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Book 8 sees Rowan, Jude and the team trying to deal with geopolitical crises whilst also working at calming the anxieties, phobias and conspiracy theories running rampant in the human world after the vampire, Sybil's efforts to enslave humanity.

Angel Book 5, Culture Shock, begins with Angel and Duke Bryan Pendle arriving at the Court of King Edward. There she meets one of Pope Alexander II's Cardinals, Giuseppe Folonari whose attitude convinces her that she needs to go to Rome to meet the Pope, Alexander II. Archbishop Halford decides to accompany her, along with the Cardinal. To avoid a lengthy sea and land journey Angel takes the two men back to her time. The two are astounded and deeply affected by seeing St Peter's Square in Rome. Transitioning to the Rome of 1062 Angel and her two companions are accosted by Count Gregory II ...

When Ursula Flockhart joins the British Army at 18 she is already a martial arts expert. She is recruited into a shadowy department called Special Operations, run by Colonel Peterson. One undercover assignment has her posing as a shop assistant named Colleen, in order to get close to, and to eliminate a senior IRA figure at the height of the troubles. Over a 25 year career, once peace is restored in Northern Ireland, she sees action in Iraq, Libya and Kosovo. Back in the UK she is recruited as an assassin by another department run by Colonel Darbly and is cashiered unexpectedly when Darbly ...

Book Two in the series sees Rowan, now fully in possession of her powers, battling Court Mages and trying to end the rebellion on the Empire's western, eastern and southern borders. With her demon crow familiar, Vasili, she has to pick her way through the minefield of jealous Generals and warlike tribes incensed by years of unfair taxation. Her aim is to disband the Empire and replace it with a union of equal nations. For their part, the tribes are not interested in peace or unity. They want revenge and are dead set on setting the Empire ablaze, end-to-end ...

Rowan Cartwright's magic was blocked when she was just two years and three months old, by her grandmother, Wilma Alfridson, the most powerful witch the Barrowlands had seen for generations... There I was on Morgan Hill, staring at these two bitty flames on my palms, getting more and more irritated with my inability to reach the magic I knew was inside me somewhere, when, out the corner of my eye, I saw a strange figure striding down the hill towards me. I judged him to be at least a head taller than me and I’m a touch over six feet. A tall conical hat set atop a mane of white hair made ...

When Detective Inspector Greelie is called in to investigate what should have been an open and shut case, involving the rape of Kathryn O'Neal and the near-fatal stabbing of her sister by a local man from the village where the sisters are on holiday, he is presented with a problem that swiftly spirals out of control. With an old-fashioned Scottish preacher quoting the Book of Revelations, evidence of Satanic Circles and a murderous villain called McKenzie out to harm Kathryn, Greelie soon finds that normal police procedures are of very limited use when confronted with the age-old battle of ...

With social services getting restless about the younger members of the Clan, Angel decides to send Maisie and Malissa to boarding school. The girls hack the CIA's London office in an idle moment and start a chain of events running that ends in a fundamentalist Islamic attack ont the school. “Girls, these men are from BT’s Cyber Investigations Unit. They want to talk to you. Please be honest with them. It seems you are in serious trouble,” Chrissie said. Her voice trembled. “BT Cyber-what?” Maisie said, looking up from her sketch pad. “Never heard of it,” Malissa said, glancing...

In Volume 2, Jude divides her time between helping the FBI resolve major incidents, and discovering how her world, Warangia, works. I held my hands out and flared the ‘no-fire’ spell. It was visible for about two seconds as a spreading magenta-coloured flare which ran along the wharf side, up the ship and over the buildings opposite. Somebody must have tried to shoot something, because a panicked voice shouted: “My goddamn gun doesn’t work.” A megaphone bellowed into life. “This is the FBI. You are surrounded. Put down your weapons. Lie on the ground with your hands on your ...

Book Three begins with Andy, Jake, Sarah and Poloda meeting a Directorate agent, Frilian, in Rome. They aim to hunt down the mage, Gunnil Porjon, who bought one of the power artefacts crafted by the witch Melody, and is using it to gain politican power. The two Fury sisters, Alecto and Megaera, excited at being in Rome after so many centuries, decide to take a stroll to the Tiber, leaving chaos in their wake. The sorcerer Sothus has also obtained one of the artefacts and needs to be dealth with ...

When Mitchell Wallace halts his suicidal plunge from an overpass to save the life of a lamb who wanders onto the freeway, he sets into motion a chain of events that forever alters his destiny and lives of his best friend and sister.

