IFWG Publishing will be releasing The Salt Lines saga according to the following dates:
The story unfolds across two timelines: the First Crusade and roughly 200 hundred years later, during the persecution of the Knights Templar in France.
You can check out the book trailer on YouTube or read the back cover blurb for The Hidden Keystone:
July 1099: sweltering in the merciless heat, Godefroi de Bouillon’s desperate army finally breach the walls of Jerusalem. Concealed within their ranks are members of a secret fraternity. The Salt Lines seek a mystical artefact called the Keystone, and they’re willing to sacrifice everything Godefroi values to possess it: the lives of his closest confidants, the only woman he has ever loved, even his very soul.
October 1307: when Bertrand joined the Brotherhood of the Temple of Solomon, no one anticipated the brutal suppression of the Order that followed. Forced to flee for his life, Bertrand unwittingly becomes the only person who can lay the Keystone to rest. But can he resist its temptations whilst evading the forces of the French throne?
With the veil of secrecy in tatters, truth has become the most dangerous possession of all.
Almost Human was released in September 2022 in Australia and the UK by IFWG Publishing Australia and in North America by IFWG Publishing International in November 2022. A collection of short fiction, it contains three previously unpublished novellas that represent about 50% of the book.
Here’s the back cover blurb:
Humanity: are we really capable of change? Or are we doomed to play out the same Acts over and again, where only the props and backdrops vary?
In this collection of short fiction, you will encounter stories set in a near future, where neuroscience and technology are used to rehabilitate convicted criminals with unexpected results. In the icy winter of a distant Transylvania, a struggle for freedom from Ottoman oppression unfolds. In the present, one man struggles to accept his failed marriage and to provide what his daughter needs. A pair of cursed lovers live out multiple incarnations, doomed to always find one another, yet never be together. And when a mythical figure walks amongst us, his notes in the margins of history become clear.
The past, present and future blur when we consider what it is to be Almost Human.
Here is a summary of purchasing links for Almost Human in different regions: IFWG publishing links
Random House published my debut novel FIVEFOLD in January 2008. It was subsequently translated into Russian as Code Kabbalah and released as an e-book in 2012.
Here’s the back cover blurb:
November 1308: a cathedral in the Yorkshire Dales is deliberately burned to the ground by its Abbott to hide a religious artefact from foreign invaders. But like most secrets, it hasn’t stay buried long enough.
Present day: James Steepleton is in trouble again. Fined £5,000 for driving under the influence of alcohol, he’s broke and destined, it seems, for a six month stint in gaol unless he can find the necessary funds. His old study group from university— Elise, Ashvin, Morgan and Eric—rally together to raise the money. Not far outside the Yorkshire town of Skipton, the group stumbles across the ruined cathedral and a journey into myth and legend begins.
What secret lies buried beneath the ruined church? Why do the five friends suddenly manifest strange gifts? And who are the Lords of Severity that are remorselessly hunting them down?
The mysterious Order of the Brightening Dawn holds the answers, but uncovering the truth will strike at the very heart of what it is to be human. The wheels of history turn and it is time for the Fivefold Cabal to rise again.
You can purchase FIVEFOLD here: