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In this medical mystery thriller, Doctor Carson Hyll falls asleep and drives into a river and experiences one of the worst nightmares of his life. The young intern is knocked unconscious and has a negative near death experience so real, so frightening that he thinks he died and went to hell. When others in the highly-religious small town of Ocean Village have similar negative near death experiences and wake up with burnt skin, they believe they went to hell and that God has abandoned them.

Matters get worse when a local Satanic cult emerges to promote their beliefs and win over the town residents. Will the heroine, Chantress, be able to stop cult leader Kyle Mabus or will he succeed in destroying all known religions in the world? Bestselling author and psychic Sylvia Browne writes in her book, Prophecy, that, “…our beliefs are the driving force behind our behavior, our opinions, our actions. Without faith, without our beliefs, we’re lost.”

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Step into the glittering midnight world of the ancient … the immortal … the vampyre! Intrigue murder and madness welcome Captain Vincent Bantry home to the City of London.

The year is 1892. He is a veteran of the Far East, opium smugglers and Manchu warlords, but little in Bantry’s experience has prepared him for what he will see, hear and feel when he meets the young Irish occultist, Michael Flynn. Their future unfolds in the Tarot cards – danger, pain and struggle – but the end of their story cannot be told. And what of the past?

The mystery of Michael Flynn draws Bantry into a strange, occult world, at once alien and irresistible. Instinctively, he knows Flynn is different, not merely beautiful, brilliant, exotic, but unlike any other man Bantry has ever known. Soon Vincent is caught up in a tangle of deceit, cruelty and danger, one jump ahead of the law, and seduced by the mystery, the grandeur of a midnight world into which he has glimpsed … and which he greatly desires.
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Jack Leigh is a soldier of fortune, far from home. He’s a brilliant
“sword for hire,” but in the dangerous Riverlands dukedom of Rhondia he gets more than he bargained for…

Treachery, treason and dark magic form swirling, powerful
undercurrents in Rhondia. Along the canals and in the menacing heart of Nimmenwald forest lurk unimaginable threats — the bo’zhe, the Lappai, barbarians from Saihabara and the unknowable forces out of Nimmenwald Deep itself.

At the crux of the vortex of magic and treachery is the heir to
Rhondia, Michael Sebastian — “Seb” — d’Astaghir. Haughty, moody …
haunted by the goblins of memory, Seb is in terrible jeopardy. It’s
only by luck that his old friend, old lover, Luc Redmayne, happens
upon a streetfight in a tavern yard, and a “hired sword” enters the
fortress of Rhondia as Seb’s bodyguard.

With the fresh eyes of an “outlander,” the shrewdness of a soldier of
fortune from Yulminster, and the help of a young gypsy shaman, Jack
Leigh uncovers the pitch-black, treasonous magic which is simmering
just beneath the surface of Rhondia.

And when Jack, Seb, Luc and gypsy, Janos Zaparasti, finally lay their
hands on the Basilisk ring, the symbol of the great houses of Rhondia,
they unleash the very forces they have feared.

From page one, it’s mystery, action, gay romance — and more than a
dash of the sensual in this new, and entirely original fantasy novel.
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Mel Keegan returns to the voluptuous realm of the vampyre and the changeling …. but madness and murder once again haunt Vince Bantry and Michael Flynn.

England, 1905. A new century has begun … and for both changeling and the vampyre, the challenge is to survive in a world which is rapidly changing. The era of science has been born. The automobile, the telephone and forensic medicine complicate the already difficult lives of the Children of the Night. The vampyre show themselves more rarely, and their beloved changelings must be more cautious than ever.

A newspaper from the Devonshire region carries a disturbing story
which makes terrible sense to Bantry and Flynn. Changelings like
themselves are perishing in the bleak, beautiful moorland, and others
have vanished utterly. Who is murdering, and why? And what has become
of the ‘bad boy’ — big, blond, handsome and irresistible Nicholas
Crane, whose reputation as a profligate and scoundrel is a legend?
Nick was last seen in the company of a changeling woman, before both
disappeared … and the turmoil of blood, deceit and fear began.

As intricately detailed and lovingly crafted as Nocturne, Twilight is
by turns a mystery, a chilling thriller and a surprising love story
… always with the ‘twist of fantasy’ which was so delicious in the
original novel of Bantry, Flynn, the vampyre Chabrier, and other
characters, all of whom are unforgettable in a novel which is rapidly
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