Somewhere new.
Something unexpected.

Short-story sequence · 3 stories

Maddie

Small errands, wandering thoughts and the things that deserve a second look. Follow Maddie and Lou through a continuing sequence of warm, gently comic stories, beginning with The Can on Platform Two.

Book · 12 chapters · Complete

The Misadventures of Beech

Beech would prefer a quiet life in Briar Glen. A complete fantasy comedy in twelve chapters, with questionable decisions, unexpected adventures and exceptionally sturdy doors.

The Quiet Between Pings

When a quiet inlet on Titan begins answering sonar pulses differently, an instrument engineer must determine what the sea remembers before her own station changes it forever.

The Weight of Sound Stone

With Harrowmere's floodgate cracking, a disgraced stone-mender has one night to save the village—and tell the truth about the fault she once helped hide.

The Long Way Into Morning

A midsummer climb above Fernie draws restless accountant Abi Ferncross closer to an old climbing partner, until two missing friends turn sunrise into a test of trust.

A Light Below the Water

On a stormbound Hebridean research island, a solitary marine biologist shelters an injured stranger whose secrets threaten the community—and the quiet life she thought she wanted.

A Vintage of Convenient Lies

Auditing a Napa vineyard before its sale, soil scientist Sofia Valdemora uncovers buried contamination—and finds an unexpected ally in the son determined to expose his family's secrets.

Before the Saws Arrive

When a forest ecologist challenges a timber harvest in Washington’s Cascades, his fiercest professional opponent becomes an unexpected ally in uncovering fraud—and choosing what deserves to endure.

The Birdwatcher's False Name

When poisoned eagles draw a covert investigator to her Highland island, a solitary conservationist must navigate a criminal network—and decide whether trusting someone is worth the risk.

The Missing Years of Cwm Eithin

When an Oxford historian uncovers a vanished Welsh valley, her search for the truth threatens a cherished nature reserve—and draws her toward the man trying to save it.

The Shore Between the Lines

An Ottoman map leads conservator Leila Nahrani from Istanbul to an Aegean cave library, where a collector’s family claim threatens the truth drawing them together.

The Things We Carry

When a woman she meets dancing disappears into Soho at dawn, insurance investigator Rachel Wrenford follows a misplaced phone into an adventure neither expected.

The Warmth Beneath

At a remote Chugach research station, a glaciologist and a mountain guide uncover heat beneath ancient ice—and the unfinished work of a vanished scientist.

What the Ice Kept

An independent glaciologist and a mountain guide uncover a hidden heat source beneath Alaska’s Chugach Mountains—and a missing scientist’s unfinished work, preserved in the ice.

Beyond the Cameras

On holiday in southern Spain, media entrepreneur Margo Quenley becomes an unlikely getaway driver for a politician seeking quiet—and discovers a detour worth taking slowly.

The Ground Between Us

When an old colleague calls from across the world, a South Island farmer and a guarded geologist must uncover what lies beneath a threatened valley.

The Road That Held

Lost in the Moroccan desert with dwindling fuel, Ben joins a resourceful surveyor to find a vanished road, a town with water, and an unexpected reason to stay.

What the Sea Kept

When Captain Kate hauls an ancient instrument from the waters off Turks and Caicos, protecting its secrets draws her toward a reserved marine conservator and a dangerous discovery.

Where the Water Remembers

On Crete, a botanist tracing polluted springs discovers a buried wartime structure—and an unexpected connection with the engineer helping her uncover what the mountain remembers.

The Space Between Signals

When a vanished physics paper threatens her clean-energy breakthrough, Claire follows its traces across Berlin with a meticulous conservator whose guarded warmth proves equally difficult to resist.