The Weight of What Happened
SYNOPSIS
Alistair George Garrick has spent his life being told not to trust his own eyes. As a young Fleet Air Arm pilot, he encountered a blinding silver light over the North Sea and lost eleven minutes. His report was buried, and silence became a condition of service. Decades later, now a Birmingham magistrate, he recognises his experience in a civilian pilot’s account of an unexplained crash. Then a letter discovered at Bimswood Hall reveals that an ancestor witnessed something eerily similar in 1815. Summoned in his eighties to a secretive military review, Alistair must confront what was hidden and what silence has cost his family. Spanning generations, The Weight of What Happened explores memory, loyalty, and official denial, asking whom we believe when lived experience defies accepted explanations.
The Summit Protocol
At a secluded summit in the Swiss Alps, the world’s most powerful leaders face an unprecedented reckoning. An artificial intelligence has assembled a Council of Peace, recreating history’s greatest thinkers to confront humanity’s rulers with the consequences of their decisions. Armed with classified intelligence and devastating evidence, the Council strips away diplomatic theatre, exposing the interests that perpetuate war, inequality, and suffering. An engineer haunted by his past, his journalist stepsister, and a veteran African diplomat find themselves at the centre of a struggle to forge a Pact for Peace and Dignity. But those who profit from the existing order will not surrender quietly. As alliances fracture and sabotage threatens the summit, the possibility of peace becomes a dangerous proposition. The Summit Protocol is a geopolitical thriller about power, conscience, and whether humanity can choose cooperation over catastrophe when its excuses finally run out.
SYNOPSIS
Secrets Beneath Noto
When Jakob and Philomena buy a fading baroque house in Noto, Sicily, they expect renovation challenges, not a buried history. A leaking pipe reveals a hidden staircase and a sealed chamber containing an old desk, a ledger of names, and evidence of wartime secrets. Their discovery soon attracts unwelcome attention. Officials grow evasive, bankers apply pressure, and distant heirs emerge with competing claims. As the couple investigate, their dream home becomes the centre of a struggle over property, reputation, and who has the right to tell the past. Drawn into courtrooms, local politics, and fractured family histories, Jakob and Philomena must decide how much they are willing to risk for people whose names were deliberately hidden.
Secrets Beneath Noto is an atmospheric historical and legal thriller about complicity, belonging, and the cost of remembrance. Beneath a town celebrated for its beauty, one house holds a history that refuses to stay buried
SYNOPSIS
What Belongs Together Cannot Be Divided
Across eight centuries, the de Wall and de Rasen families build lives on either side of the Alps, bound by marriage, loyalty, and memories no border can erase. But history repeatedly threatens to divide them.
Failed crusades send knights home seeking redemption. Plague, witch trials, and religious wars force their descendants to choose between obedience and conscience, while acts of mercy carry consequences as lasting as battles. As empires collapse and world wars redraw Europe, the Brenner Pass becomes a frontier separating people who once belonged to the same world. Yet letters cross the mountains, families reunite, and old loyalties survive. Gathered beneath ancestral coats of arms, later generations confront the meaning of their inheritance. What Belongs Together Cannot Be Divided is a sweeping historical novel of love, law, and belonging, asking whether the ties that sustain ordinary lives can ultimately endure the divisions imposed by those who govern them.