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And with that, the current novel looks like this:
Peta
Sequel Novel, in progress, (Romance Category)
Synopsis:
Peta follows Peta Maillard in the fragile calm before everything breaks, and the long, bruising stretch of not knowing what comes after. Four months from her wedding, Peta is balancing family life between London and Vienna when her husband Sam leaves to support a humanitarian mission abroad. What begins as a temporary absence stretches into silence, fear, and a waiting that corrodes certainty.
Left alone with two grieving children and a flat that feels too large, Peta endures loss without closure. Desire, anger, loyalty, and loneliness collide as she struggles to remain anchored to a man who is increasingly absent in every way that matters. Public sympathy fades, political interest sharpens, and private compromises begin to feel dangerously human.
Set against moral conviction, bureaucratic indifference, and the ache of physical and emotional deprivation, Peta is a novel about love under pressure — about what fidelity means when hope becomes unbearable, and how far a person can bend before something finally gives.
Act 1
Chapter 1: “Married With Children”
Chapter 2: “Half the world away”
Chapter 3: “Trip Inside”
Chapter 4: “The Girl in the Dirty Shirt”
Chapter 5: “Soldier On”
Chapter 6: “Part of the Queue”
Chapter 7: “One Way Road”
Chapter 8: “Where did it all go wrong?”
Chapter 9: “Sad song”
Chapter 10: “Don’t look back in anger”.
Act 2
Chapter 1: “I think, I hope, I know”.
Chapter 2: “Better Man”
Chapter 3: “Waiting for the Rapture”
Chapter 4: “A quick peep”
Chapter 5: “Morning Glory”
Chapter 6: “Sunday Morning Call”
Chapter 7: “Alive”
Chapter 8: “Up in the sky”
Chapter 9: “Cast no Shadow”
Chapter 10: “The Swamp Song”
Peta
Sequel Novel, in progress, (Romance Category)
Synopsis:
Peta follows Peta Maillard in the fragile calm before everything breaks, and the long, bruising stretch of not knowing what comes after. Four months from her wedding, Peta is balancing family life between London and Vienna when her husband Sam leaves to support a humanitarian mission abroad. What begins as a temporary absence stretches into silence, fear, and a waiting that corrodes certainty.
Left alone with two grieving children and a flat that feels too large, Peta endures loss without closure. Desire, anger, loyalty, and loneliness collide as she struggles to remain anchored to a man who is increasingly absent in every way that matters. Public sympathy fades, political interest sharpens, and private compromises begin to feel dangerously human.
Set against moral conviction, bureaucratic indifference, and the ache of physical and emotional deprivation, Peta is a novel about love under pressure — about what fidelity means when hope becomes unbearable, and how far a person can bend before something finally gives.
Act 1
Chapter 1: “Married With Children”
Chapter 2: “Half the world away”
Chapter 3: “Trip Inside”
Chapter 4: “The Girl in the Dirty Shirt”
Chapter 5: “Soldier On”
Chapter 6: “Part of the Queue”
Chapter 7: “One Way Road”
Chapter 8: “Where did it all go wrong?”
Chapter 9: “Sad song”
Chapter 10: “Don’t look back in anger”.
Act 2
Chapter 1: “I think, I hope, I know”.
Chapter 2: “Better Man”
Chapter 3: “Waiting for the Rapture”
Chapter 4: “A quick peep”
Chapter 5: “Morning Glory”
Chapter 6: “Sunday Morning Call”
Chapter 7: “Alive”
Chapter 8: “Up in the sky”
Chapter 9: “Cast no Shadow”
Chapter 10: “The Swamp Song”
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