A Stage over Ruthless Stars
Young adult science fiction thriller about two teens living on a space station who enter a tech competition at the circus. But teams are turning up dead. Are they accidents or sabotage?
Aznan is a chronically ill high school drop out living on a space station with an illness that hates gravity. But he’s going to be a famous inventor… That’s if he can win the biggest tech competition in the system. Held at his space station’s circus, and judged by titans of industry, it’s one massive showcase to demonstrate his homemade tech in front of a live audience. To win, he’ll need his ex-best friend’s help. Kairo hasn’t spoken to him in three years, not since he left school to join the circus as an aerialist, but Aznan can handle that. Oh, and the local favourites just turned up dead. That, not so much.
Everyone’s saying sabotage. Murder and riches. A competition worth killing for.
And when a second team dies right in front of Aznan’s eyes, the official reassurances of glitches and accidents no longer hold. The body count is rising. The Grand Showcase is blasting closer. With nobody willing to stop the show, Aznan and Kairo must unearth the truth or risk their lives with one final act.
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Fight for Me
12,000 word Urban Fantasy short story about an aroace warlock and his immortal best friend.
Alec spends his life travelling the world, teleporting between slopes, cities and beaches to fill his time. As an immortal warlock he has plenty of it. Nothing ties him down apart from the warded warehouse he calls home and a weekly appointment with his only friend at a local bar. Trading insults with Euan is the one part of his life that fills the loneliness. Not that he’d ever admit that to the damn fairy.
But when Alec returns from his latest trip to find the local fairies out in numbers hunting a vampire – their most hated enemy – Euan leaves early to help his fellow fey in the hunt. Rather than stay alone Alec gives in and follows. But before Alec can find him Euan gets attacked and turned. Now, the fairies Euan was hunting alongside want him dead too.
With Euan hurt and in danger, Alec quickly realises exactly how, and with who, he wants to spend the rest of his very long life. Now all he has to do is risk his own, but what are friends for?
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Haunting of a Witch
Young Adult contemporary fantasy about a disabled witch squatting in a haunted house, set in an English seaside town.
A chronically ill witch living in a haunted house.
A magical English seaside town.
A deadly warlock who wants to control it all.
How do you save your town when you’re too sick to leave your house?
Emily, a chronically ill witch, wants a place to curl up and rest her aching body, away from a world that doesn’t care. She’s found it by squatting in the basement of a haunted house. Nobody else dares get close to its volatile, dangerous magic. But the ghosts and aura of fear don’t bother her; she knows what it means to be trapped in a house she can never leave. Instead, she uses the extra magic swirling through the air to supply potions to a shady businessman in exchange for the care she needs to survive.
That is, until a cute girl collapses at her back door in the middle of the night, smelling of smoke and magic, with tales of witches dying across the country.
The deaths all lead to Runestowe, her small English seaside town, and Emily realises the people looking after her are involved in the murders – with her potions in their hands and a front door key to come and go as they please.
When they turn up in her kitchen insisting she join their deadly schemes, Emily knows she has to stop them. But what can Emily do when she’s housebound and they know where she lives?
Target audience: Teen
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Unpublished works:
Foxfire
First of a planned trilogy of stories. Children’s fantasy adventure with magical animal companions, forests and abandoned forts.
Target audience: 8 -12 years old.
JJ Clapton 