Phillip Bowman was married, no question of that. But was his wife the devoted little housewife that she made out to be? Phillip knew the answer as he stood on the edge on the pedestrian crossing. His back was only just healing from the barbell weight she had thrown at him last week. The traffic surged past at speed creating dust and blowing his hair and clothes with the dissipated air. He was at the front and could feel the vibrations through his feet. Something in the back of his mind was talking to him, a voice he didn’t like or recognise.
How much more are you going to take? How many more bruises? How many more punches? Just step out now, into the moving traffic, look here comes a big truck. DO IT NOW!
Phillip began to move…
Jennifer grabbed Phillip by the lapels and pulled him forward. He lost his balance and fell forward into the kitchen, struggling to get up, he heard Jennifer mumbling and searching in a drawer. The room fell silent as steel made contact with skin and then bone. Blood flowed down Phil’s face. Nobody yelled CUT! This was not a dramatic scene being filmed for a soap opera, or a Hollywood movie. This was real life. It was as dramatic as it gets. For Phillip Martin Bowman this was his life. He worked hard, to put money on the table and food in their bellies. But Phillip was trapped in a downward spiral, his world was shrinking as Jennifer tightened her grip on his life. He saw no future, he wasn’t sure if he had a past, one thing was for certain, he would need to end this miserable life.
Although this book is a work of fiction it is loosely based on The Silence – a novel by A.P. Robinson that will never see the light of day.
Five young children ventured deep into the forest as their leader had accepted a dare. It all seemed innocent, just to spend the day in Dalton Forest, laughs and adventure they certainly wouldn’t be experiencing. Sheltering from the heavy rain in a cave, they make a morbid discovery, and someone who doesn’t want anyone to know who he is, or why he is there. In an attempt to escape from this wild forest dweller, they inadvertently kill him.
Now fifteen years on, someone is sending them threatening messages by post. Someone who knows what they did. How do they know? Why have they been silent for fifteen years? What do they want? How far will the gang of former kids go to protect their secret? But now their past is coming back to haunt them, and it wants revenge.
Is it possible for a woman to die in an accident, but not be dead, go to hell and need to escape?
Simone Roades is married to a struggling writer, Mitchell who neglects his wife and daughter causing Simone to stray and into the arms of a drug dealer who, when arrested, hangs himself.
Driving her daughter Sara, to her Mother’s, Simone's car is shunted into an oncoming train. They should have died at the scene, but where are the bodies? Mitchell finds his wife and daughter in his kitchen with no memory of the accident, or any injuries. He finds they are outwardly dead, cold, with no pulse.
Mitchell meets a demon, Cochrane, who wants the two dead souls, but why? After visiting a medium, Mitchell and Simone discover the morbid truth about Cochrane. Simone’s boyfriend was a devil worshiper and, has sold the soul of Simone’s unborn child to a demon.
Cochrane takes Simone and her daughter to hell but Sara disappears. Simone now has to use all of her power to escape hell and take her rightful place, with her daughter and unborn child in heaven.