Searching For Amy

If you love a murder mystery with a generous helping of romance, this book is for you.

Moon Gate. A quiet Lakeland village torn apart by suspicion. Lives suspended while distressed families wait for answers.

Four girls have vanished without trace.

Amy, who walked along a quiet lane to visit her lover and was never seen again.

Sarah, who went out jogging after work but never came home.

Tasha, who checked out of Moon Gate Hotel, but never arrived at her next destination.

And Lissa, the Norwegian backpacker, last seen at the hotel, but not conclusively missing.

Where are they hidden? What happened to them? Is there a serial killer hiding in plain sight?

Three young men, once friends, now enemies, all of them suspects, all of them blamed, all of them shunned.

Frank, the lover of Amy, dispossessed, exiled from his family home, reclusive and now friendless.

Luke, brother of Amy and employer of Sarah, spiralling into isolation and depression as his world falls apart.

Jim, the gardener, once in love with Tasha, trapped in his job, working at the hotel for a woman he resents.

Then there is Morgan, the strange old farmer, who lives like a hermit with his two huge wolfhounds. Is he the killer? Or did the dogs tear the girls apart and the farmer hide them?

When her mother dies and she is left homeless, Fiona comes to Moon Gate to live with her aunt Margaret and cousin Jordi who run the hotel, grateful for somewhere to stay, and hoping to trace her father who died before she was born.

But Moon Gate is not the haven she craved.

Fiona looks uncannily like Amy, and her search for her father stirs old grudges.

There were tensions at Moon Gate long before the girls went missing.

Jordi was once Amy's lover, but lost her to Frank.

Morgan was blamed for the death of Fiona's father Paul.

Frank and his stepmother, Margaret, are bitter enemies, following a dispute over his late father's will.

Fiona takes no sides, building bridges between feuding families, wanting to find the young women so the hostility and accusations can end and the families can heal.

She finds herself becoming an unpaid slave in the hotel, while concealing from her aunt her growing friendship with her grandfather Morgan, her dead father's family, and the three young men.

Will Fiona be the killer's next victim? As the summer fades into autumn, and the deception becomes oppressive, she becomes more and more fearful.

Who can she trust, when anyone could be a killer? And how can she love a man who could be the murderer?