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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 ...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

This second Joe Slater book picks up where Book 1 left off, with a possible imminent attack on the Belarus Chateau owned by the billionaire Andreas Kolzaidy. Joe has just been 'enhanced' by the medical team at the Chateau, under the direction of his partner Dr. Sarah Grainger. With his skills as a former SAS major taken to a new level by the Artificial Intelligence implanted in him Joe has to come to terms with what it means to be the first of a new generation of 'cyborgs'...

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 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...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Realms Book picks up from where Book 2 left off, with Jude helping the CIA track down terrorists who are setting out to bomb a number of cities in Europe and the USA... A few minutes later all four of us were sitting at a table in the far corner of the cafeteria with trays of food in front of us. There were perhaps half a dozen CIA types in the room, mostly sitting alone, spaced out around some thirty tables. It was a big room. “Jees, Chris, how many people do you guys have in London?” I asked. He shrugged. “Don’t start thinking this whole building is CIA. We have liaison teams ...

The task of bringing the magical and human communities together gets harder for Rowan, as both the Vampire Council and the demon world decide to end her, in order to eliminate her interference in their affairs. She finds herself becoming more embroiled in politics, while the attacks on her grow in intensity. However, her friends gather around to support her as she tries to find a way forward with what looks like an impossible mission.

In Book 6, Andy and Jake's friendship with President Simpson and his First Lady takes a strange turn when Elsie's researches go awry. Andy manages to get her mother interested in saving endangered species instead of endangering humanity, and she and Jake take on the task of hunting down and banishing the few remaining power objects.

Pitched into the utterly strange world of London in the 21st Century, from her pre-industrial magical realm, Rowan finds herself taken in as a lodger by a Metropolitan Police Sergeant and his wife, and being offered a consultancy role by MI6. That is just the beginning of her new adventure as she discovers that she is not the only magical being on Earth.

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 ...