In late summer 1903, Nancy Desanges leaves her grand London house and her miserable, stifling marriage to run away to Dartmoor to live with her widowed cousin Mabel. She is soon enchanted by the moor, a place of stark contrasts, dark folklore, evil pixies, ghosts and a sinister wood.

But when she starts work at Beaumont Lodge, she is fascinated by the tortured, haunted world of its master Raphael Beaumont whose wife mysteriously disappeared 15 years before.

Mabel, and the women she works with, warn her never to look the master in the eye and never to go in the study when the door is closed.

The headstrong, fearless Nancy does both and that’s when everything changes.

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‘Sunstar’ Click here

‘Hey remy’ Click here

‘looking for you’ Click here

‘secret sky’ Click here

‘say that again’ Click here

 About Jane

I am an exercise teacher, specialising in teaching people living with long term medical conditions. I am also an author and I have just completed my latest novel ‘The Ghost at Beaumont Lodge’.

All my novels have a different theme. I don’t want to be pigeon-holed into one genre and if I was to be asked what genre I write in, I really couldn’t say. Perhaps comedy/romantic fiction for Say That Again, but with an unusual hero who is living with Parkinson’s. A Secret Sky explores the complex relationships in one family and how long hidden secrets will often come to light and ultimately harm those involved.

Looking for You is different again being a fantasy exploring the subject of grief with a bit of time travel thrown in.  Hey Remy is funny but moving at the same time, and Sunstar is difficult to pigeonhole because it’s a little fantasy at the beginning that turns very dark about WW1.

I was asked to adapt Say That Again into a one hour play, which I did and it was performed twice at a large festival in Rochester and sold out both times. I was then contacted by a lovely woman in Australia who has Parkinson’s and she asked if she could put it on at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre in Perth. They did a Q and A after both sold out performances and won an award for best play in West Australia. Say That Again is now being made into a short film.

A sequel to the Ghost of Beaumont Lodge is in the works and should be available by the end of 2026.