes it essential for Michael to escape and he does, into a new World where he can at last be the person he knows he really is, finding acceptance but suffering the worst loss of all on his journey to being Alicia.

James parents died in a motor accident carrying his secret to the grave, but some human urges cannot be denied. He is a clever boy and a good actor, using the method, yes the same acting method used by Marlon Brando. Nevertheless, lies will sooner or later be discovered.There are lessons to be learned, who to tell and what to say. He is euphoric yet realises his life will never be perfect but the alternative is a life so hellish it cannot be contemplated. He begins his journey to some kind of heaven but the road is long and arduous. Luckily he has his sisters and finds more friends that he ever imagined. There are enemies too, hiding behind their faith and they can be truly dangerous.

Lost in the Highlands of Scotland in a snowstorm, Sam McAdam seeks shelter in Castle Murkie. His hostesses are weird and life for Sam becomes weirder after they discover his penchant for wearing panties. Suddenly his long denied self is exposed and Sam becomes Samantha. But life is seldom as easy as that. He heads home after the snow clears and heads straight into trouble. Luckily his one and only friend accepts him, but she too has a secret. Not so accommodating are his employers, an American company run by Southern Baptists who have distinctly different attitudes to sexual variance. Then their is Sam's father and sister..........Will they accept her?

There seems nothing in human behaviour, so incomprehensible as sex change. Most born as male or female are happy to be so, but a small number of males and females feel unhappy in their natal sex and want to change.Statistics of such a rare syndrome are bound to be inaccurate, but it seems that three or four males to every one female want to change sex. The statistic for men ranges from one in 7,400 to 30,000.This is not a life style choice. It is a deep seated malignancy of the psyche, which makes every minute lived in what they consider to be the wrong sex, a life of supreme disappointment and longing.There is no cure. In the 1960s, aversion therapy, group therapy and other more violent therapies were tried. For those afflicted who are denied therapy to change, the result is often suicide.This is my story. I am supremely happy as a female but lived a life of misery as a male. Every day spent as a male seemed to be a lie. I tried my best to be what I was supposed to be, but eventually I could continue no longer. By luck this coincided with a change in medical attitudes, otherwise I believe I would not have survived.

Helen Stevenson knew Jordan from the past, when she worked for the Ministry of Defence. He had attempted to defraud the Ministry with a fake weapon and to protect his fraud, he had imprisoned Helen. She had escaped and so had he.Now he is back, accompanied by an American gangster and Helen determined to bring him to justice, is about to poke the wasps' nest with a short stick