Lacey's House
“She hadn’t spoken to her father in years. The silence had expanded to fill every room in the house until it was a tangible, solid thing that they had to push past whenever they moved. A plate of food would be placed in front of him as he sat at the dinner table, his laundry gathered unrequested, his boots tidied away into the hallway, his medical bag prepared. But not once did she open her mouth to speak, not once did she so much as intentionally look at him."
There is something about Lacey Carmichael. She is simple, childlike. The villagers view the old lady with suspicion. To them she is the mad woman who lives at the end of the lane, the girl whose father kept her locked away in the house behind the tall hedges until he died and the person who some suspect of being a murderer. To newcomer Rachel Moore she is something different altogether. She is kind and caring, the neighbour who helped her through a devastating loss. But Lacey is also secretive and reluctant to talk about the past. As Rachel gets closer to Lacey she unravels a tale of longing, loss and devastation but it is a story which also makes her begin to question where the truth really lies. Lacey's House is available on Kindle and paperback through Amazon and in paperback from all good bookshops http://www.amazon.co.uk/Laceys-House-Joanne-Graham-ebook/dp/B00BU26EW0 |
To the Edge of Shadows "This is what I was. I was nothing; lost in the darkness. For a long time I was only the sharp bloom of agony, the rush of adrenalin, the light
tingling of someone else’s movement against my skin. There was silence where I drifted and the quiet was vast in the shadows, it was bigger than me, bigger than everything. I was invisible against it; a fragment of black on black. And time passed." Sarah Phillips longs for the simple life - a job to fill her days, a home to return to and not too many steps to count between the two. Seriously injured in a car crash when she was thirteen, Sarah has no memory of her childhood or the family she lost. To her they are no more than fragmented dreams in the night, just names on a gravestone. Ellie Wilson remembers her own past only too well, the cruelty suffered at the hands of her abusive mother and the father who didn't believe her, couldn't protect her. She finds Sarah fascinating and covets her lack of memory. But what begins as curiosity slowly spills over into obsession. And as Sarah's life begins to unravel, Ellie moves ever closer. To the Edge of Shadows is available on Kindle and paperback through Amazon and in paperback from all good bookshops. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edge-Shadows-Joanne-Graham-ebook/dp/B00MFS5P2I |