Fran Raya

Beatles and Beacons

Once upon another time, about a million songs ago, there lived a musical group on a teenager’s bedroom wall. These persons raided her queendom on an ordinary October day, through her dad’s Bakelite wireless. The song they sang was a tuneful newness and she helped it touch number seventeen in a memorable chart of yesterday, specifically 1962.

Take a trip across the 1960s through the eyes and mind of Rebecca Beacon, who is twelve years old when she becomes aware of The Beatles, at the very beginning of their ascendancy. Her teenage years are exciting but also saturated with angst and harsh realities, made bearable by her icons as she finds her own musical identity.

This semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age story will strike a nostalgic chord for fans of the same generation, but also for the many admirers of the band, who are too young to have witnessed Beatlemania in full flow.

Poetic Justice: Tyro

Randal Forbes calls his phenomenal telepathic powers ‘the gift’. In the sixth book of the series, he welcomes the new millennium with his family and followers.

His chosen daughter, and inheritress, Roxanne, is still at his side and just as powerful. His wife, Alison, and their children, Ryan and Amber, together with his lifelong protector, Clive Hargreaves, all remain steadfast in his life.

Randal has ‘dealt with’ his magnetic, righteous rival, Carlton Flint. However, when Tyrone Pendle arrives on the scene, with a similar level of dark power, it’s up to Randal to either tutor or remove him.

Randal Forbes has a dark side so malevolent that only someone with the same ‘gift’ will be able to challenge him. Is Tyrone Pendle that formidable adversary?

Poetic Justice: Intrusion

Randal Forbes calls his dark powers ‘the gift’ and his radiating eyes are the windows of his phenomenal psychic domination.



Randal’s daughter, Roxanne, has proved she is also worthy of her inheritance and has severely injured their main rival, Carlton Flint.



In this fifth book of the series, there is relentless intrusion. Telepathic crime with a malevolent, paranormal edge is Randal’s defence. He has a twisted sense of poetic justice, so he will remove anyone in his fiendish path.



Randal Forbes has a dark side so powerful, that only somebody with the same ‘gift’ would be able to challenge him.



Will Carlton Flint recover and do just that?

Poetic Justice: The Inheritance

Randal Forbes calls his phenomenal, telepathic powers 'the gift'.

Randal had been anticipating the arrival of his special child who would bear the hallmark of his spiritual legacy. It was a rancid, bitter pill to swallow when Roxanne was born out of the result of a one-night stand with his artist, Maxine Hale. She is married to Saul Curtis and has passed the baby off as his, but she is aware of her daughter's true paternity and is very disturbed by her penetrative gaze and strange behaviour. Randal's wife, Alison, and their children, are still completely blind to his dark side. Clive Hargreaves, his lover and protector, remains eternally at his side.

In this fourth book of the series, Randal encounters further danger ahead, but the main aim is to develop and nurture 'the gift' that is blossoming within his chosen child, Roxanne. Randal Forbes has a dark side so powerful that only someone with a similar 'gift' would be able to challenge him and when Carlton Flint appears in his deadly arena, Randal may well have met his match!

Poetic Justice: Fame

Randal Forbes calls his phenomenal telepathic powers 'the gift'.

In this third book of the Poetic Justice series, he achieves widespread fame, as an author and entrepreneur. He has left a complex trail of murder and shattered lives behind him, from his formative years at Tarnside Primary School, Redwood Private School and through his university education at Beaumont College, Oxford. The police are closely monitoring his movements but has anything been proved?

His relationship with Clive Hargreaves is still thriving, as he remains his devoted partner and protector. His wife-to-be, Alison Whitaker, is unaware of 'the gift' but those who are suspicious, still wish to discredit and expose him. Randal Forbes has a dark side so powerful, that only someone with a similar 'gift' will be able to challenge him. But who would dare?

Poetic Justice: Oxford

The dynamic and mysterious Randal Forbes calls his dark powers `the gift'. His startling, slate grey eyes radiate when he is in the throes of his telepathic reprisals. His trail of destruction has caught the attention of the police, who are investigating him under potential murder charges. But proving his guilt is difficult as he is nowhere near the crime scene; just inside the head of each targeted victim, issuing commands.

Now a student at Beaumont College in Oxford, he revels in his own success and is well on his way to becoming a celebrated author. There are new `enemies' to deal with in Oxford and Randal seeks to remove those who suspect his paranormal leanings. He has a twisted sense of poetic justice but also a chivalric loyalty to his family.

Randal Forbes has a dark side so malevolent that only someone with a similar `gift' would be able to challenge him. But, who would dare?

Poetic Justice: The Dawning

Randal Forbes is born on 1st January 1958 to a close family of high professional distinction. He stands out from the crowd and is recognised as a genius from a very early age but there is something extremely daunting about his remarkable abilities. He calls his demonic leanings ‘the gift’ and sees himself as its main instrument, using his unholy talents to defend his followers or destroy his enemies. He is fiercely telepathic and will dispose of any adversary who suspects his benefaction. From a distance through a photographic image, or on the actual spot, he will enter his victim’s minds and take over their thought processes, delivering hypnotic demands resulting in their demise or ruin.

In this first book of a planned series, it follows his life from a baby up to his teenage years. Randal’s burning ambition is to become a successful author of great works. He will use his gift to achieve this, removing any human obstacles in his path who suspect his dark side. Paranormal crime is his speciality. He is exceptionally attractive in appearance and can be malevolent or benevolent, depending on his twisted sense of poetic justice. Although he has loyalty and affection for his family and others, deep down he lets nothing get in the way of his vocation. He weaves his hypnotic spell over anyone in order to climb his odious ladder of advancement.

Fran Raya currently lives in Manchester. Her career has been predominantly in music since the 1970s, both in the UK and abroad, originally as a singer-songwriter but now in later years purely as a songwriter who places original songs with other artists. Fran is a member of The Guild of International Songwriters and Composers and has performed throughout Europe as she used to live in Denmark. Fran was the support act for Eric Clapton on his Scandinavian tours in the 1980s. She has also published poetry in numerous anthologies and as a result was awarded her own book, Thoughts of the Poet.