Lance Canela Series

Playing a game in the real world means you're never logged out. To find a gamer's killer, private detective Lance Canela must log in to the Augmented Reality Game, Resonance. But even in a virtual world, the machinations of the megacorps are always in motion. What secret lies within the game’s servers, and how does it relate to the strange girl waiting for her murdered friend to return? Find out in The Resonance Enigma, the latest book in the Dystopian Detective series, following from The Arcology and Eidolon.

In the oppressive city of Kindred, circa 2052, Lance Canela tries a little too hard to fulfill the classic image of a private detective. Living in the shadow of the enormous Arcology and barely scraping by, he's happy to sit in his office all day, reliving the adventures of his hardboiled heroes from a century past. But when the wealthy Fiona, a woman he thinks is the femme fatale he's always waited for, knocks on his door, Lance gets a taste of life-or-death reality as he faces off against ruthless goons for the first time. Shaken by the experience, Lance lays low for a few months until a new case thrusts him into the world of the super-rich high atop the Arcology, and that of the impoverished masses living at its base. In search of a missing girl with only the name “Ascended Employment” to go on, Lance must reconnect with Fiona and navigate the world of the wealthy to find her. Fiona, however, has problems of her own, and her past is more intertwined with Ascended than anyone could predict.

Being a private detective means dealing with some unsavory characters, but Lance Canela picks his contacts carefully. So when his go-to hacker, Wyatt, winds up on the run, it seems like bad karma catching up to him. It only becomes Lance's business when Wyatt cashes in a favor--dig up dirt on the followers of the crusading hacker known only as Eidolon. The task only gets worse as he finds himself working alongside a clickbait blogger named Becky, whose main concern is unveiling the next big controversy. But as the investigation continues and Lance learns more about Eidolon and what he stands for, he's less and less certain that he's on the right side of this conflict. Is Wyatt taking advantage of him to get out of a bind, or could there really be a dark secret at the heart of Eidolon's attempts to right the world? Eidolon is the second book in the Lance Canela series, following The Arcology. Also included is a special bonus short, Thoughts as Gray as Ash, in which Lance tackles a more personal case involving a client gone missing.

"Ella Carr for all intent and purpose is a fairly average woman with a fairly extraordinary secret. She is host to a gentle and kindly alien symbiote call Shomis Bhor, a former warrior and protector from a world now long gone. Leaving the Foundry in the United States, their base of operations for their global business, Ella has returned to her home city to establish the Forge, their industrial research facility in Manchester in England. Things have taken several twists and now she finds herself heading up the Dystopian Detective Agency, a place where they solve impossible cases in a way only the extraordinary could. Things are not really going that well though. With only a few boring cases on her desk she indulges her office assistant Amy over a research project she is doing for her university project. Up in the mountains of the Yorkshire Pennines the longest day of the year rapidly approaches and for the locals, an event that they fear is upon them. Ella and Shomis are sceptical of the legends and myths surrounding the so called Lost Girl of Tatterslong, a dark story that goes back hundreds of years however with Shae and Amy both excited at the prospects of solving this mystery she ends up travelling to this isolated village if only to have a little fun. As the dreaded night seems to pass without incident, Ella find her scepticism justified however when Amy doesn't come down to breakfast in their hotel, they find themselves facing not only a legend, but the fact one of their own has been abducted. It soon becomes apparent they are not the only paranormal forces at work in Tatterslong as they try to solve the riddle and find their friend before the sun sets on the day and the news that once it does, Amy will never be seen again." It's the first true case for Ella Carr in this spin off from Symbiotica Series, as she tries with her new business partners Amy and Shae to solve a four hundred year old mystery however everything is not as it seems to be. Crossing over in to the Pentalore Series, The Ancient Girl see Ella face her own demons in a literal way as they try to save Amy from becoming one of the lost girls with a conclusion that will spill over in to Proteus as part of the Endless Saga. The Ancient Girl is now in its Second Extended Edition with over 34,000 words of new content, heavily reworked and revised. Taking the original story this reworked edition paints a far more vivid picture as you follow the cast of the Dystopian Detective as they try to save their friend from certain death and reveal the dark truth behind this terrible legend with unexpected consequences.

"Things are quiet at the Dystopian Detective Agency which suits Ella just fine as she looks after Sabine who is struggling to come to terms with her own symbiotic alien partner's injuries at the hands of the Apeyron. For Shae and Amy, after the events in Tokyo they have decided to have a few days off, travelling over to Symbitek's facilities in Japan enjoying good food and excellent shopping however it does not take long for Eve, Chloe, Shae and Amy to realise that their efforts to save Tokyo have had some unexpected repercussions and the Symbitek secret is about to be revealed to the world. Back in Manchester Ella and Sabine are also enjoying some down time indulging in some shopping however it is clear things are not right. For some reason the world seem to be changing right before their eyes. Statues altering, street names changing are just the start as things seem to be getting worse as the reality starts to hit home that history itself has been altered. Across town, a strange man is enjoying a vacation in Manchester. He is a tourist, but he had lived here all his life. The problem is he is a tourist of time itself having travelled one hundred and seventy five years in to the future. When Tie arrives with the news that a cataclysmic event is about to occur and the whole of Manchester could be wiped out by a temporal paradox, Ella races to find the source of the anomalies and may just find her favourite work of fiction has perhaps more of a basis in reality that she ever realised. Will the team in Tokyo managed to stop their secret from being revealed and will Ella and her friends manage to return the tourist to his own time and save the city she loves?" The Tourist is the long awaited return of the Dystopian Detective Series as Ella must pull her friends together to try and stop the ramifications of a time travelling tourist who has gravely disrupted the timeline. Working alongside her arch idiotic nemesis, Ella is in a race against time, quiet literately as a darker and more nefarious plot starts to unfold that threaten to vaporise the city. Meanwhile Shae and Amy visiting Tokyo are throwing head first in to a case where the secret of aliens being on Earth may well land everyone in serious trouble with the United Nations as they investigate a Manga book that is telling the story of what really happened in Symbiotica Monsters of Tokyo, setting out on a case that will take them far further than either of them ever imagined! The Tourist is now in its Second Extended Edition with over 30,000 words of new content, heavily reworked and revised. Taking the original story this reworked edition paints a far more vivid picture as you follow the cast of the Dystopian Detective as they try to solve two cases which could have direct consequences while revealing a darker and more ominous threat. This book also contains the second Shadow Soul mini story as the truth behind the background of this mysterious dark force is brought in to the light.