Mandy Ward

Mandy Ward

About

Mandy thought she was a Teacher, until Life pointed out toher that she is actually a writer. As her Cats, Kids and Partner approved, shedecided to agree with Life.

Currently she is working on a five book  Sword & Sorcery Novella Series and a Children's Book series collaboration with an Illustrator  as a number of other projects. As If that weren’tenough, she spends a week or two a month putting together “Welcome toWherever”, along with trying to juggle Cats, Kids, Partner.

She does all this from a body in South Wales, UK. Where hermind is, she hasn’t yet worked out...

Through the Eyes of Maria: Choices

Through the Eyes of Maria: Choices

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<p>Maria hits the streets of New York in search of the love denied by her alcoholic father and indifferent mother. When Sergio, a dark, worldly stranger, lures her with diamonds, brand-name clothing, and undivided attention, Maria sees a way out of her dysfunctional home. Seduced by Sergio’s charm and the promise of wealth and recognition, Maria ignores her panicked intuition and wanders into his lair.<br /><br />But in a world where ambition and deception go hand in hand, where dreams are shattered and innocence crushed, Maria discovers she’s trapped in a hell much worse than the one she left. And now, there is no escape. The price for betrayal is blood.<br /><br />Destiny intervenes when Maria meets Christian, a handsome law student haunted by a dark family secret. With her life at risk and time running out, will Maria find the strength to save herself and convince Christian to go against all reason and risk everything to help her?</p>

Story Behind The Book

The Land Far Away Series is aimed at children from 3 upwards. For children just learning to read, it’s a parent read like The Gruffalo or Dr. Seuss. For older children it’s intended to exercise their language skills and their imagination. The Land Far Away was inspired by the imagination of my children. My Son was doing poetry and rhyming at school in his Literacy classes and my daughter has an active imagination at the best of times! I wrote a Rhyming Story about a character called Pika the Phluph in an effort to help my daughter understand that Ph sounds like FF and the next thing I know, an entire world has come into being! I perfected the initial story with the help of a number of fellow parents and writers and then it lay dormant until I met Maria K. She was engaged in translating a Russian Novel and illustrating it and I fell in love with her drawing style. I showed Maria the manuscript for Pika’s adventure and her sketching fingers started twitching! Before long we were collaborating on a project that spanned 3 years and over 3,000 miles!

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