Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Val was swept into teaching during the Great Teacher Shortage of... well, let’s just call it “a while back.” Her dreams of jet-setting as an air stewardess were quickly replaced by lesson plans and chalk dust. After wrangling classrooms in inner-city Birmingham, she packed her bags and followed her family to Canada—where she discovered her British teaching credentials were about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Never one to back down, Val juggled a day job at the Bank of Montreal while earning her Canadian degrees by night. After 25+ years of surviving as a classroom, French, and Special Education teacher, she retired and dove into her true passion: writing.
Now an award-winning author of historical fiction, Val finds spinning tales a lot more fun than grading essays. She also moonlights as a qualified developmental editor on Fiverr—so if your manuscript needs a little tough love (and a dash of British wit), you know where to find her!
Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Val was swept into teaching during the Great Teacher Shortage of... well, let’s just call it “a while back.” Her dreams of jet-setting as an air stewardess were quickly replaced by lesson plans and chalk dust. After wrangling classrooms in inner-city Birmingham, she packed her bags and followed her family to Canada—where she discovered her British teaching credentials were about as useful as a chocolate...
London, 1933 As darkness gathers across Europe, one small cinema becomes a beacon of hope—and a target for hatred. When cinema manager William Bishop begins quietly helping Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, he transforms the struggling Majestic Cinema into something far more dangerous than a neighborhood picture house. With the help of his...
London, 1914. As the world erupts into war, two lives will be forever changed by courage, duty, and an impossible love. Margaret Ashworth has fought every step of the way to become a doctor in a man’s world. When the Great War begins, she sees her chance to prove herself where it matters most—on the battlefields of France, saving lives others...
London, 1918. The war is ending, but the battle for compassion has just begun. Dr. Margaret Ashworth has returned from the battlefields of France determined to bring humane medical care to London’s shell-shocked soldiers. But at the London Hospital, she faces a new enemy: Dr. James Morrison, whose brutal “treatments” are destroying the very men...
