Patsy was born, Margaret Stone on 4th of April. Her due date should have been 17th March, St Patricks Day and Patsy was he Father’s pet name for her.
Patsy was a real Dundee lass. She worked in the office of the local jute mill as a wages clerk. In those days long before computers. Her means of calculating wages and bonuses was with a slide rule.
When Patsy, a working mother with 5 children, was finally able to pursue her love of writing, her husband, Andy, proudly presented her with her first laptop.
This is a story of how fate determines the life we lead, but with either kindness or cruelty.
Although deserts, forests and oceans separated Eddie Fraser, an Australian man, and Tina Morris, a Scottish girl, their lives were destined to entwine. Without the least knowledge of each other’s lives or even the wish to know, they were joined together in a marriage that, since Eddie’s work as a sailor on a merchant ship kept them apart for long periods of time, couldn’t possibly work. Or could it?
Against all odds posed by Tina’s poor health, she gave birth to three children, Maggie, Billy and Eve. And then the first world war, the great war devastated many lives, including Eddie and Tina’s. This is the retelling of how envy and greed for another’s life, love and wealth can dictate and corrupt a mind without conscience or pity.
James Coutts, a man of high standing in a community of mill workers, and his obnoxious daughter, Millicent, enter Tina’s life with devastating consequences. From that point onwards, this story becomes one of horror and treachery. The now grown-up Maggie enters into a battle of wits that only one can win.
The House on Juniper Drive becomes home to an assortment of people who take residence there and impact on the life of Judy Vernon from child to adult.
As a rather precocious child, Judy discovers a sixth sense within her. For some reason unbeknown to her there’s a link, a strong connection to this one house.
As Judy grows from childhood into adulthood, she feels a great need to one day own the house on Juniper Drive. But as time passes the likelihood of this ever happening seems to be nothing more than a pipedream. An impossibility.
But can the impossible really happen and a horror be uncovered?
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