KING OF HEARTS BY MARK STIBBE
PAPERBACK PUBLISHED BY MALCOLM DOWN PUBLISHING
King of Hearts tells the gripping story of Jake Graystone, a struggling teacher, husband, and father, who looks for easy money playing poker. When his wife Sally exposes his secret addiction on Christmas Eve, he walks out and heads north for Casino City, leaving his family for a dark world of gambling, prostitution and murder.
How will the cards fall for Jake in this brutal, urban wasteland? And, as the stakes get higher and higher, will this modern Desperado ever come to his senses?
King of Hearts is a winter, festive story to sit alongside It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol. Raw yet redemptive, it is a Christmas tale you’ll not be able to put down.
At the end of each chapter, you will want to twist, not fold.
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MY REVIEW
One of my favourite books
King of Hearts by Mark Stibbe took me on an intense ride. Jake is an fascinating character, one to adore and willing him to do the right thing. I believe this story of Jake Greystone who starts poker, is a warning sign not to pay poker and gamble as it can go horribly wrong.
Sally, Jake’s wife is heartbroken when she finds out about Jake’s secret addiction into playing poker, in an argument, he leaves his wife and children.
Jake sets of to the north to Casino City, at first Jake becomes rich, but as quick as he has won lots of money playing poker, he swiftly looses it all.
We follow Jake’s journey, with his every heartbreaking movement with no money and nowhere to live.
I loved reading King of Hearts with each chapter twists and turns. I didn’t want this story to end. I can put my hand on my heart and recommend King of Hearts from the talented author Mark Stibbe. This book is one of the best fiction/ Regligious that I have read. I hope you all enjoy reading King of Hearts as much as what I did.
ABOUT AUTHOR MARK STIBBE
Mark Stibbe is an award winning author of over 50 books. He runs BookLab, a service for emerging writers, and is a popular speaker st writing conferences and workshops. He regularly posts blogs for budding authors at www.advice4authors.com
Mark Stibbe, “An acclaimed Christian author,” New York Times.
Mark started writing when he was very young, publishing his first book – an anthology of poetry entitled The Drawing out of Days – when he was just 17. Since then, he has been a prolific author and professional writer, with over 50 books published, and countless articles in broadsheet newspapers, journals and magazines. One of his most successful recent books has been Home at Last, offering a faith-based journey of recovery for those who were deeply affected by the trauma of being sent away to boarding school. He has also ghostwritten over thirty books, of many different genres.
In 2013, Mark migrated from writing nonfiction to fiction and this resulted in the co-authored historical spy thriller The Fate of Kings and now his debut, single-authored novel, King of Hearts, a raw but redemptive Christmas tale in the tradition of A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life. In early 2020, as the official storyteller for the award-winning Arokah Puzzle Game, he and Steve Brazier, the inventor of the puzzle, will publish the first in a series of Sci Fi Fantasy novels based around Arokah and starring Khali, an autistic, mixed-race hero. These are aimed at the 9-13 age group.
Mark runs BookLab with his wife Cherith, a company dedicated to equipping aspiring writers to become great authors. He is a frequent and much in-demand speaker at workshops for writers and conferences in which the subjects of his books are featured. He has often been interviewed on BBC (Radio and TV), Channel 4 and other media, and writes articles for The Times. Having been brought up by an adoptive father who dined fortnightly with CS Lewis, his whole life has been devoted to books and to writing. He lives in Kent with his wife Cherith and their Black Labrador, Bella.
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