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Dying is easy, staying alive is the problem in New York City. The phage virus went airborne two years ago, triggering the Fall. Now tropes own the night, freaks stalk the subways and the dead have returned. War has taken to the streets; kill or be killed. Mercy Dawes, survivor with a dark secret, faces down the City of Death. Will hope and love win out over despair and loss? It’s time to stay alive, time to choose sides. Where will your choice lead you Mercy Dawes? Will you live, will you survive?

“It seems to me that, where the human race is concerned, the ultimate form of communication is war—” Mercy Dawes. It’s been a long road: New York City, Long Island, Montauk, Portland, Halifax, Colorado Springs, Fort Worth, Galveston, Grand Cayman, Cuba, The Outer Banks, Norfolk, Hampton and Annapolis. Mercy Dawes’s epic quest for survival is near an end. Or is it? Washington DC, the belly of the beast, is in her sights. It’s so close she can taste it. The capital’s lights are on. The New American Dominion has power and she’s on their soil, fighting in their heartland. Mercy ...

It begins with a black swan; the storm gathers. A fledgling shapeshifter is exiled beyond the Wall, abandoned to her fate. Mother Erthe is in need; dark forces threaten her. Shiffante lords are angered by the folly of a vampire-elvin alliance. The butterfly girl, a wolf boy and an eagle are the only ones standing in the way of Shiffante terror. Assisted of course, by a ghost and the Beekeeper… there are no rules in this war. Darkness follows light, even into the chaos of blood drenched mirrorpools…

It is two years after the pandemic they called “The Fall”. Mercy Dawes should have died in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Part of her wishes she had died back in New York City along with all the others. But she is still alive, hostage to the technology implanted inside her by Cobalt Biotech and the New State Army. She is the super weapon the NSA wants to use against the relentless tide of undead. The undead are changing and evolving fast. In a race against time Mercy is forced to survive and fight against untold horrors. How much more can she sacrifice? How many more have to die? How long will ...

Mercy Dawes is angry, this is personal. The phage virus is mutating, the infected are leaving the cities. Mercy awakes to a world full of danger and loss, comforted by powerful enemies. They call her “The New Messiah”; she has the cure for the plague. Her life is forfeit to Cobalt Biotech and the New State Army who control her. But what if she fights back from within? What if she gambles with the lives of her friends? What if she embraces the darkness? Sometimes there is only one path to take.

Die and let live… The New State Army’s biotech is taking its toll on Mercy. She wants it removed and is willing to pay any price. Even if it means travelling across an entire continent. The Wild West of Arizona and California beckons. The warlords of Flagstaff, Las Vegas, and Phoenix stand in her way. She has to find a passage through the desert, the destruction, and the dead. Redemption lies in Naval Base Ventura, on the Pacific Coast. There, surgery can be performed to remove the biotech which is destroying her from within. The Arizona desert promises thirst, hunger, and desolation. ...

“The human experience is just fear wrapped up in skin—” Laurient of the Angels, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC. Mercy Dawes has reached Washington DC. She is near her target; President Mitchell, Commander-in-Chief of the New State Army. But her quarry is protected by high walls, drones, and elite troops. Other threats stalk the ruined city; feral alphas, hunter killer DARPA robots and mutated beasts. Beneath the capital lies a dark secret, one that can tip the balance in the war between the New State Army and Constantine’s Resistance. Mercy has to find a way to reach President Mitchell, to ...

Luana is dead; a rogue spirit who walks between worlds. She finds the highwayman, Elias. They join in the fight against the gathering darkness. Magister control of thrall magic has a stranglehold on the Erthe. Plague takes over the Storm Coast; the dead rise and roam the land. An angel host is defeated and enslaved by thrall magic. Luana's only hope; a daring escape with the pirate captain Ducet, to Echo Island and Sanctuary. To find Angel's Landing and Rafael, the archangel. To turn the tide, to recall the Seven, to breathe life into a lost race of dragons… to bring salvation to the ...

Fight, flight, freeze. Running to live. Running to die. Eat. Sleep. Kill. Repeat. “My life is poison… why am I doing this? Still fighting, still running—” Mercy Dawes has met and formed a pact with The Resistance; with Constantine. But Mercy is cut adrift; lost in the Gulf of Mexico. Events come thick and fast, she has to duck and dive, faster than ever before. The New State Army’s pursuit is relentless and even the madness she encounters in Grand Cayman is nothing compared to the trials she faces in Cuba. Can she face down the darkness and the trope hordes one more time? Will she...

“The human race has a staggering capacity for stupidity, just look at the twenty-first century—” President Mitchell, Commander-in-Chief, New State Army. Washington D.C. is on lockdown, surrounded by an army of undead. Corpses are rotting in the National Mall, Capitol Hill is in flames, and the White House is in ruins. An empire of bones… and still the lies continue: “Pray to the New American Dominion: We can make you believe. We can make you free. Death to the enemies of New America; kill this Constantine and her followers, kill this nay-sayer, this… Resistance, they have only ...

Thomas lies on the battlefield of Kreshe, left for dead, his memory in tatters. In plague ridden New York City, Jack Spence clings to life, surrounded by the horror of a different apocalypse. A blind girl, Raven, summons Jack to New Haven; Erthe’s city state. Eastern Necromancers re-animate the dead; their attack on the Erthe is an attack on life itself. New Haven’s dusk-thief Sabine, will guide Jack through the Erthe’s heartland… to his decision; kill or be killed. To bring ghosts back from the past, to melt the present with an ancient weapon… to survive. Dare you join the race? ...

Darkness, fear & despair embrace the Erthe... a dirty war from the past reaches through time & grips the present. Star fallen Gods awaken in deepest Spellhold. They hunt for the key to the gates of time. D'Janyl is that key. One man, a thief, one woman, a witch, one chance: the Runestane. They jump from now back to then. A race, a map, an adventure. Their journey unfolds... they are delivered by the sands of time to a world of danger & sorrow. Snow dragons, vampires & dark sorcery await them. Cat & mouse... stealth & cunning... blood will run, wings will tear the air, flames will scorch the...

Content Warning: Storyline explores the topics of substance misuse and death (Near Death Experience) What would you do if you died and then came back to life? Hope, a drug addict on Skid Row, Los Angeles, does just that. She dies of a heroin overdose, has a Near Death Experience, and then returns to life. To a changed world. A world in the grip of the Hades-Prion apocalypse. Climate change and melting ice caps have released an ancient, Jurassic-era disease into the oceans. The Hades-Prion enters the food chain, infecting humans. The resulting plague ravages the earth, killing billions of ...

“We will seek and yes, we will find. We will kill and we will grind. Blood and bone, soul and mind will be ours, in revenge, in payment for this day of days.” Raine of Farne is on a journey to find the Twist, a journey that will take her across the Jacta Arx Mountains to Si an Bhru and its ghosts. Bright Feather, Watcher of the Realm, recruits Tuath, a ring fighter and Grace of the Light, a Stolen, to do her dirty work. Tuath to deliver a message against impossible odds and Grace to assassinate six souls in six days. Meanwhile, the demon sisters Ashtoreth and Morrigan grow stronger, ...