Contemporary Novels by Marina Oliver
I have written over 85 novels, historical and contemporary, both under my own name and using pseudonyms.
Please also see the pages of my Crime and Suspense, Historical, Sagas, and Regencies under my own name and writing as Sally James.
All of these novels are now available as Ebooks in popular formats and in paperback, from:
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I have also written several non-fiction books.
Contemporaries by Marina Oliver
Oh Baby! - A Futuristic Political Satire
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- An apparently harmless loss of a contraceptive chemical turns out to be a disaster affecting not only the coalition government and the civil service, who have to cope, but most of the population.
- It also gives the press unprecedented opportunities for scoops, and for some people who will always find ways to profit.
- People view the future with varying degrees of horror, delight or panic. Jennifer Joy, the civil servant controlling Randy Jolliphant, the Minister for Leisure and Pleasure who becomes responsible, relishes the task until she discovers her own plans are going to be affected by the consequences.
- Ebooks 2013: Smashwords ISBN 9781301618231 Amazon
- Ebook 2022: Regency Reads ISBN 9781947812628
- Copyright © 2013 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Chance-met Stranger
Previously A Dangerous Love
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- Janie Tempest's idyllic cottage, left to her by her godmother, is being demolished to make way for a new industrial park, and at the last minute the removal company can't do the job of moving her large items.
- Luckily the men dealing with her neighbour's move are willing to help.
- The handsome Manuel asks her out for dinner, and then becomes involved in her feckless sister's latest disaster.
- To make things even worse, Brian, the step-nephew of her godmother produces a will leaving the cottage to him.
- Previously published as A Dangerous Love by Livvy West
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781466085329 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Island Quest
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- Ros Farleigh needs to find her half-brother. Tim Preston, nineteen and on his own for the first time as he works his way round the Mediterranean playing the drums in hotel bands, vanished three months earlier leaving his precious drums behind.
- Always a regular correspondent, his last letter was full of mysterious hints of danger, surprises and secrets. His last few postcards from Majorca had been marked, indicating isolated coves and unidentified buildings.
- Ros is staying at the Castilla hotel from which Tim vanished, where she encounters Lorenzo y Carreira, dark, arrogantly Spanish, talented guitarist and too handsome for his own good.
- Sparks fly. Tim had mentioned going sailing with Lorenzo and he might be able to help.
- Ros begins to learn some puzzling facts.
- Previously published under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn
- Ulverscroft 2002 ISBN 0708999298
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781465918468 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
A Question of Love
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- Pippa, an American, wants to prove to her protective family that she can stand on her own feet.
- She is reluctant to return to the States after a few months in England and do as they and her father's partner expect, marry the partner's son Frank.
- Defying Frank she accepts a job in Minorca as secretarial assistant to a former film star who is planning to write his memoirs. These promise to be explosive, and both his last wife and his nephew Juan try to persuade him to abandon the idea.
- Previously published under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn
- Robert Hale 1984 ISBN 0709016700 Ulverscroft 1992 ISBN 0708926169
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781465920263 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Fires in the Forest
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- Nicola has just graduated in French and takes a summer job in the New Forest as tutor/companion to the wealthy seventeen-year-old Sarah Frayn, before she starts a bi-lingual secretarial course.
- Unpredictable and volatile, Sarah rebels against the harsh rules imposed by her half-brother Robert, especially his prohibition on meeting her boyfriend.
- Nicola has clashed with Robert before, but when various calamities afflict the family she is thrown into closer contact with Robert.
- Previously published under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn
- Robert Hale 1983 ISBN 0709013485 Ulverscroft 1992 ISBN 0708926533
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781466197657 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Hospital Heartbreaker
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- Fleur enjoys working at Chad's, a big London hospital, and hopes the rumours from her previous hospital will not follow her.
- Only a few people know how she was kissed by an attractive patient.
- Then she discovers he is surgeon Russell Delaney, the heartthrob of Chad's, and despite his preoccupation with the lovely Rowena Kingsley he seems determined to add her to his list of conquests.
- Previously published under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn
- Robert Hale 1988 ISBN 0709033818 Dales 1998 ISBN 1853897159
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781466043763 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Once Bitten
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- Judy Morton doesn't want a man in her life. She breaks off her engagement to two-timing Mark Simmons, and is grateful to her sister Fay who asks her to look after her dogs while she and husband Paul have a long holiday in Australia.
- She is delayed starting out, arriving after Fay and Paul have left. Letting herself into the house she tosses some luggage onto the spare room bed only to find Justin Danby occupying it. He is Paul's cousin, offered a room by Paul until he can move into his own flat which is being rented out while Justin, an architect, was working in Oman. He tells her Fay, an interior designer, often works with him and Judy suspects he and Fay could be closer than just colleagues. Justin is also recovering from a broken engagement from Barbara, who ditches him for a rich Texan.
- Justin offers to move out, but they agree they can co-exist. Then their pasts begin to catch up with them when Mark arrives, aggressive and attempting to resume the engagement, and Barbara comes, having decided her Texan is not for her.
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781476128443 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Mating the Llama
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- Wealthy, handsome, charismatic Cas Finley is restless. He likes women, too much, perhaps, as he seeks variety, and has been with Alice for longer than usual. Now finding her too bland and smooth, too elegant to make a farmer's wife, and incidentally afraid of llamas, his latest venture, he is wondering how to drop her without giving pain.
- Lucy, widowed when her unsatisfactory pop star husband is killed in a car accident, moves to Shorter's Green on the edge of the Chilterns to find a new life. She is off men, except perhaps for Edward, a staid widower she's known since childhood who is restful after the pop star life.
- Recalling her encounter with a gorgeous man that morning, Lucy is drowning her sorrows after Edward breaks a date, when she is visited by Rosa, the llama, invading her kitchen. Almost against her will she becomes involved in Rosa's love life as Cas seeks a mate for her.
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781466175105 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Manhattan Magic
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- Rezia is looking forward to working in the major art galleries and museums in New York. And being given the use of Gina's luxury penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park when Gina suddenly goes away adds even more to her expectations.
- Coming out of the shower in her borrowed apartment, Rezia is confronted by a very angry, but very blond and attractive young man.
- She expected her photographic commission in New York to be exciting, but not this exciting!
- Klaus turns out to live next door and has mistaken Rezia for the apartment's owner. But their quickly developing relationship is threatened by newspaper photographs of him he thinks she has taken.
- Then photographs of Klaus in his home are published and he blames Rezia. Can their friendship survive?
- Previously published under the pseudonym Laura Hart
- Barley Books 2000 ISBN 1902691024
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781466175105 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Lucky for Love
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- Can one find love a second time?
- Julie, still mourning her husband Andrew, who was killed in a car smash three years ago, doesn't expect to when she is bullied into taking a cruise by her sister Susan, who works in the gift shop on the ship. She is resigned rather than enthusiastic, and recalls her earlier holiday when she tried to forget Andrew. That was a disaster when, thrown together with Steven, the only other singleton in the party, she misread his attentions, and intentions.
- Robert, who lost his fiancée just before their wedding and hasn't looked at another woman since, has other things on his mind as he tries to solve the mystery of thefts from wealthy passengers who inhabit the expensive penthouse suites. With the help of his aunt and cousin, who will invite suspects to parties in their suite, he hopes to trap the thief.
- And then Steven takes a hand. Julie is furious with Susan, who has engineered his presence, and does her best to evade him, but Stephen is hoping to pick up the relationship again and is impervious to snubs.
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781301473779 Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver