by Jan Ruth
The platform was virtually deserted even though the express service to Euston was due in four minutes. He couldn’t keep watching the entrance, so he fixated on the weed-strewn rails instead, until the sound of the approaching train scorched along the track. If this was Kate’s idea of some sort of dramatic denouement, he had to hand it to her, she knew how to tighten the screw to within a hair’s breadth.
He lifted his eyes and exhaled as the train thundered in, the ground vibrating beneath his feet. It was over, he was finished…
He spotted her hair first.
THE END
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WILD WATER
BY
JAN RUTH
Jack Redman, estate agent to the Cheshire set. An unlikely hero, or someone to break all the rules?
Wild water is the story of forty-something estate agent, Jack, who is stressed out not only by work, bills and the approach of Christmas but by the feeling that he and his wife Patsy are growing apart. His misgivings prove founded when he discovers Patsy is having an affair, and is pregnant.
At the same time as his marriage begins to collapse around him, he becomes reacquainted with his childhood sweetheart, Anna, whom he left for Patsy twenty- five years before. He finds his feelings towards Anna reawaken, but will life and family conflicts conspire to keep them apart again?
MIDNIGHT SKY
BY
JAN RUTH
Opposites attract? Laura Brown, interior designer and James Morgan-Jones, horse whisperer. And Midnight Sky, a beautiful but damaged steeplechaser.
Laura seems to have it all, glamorous job, charming boyfriend. Her sister, Maggie, struggles with money, difficult children and an unresponsive husband. She envies her sister’s life, but are things as idyllic as they seem?
She might be a farmer’s daughter, but Laura is doing her best to deny her roots, even deny her true feelings. Until she meets James, but James is very married, and very much in love, to a wife who died two years ago. They both have issues to face from their past, but will it bring them together, or push them apart?
WHITE HORIZON
BY
JAN RUTH
Three couple in crisis, multiple friendships under pressure.
On-off-on lovers Daniel and Tina return to their childhood town near Snowdonia. After twenty five years together, they marry in typically chaotic fashion, witnessed by old friends, Victoria and Linda who become entangled in the drama, their own lives changing beyond recognition.
However, as all their marriages begin to splinter, and damaged Victoria begins an affair with Daniel, the secret illness that Tina has been hiding emerges. Victoria’s crazed and violent ex-husband attempts to kill Daniel and nearly succeeds, in a fire that devastates the community. On the eve of their first wedding anniversary, Tina returns to face her husband- but is it to say goodbye forever, or to stay?
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