Books published by Willow Press

A powerful, tragic and ultimately uplifting story of a drug syndicate working in plain sight yet hidden even from those close to its cruel presence. Inspired by amazing true events, this story follows the journey of two vulnerable young girls who are lost to the seedy underworld of drug dealers. Falling prey to its cruelty, their innocence is stolen and replaced with fear as they are controlled and manipulated by their drug bosses. Others around this seemingly normal group are oblivious until one person, Lauren, comes to understand what is happening. The tragedy of the young girls' lives impacts heavily on Lauren and she opens her heart to these lost souls who need love and a second chance at life. Her calling - to provide a home and care for these vulnerable teens - forms the basis of an everlasting, innocent friendship.

Sequel to Betrayal by an Irish RoseThis family saga moves on to the next generation and is a tragic story of how life could go so wrong for one as wealthy as Lord Charles Rothchild. All the Irish relatives from the estate were gone: his mother, his half-brothers and his sister. Just one element remained, his Irish genes. His succession of wives hid his darkest secret. His only surviving son carried the 'Irish curse' so was banished from his estate. Tragedy after tragedy plagued this wealthy estate owner. Was penance about to be served?

A starving Irish family is forced across the Irish Sea to find work in Cornwall during the potato famine of the 1840s. Mary decides to leave her poverty-ridden existence for a better life, never forgetting the hatred she harboured against the English gentry. Little did she know this was going to be part of her new life.

This novel is set in the mid 1840s in the Lakes District of Cumbria, England. Sixteen-year-old Emmeline has lost her Mama and Papa and is now a wealthy young heiress. With this comes the responsibility of her father's collieries and the battle to keep them from her uncle's grasp.Emmeline is a dreamer. She has her life planned based on her second cousin Isabella Curwen's life, who at the same age was in this very position. On her Papa's death bed he had whispered for her to find 'Thomas'. Who was 'Thomas' and where would she find him?Amid all her wealth Emmeline never forgot her roots and looked after her miners and their families. Sadly, life was not as her dreams led her to believe. This is a story of personal grief.

A girls' weekend away goes horribly wrong when one of four friends goes missing from the Gold Coast Casino. Lives change forever, especially her best friend Christie. Some years later, Amanda's Jaguar is retrieved from the undergrowth with the remains of a body inside. Was this Amanda or the casino valet who went missing on the same night?

Eleven-year-old Fairday Morrow had no clue that moving from Manhattan to the small town of Ashpot, Connecticut would lead to an unsolved mystery. Her parents' dream of renovating a crumbling Victorian called the Begonia House into a bed and breakfast had seemed like treachery at the time, but Fairday found out that her new house kept secrets, and once inside its twisted front gates, anything was possible.When mysterious notes start showing up warning that a librarian is in trouble and a bookworm is eating words, Fairday thinks the Begonia House has more skeletons in its closets. She notices a passage in her favorite book has been changed, and she's certain something is dreadfully wrong. What happens to stories when their words get eaten?The Detective Mystery Squad is ready to investigate! Fairday, Lizzy, and Marcus take off on a sticky trail and tumble into Nowhere. Like Alice in Wonderland, Fairday finds herself in a world where nothing makes sense and the lines of reality are blurred.The three sleuths discover amazing things about themselves as they unravel more secrets within the walls of the Begonia House. Follow along with Fairday and friends as they open the next case in the DMS files to unlock the Talking Library.

This book tells the story of a boy who, like Anne Frank, lived in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Unlike Anne, he was not taken into early hiding, but was able to move around the city, even to help serve its Jewish community, and observe first-hand the ominous things that were happening.Robbert Van Santen lived each day not knowing how or when the war would end, not being sure that he would survive, not imagining that as an elder he would articulate his experiences to an American author.To put one of Mary Oliver’s poetic phrases in a new context, his story is “a box full of darkness,” but in the telling he offers the author and the reader the gift of stepping into his shoes and thus the satisfaction of coming to understand a teenager’s challenging life.What did Robbert do afterward? He sought “to find joy in life despite what happened. Not instead of the memories, but as a response to them.”