A Bridge To Over There

Tokyo, May 1932

Japan is still plagued by economic depression, scandals, and assassinations. A prominent politician mysteriously commits suicide while dining with Chizuru Okamura, the daughter of a yakuza crime family.

Leading the investigation, Police Inspector Aizawa tasks his geisha spy, Reiko Watanabe, to go undercover into the world of the dreaded Okamura Gang. Reiko soon finds herself at the center of a power struggle between Chizuru and her brother, Lieutenant Katsuro Okamura, for control of the gang. Using bribery and deceit, Chizuru is poised to take over the government, while Katsuro seeks to launch a coup d’état and install a military dictatorship.

As they try and thwart both schemes, Reiko and Inspector Aizawa must untangle a web of conspiracies involving the Army Secret Service, opium dens, corruption, Charlie Chaplin, and assassination, while all Japan hangs in the balance.

It’s another fantastic day in drowsy Drizzle Bay until Vicar Paul and I find old Isobel Crombie lying dead in a sea of flowers. He searches the church while I call the cops. Rumors break out like rash in the shops.

I’ve soon scored a house-and-pet-sitting gig – Isobel’s remote seaside cottage and her two darling dogs. It comes complete with hollyhocks and seagulls and… a gleaming wet man striding up from the ocean. His dogs are much bigger than mine. In fact everything about him is… impressive. But aren’t his questions about Isobel’s house a little suspicious?

I’ve hardly unpacked before I find a secret office stuffed with alarming files about car thefts and Black Ops assassins. Maybe Isobel wasn’t as harmless as we all thought? Perhaps the rumors of drugs and people-smuggling are true?

Sleuthing’s more fun than I’ve had in ages, but how safe am I on my own now things are unraveling? Little white Bichons are hopeless attack dogs.

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I’m a billionaire rockstar taking a break in my sleepy hometown.
She’s my sister’s newly-single best friend.

I can’t stop staring at her.
But I need to focus.
This is my first solo gig without the band.

The way she bites her lip…
The way that outfit hugs her every curve perfectly…
The way our eyes lock, as if time itself stands still.

Now we’re alone in my dressing room.
Inches apart.
The air is electric with unspoken desire.
With every breath, I can almost taste her.

I can’t take it anymore.
I need her up against that wall.
But her barriers are up.
I’m running out of time.

Can I finally explain why I left her at that concert years ago?
This time, I won’t let our song remain unfinished.

He thinks he’s a deadly time-travelling ninja. But, he’s Barry Harris, and he still lives with his mum.
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Barry’s been patient, but after 27 years of trimming hedges for people he hates, he’s had enough. All he wants to do is to find his missing father and to discover his inner ninja. But life’s not done with throwing him curveballs. A fatal mistake catapults Barry into the adventure of a lifetime.

With talking hedges, samurai ghosts, meddling psychotherapists, and an inexplicably non-linear time pattern conspiring against him, Barry must do battle to save his hide, unleash the ninja within, and rescue his father from an ancient army, a dark sorcerer, and a raging inferno.