Anita Dawes
Stories That Enchant & Inspire
Exploring the mystical, the magical, and the deeply human through fiction and poetry.
I love all things esoteric, magical and otherworldly and would prefer to live in a fairy tale. Between these moments, I like visiting old churches and ancient buildings.
I have written six fiction novels in various genres, Bad Moon, Simple, Secrets, The Scarlet Ribbon, Let it Go and Not My Life. I am working on a sequel to my popular supernatural romance, The Scarlet Ribbon.
I have recently rediscovered my childhood love of poetry and often write and post them online.
Once owned by an egocentric black and white cat called Merlin, named after my favourite hero, I dislike computers and prefer to write longhand, sharing a website with Jaye Marie, who transcribes and edits my work…
Bad Moon
At the turn of the century, Annie’s life in Virginia was perfect until she discovered a nasty family secret. Something her parents have been doing for years.
Now she knows she cannot continue to live like this, but her protests fall on deaf ears.
How can she hope to change what has become a way of life for her family?
Her struggle to change everything only worsens her life, forcing her to try to escape. How far must she run to escape the truth?
Can Annie make a new life for herself, or will they hunt her down and bring her back?
📖 Universal Amazon Link: mybook.to/BadMoonx
📖 Draft2Digital Link: Books2read.com/u/bMRdW8
The Scarlet Ribbon
When you think about being in a coma, you imagine nothing much happening. Peaceful, perhaps, but a bit boring? Maybe. But who knew that being in a coma would be a traumatic, sometimes violent experience?
When Maggie is mown by a dirty blue car outside a supermarket, she is unprepared for any of it. Least of all, the sad nightmare world she is forced to witness. Or the sad, pitiful child she finds there.
Maggie has two battles to fight, finding her own way back to the real world and somehow bring the child back with her.
📖 Universal Link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4X0Qy9
📖 Smashwords Link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/255614
Simple
Simple is a huge bear of a man with the heart and mind of an innocent child. His story is about the fear and unbelievable cruelty he is forced to endure at the hands of his family. The only person who cares about him is Leanne, and she faces an unending struggle to find a way for them both to be free…
📖 Universal Link: myBook.to/mySimple
📖 Smashwords Link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/266779
📖 Draft2Digital Link: https://books2read.com/u/3nYYQB
Secrets
Many children have an invisible friend, and sometimes they can be a necessary part of a child’s life for many reasons. But supposing this ‘friend’ seems hellbent on causing more than childish mischief?
This haunting family drama is about deeply buried guilt, full of all the secrets and suspicions that invade and control most of our lives.
The question is this, how to send this invisible menace packing and restore the status quo with the minimum of damage?
📖 Amazon Link: mybook.to/NewSecrets
📖 Smashwords Link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/281253
Not My Life
Someone haunts Sarah’s dreams, someone who looks just like her.
Her name is Kelly and her life is a nightmare.
Are these dreams a message for Sarah’s future, or a glimpse of Kelly’s past?
Or are they both trapped in a world that isn’t their own?
📖 Draft2Digital Link: https://books2read.com/u/brGqQz
Let It Go
You read about families where everyone is happy and life is wonderful. That wasn’t my family. My mother was the only good person in our house, coping patiently with a drunken, obsessive gambler of a husband and a daughter with an insatiable sexual appetite. I loved my father, but he kept us one step away from the poor house.
Loving my sister was harder, basically because she hated me and constantly brought trouble to the door.
Me? I couldn’t wait to grow up and live my own life.
Then everything changed. Unbelievably, Dad won a guest house in a card game and suddenly we were off to a new life in Cornwall. A beautiful place, steeped in legend and mystery. Would trouble leave us alone now, or was it merely biding its time?
📖 Smashwords Link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/923197
📖 Draft2Digital Link: https://books2read.com/u/4XKNav
A Midnight Clear
Published by Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie, A Midnight Clear is a collection of our short stories. Some sad, some happy, but all worth reading.
📖 Universal Link: myBook.to/MidnightClear
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