"The sooner this ended the better."Fifteen years have passed since the fall of the Third Reich. The Fuhrer is dead, but his shadow remains. Nazis who have escaped justice have encroached upon every democratic institution in the new divided Germany.Klaus Becker is a uniquely talented mechanic working in a small garage in West Berlin. But his life is about to change when he is approached to join the security services of the new West Germany. With no family to turn to and noth...

The first brutal year of World War I has ended and now everyone understands this isn’t a war that will end by Christmas. With thousands lying dead on the fields of France and Belgium, the Keeton brothers continue to fight on.Danny discovers the painful truth of what happened to his older brother Jacob Keeton, and realises not all enemies wear the uniform of a German soldier. A brief reprieve from the war allows him to live the life of a fifteen-year-old for a fleeting moment, befor...

Books 1-7 of the Made in Yorkshire SeriesRichard Warren is growing up in the picturesque village of Ledder Bridge. Little does he know the march of time is destroying centuries of tradition in the British countryside. With the allure of the cities taking hold, this son of a farmer leaves the safety of Yorkshire and indulges in the delights and the darkness of 20th century London, Newcastle, and Leeds.He never would have guessed this was how his life would t...

“Just another reason to leave this rotten, uncaring city behind.”Three years after the Ebonson family’s fall from grace and Gertrude Ebonson has become what no woman wants to be. As a fallen woman, she trades the only thing she has left to survive the cold winters. Penniless and isolated from her friends, she contemplates the end of her life.Meanwhile, Theodore Norlong lives under the iron fist of his abusive aristocratic father. Forced into a loveless marriage, Theodore mu...

“After five years they had found freedom again.”Adolf Hitler has swept into power and already the democratic mechanisms of the old Weimar Republic have been dismantled. Nazi Germany has risen and Hitler already has his eyes on expanding the Third Reich. Jews, communists, gypsies, and homosexuals are all targets for the new regime.Now in Berlin, Erich is appointed to the SS, where he works with Reinhard Heydrich’s Gestapo to make the country fall into line. But haunted by th...

Almost five years on and fifteen-year-old Richard Warren is building a fledging career as a young author. With his schooling done and a bitter unwillingness to take over the family farm, he begrudgingly accepts a job at the local newspaper, the Ripon Chronicle. His time as an apprentice takes him outside the bounds of Yorkshire for the first time and he comes into contact with the fanatical Black Liberation Division anarchist group in London. For the first time in his life, Richard wrestle...

Danny Keeton, now 18, has been promoted and is now responsible for leading his friends into battle. The excitement of rank is immediately tempered with a grim responsibility. The weight of leadership weighs heavily on Danny, until the big push begins and his unit are captured by the Germans.Forced to toil in the prisoner of war camps in Germany, Danny believes their capture is his fault. Within days, he begins to plan an escape under the eyes of the starving and increasingly desper...

“I’m happy that it’s all over. Now we can all start again.”Together again, Theodore Norlong and Gertrude Norlong are happily married. Free to enjoy their lives together, it doesn’t take long for cracks to appear in the relationship. As Theodore makes his desires to become a Member of Parliament clear and Gertrude dedicates herself to saving the women of the slums, marriage and a happy home life become secondary.In the heart of London, Edward Urwin finds himself on the oppos...

“I’m not guilty.”It’s 1907 and David Kelly is in the throes of opium addiction. Like thousands of other New Yorkers, he whiles away his days in the embrace of the opium pipe. Only a sudden attack on his hideout and the intervention of his best friend Ben Portnoy saves him from losing himself forever.Determined to fulfil his ambitions of ruling New York, David joins the most powerful Irish gang in the city, the Hudson Dusters. But his activities put him in direct conflict wi...

“One day I will escape.”Madness has become the defining point of Theodore Norlong’s life. After his father followed through on his threat to have him condemned, Theodore was cruelly ripped from reuniting with his true love Gertrude Carnall. Now Bedlam is his home, where he writes a stream of working class propaganda.But escape isn’t far from his thoughts.Miles away lives Edward Urwin. After accepting Clive Griggs’s offer to join him, life has never been better. As h...

Monotony on the Western Front sets in, only for it to be shattered by the arrival of Edward Warren, Jack’s villainous father. Within days, Edward seeks to weaken and destroy the friendships 16-year-old Danny Keeton has built with his family and friends.On the Western Front Danny discovers the class system and an obsession with reaching the upper echelons of British society is alive and well. Edward ropes him into a deadly game that could cost him everything he’s managed to hold tog...

“Poland would never be the same again.”The year is 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. The Third Reich gobbles up nations as Britain and France look on with horror. Within the regime, the German people can smell blood as Hitler fulfils every promise he made to them. In the mind of Erich Brandt, one of the leading lights of the SS, Germany is going to be great again.But all is not well for Erich when the first air raid of the war turns into a life and death situation. Wh...