Rags-to-Riches Stories

This book covers the final months of secondary school as well as the summer between school and university. More adventures of the world's most promiscuous nerd. / (Reviews)

Country Roads (4)
Charlie Nelson's life is on track. His music career is gaining momentum, he has amazing friends, a beautiful girlfriend, and he's finally gotten rid of his alcoholic father, allowing him to rebuild his relationship with his mother. Unfortunately, life can't be sunshine and roses forever. When a series of traumatic events and personal tragedy puts everything he's worked for in jeopardy, Charlie must struggle to keep it all from falling apart while staying true to himself.

Following the romance and intrigue surrounding a 38 year-old ex-Marine who is retired for medical conditions and suffers from chronic degenerative spinal injuries. Fancying himself a writer, he stumbled upon an agent who not only loves his no-nonsense recollection of life in combat-but agrees to help him publish it. Throw in two rascally rottweilers, a single widowed mother of twin girls, as well as her extended Filipino family, and you have enough intrigue to unsettle the most hardened Jarhead.

This book covers the penultimate year of school for Andrew. Several of the people and events have an impact on his life going forward.

The story of a young man who listens to the advice and instruction from an older teenage woman and uses it to full effect as he grows and matures. Book 2 - It is the start of new year at Andrew's school. And a previously all-boys school has finally admitted girls. How does he cope? Better than most 14 year old boys but still....

A Story in the Anthony Carter Universe
Will Potter, an orphan and merchant’s apprentice in a small Devon port, runs afoul of the law when he beats up a landowner's son. Given a choice between prison and volunteering for the Royal Navy, he joins the company of a small Navy sloop bound for New South Wales. Read how young Will finds his calling and a sweet wife, and even wins glory at Trafalgar. A new story in the Anthony Carter Universe of seafaring novels.

Having finished slutting around all summer Andrew deals with his last month in Edinburgh before heading off to university (at last). Will Cambridge live up to his expectations? And will he cope without his network of friends? / (Reviews)

The adventures of Andrew McLeod continue. School is easy but the rest of his life is a complicated mess. / (Reviews)

'Rock bottom' is how Peter felt as he learned the terrible news that his estranged father was reinserting himself into his life. It wasn't enough that his mom lay dying in the hospital from AIDS, or that he was just learning to adjust to life as a double-amputee. Now everything he worked for to ensure a stable future for himself and his loved ones, was at risk. But he was hardly ready to give up. Not when he had so much to fight for.