A hugely engaging adventure set in a Victorian-style world - a fantastical version of Dickens - that will appeal to fans of Susanna Clarke and Philip Pullman.

 Two orphans are more than they seem. And one megalomaniac will stop at nothing to find them.

 When Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has just been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to return to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was in fact the real target of the attack. For Molly carries a secret deep in her blood, a secret that marks her out for destruction by enemies of the state. Soon Molly will find herself battling a grave threat to civilization which draws on an ancient power thought to have been quelled millennia ago.

 Oliver Brooks has led a sheltered life in the home of his merchant uncle. But when he is framed for his only relative's murder he is forced to flee for his life. He is accompanied by Harry Stave, an agent of the Court of the Air - a shadowy organization independent of the government that acts as the final judiciary of the land, ensuring that order prevails. Chased across the country, Oliver finds himself in the company of thieves, outlaws and spies, and gradually learns more about the secret that has blighted his life, but which may also offer him the power to avert the coming catastrophe.

 Their enemies are ruthless and myriad, but Molly and Oliver are joined by indomitable friends in this endlessly inventive tale full of drama, intrigue and adventure.

The Court of the Air

THE DARKNESS OF THE VIGIL (Book 1 of The Vigil series) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DESCRIPTION When Eleanor Lythe was invited to attend a charity art ball with the rest of her children's home, she wasn't sure what to expect - but being fed on by semi-immortal vampires, bitten and turned into a slave of their evil race, certainly wasn't it. Luckily, for Eleanor, the Vigil - the covert branch of the U. S. Secret Service formed to fight the forces of the supernatural - is on hand to cure her and protect her. But save her for just what sort of life?As Eleanor struggles to master her new powers, she comes to realise that in humanity's struggle against the darkness, the wrong side could have saved her. Some of her fellow agents might be ripped hot - but does that actually matter if they are also willing to feed her to an ancient evil to achieve their mission?Because when your race is fighting a secret war for survival against vampires, zombies, werewolves, dark spirits, rogue angels and almost immortal Nazis, the worrying truth is .

The Darkness of the Vigil - The Vigil

The Season One Omnibus of The Agatha Witchley Mysteries: SECRETS OF THE MOON Because sometimes, insanity and genius are indistinguishable... Agatha Witchley used to be a spy in the Cold War, but now she's locked up in the UK's premier maximum-security mental institution. She believes that the ghosts of the celebrity dead visit her padded cell and whisper the world's secrets in her ears. Which is a big problem for the British government, because she's the only one who can help them when an American billionaire is murdered in London in one of the strangest killings yet.  The Home Secretary needs the case locked down and solved before the entrepreneur's death becomes public knowledge and economic chaos ensures.  The woman he has in mind for the job might be paranoid, she might be lethal, she might half-insane and drawing a pension, but it's amazing how you can forgive that in a genius when it's a genius's help you need. Yes, the security forces need Agatha Witchley again. It's just the ghosts of Churchill, Elvis and Groucho Marx they could do without. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THIS IS THE OMNIBUS COLLECTION WHICH COMPRISES ALL THREE NOVELLAS OF THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON... Episode #1 - In the Company of Ghosts; Episode #2 - The Plato Club; Episode #3 - The Moon Man's Tale. Secrets of the Moon - in print and ebook.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> REVIEWS Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels: 'Compulsive reading for all ages.'- GUARDIAN 'Studded with invention.'-THE INDEPENDENT 'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks. affecting and original.'- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.'- THE TIMES 'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.'- TOM HOLT 'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.'- TIME OUT 'A swaggering, eye-filling, brain-swizzling extravaganza!'  - KIRKUS REVIEWS  'Readers will be entertained and captivated.'- BOOKLIST

