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In a series of fourteen short stories about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances, Scarlett Moonstone explores the dilemmas of everyday living in the contemporary world – Magical Miranda, a Fictitious Books fibs collection of magical tales: 

Magical Miranda

by

Scarlett Moonstone

Miranda was a spectacular magician but Mephisto simply took her breath away. Gerald, alias Zodiac, never dreamed that he’d want to turn his back on paradise but that’s what happened in Aquatic Sky. Gabriel couldn’t believe that he was being accused by the Corsican police of hypnotising, then drowning his best friend Tom. How was that possible?

Matthew’s life was changed forever by a single kiss from a beautiful woman halfway between England and France. Nicholas pushed the self-destruct button on his life during one fateful visit to Rome. Mark wasn’t going to allow his scheming wife Cressida to steal all his money under the guise of saving the planet, was he?

Oscar’s life just wasn’t worth living. Toby, convicted of murdering his brother George, has a miraculous stay of execution moments before he is to be shot. Naomi stumbles across an illuminating clue about the identity of the serial killer who murdered her mother. Caroline’s life is shattered, then resurrected through a series of Valentine messages.

Finbar discovers the love of his life, Drusilla, amidst the floodwaters of the south of France. `Mad Jack’ finally regains the trust and friendship of his brother Tim despite their long-standing antagonism to one another. Richard reflects sadly on the love that he lost so many years ago, while Zoe, desperate to leave behind her true identity, finds a soulmate in Alejandro.

Magical Miranda is a collection of fourteen short stories centred on the lives of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances. Scarlett Moonstone explores these challenging situations in her own inimitable manner:

Miranda was an enchantress who could transform the alchemy of a man’s soul. It was only Rudolph who didn’t know. He was performing tricks. She was casting spells.

Zodiac can’t make sense of Aquatic Sky, a cocktail of sunshine and electric impulses.

Barely a splash as Tom drowned in a pool. Lysandra is convinced that he was murdered by Gabriel.

A subterranean kiss on Eurostar 9022 to Paris – is this the cure that Matthew’s been looking for? 

Was Nicholas Drummond’s lightning drop to disgrace and humiliation inevitable?

Mark wasn’t taken in by Cressida’s vision of an alternative world – ecology wasn’t his thing.

The sand keeps trickling through Oscar’s fingers grain after grain. Why?

In six days Toby Castledean will be taken to the Wall of Retribution. Is his execution inevitable?

Will Naomi Watts find the Camden strangler? The clue is in the IQ.

Who is the secret admirer sending Valentine emails to Caroline? 

Finbar couldn’t wait to see Drusilla somersault through the air. And then came the flood.

Tangling with ‘mad’ Jack Slater isn’t advisable. Jack’s a wildcat.

Millennium memories of Christelle Sarrazin after an absence of 30 years. Richard never forgot.

Nadia Hamilton is keeping a low profile in Andalusia. So who is Zoe Cantrall?

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