Echoes In The Mist

Two families are embroiled in a bitter feud in Victorian England when an unexpected twist forces two men to battle over the fate of one woman.

Contemporary romance novel. A story about a woman's journey in Africa.

From the author of "Cobb Island" and co-author of "Madam President" comes a tale of drama, mystery, and romance set in Edinburgh, Scotland.

When Jennifer Brown's best friend suddenly dies, Jen discovers that she is the sole beneficiary of a substantial amount of money and a villa on the Canary Island of Tenerife. Saying goodbye to a loveless marriage after twenty three years and ending her long career as a secondary school teacher, she embarks on a new life in Puerto De La Cruz. But it's not quite the life she had envisaged. Strange dreams, chilling supernatural encounters, and the remains of a body in her back garden, leads Jen to discover the shocking truth about the death of Esperanza Sanchez, a young woman who had once lived in the same villa back in 1927.

Sounding 4 begins with the first narrative of squatter George Russell followed by an echo on magistrate, soldier and later Crown Lands Commissioner for the Western District ‘Flogger’ Fyans. Expansion west and north-west from Geelong soon causes the Colac tribal collapse and later the government-sanctioned revenge massacre of the Gadubanud Cape Otway clans. Then follows the dispossession timeline of the Geelong / Ballarat Wathaurong people and the extensive contributions by Ian D Smith on Aboriginal geography and languages of the west, with clan organization, mechanisms of dispossession, Aboriginal responses, a geography of disruption and Aboriginal perceptions of Europeans in 19th century Victoria. For contrast is a section SANITIZED ‘FRONTIER’ PROFILES OF PROMINENT COLONIALS controlling the countryside until largely replaced by the bankers and gold-diggers. Moving further west is an echo titled WINNING & LOSING THE GRAMPIANS AND THE GLENELG RIVER before a complete reproduction of Dr Jan Critchett’s Distant Field of Murder. Ian Clark and George Russell reveal how the western plains were taken over after the ‘vanishing’ of the Djab Wurrung clans around the Hopkins River. Echoes of the KULIN SUNSET COUNTRY SETTLED and A SCOTTISH ARK GROUNDS AT ARARAT are settler versions largely from local history books of reminiscences by successful sheep and cattle pastoralists such as the Learmonth and Russell family dynasties. The sour joke that the Scots had the land, the Irish the pubs and the English the accent, does no justice to the role of guns, germs and money-making… Modern scholarship birthed echoes titled FRONTIER MAYHEM IN THE FAR WEST which include the tribal resistance of Jupiter, Cocknose, Roger, Doctor, Bumbletoe etc. defeated by the likes of Wathaurong guide Bon Jon with CCL Fyans and the mounted Wurundjeri and Bunurong members of Captain Dana’s Native Police. This is followed by Marie Fels on native police action and A. G. L. Shaw on frontier violence, with Dr Critchett’ overview on Framlingham Aboriginal Mission Station. Sounding 4 concludes with aftermath echoes titled KING DAVID, DAWSON’S INFORMANTS & THE CAMPERDOWN GEORGE OBELISK and echo 74: HINDSIGHTS ON THE CULTURE-CLASH FRONTIER. Part 1 of which is on Redmond Barry, terra nullius and the Bon Jon case and part 2 has historian Henry Reynolds challenging our national self-image.

Dive into a mesmerizing journey where the boundaries of time blur and memories shape destinies. When Amelia stumbles upon an enigmatic locket, she's thrust into the Echo Realms-a universe where past, present, and potential futures coalesce. Alongside her loyal friend, Evelyn, she embarks on a quest to unravel age-old mysteries and confront a formidable adversary, the Master Seeker. From the haunting Whispers in the Library to the timeless tales of Anastasia Grey, each echo they uncover carries a fragment of history, a sliver of truth. As they venture deeper into realms of magic and mystique, the stakes soar. The balance of the realms is in peril, and the duo must decipher riddles, confront spirits, and embrace the power of memories to safeguard a legacy that transcends time. In a world where every echo holds a piece of a soul, Amelia and Evelyn learn that memories are not just remnants of the past-they're keys to the future. A tale of adventure, mystery, and timeless connections, "Echoes of the Forgotten" reminds us that history is not merely to be remembered, but to be cherished and understood.