Merran

First published 2003 in the US,
(also in an E version).
Republished in NZ 2010, (revised).
ISBN 978-0-473-16860-5

Merran my first novel was written entirely while working in China. It is about Viking times, with links to the present. It has a new age romance feel to it; true love surviving the centuries.

Beginning in the violent restless times of the middle Viking period this novel is a love story that transcends time. Massive Viking chief Nils "The Cunning" is confident, calculating and controlling. In the course of the most audacious raid of his entire career he meets Merran, a seemingly fragile slave who shatters and transforms his world.

One thousand years later, quiet family man Neil Osborne, London assistant bank manager, career going nowhere, suddenly experiences strange events and discovers undreamed of skills and raw emotion. An unexpected meeting changes his perception of life forever….

Although simply written and very easy to read, the story is constructed in two quite different styles befitting the two ages each represent: one thousand years ago and modern times.