Anita Dawes

Anita has been writing longer than I have, and I am not being a lovely sister when I say that she is probably a better writer than me. She doesn’t write much these days, due to ill health, and to my mind, the world has lost the joy of any future stories…

Growing up, Annie’s life was perfect

She loves her parents and thinks she knows them

But when she discovers a nasty family secret

Her perfect life becomes a nightmare

Her struggle to change everything makes life so much worse,

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?

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Shades of The Walton’s meets Deliverance!

The story of one man’s nightmare

A gentle soul, ill-equipped to survive the brutal cruelty of his family

Together with his sister Leanne, they escape the daily torture,

fleeing into the sanctuary of the forest.

They are hunted down like animals, almost burned alive

Can they ever discover the joy of freedom?

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When a car mows Maggie down, leaving her in a coma, her life changes forever when she finds herself in another world.

Is this other world real, or was she only dreaming, locked in the prison of her coma?

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Something is threatening Maggie’s young son, Danny

What does it want and where did it come from?

She must discover the truth before it destroys her family

Whose guilty secret is struggling to find the light of day,

and what will become of Maggie’s perfect family when it does?

 

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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 into Kelly’s past?

Or are they both trapped in a world that isn’t their own?

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You read about families where everyone is happy, and life is wonderful.

That wasn’t my family.

My mother coped 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 poorhouse. Loving my sister was harder because she hated me and constantly brought trouble to our door.

Then everything changed. Dad won a guest house in a card game, and 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?

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