A wonderful morning walk.

Cardigan over t-shirt weather, which is my favourite sort. Trying out a new circular six mile walk to include cygnets, swans, goslings, baby mullet, boats dancing on the sea and birds singing their hearts out. The air smelled incredibly clean and fresh, and I felt all the bothers of the world easing away to be replaced by a ‘wow, I am so lucky.’ So that’s why I share it with you in fiction and in pictures.

So you got some bonus pictures before we go on to the books on sale at 99p in the UK and 99p in the US.

Fallen Angel

Step into the shadowy, murky world of drug dealing and spying, where nothing is what it seems, and the stakes grow higher every day.

An apparently invincible renegade spy turned arms dealer comes up against an ambitious undercover police officer who has a personal score to settle. All the rules say that Sarah Norton mustn’t sleep with the enemy, let alone become his assistant, but anyone who meets Guy ‘Lucifer’ Stannard soon realises that rules don’t apply to him unless he chooses to allow them to. Anyone who’s ever met Sarah Norton will know how far she’ll go to break a case and get revenge, and if that means becoming his imp and sleeping with him, then that's a price she's prepared to pay.

There's double-crossing, double-dealing and double-trouble, and it’s anyone's guess who’ll win or what winning means and how much it could cost.

Haunted Angel

Being held hostage and tortured inevitably leaves mental and physical scars, especially when you don’t know why it’s happening to you. It has also left forensic accountant and new Shadow controller Mark Graham with a burning determination never to allow anyone else to feel alone and abandoned in the dark.

Former close protection officer Liz Stratton was sure that she could handle anything when she joined the shadowy world of British Intelligence's most secret department, but she reaches her limits and goes a long way past them on her first assignment. She’s falling apart inside, but Mark Graham knows how that feels, and his steady confidence in her helps her to save her critically injured partner and the two terrified children who’ve seen their parents murdered by terrorists.

Things go from bad to worse when they realise that someone's out to destroy the Shadows and is still desperate to know whatever they kidnapped Mark to try to find out. Liz can use her skills to protect him, but they’re swept into a world where loyalties are tested, and old betrayals seem to have come back to haunt them. All they can be sure of is that people like them don't fall in love this fast, and yet they both have.

Can they keep their friends and themselves safe and make a future? Can they even survive? Only time will tell…

Running Scared

MI27 is the ultra-secret department of the British Security Services, who call themselves the Shadows because they count their successes by the things that no one realises happened or didn't happen at all

Rob Harris is a notoriously lucky and risk-loving protection officer who’s finally pushed his luck too far. Now he’s flat on his back in a hospital bed and isn't likely to be moving any time soon. He has to find out what went wrong during his last job, and who he can trust, because whoever wants him dead also wants to destroy the department that so many of his family have served in. He wants to trust Staff Nurse Lucy Johnston and Doctor Jason Simpson, but he could pay for that luxury with other people’s lives as well as his own.

On top of that, people keep trying to kill him, and he can’t defend himself. And doesn't know why...

Nurse Lucy Johnston has a good reason not to trust the Shadows. The last thing she wants to do is get involved with anyone,

Doctor Jason Simpson’s past makes it hard for him to trust anyone.

Now the three of them have to work together if they want to survive.

Running Home

The Shadows are Britain's most secret intelligence department. They’re there to do the jobs that no one must know happened or could have happened. Their terms of engagement are far more elastic than the rest of the intelligence services, but they always keep rule one, which is to get the job done inconspicuously and without hurting anyone who doesn't deserve it. .Their agents are carefully picked for their specialist abilities, and, if they're lucky, they realise that they're being recruited before they're too deeply involved.

Languages specialist Lise Kinsella thinks she’s applying for a job on a new hostage recovery team. If she’d known that she was applying to the Shadows, she’d literally have run screaming because her father and aunt were both agents, and she saw them blown to pieces when she was a child and was almost buried alive. Now she doesn’t have a choice because the past has come back to get her, and the people she loves.

As she trains, she learns things about herself that she never expected to, including that Doctor Jason Simpson is a lot more than he seems to be or believes that he is. They have to work together to solve an old mystery, recover a diplomat’s daughter who’s been kidnapped, escape from a revolution, save lives and maybe even take a massive risk by falling in love. That’s a big ask for someone who’s always sworn that she doesn’t have an adventurous bone in her body and is at her best and happiest when she’s safely behind a desk.

Child’s Play

Lucy Williams is a work-from-home widow and mother of five-year-old Gracie. Once, she was something very, very different, but then an operation went so badly wrong that the former spy had to create a new identity as a stereotypical suburban mum. Now her daughter is being bullied at school and has been hurt, and the school think that she’s the problem. On top of that, she found drugs hidden in the playtime when she made a clandestine night-time visit to try to find out what happened because she didn’t believe what the head teacher told her.

Can a mum sort this out without giving herself away by listening to the women that most people overlook because they're 'just mum'? What’s going on with Detective Chief Inspector Laurie Pearce? Can he really fancy her as much as she does him? And is she ready to move on after her husband’s death from cancer? Everyone else thinks she is, but everyone, as so often, doesn’t know anything like as much as they think they do.

Handling this ought to be child’s play for someone with her background and experience, but she soon finds out that life at the apparently idyllic school is anything but idyllic and soon after that, she’s up to her ears in trouble…

A Fete Worse than Death

Former spy Lucy Williams has been trained to beat most men in an unfair fight, handle a wide variety of weapons, and she can drive any vehicle she can get her hands on. Sadly, none of those skills is transferable to her new life as a work-from-home widowed mummy of a gorgeous little girl, and she’s not allowed to shoot anyone, no matter how much they may deserve it.

She didn’t expect to find a dead body in the local play area, or to find herself caught between gorgeous Royal Marine Tony Hammond and her not-quite boyfriend, Detective Chief Inspector Laurie Pearce. Add to that a make-over, her daughter deciding she doesn’t want to be a tomboy any more, a chance to go back to her old job and a kidnapping and helping with the school fete doesn’t seem so bad after all…

Can her mummy skills save the day?

What does she want from her life?

And will she survive running the cake stall during a thunderstorm?

Snakes and Ladders

Lucy Williams works very hard to seem like a work-from-home mum, but she isn’t even Lucy Williams. Once, she had another name and a husband she loved very much, who was her partner. Now he’s dead from cancer, and she’s living under cover while doing research for the Department of British Intelligence, where she used to work. If she wants to stay safe and keep her daughter Gracie safe, she has to seem to be inconspicuous, so the last thing she needs is to witness a horrific accident close to home.

Only that’s not quite true. The last thing she needs is for it not to be an accident and for her past to be coming back to haunt her, along with a new partner that she fancies as much as she does a local police officer. They both seem to fancy her too, so she may be about to get what she thought she wanted, and she’s not so sure that she does want it.

Can she find a murderer and keep her best friend safe without giving the truth away?

Will her daughter’s class have a teacher when she goes back to school at the end of the summer holidays?  

Her old life and her new one intertwine, so it’s just as well that she has such an unusual skillset.