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Lock On is the story of star-crossed lovers in a time of a Civil War that very nearly actually was.

IRA Army, spies, soldiers slogging it out on the UK's streets, entangled love. Is it alwasy doomed? Alternative - only just - history (you may be aware the British Cabinet wasn't actually killed in its entirity in Brighton).

The book was written between 1989 and 1998 as my apprenticeship so gathered dust until a number of courses, lots of reading and some kind words from some talented writers gave me the confidance to embark on a re-write with a new-found voice. The re-write will be published in the ethos of Leanpub - this version is in its entirity. If you buy this one and then the rewrite I will refund you the cost of this one - feel free to influence the course of history by influencing the author's story arc by reading and commenting on this one. Although I can't do anything about the version it was losely based on - that was written in the late 1590s.

All of my proceeds for this book go to the good cause Shepherding the Mind, which aims to make Depression a thing of the past.

(Note, if you happen to get here early, the whole book although written isn't published yet as I have to reformat it.)

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