Highlight: Ravenseed

From the author of Death Nest… A fantasy epic of love, lust, betrayal, and vengeance that will keep you riveted till the very end.

532 AD. Knights Sir Peter and Sir Matthew ride to battle, but when they take an ill-advised detour, the two friends find themselves involved in a quest to break a curse on Sir Matthew’s love, Elizabeth.

The quest sends them on a journey through Anglia, where they encounter magicians, spirits, gods, and dangers beyond their wildest dreams – from without and within.

In the present day, as teenager Fay Pendleton reads an ancient account of the two knights, scars start appearing on her face. Despite her ongoing disfigurement, she becomes obsessed with discovering the outcome of the quest, and her link to this mysterious story.

I have written several novels across a variety of genres, including gothic mystery horror/thriller, adventure, science fiction, and (in one peculiar blip) teenage romantic drama. Some are aimed at older children and up, and others at a grown-up readership.

Echo and the White Howl, Uncle Flynn, Dr Gribbles and the Beast of Blackthorn Lodge, and The George Hughes Trilogy (comprising The Martian Inheritance, The Titan War, and The Neptune Conspiracy) are all in the former category.

Ravenseed, Death Nest, Peaceful Quiet Lives, The Thistlewood Curse, Children of the Folded Valley, Spectre of Springwell Forest, The Irresistible Summons, Phantom Audition, and The Birds Began to Sing are in the latter category.

Love vs Honour, falls somewhere between the two readerships, being a young adult romantic drama.

Infestation: A Horror Anthology is novella and six short stories.

Love and Other Punishments is a dystopian sci-fi selection of seven novellas and short stories.

The Dark Forest Within is an anthology of fantasy tales contains novellas and short stories intended as a companion piece to Ravenseed.

All titles are currently available, as downloads or paperbacks, from Amazon (simply click on the appropriate title), and in some cases, Draft2Digital and their various outlets (including Smashwords).

Phantom Audition

He buried himself in a part. Now she wants to know why.

Small-time actress Mia Yardley, recently widowed wife of renowned actor Steven Yardley, discovers her late husband’s secret acting diary. The diary details appointments made with a psychic medium, who advised Steven on which roles to take. It also raises questions about his mysterious and inexplicable suicide.

Seeking answers, Mia speaks to the medium, but in doing so is drawn into an ever- deepening mystery about what happened to her husband during the final days of his life. Eventually, she is forced to ask the terrible question: was Steven Yardley murdered by a vengeful evil from beyond the grave?

The Irresistible Summons

How far would you go to bring the one you love back from the dead?

Television producer Naomi Levinson makes documentaries debunking the supernatural. When asked to film a promotional video for computer game company Persephone, she considers the task beneath her talents. But as production gets underway at the Persephone office block on London’s Canary Wharf, a mysterious disappearance, ghostly sightings, and lingering tragedy from Naomi’s past lead her to believe she might have stumbled into a genuine haunting.

As Naomi continues to investigate, past and present collide in a horrifying conspiracy. Cutting edge technology and ancient evil meet, leading to the discovery of a shocking and terrifying secret that could change the nature of life and death as we know it.

Spectre of Springwell Forest

Lily Henderson has a horrifying secret buried far in her past. She hoped it would never be revealed. Now she has no choice.

To save her family, Lily must keep them from returning to the village of Springwell, where she lived with her first husband and young daughter decades previously. In the past, after moving to Springwell, Lily encounters secretive locals, government scientists, and rumours of a ghost haunting the forest.

Are they linked to the mysterious deaths of local children? Do paintings by a local artist predict when tragic events are getting closer? Will Lily’s daughter be next?

Two were taken. More will follow.

The Thistlewood Curse

Can a ghost murder the living?

Lawrence Crane’s powers of astral projection are put to the ultimate test when he and his lifelong friend Detective Laura Buchan investigate a mysterious death on Lundy Island.

Sensing a dark power at work, they attempt to identify a human assassin under the control of supernatural evil.

But can they escape a terrifying, centuries-old curse?

The Birds Began to Sing

When aspiring novelist Alice Darnell enters a competition to write the ending for an unfinished manuscript by late, world famous author Sasha Hawkins, it appears she might have her big break at last.

However, upon arrival at Sasha’s former home – the sinister Blackwood House – Alice is unsettled by peculiar competition rules, mysterious dreams and inexplicable ghostly visions. She begins to question her sanity as she is drawn into a terrifying web of deceit, revenge and murder.

Death Nest

After his young son Ben writes a disturbing story about murdering a boy in a forest, widower Nick Unwin is alarmed by eerie parallels between his son’s behaviour and that of his younger brother Jason, prior to his inexplicable disappearance twenty years previously. This tragic past returns to haunt Nick when he sees an image of his long-lost brother in a newly released film.

Fearing history will repeat itself, Nick decides to investigate, along with Tanith, an old flame from his early teenage years, with dark secrets of her own connected to Jason’s disappearance. But as they delve deeper into the labyrinthine mysteries of their past, long buried memories resurface. Nick is forced to face the terrible fear that has plagued him for decades: Was he responsible for the death of his brother?

Infestation: A Horror Anthology

A horror novella and selection of short stories.

In the near future, no one knows where the giant spider nests came from, but nations are adjusting to the challenge of living alongside dangerous oversized arachnids.

A mercenary desperate for money to purchase medical treatments that can save his wife is hired by an influential businessman. His objective: Infiltrate a spider nest on a mission of vengeance.

Alongside the Infestation novella, this volume also features short stories Once in a Lifetime, Influencer, Regression, Spinner, and White Horse. The latter is a standalone prequel to gothic mystery novel The Irresistible Summons.

