Successful inventor Xander Manning has spent years of his life building a companion that will cater to your every desire. It’s just a shame he hasn’t acknowledged the emotional toll it’s taken on his wife. She's going to leave him just as his career is about to explode. As if by fate, single mother Chloe Armstrong enters Xander’s life and turns his world upside down. Half his age, the beautiful and confident Chloe possesses an uncanny ability to melt his heart. Their inevitable affair could spell the end of Xander’s outlook on love—possibly for the better. But Chloe’s real motives become the stuff of shocking rumors among Xander’s friends and colleagues. Something isn’t quite right about her, not that he can see it. He knows love is blind, and that humans – us simple machines – need only love to survive. Now, Xander is about to gamble his entire life on Chloe... and if doesn't pay off, his company and those closest to him will be destroyed forever… Fans of Lee Child, Gayle Curtis, Jess Lourey, Dean Koontz, and Gregg Olsen will never forget Simple Machines—a modern-day suspense thriller from best-selling author Andrew Mackay. Get your copy now.
Author
Some authors dare not cross the line. International Best-selling author Andrew Mackay makes it his starting point. A novelist, screenwriter and former teacher, Mackay is the creator of groundbreaking satire series ‘In Their Shoes’; the hilarious and often shocking journey of fictional newbie journalist Joy Attwood. The first two books in the series (The Teacher and The Actor) are best sellers in Amazon’s “satire” category (UK and US). Self-proclaimed "Antisocial Justice Warrior" Mackay is also founder of Chrome Valley Books - “The Home of Dangerous Fiction”. Never knowingly inoffensive, his works often contain a ruthless commentary on society, delving into the more darker and disturbing machinations of modern life - but always with a sense of humanity and wit. His influences include John Cleese, Tom Sharpe, Kurt Vonnegut, James Patterson, Hunter S Thompson, Douglas Adams, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Michael Frayn, Chris Morris, Jerry Sadowitz, Christopher Hitchins, Bill Maher, George Carlin, Milo Yiannopoulos and Larry Cohen. One of the UK's most dedicated provocateurs and contrarians, his obsessions include (and are essentially limited to) unhealthy amounts of: smoking, drugs, alcohol, caffeine, sex, arguing, fighting, vandalism, conjuring up hilarious and nasty situations for his characters and writing about himself in the third person. Get in touch! Andrew@chromevalleybooks.com Subscribe to Chrome Valley Books and get a free short story ‘One Size Fits All’, the prequel to ‘In Their Shoes’, at bit.ly/subcvb
