When a Music Hall hypnotist escapes from the London County Asylum she leaves a single word on the wall of her cell - scrawled in blood: ‘MAGISTER’.Terror then stalks the capital’s streets as the killing spree begins. But why does Superintendent William Melville of The Special Branch call upon the skills of brilliant stage magician Michael Magister and his glamorous assistant Phoebe Le Breton to help capture the murderer? Especially as Michael is one of those named on the death list...

Michael Magister is back from the dead and Phoebe Le Breton has never been more alive, both are planning on a brighter, quieter future.But with the Special Branch hot on their trail and the Black Bishop dispatching his most brutal assassins, Michael and Phoebe's world is about to be tragically ripped apart.Only a mild-mannered medium and her spirit guide, Nostradamus, know for certain what life will bring – or take away. And when two astronomers are found dead at the Royal ...

BAFFLED by a severed arm, dangling from the centre of a locked door in the Bank of England…PANICKED by a satanic portrait painter, determined to disgrace the Royal family…TERRORISED by a deadly gas, primed to wipe out the Government…With great reluctance, what else can Superintendent William Melville of the Special Branch do but, once again, send for … THE MAGICIANS!When not performing two sold-out shows every night, Music Hall Steampunk illusionists and con...

A Royal Command Performance at Windsor Castle.An evening of deadly illusion staged by steampunk Music Hall magicians Michael Magister and Phoebe Le Breton…in the presence of loyal castle staff, devoted civil servants and Queen Victoria herself.But a psychopath lurks among them, determined to murder our Monarch.Is the killer in the crowd? Or taking part in the show?Yet another State secret is exposed in…‘Steam, Smoke & Mirrors – The Windsor Curiosit...

The Backworlds Books 1, 2, and 3: The Backworlds, Stopover at the Backworlds' Edge, and Boomtown Craze.In the far future, humanity settles the stars, bioengineering its descendants to survive in a harsh universe. This set contains the first 3 novels in the science fiction series, The Backworlds. A space opera adventure.The BackworldsAfter the war with the Foreworlders, Backworlders scatter across the remaining planets. Competition i...

The Adventures of Grant Scotland series is an entertaining mix of fantasy, mystery and espionage featuring a hero whose many faults provide almost as much challenge to him as the formidable obstacles he must face as he attempts to impose sanity upon a world rapidly descending into chaos. This collection contains the first three books in the series: Spy for a Dead Empire, Spy for a Troubled King and Spy for a Wayward Daughter.

A few years ago, a military doctor walking the corridors of New Jakarta Station saved Melati's life. She signed up for the International Space Force to pay back her moral debt to him. But her family thinks she has betrayed her people. It was ISF who forcefully removed their grandmothers and grandfathers from the crowded slums of Jakarta to work in interstellar space stations.It is Melati's job to teach six-year old construct soldiers, artificial humans grown in labs and activated w...

What do you do when your prince is not a prince, your hair won’t stop growing, and someone has cursed you to sleep for 300 years?If you’re Polyhymnia, you get up with the help of a kiss or two, trailing your hair behind you, and find out who did it. You try not to get killed in the process.And you definitely try not to fall in love with the incredibly irritating wizard who woke you and apparently needs to keep kissing you to keep you awake...

Watch out! Carrie Hatchett has a plan.Carrie’s impulsive, reckless nature gets her in trouble again, and if she wants to keep her job as a Transgalactic Intercultural Community Crisis Liaison Officer, she has to pass remedial training.Little does she know that her survival and the future of the galactic empire are also at stake.With the help of her level-headed bestie, Dave, and her fellow alien trainees—an intelligent slug, a mysterious box, a larg...

To catch a killer, send a monster.There's a realm. Wreathed in ice and snow, drowning in the dark, Assevan needs a different kind of hero.There's a god. Merciless and cold, and quick to anger, the Lord of the Dead insists upon one thing only: vengeance for a murdered soul.And there's a man. A ruthless killer, Konrad is detective, judge and executioner in one. Dauntless, relentless, monstrous, he stands alone against the dark.Meet the Malykan...

As the world’s first completely illegal clone of America’s 16th President, Abe Finkelstein grew up with just one wish: to live his life just like anybody else. But when you’re a living ringer for one of the country’s best-loved historical figures, privacy is hard to come by—especially when your face is on money. Across town, Norma Greenberg, one of the world’s many Marilyn Monroe clones, is struggling with identity issues of a different sort. It’s not easy going through life as a copy of the ...

***The ghost may be the least of her problems...***Vivacious actress Sybil Ingram looks forward to a life of security when she leaves the theater in 1873 to marry a wealthy American. But when he dies on their wedding night, she finds herself a penniless widow. Her only legacy is Brooke House, a Gothic revival manor in the wilds of the Hudson River Valley. However, the eerie mansion comes with two tenants. One is a hostile ghost. The second, and far worse, is former violinist Roderick Brook...