It’s a supernatural Edwardian romance about what might just happen when the sun ‘stands still’ ...
It’s free on my blog this festive season and introduces Miss Lilian Ravenscroft, a downtrodden companion in a strict household who longs for another life ... She gets rather more than she bargains for when she takes a stroll.
This year, I redesigned the cover, using one of my own cyanotypes. The lake effect is created from thin strips of paper added to the print during exposure.
A Walk in the Park is the first of a quartet of paranormal stories published as Seasonal Disorders.
Last Spring is the vernal story, a crazed tale of deranged fairies set in 1920s Warwickshire. Following this is Midsummer Glen, a moody mythological mystery from 1930s Scotland. Equinox moves to 1950s Russia – Omsk, to be precise – for some paranoid Cold War sci-fi. Meet anxious Arkady and his stoically mysterious comrade Yakov, a quirky caretaker with a past. ‘First we drink, then we save the world!’
You can read all three chapters for free on my other blog, pamkelt.blogspot.com here. But if you can’t wait, head over to Amazon.co.uk for the complete set. Fifty percent of sales this year will be donated to Plantlife, which does magnificent work, focusing on lasting positive change for wild flowers, plants and fungi, well known for their verge campaign to prevent unnecessary trimming of verges to protect the wildlife – and save money!