After four years of civil war, The Isles has fought itself to a standstill. 'Peace at any price' comes the cry; yet the price is beyond reckoning. After the Armistice and the Disarmament comes partition. The Isles is split north from South. No-one predicted what happened next. A weird forcefield gathers and the borderlands are cloaked in darkness. Two people - each acting alone - decide to act. Felix Skryker reluctantly returns to The Isles. Xanthe Chance flees the prison island where she has lived all her life. Yet Xanthe Chance is not just another girl: Prisoner of State, heir to a fabulous fortune, of a family of heretics and wastrels. Once in Deva she is led astray, and passes through the wrong door. Will Felix Skryker, now Minister of State Security, the missing Prisoner of State? Can he keep her alive?

Steam and Thunder is the story of Jacklincoln Cartwright, or Jac as he is commonly known. The son of a Cartwright who lives in a world rather like the late fifteenth century of ours. Whilst a canal with the revolutionary idea of locks is being built near his home, Jac sees in his mind that steam from the kettle can make power to propel items. Jacklincoln at a very young age changes his Medieval period world into that of a Renaissance Era, with the use of steam power and invention. Transforming all his nation to what might be a RenTech (Renaissance Technology) based economy. Such that the country that has these inventions far outstrips the feudal agrarian neighbors setting the stage for an environment of political and social strife that will shake all the nations in a world war. Steam and Thunder is a full length novel shown here at Wattpad a chapter at a time.

A murder which may be more than it appears leads Robert Young of Newbiggin and his friend Captain Travers of Edinburgh's Town Guard into a investigation which is hampered by the Jacobite forces of Bonnie Prince Charlie occupying the city while the garrison who hold out in the castle bombard the city with cannon fire. Meanwhile the people of Edinburgh are forced to play a game of factions in order to keep favour with all sides of the occupation. Through this maze of conflicted loyalties and family ties the two friends must unmask the killer and see that justice is done