The Concrete Grove Trilogy
3 primary works Complete
Book 1
Book 2
Twenty years ago, three boys staggered out of an old building. Missing for a weekend, the boys had no idea where they'd been, but they all shared the same vague memory of a shadowed woodland grove.
Now, Simon has returned to the Concrete Grove to see his old friends and unearth painful childhood memories, and things once buried are beginning to claw their way back to the surface. The hummingbirds are flying again. Nightmares made manifest walk the streets.
A dark entity is calling from the shadows, reaching out to three terrified boys who have grown into damaged men. And the past is about to catch up with them all, staining their lives with a darkness they never truly escaped.
Book 3
Marc Price arrives in the Concrete Grove to research a book about the 'Northumberland Poltergeist,' an infamous case from the 1970s: twins haunted by a spirit they nicknamed Captain Clickety. The media of the time were split between derision and hysteria.
As Marc teases out the suppressed details of the story, he finds himself drawn to a woman whose young daughter went missing years ago during a spate of child abductions. He also finds himself investigated by a local policeman, whose private life seems tied up with events in the Grove, and harassed by the father of the missing child.
Then the scarecrows appear, their heads plastered with photographs of the long-missing and the dead. Hummingbirds flock to certain areas of the estate, as if awaiting the arrival of something...
A door has been opened and a presence is about to step through. It is up to Marc to put the ghosts to rest and unravel fact from fiction. He is about to discover that the story he seeks is his own, and only he can plot the ending.