The Governess And The Stalker
By Mark Morey
Genre:
Historical Crime / Mystery
Book Synopsis
It is the
first of June 1879 and twenty-year old former governess Michelle Blissett has
just wed her master James Devine.
Tragically James dies on their wedding night. Jesse West, recently discharged from the
workhouse, is proud that he killed his father and is looking forward to killing
Michelle and her step-children.
Michelle
Devine relocates her household to London.
Michelle’s brother-in-law Luke then runs up gambling debts which
Michelle settles by travelling to Edinburgh to pay the enigmatic Brian
Finlay. Michelle narrowly escapes death
when the bridge over the Firth of Tay collapses while a train is crossing, and
she returns to London for a new start to her life. She forms a friendship with handsome young
Paul Lawrence before a ragged stranger threatens her. Michelle and her step-children move to Paul
Lawrence’s manor in the Cotswolds before Jesse West tracks them down. Paul Lawrence injures Jesse badly but Jesse
slips away to recover.
The sins we do come back to haunt us.
Author
Biography
I am part-time in the workforce and a
part-time author, and writing technical documentation and advertising material
formed a large part of my career for many decades. Writing a novel didn’t cross
my mind until relatively recently, where the combination of too many years
writing dry, technical documents and a visit to the local library where I
couldn’t find a book that interested me led me consider a new pastime. Write a
book. That book may never be published, but I felt my follow-up cross-cultural
crime with romance hybrid set in Russia had more potential. So much so that I
wrote a sequel that took those characters on a journey to a very dark place.
The Red Sun Will Come and Souls in Darkness were published by Club Lighthouse in mid-2012. My next novel, The Governess and The Stalker will be published by Wings ePress in July 2014. A sequel Maidens in the Night is due to be published later this year, and at the moment I am working on a historical fiction manuscript set in Italy during the 1930s.
The Red Sun Will Come and Souls in Darkness were published by Club Lighthouse in mid-2012. My next novel, The Governess and The Stalker will be published by Wings ePress in July 2014. A sequel Maidens in the Night is due to be published later this year, and at the moment I am working on a historical fiction manuscript set in Italy during the 1930s.
Author Website: http://markmorey.blogspot.com.au/
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