Sisters of the Sixth Sun

A chance discovery in Mexico, in the year 2030, activates a dormant Aztec legacy, providing access to a veiled planet. Unaware that their findings represented a potential new destiny for the human race, the original four discoverers set about establishing a community, which they named Aztlan, after the mythical home of the Aztecs.

As the embryonic community developed, an inevitable conflict with the oppressive Terra Security Force on Earth loomed, the eventual confrontation which inadvertently delivered an unexpected, but needed dose of diversity into the Aztlan ranks; including an eclectic group of seven women, the sisters, with the required mix of energies to fulfil the original decree of an Aztec God.

Sisters of the Sixth Sun is an epic tale of adventure and relationships, culminating in an unexpected love story.

Sitting Down With Evil

West Belfast, 1972. The government has lost control. The streets of Northern Ireland are on fire, with violence escalating on both sides. Lance Corporal Owen Twill is snatched up by the IRA and held captive for ten days. On his release he leaves the army and returns to England, a broken and bitter man, obsessed with visiting revenge on the Provo commander responsible for his injuries.

It’s 2016, and one by one, members of Owen Twill's old unit are dying in suspicious circumstances. When he learns the dark secret behind his betrayal, a chain of events is set in motion, the aftermath of which is felt from Belfast to New York City.

As he tracks down former colleagues, he uncovers a powerful cabal with tentacles that reach to the corridors of Westminster. A conspiracy that pitches friend against friend in a battle to be the last man standing.

Sixty Poems @ 60

This powerful and moving collection of sixty poems written chronologically over a period of one year when the author was 60 provides an illuminating and observational reflection of day-to-day life in a mixture of lighter and more serious works. The rhyming style creates an immersive feel to the work, while the prose-led pieces stand out in their difference. The striking honesty of the work allows the reader to act as a travelling friend or a confidant rather than an audience as they are drawn deeper into the author’s personal reflections. The moments of humour interwoven between the more painful considerations have a captivating effect.

Skimmer - Deep Sea

A contractor sub-surface mining skiff is delivering deep sea minerals collected by its drones to the moonpools of a giant Chinese-owned GlobeCorpMining Harvester ship stationed in the Pacific Ocean. The artificial intelligence or AI operating the skiff and its drones is monitored by a small young crew. Onboard, one of them with family connections to mining in ‘the Area’ is coerced into acquiring a revolutionary AI technology being developed by another crew member. It becomes apparent that Xed Ocean Academy crew monitoring and communications security has been compromised. Another mining skiff has also disappeared off ‘the Area’ grid. As the situation becomes ever more desperate no one seems to know who is behind all the deception and why. Somehow the Sea Hunters who patrol ‘the Area’ and GlobeCorpMining are also involved. Against the odds, and with the Sea Hunters in pursuit the young crew must learn to work together and overcome betrayal.

Sleepless Nights

The angels reject me

So, the demons hug me

A deal with the devil

To love me; for I no longer fear peril

Gifting my soul away

My black heart he prudently conveys

The angels see their abandonment and mistake

But let their minds regretfully contemplate

For now, the devil lovingly hates me

Protecting and indulging; he allowed me to see

To fall in love with the darkness,

It was truly the angels who made me heartless…

Smar

Something strange has again landed on Topside of the Planet Smar. The Great Council has hurriedly put a small team of “volunteers” together to seek out what it is and discover what it’s doing. Sergeant Ha’an, the reluctant leader and soul survivor of a previous expedition to encounter an object from the sky, leads his equally reluctant band of misfits on their perilous journey across Topside. On the way, they meet up with Nerak, a fearless explorer and scientist, and she joins them on their quest. They meet up with Tega, an old scout, who leads them to the landing site and their epic encounter with the strange machines and what lies within them. They battle with their own personal demons whilst forming a lasting friendship. Meanwhile, in the city of Below, an unscrupulous journalist tries her best to get her story no matter who gets hurt in the process whilst the equally unethical Information Bureau does its best to stop her. What does the Great Council really know about the objects from the sky, the ancient civilisation and where the answers are to be found?

Smooth Like Whiskey

Bellamy is trying to get over her mental illness and accept her body for the way it is, stretch marks and all.

