The themes of love, loss, regret and hope are explored in this collection of four short stories which look at the hidden territory within ordinary lives and the triggers for seemingly random actions.
Escape – a new baby should bring joy and happiness, but the reality is often very different.
Underground – however hard you work to forget the past, it's still there.
High Noon – Friday night romance at the supermarket.
Footprints – love, loss and the nature of relationships. The idea for this story came from the discovery of footprints in the Australian outback. The footprints were made in moist clay around 20,000 years ago.
Also included is the original opening section of Lives Interrupted and the prologue of Shauna's latest novel Still Death .
Shauna writes crime mysteries for people who love to work out the clues and discover the murderer before the answer is revealed in the final chapters. She also writes contemporary women's fiction with strong, emotional stories that include family, friendship and love mixed with secrets and a little mystery.
The locations for her books are based on many of the places she's lived or visited, creating realistic settings from cities, small towns and coastal communities in England, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
If you love romance stories with strong heroines then check out the Clearwater Bay series set in New Zealand. If you like sorting out clues from red herrings you'll want to read the Lexie Wyatt murder mysteries set in England.
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Other than writing (or surfing the internet pretending she's researching), Shauna loves reading, running (or more likely walking), coming up with excuses not to attend Zumba, and trying to find new ways to use the excess fruit from the trees in the garden.
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