Retired SAS Major Joe Slater, together with his partner, Dr Sarah Grainger, and the Russian billionaire, Andreas Kolzaidy, have attracted the attention of the British, American and Russian militaries with their AI-enhanced upgrades for elite soldiers. However, Joe is not satisfied with simply becoming a contractor to the world's military. He and those closest to him have the full AI enhancement, not the standard package they sell to Special Forces teams. His mission is to keep the brilliant Dr Grainger and Andreas safe, but Joe dreams of doing more. When Sarah becomes interested in robotics...

With their marriage in shambles after a horrific crime rocks their foundation, Kevin and Amy Kessecker try to salvage what is left of their lives by joining friends on a private island in South Texas. Unbeknownst to them, something evil has followed. Together, they are thrust into a hilarious and horrifying fight for survival against a seemingly unstoppable adversary with unimaginable abilities.

Book 4 picks up with Jude and her Honour Guard looking to defuse the chaos caused when Jude spirited away two drones which the NSA deemed to be vital to US security. Having successfully neutralised the threat from the Tungai, Jude finds she has been declared a public enemy. This 'misunderstanding' defused, she is then immediately asked to help find a murderous sniper. Then she is faced with a continent-wide rebellion back in her home Realm of Warangia. The rebellion will test her ability to resist the temptation of becoming a tyrant, while she tries to hold to her resolve of not taking up ...

Angel Book 6: Holy Wars, sees Angel and Chan taking ship with Duke Guiscard for Messina Sicily as the Duke begins his campaign to assist his brother, Roger 1, to conquer all of the island. The book continues her efforts to make this early prequel to the Crusades less bloody and fairer to all. Along the way she introduces the Duke, Roger and one of their companions, to modern Messina …

When Merchanteer Talinor rents a dwelling from Gidor and Lytilla Altman on the colony world Quom she finds herself caught up in a plot to use Gidor Altman to assassinate a leading Quom politician. Talinor has her own reasons for not wanting to come to the attention of the Federation Space Navy. Quom, itself a former leader of the rebel colony alliance against Earth, is once again entering a rebellious phase and Talinor finds herself going head to head against the top security service on Quom's richest province, Nicossia, as she tries to help the Altmans escape the murderous net being woven ...

Joe Slater, a 22-year veteran who has been 'retired' by the SAS, is on his fourth beer in a London pub when two men accost a young woman sitting at a nearby table. Joe does not know that the woman, Dr Sarah Grainger is a scientist who has decided to run away from her job at a biotech company. He knows only that he does not like seeing the woman forced to accompany two men against her will. His decision to intervene triggers a series of events that neither he nor Dr Grainger could have foreseen. Excerpt: My neighbour was still staring into her G&T, oblivious of the new arrivals. The next ...

Woken from her drift towards eternal sleep by the appearance of Rowan and Jude, Sybil, the Head of the Vampire Council, decides to amuse herself by subjugating the human realm. Rowan has to combat the hit-and-run tactics Sybil and her allies adopt across the US and Europe. Rowan's hopes of getting the magical communities and the human world to accept each other look increasingly impossible as things go from bad to worse.

In Song of Empire, Book 2, Siian and his companions on the Merryweather, Seth, Y'leta and Fodar, set out to transform Xenon, which has regressed to a medieval way of life. They also have to devise a way of defeating the Federation, which has a space-going navy capable of suppressing colony planets whose technology is vastly superior to Xeon's. In their planning they can draw on the resources of their ship's artificial mind, the AM Kodin, but ultimately success will depend up on Siian's capabilities as a human/Guardian cross. One of their first tasks is to end the threat posed to the ...

The lead character in Song of Empire, Book 1, is Siian, a seventeen year old youth who, unbeknown to himself, is a genetic cross. His mother, Melissa, is herself the daughter of a relationship between a human and a Guardian. The latter are a purpose engineered variant of humans, designed to be perfect administrators and witnesses, observing and reporting on the governments of Earth’s many colonies across the galaxies. The ruling Council of Members on Earth is concerned to prevent human/Guardian cross breeding, to prevent contamination of the human gene pool. When the novel begins, Siian ...

Having been pitched headfirst into modern-day London by the Goddess, in Book 4 Rowan is coming to terms with the unfamiliar world around her. She grows increasingly attached to her 'minder', Lieutenant Harry West, and to the friends she has made in the magical communities connected to major human cities. However, she finds that straddling the human and the magical worlds threatens the secrecy of the magical communities, which have successfully hidden from humans for many centuries.