Darren Wills

When this world just isn’t enough… All Rick wants is a happy family life with his wife Georgia and his precious son, Joe. Joe is gifted and eccentric, which both delights and worries Rick, while Georgia becomes fiercely protective. When a terrible accident happens, they’re set on a path that descends into something alarming and dangerous. Joe has changed. His mind is different now. What does this mean to all three of them? Merging thriller with fantasy, The Mindings journeys through Joe’s imagined world of fear and bloody battles alongside the real world, where family conflict is intensifying. When the two worlds collide, can Rick and Georgia protect their child? Can they protect themselves?

Born to a mother who doesn’t want her, Caroline lives in a world that doesn’t understand her and she’s fuelled by anger and hatred. She dreams of a different life. To survive the one she’s been given, Caroline channels that anger and hatred, and behind her fragile, beautiful exterior hides a woman who will do anything to get what she wants. Together with girlfriend Leoni, she takes from those who often deserve no better, blackmailing, stealing and killing, comfortable at last in her own skin, living her own uncompromising way. But the world she has chosen to inhabit is a dangerous one, and not even Caroline is infallible. When a blackmail attempt goes wrong, her life is in danger. Has she gone too far this time? WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO WHEN STEALING AND KILLING ARE HER BEST OPTIONS?

A woman gives birth in a dingy upstairs room. Her baby is bought illegally by a wealthy couple. Thirty-five years later, Dominic Walker, a teacher, is arrested for murder – but his story is too fantastic for the police to believe... Dominic and Laura are rebuilding their marriage after a crisis. Dominic has problems, but his marriage is everything. One day, when Laura disappears unexpectedly, Dominic is left to try and work it all out. Months later she returns home out of the blue, bringing paradise back to Dominic’s life. But something’s not right. Laura has changed. As events become ever more peculiar and Laura’s behaviour more unsettling, the tension grows. Dominic begins to wonder just who his wife actually is. And all the while, danger is lurking. Death is coming. The question is, for whom? And how are the events of thirty-five years ago entwined with the present?