5 November: National Love Your Red Hair Day

Today is National Love Your Red Hair Day. 10 facts about Red Hair:

1. Red hair happens because of a mutation in the MC1R gene. If a person inherits this recessive allele on chromosome 16 from both parents they’ll have red hair. It’s possible for two parents without red hair to produce a red-haired child.

2. Less than 2% of the world’s population have red hair. It’s more common in North West Europe, the British Isles and in particular, the Celtic nations. 13% of the people in Scotland are natural redheads, and Edinburgh can claim to be the red head capital of the world, because the highest concentration of people who carry the gene is there. Ireland isn’t far behind: 10% of people there have red hair.

3. Red hair isn’t just for white Europeans though – it can occur in any ethnicity.

4. Redheads have less hair than any other hair colour. A typical redhead has 90,000 strands of hair; blondes have 110,000, and brunettes have 140,000. However, a redhead’s hair strand is thicker than those of the others, which means they still have luxurious locks!

5. People with red hair are more likely to be Left-handed, another recessive trait. They also tend to be more sensitive to pain, especially pain caused by excessive cold or heat, and require more anaesthetic during medical procedures. The heat and cold thing means they are more likely to detect changes in temperature. They are also more attractive to Bees, and nobody knows why!

6. Their skin is more susceptible to sun damage – they burn easily. However, they have a superpower to compensate. Redheads can produce their own Vitamin D in relatively low light to make up for not being able to spend as much time in the sun as their blond and brunette friends.

7. Prejudices and strange beliefs about red haired people have been around for a long time. Red hair and Green Eyes were thought to be a sign that a person was a Witch, werewolf or Vampire during the Middle Ages, and according to Theophilus Presbyter, the recipe for turning Copper into Gold was the ashes of a basilisk mixed with the blood of a red haired man. A common modern day belief about redheads is that they have fiery tempers and sharp tongues.

8. National Love Your Red Hair Day is just one of many celebrations around the world promoting pride in red hair. There are several redhead conventions. There’s one in The Netherlands which began when Dutch painter Bart Rouwenhorst was looking for 15 redheads for an art project in 2005. Now it attracts redheads from over 80 countries. Then there’s The Irish Redhead Convention, held in late August in County Cork since 2011, which includes competitions like the best red Eyebrows and most Freckles per square inch, Carrot throwing and crowning the ginger King and Queen. There’s also a website, How to be a Redhead, which was set up by sisters Adrienne and Stephanie Vendetti who were treated badly at school, and wanted to create a means to bring redheads together.

9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Red-Headed League involves a man who is asked to become a member of a mysterious group of red-headed people.

10. Some famous redheads include: Queen Elizabeth I, Nicole Kidman, Alyson Hannigan, Marcia Cross, Christina Hendricks, Emma Stone, Geri Halliwell, Rupert Grint, Brendan and Domhnall Gleeson, Maureen O’Hara, Mary McAleese, Susan Sarandon and Lucille Ball. Judas Iscariot is represented with red hair in Spanish culture and in the works of William Shakespeare. In fiction and mythology you have Botticelli's Venus, Jean Grey, Red Sonja, Mystique, Poison Ivy, Anne of Green Gables, not to mention the Warner Superhero family from my own novels.

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Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?

Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.

Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream. 

Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.

Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.

Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.

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21 March: Colour

Today is International Colour Day: 10 facts about colour.

1. Most people can see about 10 million colours. There is, however, a genetic mutation found only in women which allows perception of up to 100 million colours. Women with the mutation are called tetrachromats, and the reason they can see more colours is because the mutation gives them four colour cones in their Eyes, instead of the usual three.

2. Women in general are better at perceiving Red and Orange tones. Researchers at the University of Arizona discovered the ability to see red comes from a gene that is attached to the X chromosome. Since women have two X chromosomes, the two copies of these genes means that they can see a lot more orange-red tones than men.

3. Colour blindness is more common in men for the same reason. However, there is an up side to being colour blind, and possibly it was once an evolutionary advantage. People who are colour blind can see better at night. According to the US Army, they can even perceive camouflage colours which makes them better equipped to spot hidden enemies.

4. When they are first born, babies cannot see colour. They see the world in Black and White first of all and their ability to see colour develops by the time they are five months old. The first colour a baby sees is red.

5. The ability to see colours can also be affected by one’s native language. There are some tribal languages in Africa which use the same word for Green and Blue, and speakers find it hard to distinguish between those colours. Also in Russian, light blue and dark blue are completely different colours.

