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I don't just write for a living - I do it for fun, mainly. A purchase from Amazon is always appreciated but to be quite honest I make only a few cents when you do that. You can instead choose to download an .epub file of each of my novels for a donation amount of your choice. I value them each at $6 but if all you can afford is $1 then by all means pay that. I'm aiming to publish one book every 1.5 years.

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Hull and Fire

'The Wards of Minera' book 1

Levy Tren-Ulitese - Lor of the Land and gentleman of high society - is awoken in the early hours of the morning for an emergency: his father's ship, missing for nine years now, has reappeared near the mouth of its home harbour entirely bereft of any crew. The expedition to the New World, a place they call 'Minera', apparently ended in tragedy. But how did the ship sail itself home? What happened to the crew? And what is the strange, dark artifact found aboard her?[flintlock-fantasy, adventure, series]

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A Good Lee

'The Wards of Minera' book 2

After narrowly escaping from their home, a city that has been taken in by hate and greed, the Eastern Skylark enjoys a good tailwind. They sail for the New World, Minera, with a crew made up of refugees, cynics and loners. But it won't be easy sailing the rest of the way: the journey is expected to take several weeks before they set their eyes on her shores. Dogged by pirates, the bureaucracy of the Free Coast and even the encroaching alien sea life of the New World, there are difficult decisions to be made and hasty dispatches to be sent. The siblings begin to doubt their actions, Lukas may have to face his enigmatic past, and a crew-member considers turning traitor. [flintlock-fantasy, adventure, series]

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Landfall

'The Wards of Minera' book 3

Coming soon!

After another narrow escape, the crew of the Skylark resume their expedition - changed forever. Hunted now by the vicious Jerricks of the Northern Sea they must avoid the fate befallen so may ill-prepared ships in the New World. [flintlock-fantasy, adventure, series]

Ziggurat

Markan is a liar, a cheat and a fraud. His latest grift? Cheating these no-good city-dwellers and foreigners out of their coin by pretending to be a demigod. But after the plan goes wrong and he becomes soul-bonded to an ancient construct he must make the choice between deliberately giving people hope or forging his own path.

Caecilia is a an up-and-coming diplomat sent to a faraway land to represent her beloved Ionian Republic in the court of a conquered king. She will uncover a conspiracy that puts her in fear for her life and changes everything she knows about her nation. [mesopotamian, power fantasy, stand alone]

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