About A One Way Ticket by Carole McEntee-Taylor:
Inspired by the true story of seaman Bill Young, A One Way Ticket is a four book series mixing fact and fiction. Photos are included in every book and Bill’s true story is at the end of book 4, Journey’s End.
Bill Young is caught in a police trap while trying to rob a jewellers shop in Douglas, The Isle of Man and given a choice of approved school or the Armed Forces. After joining the Royal Navy he finds himself protecting convoys in the Atlantic before being sent to the Mediterranean. But bad luck seems to follow him and he begins to wonder if he is jinxed.
Tilly Weber had always craved excitement although murder was not part of the plan. But the world is rapidly changing and Tilly finds herself in the forefront of the fight against the Nazis. However, Tilly is torn between duty and family. Her sister Dot was evacuated at the beginning of the war and has gone missing.
Jacob Goldsmith has gone to Berlin to rescue his cousin Sura and her family. But is he too late? As Jacob is drawn into the dangerous world of intelligence, his life will never be the same again.
Bill’s sister Nora gets a job at the internment camps on the island and meets Tilly who recruits her to act as go between and give Jacob any information she finds out. They discover a Nazi plot to kidnap the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, but will they be in time?
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Author Bio:
Carole McEntee-Taylor writes and publishes military history, historical fiction, memoirs and spiritual books. Her military history include Herbert Columbine VC, Surviving the Nazi Onslaught, A Battle Too Far and The Battle of Bellewaarde 1915. She also writes historical fiction, including Secret Lives, a six part series set through WW1; Lives Apart: A WW2 Chronicle, a five part series based in the true story of Rifleman Ted Taylor, Obsession, a five book series inspired by the true story of the thousands of allied POWs who disappeared at the end of WW2 and Betrayed, a murder mystery set in 1940s Berlin and Palestine. Carole worked for several years in the Military Corrective Training Centre, Colchester, the UK’s only remaining military detention centre and now lives in North Lincolnshire with her husband and writes full time.