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This collection of short stories explores the sometimes poignant, sometimes startlingly dramatic moments in the different lives of each of their central characters. They are set against the finely drawn backdrops either of rural England, urban Italy or a remote Greek Island.

The story begins when Julia returns to Spain, the country where she was born, for her mother's funeral. Although she was hoping to close the door on her difficult childhood and problematic relationship with her mother, she is forced to revisit these early memories when a skeleton is unearthed on the border of her mother's land. The ensuing homicide investigation involves not just Julia but also other inhabitants of the Spanish mountain village, and forces Julia to hire a lawyer to defend her mother's name. As the investigation proceeds, however, her relationship with the lawyer becomes...

Cloud Cover transports us more than one hundred and fifty years into the future, to a dystopian world where Motte has lived alone on an arid, mountain island since roughly aged eleven. She is beginning to suspect she could even be the last human survivor - when events abruptly prove her wrong. Blending sci-fi drama with fantasy and thriller, it portrays the struggles of a small, disparate group of individuals who initially share little except the will to survive against all odds. With the backdrop of earths climate under siege plus danger from enemy forces who still retain vestiges of more...