The Stillroom Mistress
FORTHCOMING - HISTORICAL FICTION
Seventeenth-century lowland Scotland. Lady Janet flees an arranged marriage to settle her stepfather’s gambling debts and seeks work under a borrowed name at Balgownie Mains. She intends to disappear into service; instead, she saves the young laird’s life and becomes the Stillroom Mistress, preparing remedies and caring for his household. There she discovers that William shares the gift she has long concealed: guiding troubled souls beyond death. Amid the household’s warmth, sharp humour and closely guarded secrets, Janet finds friendship and a love she never expected. But the man who considers her bought and paid for is determined to reclaim her. Blending historical romance with a quietly supernatural mystery, The Stillroom Mistress follows a woman whose fight to choose her own future becomes a determination to offer others the same freedom.
from The Waymarker Narratives
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Ardclune
FORTHCOMING - HISTORICAL FICTION
Highland Scotland 1591. Mairghread of Ardclune is accused of witchcraft by men determined to steal her estate - Ardclune.The English commissioner sent to legitimise her trial, Lyndon Morley, chooses to defend her instead, binding his fate to a woman whose gift for guiding souls challenges everything he believes. Four centuries later, an unsettling encounter in an Edinburgh museum draws dentist Margaret and solicitor James into the mystery of Ardclune’s stolen inheritance. As they uncover hidden records and evidence of a carefully engineered injustice, their growing love carries a familiarity neither can explain. The lives they are investigating begin to feel like lives they remember. A dual timeline historical intrigue, Ardclune weaves romance and a quietly supernatural mystery, as two people seek to reclaim a home - and a future - that were stolen long before they were born.
from The Waymarker Narratives
HISTORICAL FICTION MYSTERY ESPIONAGE
ALSO FROM CHAS
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"The book is doused with several moments of tension that keep you dangling deliciously on the cusp of the truth. On the one hand, you want to scurry to the end of the page and find out what happens. On the other hand, you also want to prolong the suspense because it’s so exciting. I also love how an even-keeled plot suddenly switches to a story unfolding at neck-breaking speed."
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Meet Chas Murrell
Chas Murrell has been a Police Officer, Senior Fire Commander, Customs Coastwatch surveillance mission co-ordinator, heavy machinery mechanic, emergency medical technician/ instructor, film extra, and General Manager of an event company. He has published academic papers on liquid hydrogen and held a worldwide provisional patent for a nonlinear mathematical calculation. He survived Australia’s largest gas BLEVE in 1987, and has provided operational support to some of Australia’s largest natural disasters in North Queensland.
On a personal level he has suffered from migraines all his life, is father to four and pop to two. He and his artistically entrepreneurial wife live in Tasmania, which looks very much like Scotland and they wouldn't have it any other way. A direct descendant of Robert the Bruce (King of Scots), history runs deep in Chas's veins, along with a profound knowledge of both World Wars. You may even come across him online playing World of Tanks.
In his Australian spy thriller books you will get to know Chas’s knowledge of technology, intrigue, crime, espionage, weaponry, banter, romance and even whisky… yet above all, there is believability and no loose ends.
