When Dr. Martin Ellingham arrived in the little Cornish fishing village of Portwenn a little more than four years ago, he was still reeling from his devastating fall from grace. Once a renowned London vascular surgeon, he had been blindsided by haemophobia and forced from the surgical theatre.Martin came to Cornwall in hopes of securing the position of Portwenn’s General Practitioner. He was expecting a hospitable and perhaps even welcoming environment, but then he met Louisa Glass...

To avoid losing his wife and son, the brilliant but irascible Dr. Martin Ellingham had been forced to face the demons bequeathed him by a cold, loveless, and often abusive upbringing.Through his work with his therapist, Barrett Newell, Martin now accepts that his parents’ complete inability to feel any sort of affection for him was not due to some genetic anomaly which had rendered him inherently unlovable, but rather due to their own inability to feel love for other human beings. ...

Fragile, the third book in the Battling Demons series, is as much about facing the uncertainties of the future as it is about dealing with the demons of the past.A horrific accident has thrown Dr. Martin Ellingham’s life into turmoil and stripped him of the emotional barriers that he had spent a lifetime erecting and fortifying. He has been left a physically fractured and emotionally fragile man.The Ellingham family is brought back together under one roof as Martin...

Martin Ellingham was a family man now, with a wife and son who he loved dearly, and a foster son who he grew to love more with each passing day. His social world was expanding, whether he liked it or not. His desire to be a good husband and father demanded it.And his position as the village medic demanded it as well, forcing him to share in some of the most personal and, at times, devastating moments in the lives of the people he tried so hard to keep at arm's length.Portwe...

It's been said that a moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.Although a brilliant doctor, Martin Ellingham was one of those people who, as his wife might say, would never quite fit in. He would never quite be ordinary.A childhood devoid of any sort of parental love or affection had left him with a surety that he was undeserving of love. And it had deprived him of the tools most of us are equipped with when navigating the social aspects of life.This ...

Dr. Martin Ellingham, recovering from a near-fatal car accident, continues to move towards a resumption of his medical career. An unexpected friendship develops, and the frustrations and hilarity that often accompany life in a small village blossom.He and Louisa are making headway in resolving their marital difficulties, but not without a few misunderstandings along the way. Despite their differences, their bond continues to grow stronger. But trouble could be in the offing when on...

"Mis-perceptions" is the seventh book in Kris Morris's "Battling Demons" book series. The Ellinghams find themselves enduring a long, cold Cornwall winter as they move forward with their plan to make Evan a member of their family. Martin begins to doubt his ability to be a good father as situations arise and we see him face comic and tender moments of village and family life. Knowing people will be judging them, Martin and Louisa feel every situation could influence their chance to adopt E...

Read as either a stand-alone novel or as the sixth installment in the Battling Demons series, A Cornwall Christmas is steeped in English charm, and brings to mind a Dicken's novel, with Christmases past, present, and future.For Dr. Martin Ellingham, the brilliant but socially awkward GP in the little Cornish fishing village of Portwenn, Christmas never carried with it the fuzzy sentiments held by most people.He couldn't change his past, but a desperate phone call would give...

Kris Morris's characters continue to charm and captivate readers in Reactions, the tenth volume in the internationally-loved Battling Demons series.Dr. Martin Ellingham continues to treat his quirky patients as he recuperates from a horrific accident that occurred more than five months ago. But as Valentine's Day approaches, Cupid has set up shop in the sleepy fishing village of Portwenn, and the reactions to the little cherub's meddling are not altogether positive, complicating th...

From the starry-eyed romanticism of youth, to rekindled passions, and the pure practicality of Portwenn's more seasoned paramours, "Attractions" abound in the ninth book of the popular Battling Demons series. And coinciding with a bit of Cornish spellworking, the village's doctor is pulled, unwittingly, into Cupid's embrace as well.But all is not hearts and flowers in Portwenn. Amidst an influenza outbreak that ravages the village, a mystery is solved. The attending revela...

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A DENTIST: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryA blinding toothache sends Hamish Macbeth 120 miles out of Lochdubh to the dentist Frederick Gilchrist, only to find him dead. Since everyone is pleased the dentist is deceased--patients, several harassed women, and even his wife--Macbeth faces one of the more biting challenges of his career.

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF AN ADDICT: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryFormer drug addict Tommy Jarret rents a Scottish chalet to check out reports of a sea monster. But when he is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, constable Hamish Macbeth suspects foul play. Teaming with Glasgow Detective Inspector Olivia Chater, Macbeth goes undercover and dives into the underworld to root out a cartel secretly entrenched in t...