Neil Curland is a former soldier. His time in the British army served, Neil has returned from the globetrotting lifestyle courtesy of Her Majesty's forces, and is now working as an advertising executive for a local West Country newspaper group. It's a far cry from the excitement of his former life, but the hours are regular and the money gives him the opportunity to indulge his passion; custom motorcycles. Neil is a lifelong biker, most weekends would see him riding some completely impractical creation across counties and countries to indulge in serious partying with likeminded individuals. With nothing too taxing on the horizon and money in the bank, Neil is kicking back and enjoying an Indian summer heat wave when the worst storm in three hundred years throws the Country and his world into a post-apocalyptic turmoil. Caught up in his own personal hell, Neil finds himself unceremoniously dumped at the feet of the exotic Natasha. The attraction is instantaneous; you could cut through the sexual tension with a knife. What begins as a passionate labour of lust soon migrates into a deeper, darker erotic attraction, but Natasha comes with a dangerous past which just won't lie down and die! Brian Dix is a mercenary, a terrorist for hire. On the payroll of the Provisional IRA, Brian's mission is to develop links with his traveller kinsmen; to sell Libyan weapons to outlaw gangs and organisations on mainland UK with the ultimate goal of undermining and bringing down the British government. It's a tall order for the psychotic Dix, and he can't concentrate on the bigger picture when things are not right at home. An archetypal 'rolling stone', Dix is a man of few possessions, if he considers something belongs to him, God help the man who tries to take it from him! When the deranged Dix kidnaps Natasha's child, Neil is forced to re-visit his former life in the armed forces, bringing together a motley crew of ex-servicemen as a task force, with the skills to challenge the Provo's at the height of the 'troubles'. The natural wit of the 'Squaddie biker' brings a level of 'graveyard' humour to what is otherwise a deadly serious situation. Obsession, passion and erotic brinkmanship weave a convoluted path between misunderstanding and coincidence. Cruel twists of fate see the couple separated by customs, religion and continents as their lives and loves veer off in opposite directions. Will they ever see each other again? What does fate have in store for Neil and Natasha? Be careful what you wish for!
About the Author: Nick Boyland grew up on a British army Garrison in Western Germany. He restored and built his first motorcycle at the tender age of 16; a Triumph tiger Cub. Lapping in the valves on his dressing table, using grinding compound he made himself from toothpaste and emery cloth, and re-winding the alternator with copper wire scavenged from old transformers. The Amal carburettor; scavenged from an old BSA Bantam, had the jets braised up and drilled out on the patio with a 12 volt drill until the mixture was, 'just right'. Nick developed a strong empathy with old British motorbikes which saw him, as a young man, riding a hard tailed, Tribsa (Triumph/BSA) hybrid Chopper, across much of mainland Europe. He enjoyed the hospitality of numerous European bike clubs, in his extensive travels, which brought the adventures and experiences he interlaces into his fiction. Somewhere along the way, Nick graduated from 'Motorcyclist' to 'Biker'. Now living in rural Somerset with his wife, children and dog, he is the proprietor of 'Rhino trikes' Motorcycle trike conversion specialists. Nick has appeared on TV a number of times as engineering expert 'Rhino' in the Popular Channel Four programme: 'Scrapheap Challenge'. Nick's company: Rhino trikes has a credit on the International Movie Database for supplying vehicles to Northern Girl productions, for use in the feature film: 'The Zombie King' Starring Corey Feldman and Edward Furlong. In 2013, Nick began writing, at first just reliving old glories in a blog style, but very quickly he found his characters began to talk to him, at first just upholstering their bones with skin and muscle, later beginning to write their own dialogue. Now Nick doesn't formally plan out a plot, preferring to just create a scenario, then letting the characters write the story themselves. Still working with trikes and custom bikes, Nick now rides a customised Harley Davidson 1450 Dyna-glide sport. Nick writes in English. Some of the words and spellings he uses are different from US English, but that is just part of the charm! He doesn't write about Lords and Ladies, he doesn't even write about London, preferring instead never to venture inside the M25 (London ring road) but his writing is nevertheless quintessentially English, but with a real transatlantic feel.