Home & Abroad

Mutual Designs (c 14,000 words)Kay is proud of the company she's created. Kilderscope Interior Design might be a relatively new and small-scale business but her reputation is growing and media coverage is promising. When an oil-rich sheikh requests her company's professional services, she finds he will only deal with a male chief executive. To bring the deal off she needs a suitable man to play the part, so she hires Rob, believing him to be an out-of-work actor. That's her first mistake…Written in the Beads (c 14,000 words)June goes to Africa for a working holiday after being dumped by both her boyfriend and her employer in the same week. She meets Sam, who seems to think she's there to find a rich husband. Unwittingly, she's landed in the middle of a conspiracy and a young African woman, knowing herself to be in danger, passes June secret information hidden in beadwork. Can she help bring the fraudsters to justice?Ferreting About (c 12,000 words)Nicky is delighted to get through the selection process to join the Eurostar Customer Services Team, thanks to her people skills and her facility with French. When she's asked to see an unaccompanied minor onto the train, it's all in a day's work. But the scheming 12-year-old has not only forged her papers in order to cross the Channel and find the dad she's never met, she also has her pet ferret with her, or at least she did…