'The Price of Gold' is my latest novel, and it's just been published by Freya's Bower.  

I had great fun writing this one.  It's a light-hearted fantasy although there's a serious element.   Here's the blurb.

"Alex Westgate is a man who has everything. A successful trader in the exclusive London gold market, he possesses a smart flat, a fast car and a fashionable girlfriend. But something is missing, and one person is worried about him—his mother.

On the way down to the coast to visit his parents, Alex is involved in an accident that brings him into contact with someone who will shatter his preconceptions and turn his ordered existence upside-down. The goddess Freya, confined to earth because of a malfunctioning chariot, introduces him to her own kind of mischief and zest for living.

Alex is plunged into a nightmare world of sea-monsters, belligerent Valkyries, man-eating wolves and shape-shifting cats. As he learns some hard lessons about love and relationships, it becomes clear that Freya's presence on earth is more than just a coincidence. It's a matter of life and death.

Will he survive the experience to learn the final lesson; that there's more to the human journey than worrying about the price of gold?"

Do have a look at the Freya's Bower website and read the excerpt there.   And if you wanted to buy it, that would be good too!   That's 'The Price of Gold'...

While I'm here, I'd like to thank everyone who sent me birthday wishes.   I was stunned and so pleased, when I saw them.   It was very kind of you all to take the trouble.   Thank you.

For those who don't know, I've been on the road -- literally for the most part -- for the past three weeks, travelling around France.   It was a most eventful and character-forming journey (that's code for 'a lot of things went wrong') and I'll blog about it soon.