Genealogy has never been more popular. However, those considering a journey into the past should be prepared for the unexpected as adopted Michael Calvert discovers when he decides to investigate his birth lineage. It is the millennium, and journalist Michael is in professional and personal decline. When he decides to research his family tree, his enquiries have profound consequences for those he encounters in his bloodline, but he also disturbs a dark secret which once endangered his ancestors, and which reignites to threaten Michael sixty years later.  

Set in wartime London and the present, the story is told through the eyes of Michael and his grandmother, Flora.  As Michael tracks her footsteps through time, it becomes clear that Flora carried a secret that others were prepared to go to any lengths to suppress.  But what was it? What was so damaging that it was worth violence and assassination even decades later? Dangerous Heritage is a mystery thriller with an exciting denouement, but it is also a voyage of self-discovery, romance and forgiveness.

In the summer of 1836, House Surgeon Samuel Ansell knows more about saving life than solving mysteries. However, when a gravely injured patient is admitted to Oxford’s Radcliffe Infirmary, the man’s startling accusations propel Sam down an unfamiliar path fraught with treachery and danger.

With the help of his good friend, Apothecary Will Perks, Sam discovers that what seems like a simple fraud is actually something more sinister. As they unearth the truth, Sam is taken from the city’s impoverished backyards to the upper reaches of Oxfordshire society, where he is drawn to the free-spirited Anne Kirtland. Struggling to win the approval of her aristocratic parents, he discovers that Anne’s father is at the heart of his investigation. But is Lord Kirtland a victim or a conspirator? And who exactly can Sam and Will trust? Faced with spiralling threats and violence, Sam finds himself alone and in a race to protect Anne, save her family, and thwart a plot that reaches deep into the British establishment.

The Oxford Conspiracy is partly based on historical events, but twisted to form an adventurous tale of love, mystery and the harsh reality of life in a nineteenth-century hospital.