Sins Alive!

About the book:

Twenty-five years ago, Susan, Isobel, Nicholas and Simon were inseparable.

At Eaglesforth, they were known as The SINS — four children bound by loyalty, secrets and the fierce certainty that they would always have each other’s backs. But after school, life pulled them in different directions. Friendships faded. Trust became memory. And the teenagers they once knew became adults with lives, regrets and vulnerabilities of their own.

When an unexpected invitation draws them back to Eaglesforth for a fund-raising reunion dinner, nostalgia and curiosity bring them through the gates. Each wonders what became of the others. Each wonders whether the old bond still exists.

Then a criminal act forces the school into lockdown.

Trapped together in the place where their friendship began, The SINS are drawn into a night of fear, revelation and testing choices. Old loyalties resurface. Hidden tensions sharpen. And as the past presses in, they must decide whether childhood friendship can be rekindled in adulthood — or whether some sins are too deeply buried to forgive.

Sins Alive! by Jackie Meekums-Hales is a character-driven women’s fiction novel about friendship, loyalty and second chances, with an atmospheric twist of mystery and crime.

What you’ll love:

• A richly atmospheric boarding-school reunion with old loyalties, buried tensions and unfinished business
• Character-led women’s fiction exploring friendship, memory, vulnerability and second chances
• A compelling mystery thread, as one criminal act turns nostalgia into danger
• Four adults forced to confront who they were, who they became, and whether the bond between them can survive the truth
• A story for readers who love emotionally layered fiction with secrets, suspense and relationships at its heart