6. There is a name for the colour you see when you first close your eyes or turn lights off. It’s called eigengrau.

7. Scientists have found that it is easier to remember images in colour than it is to remember black and white images.

8. Blue is the most common favourite colour worldwide, followed by Purple. The least favourites are orange, Brown, and Yellow.

9. Colours affect perception using other senses. The perception of how something tastes differs according to the colour of the plate or mug in which it is served. In one experiment, participants were given hot chocolate in orange, cream, red, and white mugs. Participants thought the hot chocolate served in the orange and cream mugs tasted better. The sense of smell can be affected, too, with red and Pink shades specifically associated with fruity fragrances, and oranges and browns with musty ones. Even your perception of time is affected. There was a study in which people had to look at different coloured screens while waiting for a computer download. The people looking at blue screens believed the download was quicker than the people looking at a red screen believed it was.

10. A rare sensory condition known as synaesthesia means some people see numbers, letters, or days of the week, as colours.

Beta

(Combat Team Series #2)

Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?

Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.

Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream. 

Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.

Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.

Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.

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9 September: Turquoise

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, have had a special awareness day every year since the tradition began back in 1999, on September 9. In 2020, in honour of this day, Murcia illuminated its night sky in turquoise. 10 things you might not know about the colour turquoise:

1. The colour gets its name from the gemstone turquoise. The word comes from the French for "Turkish", as the gem was originally imported from Turkey.
2. The stone is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral which has been highly prized for thousands of years. It's a hydrous phosphate of Copper and Aluminium, and its chemical formula is CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O.
3. In ancient Egypt, the stone, and the colour, were associated with the goddess Hathor, because she was the patron deity of Serabit el-Khadim, where it was mined. Her titles included "Lady of Turquoise", "Mistress of Turquoise", and "Lady of Turquoise Country".
4. In the ancient Persian Empire, turquoise stones were worn round the neck or wrist to protect the wearer from unnatural death. If the stone changed colour, it was a sign of approaching doom.
5. In fact, the gemstone can change colour, due to exposure to light or chemical reactions with cosmetics.
6. The first recorded use of turquoise as a colour name in English was in 1573.
7. The turquoise ribbon is a symbol for promoting Native American reparations, Addiction Recovery, Bone Tumour Awareness, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and Cystitis and Renal Cell Carcinoma.
8. Talking of Native Americans, the stone was important to the Apache as a talisman. They used it to make amulets, beads, pendants, and fetishes, and believed that a shaman who didn't possess the stone wouldn't be recognised by the tribe. If you were a shaman in need of a turquoise stone, the place to look was at the end of Rainbow after a storm.
9. “The Turquoise” is a slang term for the waters of the Caribbean.
10. The turquoise is one of the stones in the Jewish High Priest's breastplate, described in Exodus chapter 28, and the colour is often associated with the domes and interiors of large mosques in Iran, Central Asia and Russia.

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4 June: Magenta

The Battle of Magenta was fought on 4 June 1859. The colour was named for the battle (see fact 2) so here are ten things you might not know about the colour magenta.

1. The colour magenta doesn’t actually exist. It doesn’t have a wavelength associated with it on the spectrum. Your Brain makes it up when the right combination of Blue and Red receptors in your eyes are stimulated.
2. A magenta dye was created by a French chemist called François-Emmanuel Verguin in 1859. Originally, he named it fuchsine after fuchsia flowers. (Fuchsia and magenta are essentially the same colour.) At the same time, two British chemists, Chambers Nicolson and George Maule, were working on a similar dye which they called roseine. Then the Battle of Magenta happened, in which the French beat the Austrians at a place called Magenta in Italy. The dye was re-named Magenta to honour the battle and became an immediate commercial success.
3. Despite not existing, magenta is nevertheless one of the three primary colours in printing, along with Yellow and cyan.
4. Magenta pigments absorb Green light, and so the complementary colour of magenta is green. On a colour wheel, it is positioned halfway between red and blue.
5. Magenta is a common colour for flowers. This may be because its opposite is green – so the flowers stand out among the foliage to attract pollinating animals.
6. Stars classed as brown dwarfs are actually magenta in colour.
7. It is extremely rare in flags, but there are a couple of examples – Cantabria in Spain and Cartago in Colombia include it on their flags. It doesn’t appear on coats of arms very much either, although there is a magenta stripe on the arms of the commune of Magenta in France.
8. Magenta is the name of a DC comics character who is an enemy of the Flash; it’s also the name of a character in The Rocky Horror Show. There are three bands called Magenta, too – in England, Wales and Norway.
9. The Indonesian Marine Corps uniform includes a magenta beret.
10. If magenta is your favourite colour, you are creative and spiritual with a vivid imagination and a free spirit who hates to be constrained. You are kind and compassionate with a wacky sense of humour. On the negative side, people who like this colour can become obsessive about details and possibly selfish – but it does mean you appreciate the small things in life and strive for balance and harmony.