She never knew how one holiday could change everything, forever.

She’s clumsy, she’s curvy, she swears too much and drinks too much.

Then he comes along and makes her believe in love.

The most important kind of love, self-love.

He is escaping from his past, so travelling to Portugal for a month sounded like the perfect plan. Little did he know he’d meet the woman who will change him forever.

Six months after they part, fate has other plans for them.

Can you meet the right person at the wrong time? But more importantly what happens when you meet the right person again at the wrong time?

Snow Is Falling

Christmas. A time for families to celebrate together. To be merry and bright.

Emma Snow is reluctant to return to her husband Colin’s family home for Christmas this year, with a seemingly good reason.

Maisie Snow is a perfectionist with high standards and expectations from all of her children; however, she is starting to feel like she is no longer needed.

Ming Pun is nervous about visiting her boyfriend Harris’ family for the first time and brings with her a big secret.

This Christmas turns out to be more unpredictable and unexpected than any of these three women could possibly have imagined.

Snuff

The story of a boy with a dysfunctional upbringing, who faces depraved acts of violence and criminality and is saved by adoption in London and evacuation to Derbyshire to avoid the blitz of WWII.

Thirty years on the searing drought of 1976 exposes two bodies under Ladybower reservoir. What’s the connection with the spate of murders in Sheffield?

Police Inspectors Hawk and Tony D both have buried secrets of their own. Can they work together to stop a serial killer?

One suspects, but the other knows the psychopath responsible.

Both face the gravest consequences if they can’t cover up their past deeds.

Just how far will two hardened streetwise detectives go to save themselves?

SOE Agent Code Name LILLY

Mary Dumont is a third officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Service working at the Admiralty Communications Centre in London in 1942 where she is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to become a wireless operator-saboteur. Parachuted into France, Mary joins a small band of resistance fighters where she leads a double life, a schoolteacher by day, a wireless operator by night; all goes horribly wrong, Mary is captured and tortured by an SS major who is determined to obtain both her codes and the names of her companions. Mary makes a daring escape during an air raid, unknown to her, German Intelligence has infiltrated SOE, a double agent known to Mary has also been parachuted into France to capture a Dutch scientist who is escaping to England with plans for the German V1 flying bomb. Evading capture, Mary’s resistance cell must get the scientist to England before he can be handed over to the Gestapo, but first Mary must eliminate the German double agent. Just when she thinks it is safe on returning to England, Mary and her companions discover the identity of the traitor within SOE, they must try to eliminate him before he can return the scientist to the Germans.

Sojourns in Vana

Vorclaw must pay! General Baltus Blackpool continues to enact his revenge for his wife’s untimely death by placing the nation of Vorclaw under his military control and begins to hunt down the rulers of Vorclaw, known as The Council of Twelve.

Queen Ooktha, ruler of the arch-goblins, realises she is betrayed and is willing to sacrifice her followers and her own safety in order to garner revenge against the Blackpool brothers

– even if it means devastating her lover, Leif Foehammer!

Hundreds of miles far to the north, Leif and Bjorn Foehammer, Dru Blackpool and others are cut off from returning from their mission. They are forced to fight for their lives against the undead and other creatures. As they sojourn through the mountains to find a new way home, they encounter unexpected allies and a potential revelation about Leif’s past! But if they return, will it be a happy homecoming?

Some People Come in Pairs

An unapologetic collection of writing. Some People Come in Pairs talks of Saskia and Matthew, an inseparable twin brother and sister who get sent out of London during the Blitz at the outbreak of World War 2. They get sent to live with the Jago family in a tiny fishing village in Cornwall. They discover a world of adventure, the consequence of war, a family in grief, what it means to love and be loved, the feeling of portrayal, the value of friendship, the preciousness of life itself and that well and truly some people do come in pairs.

The Comedy of Love is a short humorous story based on Lady Vester and her cavalier who go to visit her mad uncle in the country where everything goes disastrously wrong.

The Veterinary Crisis is a short comedy about a terrible day in a veterinary surgery that everyone wants to forget. This collection is completed by a series of emotive, to-the-point, thought-provoking poems. Myth, The Waves, Moor Poem and Steeplejack will be sure to make your mind wonder and your heart warmer.