Stories of Love and Hope In Jamaica

Meet characters who you may already know, though their stories unfold with fresh urgency. 

A fifteen‑year‑old girl tests the limits of her parents’ devotion. A graduate returns reluctantly to Jamaica after years abroad, while an American‑raised Jamaican chooses to reclaim his roots. 

A young woman escapes oppressive tradition only to be drawn back home, and a career‑driven seeker discovers that success without spirit is a hollow prize.

Each of them wrestles with duty, longing, and the quiet rebellions of the heart. They rise each day with fragile hope, and every page invites you—the reader—to lend them resilience. Their journeys echo our own, asking what it means to belong, to break away, and to begin again.

This website now has first chapters of novellas and short stories about love, hope and resilience in Jamaica.

Finding the Love Between Them   

Aimless and adrift in Kingston, Frankie Lawal falls for Angola Salman—her sister's geography tutor—who sees the woman she's meant to become. For Frankie, she realises that finding yourself is hard but finding love while you are doing it is nearly impossible.

  

Something Special 

Nearly sixteen years old, Cornelia has been sent to stay with a strict aunt as a form of correction for reckless disobedience. She is unrepentant and pursues the company of the attractive Jimmy Barnett, a young man with a ruthless reputation; but there is also Janvon Sewell, a boy who can lead her towards true maturity and salvation.

 Half Way to Freedom  

A young woman decides that her relationship is not satisfying and an incident from her youth seems to be the key to understand why, but the only one who can help her to figure it out, is her boyfriend. 

 Thin Air

Avril-Dawn is a young foreign affairs officer on a document transfer job in Washington D.C when she becomes involved in intrigue where a key bilateral treaty and the welfare of the nation of Jamaica is as ephemeral as thin air.