After a recent split with her boyfriend, Dave Ledgard, romance writer Jenny Clarke finds herself living in a narrow boat on the canal in Hebden Bridge, a small market town in West Yorkshire. A chance meeting with the delectable Andy Valentine sparks a close friendship, and he confides in her that many years before, his daughter, Susie, aged four, had disappeared from her day nursery without a trace. Long buried memories of her school work experience at the very same nursery surface at the forefront of JennyтАЩs mind as, with the help of a hypnotist and the reappearance of a family of gypsies camping in a field behind her daughterтАЩs house, she and Andy set out on a quest to find Susie.
Despite a very bad case of writerтАЩs block, which is slowing down the completion of her latest novel, and constant harassment from her ex-boyfriend, who is now living in New York, Jenny helps Andy painstakingly unravel the past a tiny bit at a time bringing them ever closer and closer together. With setbacks at every corner, will Jenny and Andy overcome these to reunite Andy and his missing daughter, Susie Valentine, and perhaps find an enduring romance in the process?
Debbie Chase (married name Debbie Spink) was born in Emsworth in Hampshire, in 1959 but has lived in West Yorkshire since 1979. She is the eldest of five children (two sisters and two brothers) and has many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews, aunties, uncles and cousins, having come from a very large family. She has been married since 1984 and has one daughter, Lara, and three cats, Ruby, Teddy, and Maurice.
She has always been a reader and has enjoyed writing since school. Her proudest moment being when she achieved an A+ for an essay! She has had many short stories and poems for adults and children published in books and magazines. She has written five self-published books, the first being part fact/part fiction and called тАЬYou to Me Are Everything.тАЭ The second book based on a real-life pet-sitting job is called тАЬThe Confessions of a Pet Sitter (from the PetтАЩs Point of View), and the third, the sequel to that book, тАЬWhat a Catastrophe (TeddyтАЩs Tale). The fourth book is a book of poems, тАЬI WasnтАЩt There,тАЭ and the fifth is a murder mystery, тАЬWhatever Happened to George England.тАЭ
She has also had nine pocket novels published with тАЬMy WeeklyтАЭ magazine, тАЬPlanning on Love,тАЭ тАЬRomance on the Run,тАЭ тАЬPuppy Love,,тАЭ тАЬEsther Baby,тАЭ тАЬDouble TroubleтАЭ also known as тАЬThe Doppelganger,тАЭ тАЬThe Crying Game,тАЭ тАЬRachelтАЩs War,тАЭ тАЬBirdieтАЭ and тАЬNumber One Fan.тАЭ Her other novels, тАЬEducating MaggieтАЭ тАЬA Step Back in Time,тАЭ тАЬRuby Tuesday,тАЭ тАЬThe Haunting of Pear Tree Cottage,тАЭ тАЬThe Gift,тАЭ and the тАЬMannequin Mystery,тАЭ are published here with World Castle Publishing, with another novel тАЬMy Sweet Valentine,тАЭ coming soon.┬аAll her novels are available to buy online.
Her hobbies are weight training, walking, running, yoga, kettlebell workouts and Pilates.┬аAfter many years of office work, pub work, and shop work, she is now partially retired and, as well as writing books, works part-time as a Dog Walker/Pet Sitter (Woof Woof Walkies) with her daughter and as an Examination Invigilator in a local school, and is also a House Experience Volunteer at East Riddlesden Hall, an old manor house open to the public, in Keighley.