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Sebastian Garrett is an assassin. It wasn’t his first choice of vocation, but nonetheless, he’s good at it, and can be relied upon to get the job done. He’s on top of his game.

Until he is contracted to kill Princess Helena of Galorvia. She is not just any princess. Sebastian doesn’t bargain on his intended victim being a super-heroine who gives as good as she gets. Only his own genetic variant power saves him from becoming the victim, instead of Helena. 

Fate has another surprise in store. Sebastian was not expecting to fall in love with her.

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26 March: Purple Day

Today is Purple Day, so here are 10 facts about the colour purple.

1. Purple is a secondary colour made by mixing Red and Blue. Its complementary colour is Yellow. It's not the same as violet - violet is a colour in its own right, at the end of the spectrum.
2. The word purple has been in use in the English language since 975AD. The word ultimately derives from a Greek word for a purple dye they used to make from mucus secreted by spiny dye-murex snail. This was called Tyrian dye and is mentioned in the Iliad. Unfortunately it can't be said that no snails were harmed in the process - thousands of them had to be removed from their shells and soaked before their mucus glands were removed and the juice removed. Left in sunlight the juice would change colour several times - White, yellow, Green, violet, red and finally purple. People making it had to know the right time to stop the process to get the colour they wanted.
3. Needless to say, this was expensive stuff, which is one reason why it has been associated with royalty and high-ranking offices. Alexander the Great was one king who wore clothes dyed with Tyrian purple. Charlemange was another - his coronation robe was made of material dyed in the stuff.
4. In the Bible, purple was one of the colours of cloth from which God decreed that curtains of the Tabernacle be made. In the New Testament, Jesus was dressed in purple in the hours before His death as part of the Roman soldiers' mockery of his claim to be King of the Jews.
5. In mythology, purple gets a few mentions. It was the colour Ajax's belt, the sheets on Odysseus's bed on his wedding night, and purple dye is used on the tails of the horses of Trojan warriors. The poet Sappho waxes lyrical about purple footwear made by dyers in the Greek kingdom of Lydia.
6. In China purple dye was made from a plant called purple gromwell, but it didn't stick to fabric very well so it was still an expensive colour to produce and still limited to royalty and rich people. Later on in China it represented impropriety.
7. It was the 19th century before purple dyes became accessible to common people, as a result of an experiment that went slightly wrong. In 1856 a young man named William Henry Perkin was trying to make a synthetic cure for malaria, but made a dye instead. The shade of it was called mauveine, which is where the word "mauve" comes from. Perkins developed an industrial process to produce the dye so that many more people could afford it.
8. The Jimi Hendrix song Purple Haze gets its name from a slang term for the state of mind people get when they are high on psychedelic drugs. It has also given its name to a strain of cannabis, which has purple buds. Purple appears in a few other song titles - Purple Rain, Deep Purple (also a band) and Purple People Eater, to name but a few.
9. Does anything rhyme with purple? There are a couple of rhyming words although they're both quite obscure. One is "curple", a Scottish word for a horse's rump or a part of a saddle, and "hirple" a word of Norse origin meaning to limp.
10. Only two national flags contain the colour purple and neither of these feature it as a major colour. Dominica's flag features a purple parrot and Nicaragua's flag features a Rainbow.

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The Ultraheroes series

Several new groups of superheroes, mostly British, living and working (mostly) in British cities like London and Birmingham. People discovering they have, and learning to live with, superpowers. Each book is complete in itself although there is some overlap of characters.

The Raiders series

A tale of two dimensions, and worm hole travel between the two. People displaced in both time and space, learning to get along and work together to find a way home while getting used to the superpowers wormhole travel gave them. A trilogy.

Golden Thread

A superhero tale with a difference. Five heroes from another dimension keep returning - whenever they return, they have a job to do and are a well-meshed team in order to do it. Until one time, something goes wrong...

