Books
Welcome to the Books section. Here you'll find details about my currently published book, including a free extract, reviews, and covers from around the world.
There will also be sneak peeks at future titles, coming soon!
The Midnight Charter
Welcome to Agora, a secret and closed-in city where anything can be bought and sold – goods, people, thoughts, ideas and even emotions are traded in the market. A place without money, where selling is the only way of life and debt is death. The successful merchants rule, plague festers in the pitiless slums and children are possessions until their twelfth birthday.
In the ancient tower of Count Stelli, the city's greatest astrologer, two children meet, both of whom have been sold as servants. One, Mark, an emotional, imaginative boy who was sold by his father to the Count's grandson in return for medical treatment. The other, Lily, a reserved and thoughtful orphan girl, now owned by the count. At first, threatened with being thrown out to die on the disease-ridden streets if they displease their masters, their only goal is to work and survive. But gradually, as they begin to understand that they can shape their own destiny, they each find their path – Mark within the system, trying to learn the secret of the powerful Libran Society and gain the security it brings; and Lily, rebellious, dangerous and determined to change the city forever.
How will they survive? Can their plans succeed? And why is the shadowy ruler of Agora, the all-powerful Director of Receipts, watching them from afar? Could it have something to do with a mysterious document, which contains secrets which can drive men mad – The Midnight Charter…
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The Children of the Lost
Something is rotten in Agora, the ancient city-state where anything can be bought and sold. On the council of the shadowy Libran Society, a former servant is beginning a long and deadly rise to power, whilst in the slums, a new, radical voice threatens to tear the city apart. And the ruler of the city – the mysterious Director of Receipts – says that the fate of Agora rests on the shoulders of two children – Mark and Lily.
But they are no longer in the city. Banished into the outside world – cold, hungry and alone in the primevel forests, they have taken refuge in the seemingly idyllic pastoral village of Aecer, where everyone is equal, and private ownership is unknown. Lily, who has always hated the ruthlessly mercantile nature of her home, is convinced that they have found a paradise, but Mark is suspicious...
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Future Titles
Book 3 – The Canticle of Whispers
The Concluding part of the trilogy is available in August 2011.
And after that? Well... the author is putting pen to paper, and it won't be long before whole new stories and lands become clear...