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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'...

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 ...

A barrel-chested man, stripped to the waist, dragged a massive wooden door open at our approach. The door was set in a thirty-foot high wall that ran for several hundred yards. Inside we saw our first couple of wudra. Sin and I stood with our jaws hanging open. They were exactly like Chinese dragons, with gold-coloured scales except where lines of emerald green made shimmering patterns against the gold. Three men with hoses were spraying the wudra, both of which had their great, golden eyes with the vertical slit pupils, half-closed in bliss. The hoses played up and down their thirty-foot ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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...