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A collection of twelve festive love stories perfect for snuggling down with during the season of magic and mistletoe.

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 New release! A paranormal/fantasy romance with a mystery at its heart...

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Imogen Green runs a shop in London. But it’s not just any shop. It’s been in her family for generations. Behind the façade of gifts and trinkets for all occasions, there is a room where she concocts potions and lotions to make all kinds of wishes come true. As long as the wishes are ethical, that is.

Her only problem is Detective Miller.

The grumpy officer is suspicious about the goings-on in The Little Shop of Possibilities, but so far hasn’t found any proof of any wrong-doing. When he and his partner, Detective Rose, are sent to investigate a series of break-ins along the high street, Imogen must tread the fine line between fulfilling her vow to help those in need, and avoiding Detective Miller’s need to enforce the law.

Imogen’s side hustle may be seen as black-marketing by the rule-following police officer, but the real danger is the black magic that seems to be increasingly prevalent in London. Who is the dark practitioner causing Imogen to work overtime to counteract their effects? And will Imogen and Detective Miller be able to work together to solve the two cases before it’s too late?

 

 BookViral 5 Star Review for Daisy Roberts is Dead:

"A wonderfully disarming read about love and loss Daisy Roberts is Dead refreshingly avoids many of the genre’s syrupy dangers leaving the reader with the truth of the matter. Which is the way it should be.

Daisy Roberts is Dead is nothing if not an original novel, especially in the realm of the supernatural. In the hands of a less astute author, it might have turned into a heaping serving of metaphysical gobbledygook but Claire Gallagher takes us on an unpredictable and mesmerizing journey with many astonishingly tender moments.

With a narrative that embraces the sensibilities of the genre, Gallagher does a fine job of capturing the contemporary everyday textures of life with heartfelt observations on sorrow but without the need for lump-in-the-throat histrionics. It’s sincere with the gentle, nourishing quality of a fairy tale that you want to believe, but the unsoftened impact of gut-level entertainment.

Daisy, who dies tragically finds herself, amongst other ghosts, unable to pass on to heaven as she watches her husband’s life unfold. And reading a novel like Daisy Roberts is Dead will encourage many readers to consider the consequences of our lives through the prism of death. Gallagher’s narrative is full of richly realized secondary characters and witty oddball details but she takes a wide berth around the kind of exaggerated button-pushing typically found in the genre and the emotional buttons she does push she does with a light touch.

The psychological weight of our certain death and the fact that life will go on long after we are departed is difficult to convey, but Daisy Roberts is Dead isn’t afraid to grapple with this existential question. The sense of time passing is hypnotic, and the image of Daisy watching, unable to communicate or offer comfort to Ben, becomes more powerful and beautiful with every turn of the page. Reminding us that death is coming for us all, whether we’re ready for it or not.

Simply superb, Daisy Roberts is Dead is an unreservedly recommended Golden Quill read."

Daisy Roberts is Dead is available now!

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What would it be like to die young, only to have to spend the next fifty years watching your loved ones move on without you?

Daisy Roberts had everything going for her: an engagement to her childhood sweetheart, a loving family, close friends and a successful career. But her sudden death in a car accident changes everything. She observes her loved ones, meets fellow ghosts and travels the world – and time – to escape the pain of life moving on without her.

But what is all this leading towards?

And just what is the answer to the question that burns in her mind?