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Authors: D H Sidebottom

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He walked in quietly, sighed, and picked up the mail from my doormat. His feet were loud as they padded across the carpet and I squinted when he pulled open the curtains and light spilled into my lounge. Turning, he jumped and gasped as his eyes widened on me.

“Jesus, Klo!” I hated that he called me Klo. Hated it.
“What the fuck?”

He stood regarding me quietly as if he was frightened to come any closer – that was mainly because I had a gun pointed at his head from where I sat on my sofa.

Point and click, he’d said. Point and click.

“Hello, Richard.”

He paused, his brow pinching as he tried to get a read of me. “What’s going on?”

Clicking my tongue, I smiled, but it wasn’t at all welcoming. “How did you get in?”

His eyes flashed as he tried to think on the spot.
How stupid was I?
“You gave me a key, remember?”

Slowly shaking my head at his lie, I chuckled. “That all you got? I gave you a key? Try again, Richard… or should we even the odds? You call me Samantha and I’ll call you Robert.”

Fear caught his breath and he licked his dry lips.

Point and click. Simple, he’d said. Just point and click.

“Where is he?”

Shaking his head, he frowned, “I don’t know…”

He didn’t say any more. His blood sprayed across my lovely cream curtains when I forced a bullet straight through the middle of his forehead.

Apparently it was as easy as just point and click.

 

Slowly loading another bullet into the pistol, I smiled, gently stroking across the cold sheath of metal.

And then I sat.

And I waited.

For Anderson.

 

 

 

To be concluded in

 

 

Chained

Coming July 2016

Out Now

 

 

 

An erotic thriller

 

 

After her mother abandoned her when she was just a child, Dove fled the only life she’d known with her younger sister, Serenity, frightened that the authorities would tear them both apart.

Leaving behind a life of poverty and constant hardship with the group of travellers she had grown up with, Dove has no choice but to turn to a life of debauchery and crime to feed their bellies and provide them with shelter and security.

Fast forward ten years and life is now so very different for Dove. Her once best friend and fellow traveller, Flick O’Kane, now a Hollywood star, appoints Dove to accompany him to a charity ball, unaware just who exactly his companion really is.

Both their lives come together in an explosion of sex, drugs and secrets. The friendship they once held close is about to be tested when their past threatens to rip them both apart and endangers not just their own lives but the very life Dove has broken her own soul for – Serenity’s.

 

*This is a standalone book recommended for ages 18+. It contains scenes of sex, violence and substance abuse.

 

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A dark romance

 

 

We came from nothing and were given a second chance at life, and life was pretty good until it tipped on its axis and my world came tumbling down around me.

 

My Baby Sister is missing…

Stolen…

Lost…

 

I’ve never felt this helpless before now, the vacant hole inside me expanding with each passing second of not knowing where she is.

What’s she going through?

Is she hurt?

Suffering?

Alive?

 

The more I learn of her disappearance the more fear implants itself inside my heart, hardening - darkening.

The world is a depraved place, full of evil lurking behind normality.

Behind smiles.

Behind deception and facades.

 

She needs me and I will do whatever it takes to find her.

Whatever.

Whatever.

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Ten years old I fell in love

Ten years was the price of that love

Ten years later our world’s re-collide

 

Alexandria (Alex)

 

My brother Jonah was possessive when it came to the things he owned; this unfortunately included the people in his life. The forbidden love between his best friend and me was just that… forbidden.

Our families were from different walks of life and as a sheriff’s daughter being with a Moore’s kid would never be tolerated. To my parents their son and Dalton Moore were on different paths and their friendship would end as soon as college began but it was my brother who had a craving for trouble. He was always looking for danger, committing petty crimes and getting away with it because Dalton would take the fall, blackening his already stained name. When Jonah found out we broke the rules by loving each other, his consequences impacted us all with immeasurable suffering.

Betrayal comes with a debt and it would be paid by all of us.

One with their heart,

one with their mind

and one would pay in blood

 

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The Bunk Up

A Romantic comedy

from

Andie M. Long & D H Sidebottom

 

Daisy Harlow discovers her long-term boyfriend isn’t contemplating a proposal but rather how to get his mistress out of the house before she gets home. As if things can’t get any worse, broken-hearted Daisy gets fired from her job at the Post Office.

Stuck living with her best friend and tormented by three children under the age of five, Daisy needs a fresh start and she needs it fast.

Enter her least favourite customer Mrs Haversham. Daisy finds herself offered a few weeks away in Mrs H’s country cottage in Norfolk. Time to recharge her batteries and think of her future.

Thank goodness Mrs H’s son is married though, she can do without her matchmaking efforts. So who’s the dark haired hottie currently occupying a bedroom of the cottage? He says he’s Mrs H’s other son. One who Daisy knows nothing about. Frazer reckons he’s an actor, in Heydon to land a part in a new film.

One thing she is clear about. He’s refusing to budge and as she has nowhere else to go, he’s going to have to get used to a housemate. As the boiler breaks, temperatures get cooler but tempers get hotter. Each one wants the other one out of the house.

But did Mrs H know what she was doing all along?

 

Milly Evans has been PA to the head of Sparrow Towers for over eight years. And Milly loves her job. Her boss is the most affectionate and compassionate man she’s ever known. Geoffrey Sparrow’s high profile status and company prestige never changed the old man, and with his and Milly’s love for his respected company, their relationship gave them both something to cherish in the workplace and build an even better future for themselves and all Sparrow’s employees.

That is until her boss is brutally murdered and Milly witnesses the whole horrifying ordeal.

And then everything changes.

Warne Industries has been tyring to snatch Sparrow Towers for years, their snidey underhand ways not once swaying her much loved boss.

And now the Warne brothers are quick to move in and take what they always wanted – Milly included.

Her new boss, Noam Warne, is an arrogant, narcissistic and cruel boss. His new ways, his reputation and the way he sneers down his nose at Milly give her many reasons to flee her new employers. Yet, driven by her love for Geoffrey and his resolve to create a traditional company, Milly is determined to stay and make sure his lifetime’s commitment isn’t torn to shreds and fed to the lions piece by piece.

But when it surfaces that Milly is a witness to her boss’ murder, she’s soon running for her life, and the only man that can help her stay alive is the man that she hates more than her ex’s new piece of flesh – her boss!

 

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