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MY BOY JACK: PREQUEL TO THE CHIMERA CYCLE

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In 1639, behind the walls of a secluded Buckinghamshire manor, twenty-one women give birth beneath the gaze of a vampire duke and the cruellest science the age can devise.

Only eleven of the children seem human.

The rest are Chimera: engineered to stalk in the daylight, their lords can never touch.

This is the story of the one who survives, the boy they name Jack, dead for seven minutes and returned with eyes that already know too much.

Four centuries on, the world still believes vampires fear the sun.

Jack knows better.

He was forged to own it.

The Chimera Cycle: A dark, biological re-imagining of the vampire myth, where immortality is merely the longest war between predator and prey, and the final battleground is free will itself.

 The Spectral Detective Book 1: King in the DarkPart One: Duty Calls


King in the Dark blends wartime intrigue with an eerie, slow-building mystery as Arthur King confronts the possibility that the greatest threats are not the ones he can see—but the ones he now cannot escape.

Hard-boiled noir meets subtle supernatural horror in the explosive debut of the Spectral Detective Series: a blind war hero who traded his eyes for the ability to see the truth, whether the world is ready for it or not.

Writing continues... The bomb is about to drop, well it did August 6th and 9th 1945, the hot war ended, but another longer and colder war began.