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Set in Sierra Leone during the early 1960s, the story follows twenty-one-year-old Tim May, who struggles with feelings of inadequacy in both his professional and personal life. Tasked with managing the Port Loko branch after being deemed a failure in Freetown, Tim faces the challenge of proving himself in a post-Independence landscape. The narrative explores themes of ambition, colonial legacies, and the quest for self-identity amid the backdrop of a nation undergoing significant change.

Ben, 15, was difficult, withdrawn and liable to sulk and with the years had become ever more unhappy. His sister Jessica, 18, had become mother to him after their mother died of cancer, and Dad was most of his time in London running his import export business. Tom, 25, their brother has been a forever student and wants a last fling, skiing the winter in Canada, but as a fresh tragedy strikes all plans go awry. It seems someone wants them all dead, but who? Ben's psychological problem comes to the fore and Jessica, old beyond her years deals with that and the threats to both their lives as they hide out in the less populated areas of Scotland. At last Ben feels able to confide in his sister. The COVID-19 pandemic interferes with life just as Ben has found himself and new friends but Jessica manages him and manages to keep them safe to find new lives.

Sometimes in life, people need a trigger to turn them from one path to another. Sometimes, humans can only stand so much pain. Terry endured his life, studied diligently, read books and worked hard at school. In many ways he was a perfect son and yet, his parents worried.A new school that had a different ethos, they hoped, would work the change in their son they wanted to see but in the event, that became the trigger to send Terry on a new path completely, the reverse of his parent's intentions.

Danny is a misfit, he knows that and so does his mum and sister Rachel. They, fearing for him, watch and wait. His father can't stand the sight of a boy that is so unlike him. It is not only at home where Danny is in trouble. School is a trial, he has few friends and many enemies, so life is difficult. Add to that his 'bunking' off and his thieving from shops in the Mall and you would say, this child will turn out like his father, a criminal. What Danny is not, is a thug. He has not inherited his father's liking for booze and brawling. His deprived and violent home is not the cradle for a child without an identity. Dannie is adrift, blowing with the gales that surround him. The only life saver, is sister Rachel, more mother than their mother and protector, confidant and eventual saviour.

I never thought my day out in the Mall, furtively looking at clothes I couldn't afford and which I could not take into The County Council Home for Unwanted and Bewildered Children, would end by taking me to Edinburgh pursued by the Police and the Children's Department. Well that's what happened. A criminal on the run, disguised and yet, that led me to meeting my Mom. What Mom wants me for is another matter but anything is better than being homeless, isn't it? Of course none of that reckons on the difference love can make nor that magical thing, serendipity, interceding.

Peter is a loner and a no hoper. His father is in prison, his mother in a mental hospital and he lives in a children's home. He knows his future is without hope and he acts tough and fights rough. He is coming to the realisation that he is on the path to nowhere and then three girls step into his path, three nice girls who treat him to coffee and then a little friendly ridicule. Kayleigh decides to take the boy home and Pete's life changes forever.

James was quite a boy. He had a reputation with the girls and for his daring. His annual skiing trip was a chance for him to show off his athleticism and his devil may care attitude. Too much adrenalin is a dangerous thing and leads many a young man into trouble. When you are skiing off piste, in uncharted territory and in a snowstorm, adrenalin might help you get through it or it might get you into deep trouble. So it was that he found more trouble than he ever imagined and a changed life. A trans novel.

Daniel works in a London bank. He's ambitious to climb the ladder, a high flyer. Even so his life is a mess. He has a problem that has made him a loner trusting no one. His staff member Patricia, brings him out and introduces him to her friends. But do they really like the strange person they've met? Then there's Daniel's family who want him home, his mother fretting. What will they think of the person their son Daniel has become? At the Bank there's danger and betrayal. Daniel finds himself and finds the love of his family too.

Chris is sixteen. For at least nine years of his short life, he has suffered from a mouldering discontent without actually identifying why he is so unhappy. The youngest by far of three children, he would be the last to leave home. His father's death and his exam results decide him to find employment rather than further education. Working with the fun girls of the Returns Section, triggers his salvation from a life of despair.