Those Flirty Forties and Nifty Fifties Series

You are never too old to fall in love... At forty-eight, Joy Welles runs her bed and breakfast with the love and care one has for a child. Each guest she takes in, she treats as if they are the most important person in the world. Until Christian and his granddaughter arrive to spend Christmas, and carry out his mothers' final wish. The tables are turned on Joy as for the first time, she is on the receiving end of the love and care. Burdened by the scars of her past, and scared of allowing herself to love again she builds up a wall of safety, only for Christian and his dogged determination to tumble them down. Together can the couple learn to release their demons and like the river, move on with their lives entwined?

On Christmas Eve, Bed and Breakfast owner Joy Welles will take a step into her happy ever after and finally wed her long-time love Christian Moore. However an accident earlier in the year during the Inn's expansion renders her immobile.  Christian hires extra staff and even recruits three high school students for work experience.  The teenage boy becomes the first piece in a puzzle that Joy must solve. In the sequel to the Bed & Breakfast Man, the box Joy placed all her past memories and experiences is finally opened. Secrets are revealed, manipulation and deceit exposed.  With Christian's unwavering love for her and faith in her strength of character, Joy is determined to uncover the truth and fit all the pieces of the jigsaw together.  No matter how many are missing. Will Joy and Christian get their happy ending? Or will the ghosts of Joy's past engulf and destroy her?

The Flirty Forties and Nifty Fifties series continues with Joy’s children.  Joy’s 32 year old son Michael is a successful family solicitor who attempts to keep families together and encourage them to work through their problems.  A single man he has been content with his life for many years and has accepted that there will be no children due to a rugby incident.  The discovery of his mother’s existence has turned his life upside down and since meeting her friend and manager of the All Dunn Inn, his thoughts have turned to settling down and marrying the woman his heart cries out for... Beth who is older than him. Beth Carter takes life as she finds it, is content with her hobbies of astronomy and card making. Adores her job and her best friend Joy, until a one night stand with Joy’s son causes upheaves her life in more ways than one.  His courtship of her is unusual to say the least and when an unexpected gift arrives in the shape of a young girl, Michael’s support and commitment to them is unwavering. A mystery unravels when unexpectedly Michael’s older sister Julia disappears. With the family falling apart around them can they work together to forge a stable relationship between them, or will Julia’s actions end up causing a rift?

Andrea Brookes is devoted to her career as a recruitment consultant but deep down admits her life is missing something and is a lonely one.  After her older sister's disappearance her brother in law comes to rely on her for support and when her older brother announces his engagement she begins to accept that her strict moral code acts as a barrier. For this thirty year old virgin, relationships up until now have been a no go.  Giving a talk to a group of teenagers about finding work she encounters her nephews' form tutor Sam Towton.  In his forties Sam has waited patiently for the woman of his dreams only to find her in his classroom and is determined to win her heart. Old fashioned in his outlook and a technophobe, Sam is shocked to the core by his reaction to Andrea.  He realizes early that she completes him and hopes of a future with her.  Her innocence means he needs to slow down.  On their first evening together he discovers they share so many things in common and is pleasantly surprised to find she shares her home with an unusual pet…a free range behemoth bunny. Andrea however has been keeping something from Sam an upcoming assignment means she will have to travel to the other side of the world for a period of time.  During a weekend away on a canal boat, she is honest with him and they seal their relationship by making love.   During their time apart Andrea seeks to find her true career path wondering if she really can have it all. Love, a family and a career.