Shilling & Florin

Book One: The Jack of Hearts Murders

A serial killer is stalking the streets of Victorian London and no one is safe…

Charles Shilling, empathetic genius and amateur sleuth, has no love for the aristocratic system and it doesn’t much love him. A scruffy and rebellious anarchist, he keeps out of trouble with the law by solving more crimes than he commits. But this latest case is the worst he’s ever faced. Shilling is at a loss and, if he wants to save lives, he needs help.

Amelia Florin, brilliant medical student and noblewoman, is desperate to stop the killer. Every new victim makes her feel like she’s the one being hunted, and Shilling is the only person who values her insight. Endearingly roguish, she is certain she can overlook his social standing to work with him. Unless the disapproval of her elitist fiancé lands them both in the killer’s sights first…

Can they stop the murderer before it’s too late, or will they be the next victims?

The Jack of Hearts Murders is the first book in the slow burn series of Shilling & Florin Mysteries. Set in an alternate and progressive universe, Shilling & Florin are on the case in a diverse and unique portrayal of London. Explore the world and crack the case in The Jack of Hearts Murders…

Like the Heroes of Old

There are no heroes anymore.

Only legends.

Only lies.

In a land of gods and faeries, teenage Jak just wants to live a normal life in her tiny unremarkable village and keep her little sisters safe. Unfortunately, that isn’t an option anymore. Her ordinary life is destroyed by the arrival of a strange and inappropriate merchant. Although he is quick to play her hero, Jak discovers the stranger is hiding more than simple goods in the back of his wagon, and perhaps the business of gods and faeries has caught up with her after all…

Climb aboard and join Jak as she takes her first perilous steps into the unknown, falling deep into myth and legend to protect her family, and discovering that the world is far bigger, bolder, and more complicated than she could ever have dreamed.

The Light After Earth

200 years ago it devoured Earth.
20 years ago it devoured Gilgamesh.
2 weeks ago it entered our dreams.

Al isn’t just a spy, he’s one of the best covert agents alive. At least, he was before everyone in the system started dreaming about him. Now his cover’s blown and he’s out of his depth, scrambling for answers to a mystery humanity has never been able to solve. The Goo. The great cosmic, planet-eating substance that swallowed whole systems.

No one knows what it is or how it works, least of all Al, but the message is out there and time is running out. The Goo is shifting. Now, it’s up to Al and his crew to investigate. With his life destroyed and desperation setting in, Al is forced to embark on a trip no sane person would dare. Al’s search for answers risks everything as he seeks the key to humanity’s survival and unlocks dark secrets of our existence.

Join Al and his crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime, exploring family, the pressures of expectation, failure, patience, and queer identity across an entirely new galaxy.

The Vincent Temple Trilogy

Prequel: Path of Dreaming Souls

If living was a choice… what would make you choose to stay? 

Doctor Vincent Temple is returning home from the Western Front. After years of trench warfare, necromancers, and dead men, he’s seen enough of Hell to last eternity. He’s barely off the boat before the latest order arrives from the Brotherhood. There’s no rest for the wicked, and there’s no point asking. He’ll rest when the forces of darkness do.
Besides, every step forward only serves to remind him that somewhere in Europe is a bullet with his name on it, and he never really dodged it. What happened back there…
That’s not something you survive.
But his new assignment isn’t like the others. Even if the Brotherhood are still trying to send him to his death, they didn’t count on this. Neither did Vincent, and what he finds is about to change the course of his life forever…

Path of Dreaming Souls is a prequel to the Vincent Temple Trilogy and explores the origins of the good doctor, his Order of Hunters, and the beginnings of a lifelong bond.

Book One: Gateway to Dark Stars

Slaying monsters. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work. 

In the age of jazz and bootleg liquor, black magic is making a big comeback. Luckily, the scourge of demons and cultists are keeping Doctor Vincent Temple in business. Even the Mafia are having trouble with monsters, and they’ve hired Temple to sort it out. Cash is cash, and the old Doctor has never been one to turn his nose up at a job, no matter who’s paying. This time luck is smiling on him. The gangsters are tangling with a cult Doctor Temple has been stalking over a personal matter, but when reconnaissance turns into rescue can he save the world before things become too personal? 

The Witcher meets Cthulhu in this gruesome, high-octane adventure. Snatch up your copy now and get ready to slay some demons! 

 

The War of the North Saga

Book One: Steel and Stone

Ten years. Thousands dead. No memories.

The amnesia was supposed to be a good thing. Other soldiers bask in its freedom. Except for Elvac it doesn’t feel right. When he returns from his first year at war he can’t shake the niggling sensation that something is missing. His life has been turned upside down, yet he can’t remember being gone. The only proof of his time away are the scars, and the haunting dreams of fire.

With the help of his friends, Elvac begins to regain his lost memories, and with them uncover the truth of his missing year, and what the Church of Sunne is really doing with their War of the North.

Welcome to the Inbetween

Welcome to a world of magic… and chaos.

Too much chaos, if you ask me. I’m Chris, and I’m stuck in the Inbetween. It’s kinda my fault, I did jump, but I didn’t expect this. I don’t know what I was expecting… but now I’m the cat curiosity is trying to kill – or, at least, I can be.

Turns out I’m a Bone Magician. The last Bone Magician. And there’s a prophecy, because of course there is, and the deadline is my 16th birthday, because of course it is! I did not pack enough brownies for this mission. But there are good things too. Did I mention AJ? Have you met AJ? You need to meet AJ. He’s going to teach me magic, and we’re going to save the world.

But we’ve only got a week to do it.

Wanna help?