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    Three Times Dead
    What Love Is
    In Too Deep
    Ebook series3 titles

    Life is Tough Series

    By D C Grant

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    About this series

    Seventeen and pregnant, Gina has some tough decisions to make - should she marry the father of her baby? The former bad boy Bevan, on home detention for robbery, swears he has mended his ways and will care for Gina and their child. But Gina’s own childhood experience of being abandoned by her mother gives her little faith in ‘love’.
    When her grandmother goes into a rest home, Gina begins to sort through her belongings and finds her Italian great-grandmother’s diary, written during the Second World War, and discovers a disturbing family secret. As she follows the tragic tale in the diary, she starts to understand what love is – will this help her make the right decision?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD C Grant
    Release dateJun 4, 2013
    Three Times Dead
    What Love Is
    In Too Deep

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      In Too Deep
      In Too Deep

      In Too Deep

      D C Grant
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      The ordinary suburban life that Josh knew and took for granted disintegrates when his father announces that the family business has failed and Josh’s only solace is surfing the breaks at Piha, West Auckland. His humiliation deepens when he is beaten up by Bevan, the school bully who continues to harass him at every opportunity. Now Bevan’s ex-girlfriend is flirting with him and the financial pressure is breaking the family apart and Josh comes to realize that he is no better than the bully who torments him. When Josh is forced to make a critical decision will he conquer his resentment and do the right thing, or allow his anger to place others at risk?

      The ordinary suburban life that Josh knew and took for granted disintegrates when his father announces that the family business has failed and Josh’s only solace is surfing the breaks at Piha, West Auckland. His humiliation deepens when he is beaten up by Bevan, the school bully who continues to harass him at every opportunity. Now Bevan’s ex-girlfriend is flirting with him and the financial pressure is breaking the family apart and Josh comes to realize that he is no better than the bully who torments him. When Josh is forced to make a critical decision will he conquer his resentment and do the right thing, or allow his anger to place others at risk?

    • 2

      Three Times Dead
      Three Times Dead

      Three Times Dead

      D C Grant
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      After almost drowning in a surfing accident, Bevan has an out-of-body experience which leads him to consider his own mortality and the possibility of life after death. In a second brush with death, he loses his left leg below the knee and is left facing months of recovery and rehabilitation. While in hospital, Bevan is visited by a stranger – a Maori claiming to be his grandfather. The appearance of the old man heralds the start of strange dreams which follows the events of New Zealand's Waikato War of 1863. Bevan puts these dreams down to the effects of the strong pain medication, but when they continue after he leaves hospital he starts to search for answers. Who is the Maori warrior called Haki and what is his connection to Bevan? An explanation can only be found in another place and time – when Bevan dies a third time.

      After almost drowning in a surfing accident, Bevan has an out-of-body experience which leads him to consider his own mortality and the possibility of life after death. In a second brush with death, he loses his left leg below the knee and is left facing months of recovery and rehabilitation. While in hospital, Bevan is visited by a stranger – a Maori claiming to be his grandfather. The appearance of the old man heralds the start of strange dreams which follows the events of New Zealand's Waikato War of 1863. Bevan puts these dreams down to the effects of the strong pain medication, but when they continue after he leaves hospital he starts to search for answers. Who is the Maori warrior called Haki and what is his connection to Bevan? An explanation can only be found in another place and time – when Bevan dies a third time.

    • What Love Is
      What Love Is

      What Love Is

      D C Grant
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      Seventeen and pregnant, Gina has some tough decisions to make - should she marry the father of her baby? The former bad boy Bevan, on home detention for robbery, swears he has mended his ways and will care for Gina and their child. But Gina’s own childhood experience of being abandoned by her mother gives her little faith in ‘love’. When her grandmother goes into a rest home, Gina begins to sort through her belongings and finds her Italian great-grandmother’s diary, written during the Second World War, and discovers a disturbing family secret. As she follows the tragic tale in the diary, she starts to understand what love is – will this help her make the right decision?

      Seventeen and pregnant, Gina has some tough decisions to make - should she marry the father of her baby? The former bad boy Bevan, on home detention for robbery, swears he has mended his ways and will care for Gina and their child. But Gina’s own childhood experience of being abandoned by her mother gives her little faith in ‘love’. When her grandmother goes into a rest home, Gina begins to sort through her belongings and finds her Italian great-grandmother’s diary, written during the Second World War, and discovers a disturbing family secret. As she follows the tragic tale in the diary, she starts to understand what love is – will this help her make the right decision?

    Author

    D C Grant

    D C Grant was born in Manchester, England but she didn’t stay there for long as the family moved to Lowestoft, Suffolk when she was four. She didn’t stay here for long either, moving to South Africa with her family when she was thirteen. This is where she found that she liked words to string words together and create a story out of thin air. Just when she thought her inter-continental moving days were over, she moved to New Zealand with husband and two daughters. Here she was first published by Scholastic NZ Ltd.Since then she has proceeded to write and publish books, expanding into digital ebooks as the format became more popular. While her first few books are set in New Zealand, later books expand into other parts of the world, drawing on her experiences whilst living in other countries.Her favorite authors are Lee Child and Bernard Cornwell and, while she reads diversely, she leans towards the mystery/thriller and historical fiction. So it is only right that she writes in these genres for children and young adults.D C Grant lives in a New York loft style apartment in Auckland, New Zealand with a slightly psychotic cat called Candy and drinks lots of coffee to power her through the late night writing sessions – because she’s a night owl!Find D C Grant at:www.dcgrant.co.nzhttps://www.facebook.com/dcgrantwriterhttps://www.goodreads.com/D_C_Granthttps://dcgrantwriter.wordpress.com/

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