So first of all, where did the name Silver Springs come from? Well it’s actually the name of a song by Stevie Nicks which she and the rest of Fleetwood Mac recorded during the sessions for the Rumours album back in 1976. Now for some criminally insane reason the rest of the band decided to leave this Stevie classic off the final cut of the album. The song was finally resurrected for the live The Dance Fleetwood Mac album in 1997 and has been included on all subsequent cuts of Rumours. It remains one of my all-time favourite Stevie songs.
Now the stories in this series of novels are not quite crime fiction, which is my usual trade, but they’ve all got some dark twists, very dark in some of them, but they’re primarily about love, the pursuit of happiness, and contemporary family life. So come with me to the other side of the mirror and I hope you enjoy the journey it takes you on…
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Sean is determined to fulfil his dying sister's wish that he adopts her two kids when she passes. He's close to his niece and nephew anyway and it's what they want too. But why is his boyfriend so dead set against the idea? And then Sean's mother says she won't let her gay son bring up her grandchildren and takes him to court for custody. So will he be able to be the Dad that his niece and nephew both want him to be so much?
Bisexual Peter checks into a guest house in the Fylde coast town of Lytham and finds himself falling for the owner's son, Cameron. But when tragedy strikes, Peter and Cameon's mum Vicky get close. And that's when his life really does begin to change.
Carl has been a jobbing builder in his native Newcastle all his life. He's married to Gina with whom he has three kids and has to contend with his mother-in-law who makes him feel like he has no say in his own house. Then he takes a job on the other side of the country and rents a room in a house belonging to a local journalist called Neal who is gay. Gradually it dawns on them both that they're falling for each other and this knocks Carl for six because he's never had feelings for a man before. So where will that leave him and Gina? And what has she been up to behind his back?
Patrick and Gareth fall for each other during the time of the miners strike back in 1984. Patrick is a striking miner, married with one kid and another on the way. Gareth is a police officer who is gay but not out. Although Patrick's heart is filled with joy because he's always been gay but has hidden it from everyone, the pressures of realising his true self becomes too much and he finishes with Gareth. But then forty years later on the other side of the world a set of circumstances bring them back together. But will it be the same? And what's the secret, apart from his sexuality, that Patrick has kept from all those close to him?
Liam Townsend disappears after abandoning his car near his home. His close friend Valerie hires a private detective, Stephanie Marshall, to search for him and find out what's happened. But she has an ulterior motive for finding him and when Stephanie does find him, neither she or any of his friends could've been prepared for the truth.