Author: Georgia Rose
Published April 2025 by Three Shires Publishing
Category: Psychological, Suspense, Contemporary Fiction
Alice Fraser is a widow and her job at Marchant & Son was her life and she’d loved it. That was until the son took over after his father’s death. Rex Marchant was nothing like his father and garnered no respect or liking from the employees. Alice had been indispensable to Marchant Senior, enjoyed working for him and was treated well. In contrast Rex was a bully, psychological manipulator and had a roving eye.
Alice couldn’t bring herself to leave voluntarily but she also knew without doubt that Rex would run the firm into the ground. She didn’t want that to happen, mostly for the memory of Marchant senior and the hard work he put in, but also for the rest of the staff with whom she was on good terms. On the other hand could she keep on working for Rex and his equally obnoxious mother.
Alice comes up with a revenge plan of sorts which somehow seemed to gain momentum and take on a life of its own, and ultimately she was afraid she might have gone too far. Considering her choices she came to the conclusion there was nothing for it but to keep going…
A Stolen Future is set in the village of Melton, as are all the books. These stories are best read in order as backstories of previous characters are not included, although several of them do show up again.
Another enjoyable episode in this series, A Stolen Future is told in the first person from Alice’s point of view with a twist I didn’t see coming at the end.
A family firm. A long-held promise. What will it take to protect all she loves?
Alice Fraser has everything she needs. A comfortable home. A few good friends. A satisfying career. But when the promise made doesn’t materialise and everything changes at work she finds herself losing control of all she once held dear.
She could have left. She should have left. Instead she decides to dig in, and make life uncomfortable for her tormentor.
Petty revenge, she calls it. And that’s how it starts. But one day she is pushed too far, and once she takes the next step there is no going back.
Georgia Rose is a writer of suspense. Both romantic and psychological. First came the romantic and suspenseful Grayson Trilogy books: A Single Step, Before the Dawn and Thicker than Water. Following completion of the trilogy she was asked for more and so wrote a short story, The Joker, which is based on a favourite character from the series and the eBook is available to download for free at the retailer of your choice.
Her fourth novel, Parallel Lies, encompasses crime along with Georgia’s usual blending of genre and its sequel, Loving Vengeance, completed The Ross Duology.
Georgia is now writing psychological suspense for her third series – A Shade Darker. The first four books are A Killer Strikes, Shape of Revenge, Hard to Forgive and A Stolen Future. The fifth in the series, Driven by Deception, will follow in 2026.