Tabitha Drake series

A different kind of power - the ability to talk to dead people. Tabitha has it, and murder victims seek her out to make sure justice is done. Tabitha has this and a disastrous love life to cope with.

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Some feature characters from the above novels, others don't. They're not all about superheroes. Some are creepy, romantic, funny. 

14 March: White Day

White Day is a day observed in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China and other countries in Asia exactly a month after Valentine's Day. The idea is that on this day, women buy gifts for the men in their lives to reciprocate the flowers and chocolates they received on Valentine's Day. Here are ten things you might not know about the colour white.

1. The science bit - we perceive white when the light hitting our eyes stimulates all three types of cone cells by roughly the same amount. The surfaces of white objects reflect and diffuse all the light that hits them. White is made on a TV or computer screen by mixing Red, Blue and Green light at full intensity.
2. Sanskrit has a number of different words for white, depending on the particular white they are talking about - Milk white, Silver white, the white of stars, the white of teeth, the white of the Moon, the white of Pearls, the white of a ray of sunlight and the white of sandalwood, for example. Inuit and Japanese people also have several different words for different types of white.
3. The word albino comes from an ancient Roman word for a plain white. (They had a different word, candidus, for a bright white, the colour of the toga a man was expected to wear if he was seeking public office, which is where we get the word "candidate".)
4. In nature, things containing limestone will appear white. White sand usually contains limestone and/or quartz, while the White Cliffs of Dover are composed of limestone and chalk. Snow is white because the ice crystals and air which it is composed of don't absorb light, but reflect it, sometimes the light bounces around which is what makes fresh snow sparkle. When it becomes compressed, containing less air, such as in glaciers, snow appears more blue as it begins to absorb red light. Clouds are white for a similar reason.
5. White is frequently used by the Christian church as a symbol for goodness and purity - Jesus is often portrayed in white robes, or as a pure white lamb. Priests adopted the colour for their official robes. It didn't start with the Christians, though. White has represented purity since ancient times. The Egyptians associated it with the goddess Isis, and Vestal Virgins in Roman times also dressed in white. It's also the colour Muslims where during their pilgrimages to Mecca.
6. In some cultures, white is the colour of mourning. In Ancient Egypt, this came about because they saw the desert as white and lifeless, while Black represented the life-giving fertile mud of the Nile.
7. White is a common colour for bed linen and underwear. In Victorian times, all underwear and bed linen was white. There was a practical reason for this. Any other colour would fade if washed by boiling or bleaching.
8. In the political world, white may represent monarchism, or peace and passive resistance, hence waving a white flag to surrender, white Poppies on Remembrance Day, white ribbons, white Roses. The use of a white flag for surrender originated during the 15th century Hundred Years War, but was formalised by the Geneva Convention of 1949. It's a common colour in national Flags. The UK and USA took their white from the cross of St George while in the French flag it represents "the ancient French colour". In the Irish flag it represents a truce between the old Gaelic tradition and the supporters of William of Orange.
9. Sending white feathers to men who refused to enlist during war time, to signify that they were deemed to be cowards is said to have originated from cockfighting when there was a belief that a cock with a white feather in its tail would be a poor fighter.
10. Most of the things white symbolises are positive, however. Innocence, purity, cleanliness (which is why household appliances which are meant to be kept clean like cookers and fridges are traditionally white, and why both doctors and chefs wear white coats), and beginnings (debutantes entering society wear white and the Queen wears white when opening a new session of Parliament).

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The Ultraheroes series

Several new groups of superheroes, mostly British, living and working (mostly) in British cities like London and Birmingham. People discovering they have, and learning to live with, superpowers. Each book is complete in itself although there is some overlap of characters.

The Raiders series

A tale of two dimensions, and worm hole travel between the two. People displaced in both time and space, learning to get along and work together to find a way home while getting used to the superpowers wormhole travel gave them. A trilogy.

Golden Thread

A superhero tale with a difference. Five heroes from another dimension keep returning - whenever they return, they have a job to do and are a well-meshed team in order to do it. Until one time, something goes wrong...

Tabitha Drake series

A different kind of power - the ability to talk to dead people. Tabitha has it, and murder victims seek her out to make sure justice is done. Tabitha has this and a disastrous love life to cope with.

Short story collections

Some feature characters from the above novels, others don't. They're not all about superheroes. Some are creepy, romantic, funny. 

