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Once, the vampire Dylan had feared nothing and no one.
His thirst was rarely quenched. He revelled in the wild-eyed chase through midnight streets, in the thrill of capture and the bird's wing flutter of quickened hearts pressed against his chest as he swept aside hair and clothing, searching for that tender, magical spot where the blood pumped strongest, where the vein that carried it strained hardest against the surface of the skin.
But life, however full of joy, inevitably changes...
- Jinn Nation
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Novels
* Jinn Nation - Little Hoot Press, July 2011
* Dunraven Road - Immanion Press, June 2009
Novellas
* The Undead Alliance (Revised Edition) - Little Hoot Press, February 2011
* The Undead Alliance Part Four - Twisted Tongue Issue 12, November 2008
* The Undead Alliance Part Three - Twisted Tongue Issue 11, August 2008
* The Undead Alliance Parts One & Two - Twisted Tongue Issue 10, May 2008
Short Stories
* My Immortal Part Two - Night To Dawn Issue 14, October 2008
* The Future Feline Corporation - Ballista Issue 5, September 2008
* The Lycanthrope Technician - Dark Fire Fiction Issue 34, July 2008
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* My Immortal Part One - Night To Dawn Issue 13, April 2008
* Alessandro's Legacy - Hungur Issue 5, November 2007
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Memories flitted unbidden through Gabriel’s brain. Memories of enormous smoking pyres, stoked with the screaming, writhing bodies of the living. He could still remember the smell.
A new novella from the author of Dunraven Road.
He’'s a stinking, undead, rotting carcass with unfortunate brain activity. She’'s a human captive, kept alive so that her vital organs can one day help sustain her rotting zombie masters. Romeo and Juliet they ain'’t.
Gabriel thought that waking up as a zombie was the end of the world. In fact, a new world was just beginning - a world of dark, creeping horror overseen by a decomposing eccentric in a pirate costume calling himself Captain James.
Five short years later and the dead have risen up to claim the UK. Gabriel finds himself in charge of the North Sector Harvesting Plant, watching the daily influx of the living with a weary eye. Having become increasingly disillusioned with the Undead Alliance and its practices, the arrival of the very human Daisy seems to be his salvation - but who would ever love a zombie? If he wants to convince her he’'s more than just the sum of his maggot infested parts, he'’ll have to break her out of the harvesting plant and defy everything the Alliance stands for. All of which is easier said than done, especially when he has to deal with the unwanted attentions of Princess - the icy paramour of Captain James himself.
Is Gabriel strong enough to turn against his charismatic yet ultimately evil leader? Or will he watch Daisy die?
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The thought of hot blood in his mouth twisted Dylan’s insides with hunger, even through his pain. He lifted his head slightly, eyes fixed on the pale blue veins calling to him through Christa’s skin. When he relented and collapsed back to the bed, head turned firmly away from her, Christa retracted her arm and cradled it against her chest.
“You don’t want me.”
In Dunraven Road, Dylan wanted to tear the world down - now he only wants to find his place in it.
Once, the vampire Dylan had feared nothing and no one. He'’d rampaged throughout the world on a seemingly never ending quest to fill his eternal years with the finest, most outrageous extravagances; with exquisite, soft-limbed young women and copious amounts of rich, vibrating blood. But life, however full of joy, inevitably changes.
Finding himself alone for the first time in his long unlife, Dylan turns to the preternatural race of savage creatures called the jinn –- a path that inevitably leads him to Christa, a strangely childlike woman with the power to control minds and read thoughts. Mutually intrigued by each other, they set out on a blood-soaked road
trip that crosses the United States and the Atlantic Ocean,
finally leading them beyond the world itself to the mysterious
fae kingdoms of the Inbetween.
What the Critics are Saying
It is a more dark and sinister vampire story than usually
encountered.
- TeensReadToo
I found Dunraven Road to be an engaging, fast-paced story.
- Fatally Yours
A paranormal novel with gothic and thriller elements, with the necessary angst and turbulent relationship, but the drugs, decadence and murders prevents Dunraven Road to enter the stereotypical vampire mold.
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“That’s because he knows,” Sapphire said. Her sobs had receded and she was studying Ray intensely, her eyes enormous in the dark.
“Knows what?” Paul let go of Sapphire’s shoulders and turned between his friends, exasperated. “What the hell do you know, Ray?”
“That vampires are real.”
Ray’s words gave way to stunned silence, so large and overwhelming it threatened to swallow them all.
In the sleepy backwater of Dunraven Road, a group of hedonistic friends are trapped in a deadly prison of their own making. When Zach, their enigmatic leader, brings his long term plans to fruition and paves the way for a sadistic vampire cult, their fragile world begins to break apart. Fuelled by dangerous passions and an insatiable craving for the substance they call red, the group must decide whether to succumb to the sweet lure of the abyss, or stand and fight for their very survival.
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