Archie the Royal Hot Water Bottle Series
By Suzie Louis
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About this series
Jeff and Crystal's triplets are nearly two and have developed a fixation with wanting Archie and Terri as toys. No-one can work out why and until an explanation is found the children's efforts to secure what they see as treasure causes the hot water bottle and cover considerable inconvenience. Crystal is receiving increasingly disturbing letters from a young Romanian diplomat who's obsessed with her. A psychiatrist has been consulted and advises that Vali, a young Romanian and author of the letters, is suffering with erotomania and should, for his own safety, be tracked down, arrested and receive treatment. But Vali eludes the British and becomes a pawn in a much larger game of revenge played by a devious and ultimately ruthless Russian who comes out of one of the royal family's retainer's past to threaten the institution of the monarchy. The plot moves from the Palace in London to Sydney where the innocent are targets and no-one is safe to the family estate at Claremore where secrets that have lain undiscovered for centuries are unearthed and used in the Russian's deadly game. In Archie's world things were a little different. Another reality prevailed that could take a little getting used to but once people did they found their lives populated with a much wider circle of potential friends and acquaintances than they could possibly imagine. There were varying human reactions to the discovery that objects were not only alive but had interests and loves of their own. If a person didn't have a particular gift, as well as an imaginative and open frame of mind, the discovery that everything is alive could result in extreme and negative reactions, including hearing and seeing things to such an extent that a trip to the loony bin or a regime of heavy and continuing sedation may follow. But really it doesn't happen often and the few known cases are considered inevitable but unfortunate. Such was the case with Archie, not merely an object but a hot water bottle who, with his beloved cover Terri, lived in a Palace and served Crystal, a princess who would one day be Queen. Crystal was married to Jeff and to Archie and Terri's present dismay, had borne triplets who were now approaching their second birthday. With the arrival of the three royal heirs Archie knew he and Terri's lives would never be the same but recently he'd learned that babies grow quickly and become mobile even faster. His information had come at first hand because he and Terri now lived in the triplets' nursery where the two nannies, Mary and Adam, were at times hard pressed to keep track of their charges. Although as royal heirs the triplets were ostensibly surrounded by security, Crystal and Jeff's babies managed to be active, independent, elusive toddlers who wanted to explore their surroundings and test their growing strength and agility whenever they could. This led to conflicts with the nursery regime which was designed to keep them stimulated but safe. Still being without fear and adventurous by nature, the children constantly derailed the program with ingenious escape attempts designed to expand their horizons independently of their minders.
Titles in the series (2)
- Archie the Royal Hot Water Bottle
1
Archie, still an innocent in the ways of humans, was plucked from the obscurity of a chemist shop by a regal hand just out for a little retail therapy, to lead a life of service in a palace. He was chosen to serve a noble but immature owner, Crystal who is an orphaned princess with immediate problems she can't manage and a future that holds many surprises, including a realisation that objects like Archie, a hot water bottle, have lives and loves of their own. Hot water bottles are meant to have a beautiful cover and one is especially chosen and made for Archie. She is Terri who becomes the love of his life and part of the plethora of living objects that populate the palace and know everything that happens, even if the humans who live and work there don't. But before Crystal comes to know that in Archie's world there are rewards for those that know about the wider reality and disappointments for those that don't, she has to make her way through the awkwardness of being an immature nineteen and the dangers of being led astray by a punk servant with advancement on her mind. Jade, one of the Queen's more risky attempts at social interaction, is ambitious and has an agenda in which Crystal is to play a major part. Jade's plots are uncovered and the steps Crystal's Grandmother the Queen subsequently takes to not only keep Crystal safe from Jade and her own immaturity break some rules themselves and lead to some unfortunate consequences for Jade. But Jade never gives up and with some ingenuity creates some surprises for the Palace. Crystal's indiscretions are a potential scandal and grist to the mill of the tabloids so the Queen does what's required as Crystal rails against her Grandmother's plans for her. Crystal also has her first love affair with an apparently suitable young man from a fine family but where Crystal is concerned nothing is as it seems and there are surprises in store as her lover Richard Holland reveals more than he should and causes Crystal and the Palace a great deal of trouble. When Crystal travels to New Zealand on her gap year accidents just seem to befall her at every turn. The shifting dynamic of the object/human relationship leads to changes of attitude on both sides as Crystal grows up and into a role she was not born to. Without Archie and Terri who do their best for their difficult owner and the presence of Jeff, a handsome royal protection officer with a past in under cover work that may come back to haunt him, likes older women and his motor bike. He doesn't care about Crystal one way or the other and will do what it takes to fulfil his duty to be her minder while she resents his very existence. Without Jeff and his ability to deal with the crises Crystal creates, Crystal and the Crown may be lost.
- A Mere Pawn
2
Jeff and Crystal's triplets are nearly two and have developed a fixation with wanting Archie and Terri as toys. No-one can work out why and until an explanation is found the children's efforts to secure what they see as treasure causes the hot water bottle and cover considerable inconvenience. Crystal is receiving increasingly disturbing letters from a young Romanian diplomat who's obsessed with her. A psychiatrist has been consulted and advises that Vali, a young Romanian and author of the letters, is suffering with erotomania and should, for his own safety, be tracked down, arrested and receive treatment. But Vali eludes the British and becomes a pawn in a much larger game of revenge played by a devious and ultimately ruthless Russian who comes out of one of the royal family's retainer's past to threaten the institution of the monarchy. The plot moves from the Palace in London to Sydney where the innocent are targets and no-one is safe to the family estate at Claremore where secrets that have lain undiscovered for centuries are unearthed and used in the Russian's deadly game. In Archie's world things were a little different. Another reality prevailed that could take a little getting used to but once people did they found their lives populated with a much wider circle of potential friends and acquaintances than they could possibly imagine. There were varying human reactions to the discovery that objects were not only alive but had interests and loves of their own. If a person didn't have a particular gift, as well as an imaginative and open frame of mind, the discovery that everything is alive could result in extreme and negative reactions, including hearing and seeing things to such an extent that a trip to the loony bin or a regime of heavy and continuing sedation may follow. But really it doesn't happen often and the few known cases are considered inevitable but unfortunate. Such was the case with Archie, not merely an object but a hot water bottle who, with his beloved cover Terri, lived in a Palace and served Crystal, a princess who would one day be Queen. Crystal was married to Jeff and to Archie and Terri's present dismay, had borne triplets who were now approaching their second birthday. With the arrival of the three royal heirs Archie knew he and Terri's lives would never be the same but recently he'd learned that babies grow quickly and become mobile even faster. His information had come at first hand because he and Terri now lived in the triplets' nursery where the two nannies, Mary and Adam, were at times hard pressed to keep track of their charges. Although as royal heirs the triplets were ostensibly surrounded by security, Crystal and Jeff's babies managed to be active, independent, elusive toddlers who wanted to explore their surroundings and test their growing strength and agility whenever they could. This led to conflicts with the nursery regime which was designed to keep them stimulated but safe. Still being without fear and adventurous by nature, the children constantly derailed the program with ingenious escape attempts designed to expand their horizons independently of their minders.
Suzie Louis
It's strange what you eventually come up with when you write for other people: some elements of your own experience emerge as well as fresh, new stories that seem to come from nowhere. This has been my experience since I began to write for pleasure. I initially used my professional and personal life to produce Deepwater, the Litigation Junkie and Diary of a Novice Market Organiser but also found a stream of fantasy that became the Archie the Royal Hot Water Bottle series. I continue to find the creative writing process interesting as I work on a new novel and hope you enjoy the results so far.
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