PERRY BLACK

Before We Were Us

98,000 words | Seeking representation

What if that feeling isn’t love at first sight? What if we’ve been together before, many times, in many lives – we just don’t remember.

Sue and Ray meet and experience an immediate, inexplicable recognition. They fall in love, but neither knows that they have loved each other before – or that they will do so again.

Across five incarnations, set in the past and future, they repeatedly find each other, yet carry emotional wounds, fears and destructive patterns from one life into the next. Without any memory of what has gone before, they cannot understand why the same betrayals, choices and fears keep resurfacing.

How many more chances do we have to get it right?

The Donor

95,000 words | Completed novel | Final edit

A heart transplant, a murder and a passionate lesbian affair. At first she hadn’t thought to ask how those three things might be connected…

A gripping commercial novel about love, identity and obsession. When publishing mogul Cait Farrow receives Jerry Blundstone’s heart, she begins experiencing disturbing changes in her behaviour and finds herself drawn into the life he left behind. As she unknowingly falls in love with Jerry’s widow, Mia, Cait becomes increasingly caught up in his unfinished mission: to find his abducted daughter and take revenge on the London crime syndicate responsible.

Perry Black...

Perry Black is the fiction-writing name of Perry Wood. He has spent a lifetime observing people — and animals — and wondering what makes them behave the way they do. His life has taken him from music in London to horses and farming on Exmoor, five years living in the Hautes-Pyrenees, coaching senior executives in blue-chip companies, and writing about human behaviour and communication. Now those observations have found their way into fiction.