Roffey's 2014 novel, "House of Ashes", is a fictionalised account of the events surrounding the 1990 attempted coup in Trinidad. Ronald Adamolekun, for "Wasafiri" magazine, said: "House of Ashes" will be remembered as the most authoritative fictionalised account of the 1990 Trinidad and Tobago revolution, arguably the darkest moment of the island’s history."