Three Steps to Heaven

Currently free from Amazon... It's 1961 and eighteen-year-old Eddie Mellor has the world at his feet. His group, The Raiders, are about to be signed by one of Manchester's leading theatrical agents. He is head over heels in love with Jane Wilson. The pair are looking forward to an exciting future until his ex-girlfriend Angie Turner announces she is expecting his baby. Eddie is forced into a hasty marriage, gives up the group and finds menial employment in a paint factory to support his wife and son. His dream of becoming a famous rock drummer is the one thing keeping him going.Eddie's luck is about to change for the better when he hears that Jane has broken off her recent engagement. The pair meet secretly and begin a passionate affair. Roy Cantello, lead singer with The Raiders persuades him to re-join the group. Following Angie's untimely death alongside her lover, Richard Price, Eddie and Jane marry and take on the responsibility of raising Eddie's son, Jonny.Their happiness is under threat when their new baby daughter Jessica goes missing while the group is touring Europe. Presumed kidnapped for ransom, due to the groups' high profile, it soon becomes apparent that the baby has been taken by Jane's mentally disturbed ex, Mark Fisher, who believes that Jane is his wife and Jessica his daughter. He takes the baby to his step-family on The Isle of Wight.As the police move in, Jessica is rescued but Mark jumps to his death over cliffs at The Needles beauty spot. As life begins to return to normal for Eddie and Jane, The Raiders top the British and American charts and Eddie feels that life can only get better. Then he is dealt the cruellest blow of all when he learns that the son he adores is not his child...This is a gritty tale of love, betrayal, kidnap and rock'n'roll set in the 1960's The first in a trilogy about The Raiders through the decades.