Books By Kerry Edwards
What if the city of star-crossed lovers could offer a second chance at love?
Inspired by the enduring legend of Shakespeare's Juliet and the heartfelt tradition of the Letters to Juliet, Voices Through Time is a captivating epistolary time-slip novel that blends historical fiction, speculative fiction, mystery, and romance into an unforgettable story of courage, healing, and hope.
Haunted by the devastation of war, Anya arrives in Verona carrying little more than grief and the hope of beginning again. In a city where thousands leave letters beneath Juliet's balcony, searching for answers about love, fate, and forgiveness, Anya embarks on a journey of her own—one that will challenge everything she believes about the past and the future.
Gifted with the knowledge of an apothecarist, Anya attempts to build a new life among Verona's ancient streets. But when a dangerous figure from her past arrives seeking revenge, the sanctuary she has found begins to unravel. Forced to confront old wounds and impossible choices, she must decide whether love and friendship are powerful enough to overcome fear, betrayal, and loss.
Told through letters, journal entries, and beautifully woven voices across time, Voices Through Time is an immersive exploration of resilience, trust, and the transformative power of human connection. Rich in atmosphere and inspired by one of literature's greatest love stories, it asks whether the past can ever truly be left behind—or whether it holds the key to a different future.
Perfect for readers who enjoy epistolary novels, time-slip fiction, historical speculative fiction, Shakespeare-inspired stories, female-led adventures, and emotionally rich novels filled with mystery, romance, and personal transformation, Voices Through Time is a compelling story about finding hope where you least expect it—and discovering that sometimes love deserves a second chance.
How do you move forward when part of your heart is still living in the past?
After a heartbreaking accident shatters her world, Emily is left to pick up the pieces of a life she no longer recognises. Numb with grief, she sleepwalks through art college before seizing the chance to leave England behind and begin a new career as a designer in the vibrant 1990s New York fashion industry.
New York promises everything Emily longs for—a fresh start, creative freedom and the opportunity to become someone new. Through friendships, unforgettable adventures and a series of relationships that each leave their mark, from a French trust-fund banker and an ambitious journalist to Adam, a Harvard graduate, and Kieran, the bookseller, Emily searches for the place, the person and the love that will finally make her feel whole.
Yet beneath the excitement of city life lies a quiet ache. No success, romance or reinvention can silence the grief she has buried so deeply or the persistent feeling that she doesn't quite belong.
Thirty years later, during yoga teacher training, Emily meets an energy worker who encourages her to release the stories she has carried for decades. As she begins to let go of the past, an unexpected reunion with Adam forces her to confront a powerful truth: love that has shaped us is never truly lost—it simply waits to be rediscovered.
Told through beautifully crafted episodic vignettes, where memories are awakened by the evocative power of scent, All Our Yesterdays moves effortlessly between past and present. Warm, witty, poignant and deeply cathartic, it explores grief, love, identity and the remarkable resilience of the human heart.
Perfect for readers of contemporary women's fiction, literary fiction, and emotionally rich novels about second chances, healing, self-discovery, 1990s New York, the fashion industry, and personal transformation, All Our Yesterdays is a moving reminder that we cannot truly embrace tomorrow until we make peace with yesterday.
For anyone who has loved deeply, lost painfully, or wondered whether it's ever too late to begin again, this is a story that will stay with you long after the final page.
Across the Black Water is a compelling young adult dual-timeline novel that blends historical fiction, coming-of-age storytelling, and themes of identity, heritage, and resilience. Spanning contemporary England and Colonial India, it uncovers the enduring legacy of the Girmitiya—Indian indentured labourers transported across the British Empire—and explores what it truly means to belong.
Fifteen-year-old Luke's life is turned upside down when his father suddenly leaves home, exposing long-buried truths about his family's past. Struggling to cope after witnessing a traumatic murder at a music festival, Luke finds himself living with the effects of PTSD. As he begins to uncover his family's hidden history of migration, cultural displacement, and survival, he is forced to confront difficult questions about race, identity, and where he fits in the world.
In 1897 Colonial India, young widow Sami faces an impossible choice. To escape poverty, she leaves everything she has ever known to become a Girmitiya—an indentured labourer bound for the sugar plantations of Fiji. Life on the plantation is harsh, but amid oppression she finds hope in Vijay, a former scribe whose quiet courage inspires others to stand together against injustice. Their story is one of sacrifice, resilience, love, and the unbreakable strength of community.
As Luke pieces together Sami and Vijay's extraordinary journey, he begins to understand the generations that came before him and the legacy they have left behind. Through music, friendship, and a growing appreciation of his heritage, he discovers that understanding the past may be the key to healing the present.
Rich in historical detail and emotional depth, Across the Black Water is a thought-provoking young adult historical novel that explores colonialism, family, ancestry, and the search for identity. Perfect for readers who enjoy dual-timeline fiction, multicultural stories, and novels inspired by forgotten history, it is a moving testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the enduring bonds that connect generations across time.
