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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 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.

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 ...

With the Elder Vampire Sybil's attacks on major metropolitan centres in Europe and the US growing ever more intense, Rowan and Jude find themselves struggling to contain the carnage. Rowan's task of getting the magical and human worlds to interact peacefully with each other seems more and more impossible. The only option seems to be to hunt Sybil down and end her before she achieves her goal of subjugating all of humanity.

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 Book 3 Angel decides to use Ka's ability to open a door in time to travel back to 1062. Her aim is to stop the Norman invasion of England and to start the Industrial Revolution seven centuries early, hopefully in a less damaging way for the planet. ... Pausing at the brow of a hill, near the crossroad at Little Upton, the Duke was astonished to see what looked to be the solitary figure of a very tall girl standing on the bridge. His eyesight was not brilliant at a distance, though it was perfectly fine for close work, so he screwed up his eyes to try to bring the figure into better focus...

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.

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 ...

Andromeda Bertram, who prefers to be called Andy, has spent her school days being uprooted every 18 months or so by her mother, Persephone. When the novel opens she has just been relocated once again, from a school in North Carolina, to a much rougher school in Yonkers, New York. She meets Jake, an Alpha shifter and discovers that she is twinned with one of the three original Erinyes, or Furies, and that the human world is also home to a host of magical types ...

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 ...

Andy, Jake and Sarah continue their quest to find and banish the remaining power artefacts created by the witch, Melody. Queen Penelope becomes increasingly frustrated with President Simpson's foot-dragging as far as initiating meaningful measures to counteract Climate Change is concerned, and the Directorate Agent, Dirak, struggles to keep up with his freewheeling recruits.

The relationship between Andy and Jake culminates in their wedding, though they have little time to celebrate as the Directorate wants the power artifacts created by the witch Melody, destroyed as soon as possible. At the same time, Andy's Mom, Queen Persephone, is growing more determined to rein in what she sees as the destruction of the Earth by human greed and recklessness. Andy is having a hard time dissuading her mother from unleashing the modern equivalent of the Black Death to drastically reduce human population pressures on the planet.

Book 5 in the series begins with a meeting between the US President, his key staff and Queen Persephone, Andy and Jake, which aims to defuse the tension between the parties. Andy manages to convince President Simpson that he and his Administration need to reassure Persephone that they are doing everything possible to combat runaway climate change. Matters are complicated when it becomes increasingly evident that the Russian President intends to invade Poland and the Ukraine, possibly triggering WW3. Simpson asks Andy to intervene. At the same time, Andy and Jake need to continue searching ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.