Books published by publisher George Smith Publishing

"I was two years old when my mother’s boyfriend forced his way into our house as I slept and wrapped his powerful hands around my mother’s neck, trying to extinguish her existence upon this earth. My mother took hold of a rusty kitchen knife resting on the counter and wildly thrashed about, stabbing him in the arms and legs until his grip was broken, and he ran out of the door, never to be heard from again. He was unsuccessful in his quest to kill my mother, and to this day I don’t know if his failure was a blessing...or a curse."At seventeen years old, Astrid has come to the conclusion that her future, a life of insignificance, is impossible to escape. Her mother, who'd been in and out of prison for most of her life, was sent to prison for the third and final time when Astrid was twelve years old, forcing her into the foster care system; a world of uncertainty and fear.Astrid intractably holds onto the belief that she will never amount to anything of consequence, when her long lost Aunt Audrey finds her, and takes her from her foster home in Louisville to Charlevoix. While in Charlevoix, Astrid's notion of her nothingness is challenged by the people she meets, especially a handsome mysterious boy named Will, and her disabled neighbor Lilah. Astrid must face the demons, not only of her past, but the demons that still exist within her, and learn how to move forward with her life, while realizing that she is not fated to lead a life that is worthless.

The Journey of the Little Red Boat is based on an actual incident in which a little red boat broke away from its mooring, floated down the tidal Medomak River near the coast of Maine, and was recovered by the author near the village of Medomak. From its happy home, the little red boat is driven by rain, wind and tide on a journey down river. It has several emotional encounters with rocks, sailboats, a seal and cormorant birds. Finally the little red boat drifts into a cove where it is discovered and cared for by a little girl and her grandparents and finds a happy home once again.

Despite the perks of living with her rich aunt, Ella’s new life in Napper, Indiana, is pretty much tragically boring. Until Ella starts hearing strange voices. As rogue wolves begin to stalk the edges of town and a serial killer with a penchant for silver bullets draws closer, the city of Napper seems to wake up. Ella, with her new friends, Sam and Sarah, might be able to find out what the strange occurrences mean. Except that they’re all being pulled in different directions by people who love them; and some who don’t. Before they lose their way to the whispers they hear from the past, or the call to a future they’re not sure they want to create, the friends will need to confront who they really are and figure out what’s hiding in the silence of their sleepy little town.

Senator Nathan Kelly loved his two daughters, but he loved them too much and in the wrong way. The elder daughter Carmody soon found out that it was better to hide than be in her room when her father was home. After a while when he could not find Carmody he started to visit his other daughter, eight year old Annabel. When Carmody found out she decided they had to run away as her mother had seen her father raping her and did nothing. Getting out of the mansion on her own was easy but taking Annabel with her made it a whole new ball game. They did make it outside and to the car she was going to drive them to safety in at the tender age of fourteen. As they traveled up through the back roads in the Catskill mountains a rock made a hole in there gas tank. Soon after that they were on foot and Annabel was tired. They found somewhere to hide and with Annabel asleep Carmody went out to find food. As she reached through an open window to steal an apple a hand clamped on to her wrist and there was no escape. She was pulled inside.....

When Walter Adamson boarded his plane, he did not know just how long his trip would last. The plane juddered and woke him and the girl next to him, seconds later there was a stronger judder and the luggage above them fell down. When he woke, Andrea, the girl next to him was still unconscious and his feet were in the water. He made a makeshift raft out of suitcases that were floating about in the cabin and somehow got it outside with Andrea on it. He saw the whistle hanging round her neck and blew it to get help. The answering whistle was another young girl clinging to some luggage. He tried to get help six more times before he was too tired to swim anymore and collected a girl each time. The last one was clinging to a emergency raft that just needed inflating. He tied it to the raft and they were soon in it out of the storm raging outside. When they landed on an island, it was uninhabited. They had to make a shelter and wait to be rescued but no one came near. The island was the base where modern day pirates his there loot and buried any dead they did not want turning up anywhere. The longer they remained there, the more the girls turned from just schoolgirls to young Amazons. Just as well, as they were destined to come up against these pirates and they would greet eight young girls with open arms. Walter they would make dig his own grave and then shoot him and he did not want that to happen. Could he stop the inevitable?

Andre blames himself for his mother’s death–and believes his father does too. After months of difficulty, Andre flees his family home to live with his aunt where he meets troubled-teen, Erin McEvoy. Erin’s mother disappeared a year ago, and she is certain that her abusive father is to blame. But when Andre starts to investigate, nothing is as it seems. Erin’s story doesn’t match up to the facts he’s uncovered, and Andre begins to understand that she is not the only one on the estate with secrets.In this coming of age novel, love and loyalty are tested and we find that there are monsters and heroes hiding in the unlikeliest of places.

In the land of the great red sun, dogs sing, wolves kill, humans serve, and wolf-shifters rule with magic and menace. Pietre is a human boy who has spent the last thirteen years afraid of the sunset, the Blødguard, and the wolf-shifting masters who rule his world. Wittendon is a werewolf prince who has spent the last nineteen years afraid of his father, his inability to do magic, and the upcoming tournament he's sure to lose. But when Pietre finds an orphaned pup in the woods and Wittendon is forced to arrest the boy's father soon after, both of them begin to realize that keeping the rules might be just as terrifying as breaking them. Now serf and master must learn to cut through their own prejudices and work together in order to turn their world before it turns on them. Grey Stone is a story of dogs who talk, wolves who kill, and a stone that-for better or worse-can change all that.

When the Minton Cruisers under 12 football team were offered the chance of a Football holiday in Florida, they all jumped at the chance but when the plane was hijacked and they found themselves stranded deep in the Colombian jungle, the mood changed.Their manager survived the crash as they did but as they were searching for survivors he was bitten by a snake. One of the boys were bitten at the same time.To get out of the jungle they would need to work as a team but up until now that had not really happened. Over night the manger died and the boy look very ill. They split into two factions, mainly because one boy failed to leave his best friend to die all alone in the jungle. He intended to follow them dragging his friend on a makeshift travois, until he either died of recovered. By luck they all met up again and that boy managed to instill some teamwork into their actions. That meant that now at least they had a chance to beat, not only the jungle but also the drug runners whose money was on the crashed plane. They wanted it and would do anything they needed to to find out where it was.

Jason Greenhough fell in love with a beautiful woman and they married but when he found her in bed with another teacher at the school they both taught at, his world came tumbling down. He left the Bristol school he taught at and went to London. After a short break to mourn the death of his marriage he secured a place at a private school in Norfolk teaching what was supposed to be a difficult class. He found them to be very clever boy's who simply said what they thought but said it when it was not invited. He soon grew to know them and started to mould them into a class to be reckoned with. He steered them into writing a play to put on to raise funds for the school project and it turned into a larger project. The boys liked him and not being backward in coming forward they tried to set him up on a date. It did not work but after that they decided to find out what his ex-wife looked like and try to find a woman like her. In the end they set him up on a blind date with his wife!