7 February: Wear Red Day

The first Friday in February is Wear Red Day in the USA, to promote 

awareness of heart disease. Red what we see when light of a wavelength

 of approximately 625-740nm hits our eyes. Here are 10 facts about 

the colour red.

1. The phrase, "like a red rag to a bull" should really read, "like a moving rag to a bull." Bulls can't actually see the colour red. It's the motion, not the colour, that they charge. Dogs cannot see the colour red, either, but primates are able to perceive it. It's thought that the ability to see the colour red evolved in primates because it enabled them to tell the difference between ripe and unripe fruit.
2. What makes things red? Mars is called the Red Planet because of Iron oxide on its surface; it's the same stuff that makes the Grand Canyon appear red. Blood is red because of haemoglobin, the protein which carries Oxygen through the body, which also contains iron. Red Apples and Strawberries get their red colour from anthocyanins.
3. The first red dyes for fabrics were made from insects. Kermes was a dye made from female insects called Kermes vermilio that live in the Mediterranean area, while cochineal was made from insects that live off cacti in South America - hence this dye was used by the Aztecs and Mayans.
4. The Romans were fond of red in the murals in their villas. They used a pigment called vermillion, which came from cinnabar, an ore of Mercury. Although the colours lasted well - many are still vibrant today - the mineral was highly toxic. Being sent to the cinnabar mines was as good as a death sentence.
5. The term "red herring" comes from the salting and smoking process used to cure the fish, which would not only turn it reddish brown but result in a strong scent, so if a smoked herring was dragged across a trail it destroyed the original scent and led hunters astray.
6. Red hair in humans is caused by a pigment called pheomelanin, and is most common among the Celtic peoples of northern Europe. In Ireland, 10% of people have red hair and in Scotland, 6%. In Italy, just 0.57% of people have red hair. Today there is a stereotype of red haired people, that they have fiery tempers to match their hair. In medieval times, red hair was a sign of at best moral degeneration and at worst, a sign that a person was a Witch or a Vampire.
7. Because it is the colour of blood, red is associated with courage and sacrifice. It's also one of the most common colours to appear on national Flags, often representing the blood and sacrifice of those who defended a country.
8. Red is associated with love - think hearts and red roses on Valentine's Day. It is considered a lucky colour in China, where it is traditionally the colour of wedding dresses. Yet, at the same time, red is associated with the opposite - hatred, anger and war. "Seeing red" is an expression meaning to be angry, and the Red Planet, Mars, was so named because red was the colour of the Roman god of war.
9. Red certainly causes a reaction in people, which is why it has been internationally adopted as the colour of warning signs and flags. A red alert is the highest level of warning. Not only that, but it is the colour that stands out most in daylight.
10. Red is one of the most popular colours for sports teams. In fact, this has been the case since Roman times, when chariot races would be between two drivers, one in white and the other in red.

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Settling the Score

Another collection of short stories, even more murder and mayhem with carol singers, an orchestra out for revenge, a sinister magic stone and a haunted mansion.

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A Tale of Two Sisters

During a battle with supervillains, a horrific accident leaves the Warner family with no option but to believe their youngest daughter, Jessica, is dead. It doesn't occur to them that the bad guys could, or would, save her.

Jessica wakes up with no memory of who she is or how she came to be on a space station with two bionic legs, a bionic arm and a bionic eye. She is told her family abandoned her and is sent back to Earth with a mission - to kill them. While Jessica wants to kill her family, along with the twin boys who once rejected her, she knows what the Alliance of Supervillains are asking her to do is a suicide mission. She decides to get her revenge in her own way.

As Jessica puts the first part of her revenge plan in motion, she finds herself with an agonising decision to make. Before she can decide, the Alliance come for her, determined to make her do their bidding. This time, it's the Alliance who leave her, crippled and at the mercy of the Warner family, who have no idea who the Alliance's Black Rose really is.

Jessica finds herself having to re-think her decisions in light of what she now learns about her family, the Alliance, the twins, and herself. It would appear the Alliance have left her with an unwanted and permanent reminder of her time with them. Or have they?

Jessica's older sister, Jill, knows her destiny is to be a doctor and specialise in bionics and genetic variant medicine. She is also hopelessly in love with Christopher, Crown Prince of Galorvia. Can their romance survive the lies Christopher told her when they were both at school, an unplanned pregnancy and Sophie, the wannabe princess who comes between them?

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