Series 1- UK BASED “Isabel and friends”

This is a lyrical, sometimes funny, sometimes erotic and sometimes heart-breaking age-gap romance for those who love a happy ending.

Do opposites attract? Well, perhaps not always!

Dynamic and driven, charity director Bel Bridgford planned to write a ground-breaking book on Climate Change until a ten-ton truck smashed into her little car and destroyed it, almost killing her in the process.

She retreats with her broken bones to a remote cottage in Wales and is forced to hire a personal caregiver for a long summer of recovery and rehabilitation. The young woman who answers the advert is Bryony Morris, a final year medical student from London, clever, cautious, and used to hiding her feelings.

Thrown together and alone for most of the time, the two women move on from initial dislike to explore their complicated relationship as they work together on the book.

But Bel is still heartbroken after the murder of her fiancée two years previously, and Bryony is focused on how to split up from her boyfriend without losing his friendship. Neither of them expects to fall in love.

As the sparks fly and then turn into an ever more fiercely burning fire of sexual attraction, can either of them survive the summer without breaking the other’s heart? This is a contemporary, passionate story about real women exploring what it truly means to fall in love.

Ice-queen accountant Alana Byrne and her aid-worker girlfriend, Steph Hunter have been together for three years. They love each other.The sex, when they have time to make it happen, is fantastic, and they share a comfortable London flat and a decent income.

But as Alana sees it, their life together is in crisis, and they might even be about to break up. She is lonely, frustrated, and heartbroken as Steph’s continual long absences on assignments round the world erode their relationship.

Steph, meanwhile is haunted by memories of betrayal and buried fears of commitment and being trapped. When she finally comes home to Alana for Christmas, it’s time to face and resolve their problems, once and for all.

But then, on a flight from Africa, Steph meets a mysterious girl who asks her for help and knows she has to respond. As what could be their last Christmas together unfolds, Alana and Steph work together to find the girl, and even save her life. But will they be able to save their own future as well?

This fast-paced lesbian novel of contemporary love, and friendship is set in December 2019 and exposes the harsh world of modern-day slavery. But mainly it explores the love between two caring and sensitive women who hold each other’s hearts in their hands.

Read and enjoy!

A Girl on the Plane is the sequel to Maggie McIntyre’s Isabel’s Healing, and the second in her series, Isabel and friends.

This is a lesbian romance with a powerful storyline, good humor, and a proper happy ending!

Jane Walkley, out and proud, has been head of girls’ P.E. at Reedbridge High School for more than ten years. Her specialties as a coach are hockey and swimming, and she also plays a mean round of golf. Jane longs to find a woman she can commit to, one who will return her huge capacity for loving, and so far, no one has come anywhere close to her ideal.

Jane feels even more abandoned when her best friend Isabel shocks her by marrying a young medical student and settling down. But then, Isabel introduces her to someone new, someone who presses all the right buttons, and who intrigues and excites her. There’s just one problem...Isabel’s friend Jenni, is a renegade, disillusioned, but still committed nun! 

Jane suddenly finds herself in competition with God for the hand of a beautiful woman...a task made more difficult by the fact that she is an atheist!

As 2020 opens and against the backdrop of an impending pandemic in England, these two very different women learn to understand each other and create their own happy ending.

This is a love story for grown-up women, deals with real-life choices, and is told with compassion and humour. It is the third book in the series, Isabel and Friends.

Locked down under the Covid19 pandemic, Isabel Bridgford has never felt so frightened. Bryony, the love of her life, risks her life daily as a doctor in the I.C. Unit of an overwhelmed London hospital. How can Isabel keep her adored young wife safe, and also bring back joy into her troubled soul?

Meanwhile, Stephanie and Alana, Isabel’s closest friends, have their own crushing disappointments to surmount. Their wedding has been cancelled and their plans to move to the USA, crushed. But life moves on, and as lockdown continues they painfully discover that true love can conquer everything, if one decides never to give up.

Isabel’s oldest friend, Jane, and her new fiancée, Jenni, seem able to sustain their happiness in a bubble of romantic bliss. But Jenni faces a huge challenge to raise a vast amount of money at very short notice, otherwise her African girls’ project will face collapse. It is not only Jane’s enthusiastic love-making which keeps Jenni awake at night.

As the strangest of springs unfolds, these three sets of friends cope with the challenges Covid 19 brings, and learn new ways to share their love and friendship, sometimes with unlikely people.

This passionate contemporary lesbian romance from award winning author, Maggie McIntyre, will lift your spirits, tug at your heart-strings and remind you of the power of love, even when you live through the most difficult of times. It is fourth in the series, “Isabel and friends.”

In the picturesque Cotswolds, Olivia Massie, a meticulous editor absorbed in books but wary of people, admires her friend Bel Bridgford's open affection for women, especially her adoring wife, Bryony. Intrigued by Bel's latest ground-breaking book on climate change, Olivia leaves London to support her friend.

Fate takes an unexpected turn when Olivia meets Niamh Fitzgerald, an enigmatic young woman from the wild west of Ireland. Niamh seeks Olivia's help in publishing her late mother's novel, Crossing the Bar, which tells the captivating story of Grace O'Malley, a formidable pirate queen from 16th Century Ireland.

As Niamh enters Olivia's life, everything changes. Olivia, a self-proclaimed ice queen, wonders why she chose Niamh as her first venture into love. Can her professional skills and icy reputation cope with raw passion, or will she face the heartache she’s avoided all her life?

This is the fifth instalment of the award-winning Isabel and Friends series but can be equally enjoyed as a standalone novel.