Erosion

Nowhere to go. Impossible to stay.The last remaining residents of Moorland Chalet Park are about to lose their homes to the sea. Twenty-year-old Lizzie Juniper can't understand why they choose to stay in such a dangerous place. However, in the unseasonably sunny run-up to Bonfire Night, she makes some startling discoveries. It seems her entanglement with the local 'lord of the manor' is not the only secret lurking in Moorland Castle-the Booth family's ancestral home.The desperate chalet owners are up to something. Will they have time to enact their plan before their way of life is gone forever? Ruth Estevez was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1961. Her father, Peter John Estevez was of Spanish descent, his family coming to London to set up a Sherry importing business from the family vineyard in Jerez de la Frontera. Her mother, Gladys Parkinson, was from Yorkshire ancestry, her grandfather being one of three or four coal merchants in Bradford to still be in business after World War Two. Before the war, there had been approximately sixty coal merchants.Recurring themes for Ruth are about belonging, finding a place in the world and what people will do when they have nothing left to lose. Her books tend to be based in Yorkshire, France and Formentera because she loves all three. Her strengths lie in place, character and dialogue. In the French tradition, plot feels secondary, but she is highly aware that the Western World loves plot, so she is working on it! But still remembering it's the STORY that counts.