Secrets of the Moon - The Agatha Witchley Mysteries, #4

Carter has been kidnapped. Enslaved. But he's determined to fight to the end.
Jacob is a pacifist. His family destroyed. He's about to choose the path of violence to reclaim his son.
Their world has changed for ever. Between them, they're going to avenge it.
Jacob Carnehan has settled down. He's living a comfortable, quiet life, obeying the law and minding his own business while raising his son Carter ... on those occasions when he isn't having to bail him out of one scrape or another. His days of adventure are - thankfully - long behind him.
Carter Carnehan is going out of his mind with boredom. He's bored by his humdrum life, frustrated that his father won't live a little, and longs for the bright lights and excitement of anywhere-but-here. He's longing for an opportunity to escape, and test himself against whatever the world has to offer.
Carter is going to get his opportunity. He's caught up in a village fight, kidnapped by slavers and, before he knows it, is swept to another land. A lowly slave, surrounded by technology he doesn't understand, his wish has come true: it's him vs. the world. He can try to escape, he can try to lead his fellow slaves, or he can accept the inevitable and try to make the most of the short, brutal existence remaining to him.
... unless Jacob gets to him first and, no matter the odds, he intends to. No one kidnaps his son and gets away with it - and if it come to it, he'll force Kings to help him on his way, he'll fight, steal, blackmail and betray his friends in the name of bringing Carter home.
Wars will be started. Empires will fall. And the Carnehan family will be reunited, one way or another ...

In Dark Service

Part 2 of The Agatha Witchley Mysteries: THE PLATO CLUB As an ex-spy rumoured to have gone insane after being held captive by the KGB and tortured for a decade, Agatha Witchley has seen her share of strange cases over the years. But none compares to the faked autoerotic asphyxiation of billionaire Simon Werks, and the sudden trail of death tracking after the American industrialist's family. Now that Agatha and her friends from the security services are being targeted hard to stop the investigation, she's taking it personally. Unfortunately for the British agents in peril, so are the ghosts Agatha Witchley's convinced are helping her - Churchill, Elvis and Groucho Marx. The woman who can solve the murder might be lethal, she might half-insane and drawing a pension, but it's amazing how you can forgive that in a genius when it's a genius's help you need. The assassins on Agatha Witchley's trail have really made her mad now. What they don't know is how totally deranged she was to begin with! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> THE SERIES SO FAR... SEASON ONEEpisode #1 - In the Company of Ghosts. Episode #2 - The Plato Club. Episode #3 - The Moon Man's TaleTHE SEASON ONE OMNIBUS (#1 & #2 & #3)Secrets of the Moon - in print and ebook.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> REVIEWSPraise for Stephen Hunt's novels: 'Compulsive reading for all ages.'- GUARDIAN 'Studded with invention.'-THE INDEPENDENT 'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks. affecting and original.'- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.'- THE TIMES 'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.'- TOM HOLT 'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.'- TIME OUT 'A swaggering, eye-filling, brain-swizzling extravaganza!'  - KIRKUS REVIEWS  'Readers will be entertained and captivated.'- BOOKLIST >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FORMATNovella - part 3 of a continuing, linked series.

The Plato Club - The Agatha Witchley Mysteries, #2

It is the final years of the 18th century, but a world which few would recognise.  The people of Europe shelter in small islands of safety, havens from the enchanted wilderness - the strange boundless forests people call the Tumble. It is across this demon-haunted landscape that the low-born officer Taliesin must lead his men, caught up in the deadliest of intrigues while fighting wars for a noble class which despises him. With vicious murderers from the worst gutters in the Realm marching behind him, and the forces of the most powerful nations of the mainland arrayed against him, the odds are stacked against Taliesin. Heavily. Yet he will fight on, battling armies, sorcerers, assassins, beastmen and cross into the face of hell itself. Not for loyalty, or grudging respect for his scheming monarch - not even for the small mountain of silver the Island Queen has promised him if he succeeds. But because fighting is all he and his pressed band of cut-throats and thieves have ever known. >>>> ABOUT THE AUTHOR  Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' fantasy series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other best-selling fantasy authors, George R. R. Martin, J. R. R. Tolkien, Raymond E. Feist and C. S. Lewis.  >>>> Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels:  'Mr. Hunt takes off at racing speed.' - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.' - TOM HOLT  'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.' - DAILY MAIL  'Compulsive reading for all ages.' - GUARDIAN  'Studded with invention.' -THE INDEPENDENT  'To say this book is action packed is almost an understatement. a wonderful escapist yarn!' - INTERZONE  'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks. affecting and original.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY  'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.' -RT BOOK REVIEWS  'A curious part-future blend.' - KIRKUS REVIEWS  'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.' - THE TIMES  'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.' - TIME OUT  'A ripping yarn . the story pounds along. constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked. the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.' - SFX MAGAZINE

