Jennifer Suffram is the daughter of an old established but slightly down at heel Cotswold farming family. She feels stifled by her fiancé, the patronising Richard, the hum drum plod of her life and decides on a once in lifetime trip to East Africa in an effort to 'find herself'. Rather than finding herself she finds David, a handsome young man with a mysterious past. But finding him upon her return to England is another matter entirely, with no contact details she turns sleuth and the couple are reunited. Despite their brief acquaintance, when he suffers a serious injury he calls for her help and in a matter of days she finds herself acting not only as his chauffeur and personal assistant but almost as his wife. And before she can stop herself, she's swept up in an affair so sensual she ignores all the warnings... To her surprise she finds she likes the atmosphere and the people engaged in the family engineering business in Carlisle with the exception of David's PA, Muriel, with whom she is instantly at loggerheads. Jennifer's confrontations with Muriel unearth dark undercurrents of deception, menace and sex that cast light on some shocking skeletons buried in David's past. Can their fledgling romance withstand the revelations...? "An addictive novel to be devoured in one sitting...an irresistible story in which absolutely nothing is as it seems" AMAZON
About the Author: Despite having an attempt at being an author in his youth Alan M Keef did not do any serious writing until his autobiography, A Tale of Many Railways, was published in 2008. This was primarily a history of his company that builds small railways for the industrial and leisure markets. He describes it as a hobby that got out of hand but nevertheless it has been his life for the last many years. Before that his first job was as an agricultural land surveyor and auctioneer followed by a brief spell farming before the railways took over. All this has given him a wide experience of life that is brought to bear in this, his first full-length novel, The Finding. Writing of The Finding was actually started in the Mkongwe Hotel when Alan had a day to kill there with little else to do. He lived in the Cotswolds for nearly twenty years and so it is unsurprising that Jennifer should work at a land agents office in that area. A great deal of time was once spent in the Carlisle area both on business and for a small part of his education so this seemed a complimentary area for the story. Boats, but definitely not speedboats, are his second love and had to appear somewhere. Widowed, remarried and with three children he now lives in Herefordshire.