Standing by the Watchtower: Volume 2

By C.S. Woolley

Mightier Than the Sword UK is proud to present this second volume of work in aid of the British Heart Foundation.

Featuring some poems and short stories by international best selling author, C.S. Woolley.

The British Heart Foundation are the UK's heart charity and the largest independent funder of cardiovascular research.

Coronary heart disease is the UK's single biggest killer but they are leading the fight against it. Their pioneering research has helped to transform the lives of people living with heart and circulatory conditions.

Founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals wanting to fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart and circulatory disease.

Their work has been central to the discoveries of vital treatments that are helping to change the face of the UK's fight against heart disease. Their vision is a world where people don't die prematurely from heart disease.

After half a century of extraordinary scientific and societal progress they have helped to transform the landscape of heart disease.

Their research is powered by your support. Every pound raised, every minute of your time and every donation to their shops will help make a massive difference to people’s lives.

At least £1 from the sale of every book will be donated directly to the British Heart Foundation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.S. Woolley
• Release date: Oct 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311787538

C.S. Woolley

C.S. Woolley (Caroline Sarah Woolley) was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire and raised in the nearby town of Wilmslow. From an early age she discovered she had a flair and passion for writing. This was fuelled by winning local poetry and short story competitions during her years at Mottram St. Andrews Primary School. During high school, she continued to write and found her time split between acting, writing and her studies. At 14 she began writing novels. University did nothing to change her love of writing. C.S. spent a year reading Law at Manchester Metropolitan University before changing her mind and moving to read English at Hull University. After graduating she moved to Nottingham where she stayed for the cricket at Trent Bridge. She currently lives with her partner, Matt, and their two cats in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2010, C.S published her first novel, Nicolette Mace – The Raven Siren: The Kevin Metis Saga. Since 2010 she has published books in five series – The Chronicles of Celadmore, The Mysteries of Stickleback Hollow, The Children of Ribe, The Children of Snotingas and Nicolette Mace: The Raven Siren - as well as a series of adapted classics for Foxton Books and a series of modernised Shakespeare and workbooks to help with GCSEs. Her upcoming series include Alpha Sigma, The Children of Danelaw, Dark Hearts,The Children of Ribe Story Books, The Children of Ribe: Tales from Ribe, The Children of Ribe: Ancestors, Yngvar and Reinholdt, Finestra, and The Children of Ribe: Legends. More recently C.S has taken part in charity projects that include producing content for charity books such as Standing by the Watchtower: Volume 1. C.S has also acted in several plays and films including Weekend (2011). Hobbies: horse riding, including show jumping and cross country, Formula 1, tennis, free climbing, singing, boxing, dancing, playing guitar, cricket and is also an avid PC and console gamer. Favourite movies: The Muppet Christmas Carol, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Chisum. Favourite books: Sharpe’s Prey, Silverthorn and the Three Musketeers. Favourite bands: Thin Lizzy, the Darkness and McBusted. For more information please visit: http://www.mightierthanthesworduk.com

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Standing by the

Watchtower

Volume 2

In aid of the British Heart Foundation

A Mightier Than the Sword UK Publication

©2015

Standing by the Watchtower

Volume 2

By c. s. woolley

A Mightier Than the Sword UK Publication

Smashwords Edition

Copyright ©c. s. woolley 2015

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publishers.

Also by the C. S. Woolley

The Chronicles of Celadmore

Rising Empire: Part 1

Rising Empire: Part 2

Rising Empire: Part 3

Shroud of Darkness

Lady of Fire

End of Days

Nicolette Mace: The Raven Siren

Beginnings

The Kevin Metis Saga

The Derek Long Saga

Filling the Afterlife from the Underworld:

Volume 1

The Case of Mrs Weldon

Hunting the Priest Killer

Volume 2

Murder in the First

Volume 3

Other

Standing by the Watchtower: Volume 1

For more information please visit www.mightierthanthesworduk.com

Contents

Foreword

In the Beginning

Soul Searcher

The Gift

Slaves

New Year

Up with the Lark

Foreword

By c.s. woolley

This collection is a mixture of short stories and poetry that I have put together to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. There are a wide variety of different themes rather than one cohesive one and some of these poems and story stories I have previously published elsewhere. For those who have read my work before, some of these stories are very different from what I would normally write.

As Standing by the Watchtower: Volume 1 is raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support, I wanted to support a different charity with this second volume and decided on the British Heart Foundation. There are a few reasons as to why I chose to support the British Heart Foundation, more personal than the 7 million people who are living with cardiovascular disease.

The first of these reasons is my uncle John, who died from a heart attack a few years ago. He was a giant man who was not only generous with his time, but had a wonderful sense of humour and terrible taste in ties. The second reason is my best friend and the devastating effect that cardiovascular disease has had on his family - all of whom are