Look Twice
Thrillers that take ordinary lives and pull a single thread until everything unravels. Each one stands on its own; some weave together.
Café owner Nathan's ordinary life shatters when he meets Lan, a student haunted by a voice in her head. Matching silver necklaces pull them into a conspiracy of memory and identity.
Open the fileNewly engaged, Nathan and Lan travel to Vietnam, where family introductions turn into a dangerous hunt for the truth. Love becomes leverage as old secrets surface.
Open the fileAn ordinary couple shelter a trafficked Vietnamese woman fleeing with stolen evidence, and the unlikeliest of found families forms around her for the most dangerous drive of their lives. All heart, dark humour and real danger. Not all lives are lived the same.
Open the fileMai is still out there. The search pulls the found family into the murky world of cuckooing and county lines, and a house that is not what it seems. The sequel to The Other Lotus Girl.
Coming soonSeason One is a full dramatisation with a different voice for every character, and it pulls you straight into the chase. Start at Episode One, free.
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“This one gets its hooks in early and doesn't let go. What starts as a chance encounter in a car quickly turns into something much darker. Trafficking, survival, trauma, and what it actually costs …”
“how did this book make me feel so much? i thoroughly enjoyed my time amongst the pages and was happily sat there from start to finish gripped, hooked and needing to read right until …”
“The Other Lotus Girl is a gripping tale that intertwines the themes of love, sacrifice, and the harsh realities of human trafficking. The story follows Stuart, a man who unexpectedly becomes a lifeline for …”
“The opening blurb really explains it well: "It was supposed to be an ordinary Thursday evening in Guildford. But when a terrified young woman throws herself into Stuart Henderson’s car begging for help, his …”
“I honestly hated the mother in law more than life itself. Props to the author for writing so well that the mother in law was truly insufferable”
“This isn’t just a standard chase thriller, it has real heart. While the plot resolves around a terrifying human trafficking ring, the core of the story is about normal, regular people being pushed to …”
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A British author from Northern England writing thrillers about ordinary people pulled into extraordinary danger, with a cinematic edge and a tight grip on tension. He grew up watching his father vanish into novels and never shook the obsession with story, character and hidden motives.
His debut, Janus Origin: Threads of Control, digs into memory, manipulation and identity. The Other Lotus Girl follows a trafficked Vietnamese woman and the strangers who risk everything to protect her, with the sequel The Cuckoo House arriving 13 July 2026.