The Fortress in the Frost - The Triple Realm Duology, #2

The power struggle begins . . .
The people of Weyland always believed the slavers raids, which destroyed families and homes like a natural disaster, were a misfortune that couldn't be averted or stopped. 
But it's not true. 
King Marcus struck a deal: his people in exchange for technology and a powerful alliance with the Vandian civilisation.
And now everyone knows.
Jacob and Carter Carnehan escaped the slavers - along with the true king of Weyland - and have returned home with both the truth, and a Vandian princess as their hostage. Their purpose was to avoid war . . . instead, the truth prompts a civil war at home - while an invasion force focused on reclaiming the captive princess starts to gather on their borders.
Jacob and Carter will be separated once again - and this time they're fighting for something bigger than their lives.

Foul Tide's Turning

A fantastical version of Dickens, filled with perilous quests, dastardly deeds and deadly intrigue - perfect for all fans of Philip Pullman and Susanna Clarke

 Professor Amelia Harsh is obsessed with finding the lost civilisation of Camlantis, a legendary city from pre-history that is said to have conquered hunger, war and disease - tempering the race of man's baser instincts by the creation of the perfect pacifist society. It is an obsession that is to cost her dearly. She returns home to Jackals from her latest archaeological misadventure to discover that the university council has finally stripped her of her position in retaliation for her heretical research.

 Without official funding, Amelia has no choice but to accept the offer of patronage from the man she blames for her father's bankruptcy and suicide, the fiercely intelligent and incredibly wealthy Abraham Quest. He has an ancient crystal-book that suggests the Camlantean ruins are buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of Liongeli.

 Amelia undertakes an expedition deep into the dark heart of the jungle, blackmailing her old friend Commodore Black into ferrying her along the huge river of the Shedarkshe on his ancient u-boat. With an untrustworthy crew of freed convicts, Quest's force of female mercenaries on board and a lunatic steamman safari hunter acting as their guide, Amelia's luck can hardly get any worse. But she's as yet unaware that her quest for the perfect society is about to bring her own world to the brink of destruction.

The Kingdom Beyond the Waves

A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Rise of the Iron Moon.

 The isolated island of Jago is the only place Hannah Conquest has ever known as home. Encircled by the magma ocean of the Fire Sea, it was once the last bastion of freedom when the world struggled under the tyranny of the Chimecan Empire during the age-long winter of the cold-time. But now this once-shining jewel of civilization faces an uncertain future as its inhabitants emigrate to greener climes, leaving the basalt plains and raging steam storms far behind them.

 For Hannah and her few friends, the streets of the island's last occupied underground city form a vast, near-deserted playground. But Hannah's carefree existence comes to an abrupt halt when her guardian, Archbishop Alice Gray, is brutally murdered in her own cathedral.

 Someone desperately wants to suppress a secret kept by the archbishop, and if the attempts on Hannah's own life are any indication, the killer believes that Alice passed the knowledge of it onto her ward before her saintly head was separated from her neck.

 But it soon becomes clear that there is more at stake than the life of one orphan. A deadly power struggle is brewing on Jago, involving rival factions in the senate and the island's most powerful trading partner. And it's beginning to look as if the deaths of Hannah's archaeologist parents shortly after her birth were very far from accidental. Soon the race is on for Hannah and her friends to unravel a chain of hidden riddles and follow them back to their source to save not just her own life, but her island home itself.

The Court of the Air

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