Peaceful Quiet Lives

Two Nations Under God. Can their love survive in either nation?

Life, love, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are a distant dream for Sam and Eve. Their forbidden love falls foul of laws in both nations born from the ashes of the Second American Civil War.

A satire of political and religious fears, Peaceful Quiet Lives is a thought-provoking and powerful dystopian future shock.

Children of the Folded Valley

During a journey to visit his estranged sister, James Harper recalls his childhood in amysterious valley cut off from the outside world, where he grew up as part of a cult called the Folded Valley Fellowship.

In this seemingly idyllic world, the charismatic Benjamin Smiley claimed to be protecting his followers from an impending nuclear apocalypse.

But the valley concealed a terrifying secret.

A secret that would change Smiley’s followers forever.

Love and Other Punishments: A Dystopian Anthology

A gripping selection of dystopian science fiction novellas and short stories.

A journalist investigates a company manufacturing nightmare suppressing nanotech for children.

A civil servant suspects terrorists hacking the Driverless Vehicle Network and crashing vehicles may be an inside job.

A man and woman conduct an illegal workplace affair, finding ingenious ways to fool corporate brain monitoring.

All these stories and more in this compelling collection of futuristic satire, technological speculation, alternative realities, and melancholy obsessions. Includes The Thought Improvement Programme, Driverless, Bleed with Me, The Traffic Warden, Sweet Dreams, Apocalypse 1983, and Love and Other Punishments.

The Dark Forest Within: An Anthology of Fantasy Tales

Parallel dimensions, dreamscapes, and the Dark Ages… An anthology of fantasy tales from the author of Ravenseed.

Gabriel, a lonely teenage boy living with his strict Jehovah’s Witness mother, is visited in dreams by a mysterious paper girl.

On a spiritual plane between life and death, a struggling writer tries to contact her comatose father.

Amid a world torn apart by civil war, a girl faces soul-threatening danger when her stepfather wants to cut out her eyes.

In two prequels and a sequel to Ravenseed, a farmer, a knight, and a mysterious woman each make perilous quests in magical forests. As they journey deeper into the woodland, they journey deeper into themselves, confronting darkness, danger, and demons.

Filled with adventure and romance, mystery and monsters, triumph and tragedy, The Dark Forest Within is a riveting collection of fabulous tales, and a must-read standalone companion piece to Ravenseed. Includes Papercut, An In-Between Christmas, Window of the Soul, Wulfric’s Quest, Winged, and Bloodmire.

Love vs Honour

Two Religions. Two Deceptions. One Love.

When Johnny meets and falls in love with Sabina, their bond proves stronger than a teenage holiday fling.

Fearing the disapproval of their strict Christian and Islamic families, they undertake an elaborate deception to continue seeing one another. Johnny pretends to convert to Islam whilst Sabina pretends to covert to Christianity to appease their parents.

But how long can this deception last before it unravels?

Echo and the White Howl

An epic wilderness adventure.

When a wolf pack discovers humans lurking near their territory, Echo senses dark times ahead.

Despite the warnings and omens, Aatag, the pack Alpha, refuses to flee… leading to a cruel turn of events that forces Echo into exile, and a quest for revenge that will change the pack forever.

Uncle Flynn

When timid eleven year old Max Bradley embarks on a hunt for buried treasure on Dartmoor with his mysterious Uncle Flynn, he discovers he is braver than he thought.

Together they decipher clues, find a hidden map and explore secret tunnels in their search.

But with both police and rival treasure hunters on their tail, Max begins to wonder if his uncle is all he seems…

Dr Gribbles and the Beast of Blackthorn Lodge

September 1987.

Curiosity lands Tim Rawling in a world of secrets, spies and a desperate race against time.

The haunted house, the monster and the mad scientist are only the beginning of a terrifying adventure.

The Martian Inheritance

Book One of the George Hughes Trilogy

When George Hughes discovers he has inherited the planet Mars, he goes from poverty to becoming the richest boy on Earth overnight.

Accompanied by his new guardian, a mysterious secret agent, and a crew of astronauts, George makes the voyage to Mars to sell land to celebrities wanting to build interplanetary holiday homes.

But sabotage, assassination attempts, and the possibility of an alien threat plunge him into a deadly adventure.

The Titan War

Book Two of the George Hughes Trilogy

A year on from his adventures on Mars, George Hughes faces an even deadlier peril as he travels to Titan on an urgent rescue mission.

The mysterious Giles returns to help him, but assassins are once again on his tail, and a new, far greater alien menace lurks in the shadows waiting to strike.

The Neptune Conspiracy

Book Three of the George Hughes Trilogy

In this mindblowing finale to The George Hughes Trilogy, following the events of The Martian Inheritance and The Titan War, George faces his most dangerous adventure yet.

Following the Titanian invasion, a deadly and personal threat forces George to undertake a voyage to a top secret Martian research base on Neptune. On this remote outpost, he uncovers a diabolical plot.

But George is too late to prevent the catastrophe.

A catastrophe that will change his life forever.

The George Hughes Trilogy

For the first time ever, all three thrilling novels in The George Hughes Trilogy are present in one spectacular volume.

The Martian Inheritance, The Titan War, and The Neptune Conspiracy concern teenage boy George Hughes, who unexpectedly inherits the planet Mars.

In three riveting tales, George finds himself the target of covert assassins, hostile aliens, and even darker forces. But he also comes under the protection of a mysterious secret agent, and finds friends in unlikely places.

Packed with page-turning action, mystery, suspense, and mindblowing twists, The George Hughes Trilogy takes science fiction adventure to new and exhilarating heights.