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A haunting tale of individuals swept up by the chaos of war, this is fantasy adventure at its best - rich in texture, filled with colour and excitement.
The adventure of a lifetime is just beginning...It has lain lost and forgotten for fifteen hundred years in the ancient heartland of England - a scrap of glass and metal melded by fierce fire. It is the lost core of a flawless Sphere made by the greatest of the Anglo-Saxon CraeftLords in memory of the one he loved. Her name was Spring and contained in the very heart of this work is a spark from the Fires of Creation. But while humans have lost their belief in such things, the Hydden - little people existing on the borders of our world - have not. Breaking the silence of centuries they send one of their own, a young boy, Jack, to live among humans in the hope that he may one day find what has been lost for so long. His journey leads him to Katherine, a girl he rescues from a tragic accident - it's a meeting that will change everything. It is only ... more
Terminator Gene opens with Security, on orders from the Global Congress, arresting Jemma. Irith, devastated by her mother's arrest, is thrown onto the streets as an outcast. Her home and possessions are confiscated, her thesis on genome engineering failed; she is shunned by everyone. She finds herself fighting to survive in a dangerous and cruel twilight world. Although intelligent, Irith is naïve and sexually inexperienced and soon falls prey to the mysterious Bragg. Taken by Bragg, she is smuggled into Britain, a nation collapsing under the sanctions of the Global Congress. There she encounters an anti-Congress group and ends up helping them to steal a file from a Congress data centre. The file contains the code for a deadly terminator virus but no one can decipher ... more