Black Waters (The SLEGWIT Cycle - Book 1)

They thought they were living in paradise. But what sort of paradise won't allow you to leave?

In any other time and place, they would have never known each other.

• A by-the-book police detective is forced to seek help on his latest case from a brutally violent, and strangely ageless, crime lord

• Several high school students seek the truth behind the apparent suicide of one of their classmates, and discover that her death is just the beginning of a larger plan

• A young photographer rents a room in her dream home, but the secret lives of her new roommates threaten to draw her into society's dark and savage underbelly

• A deaf assassin is pulled into a power struggle beyond her understanding, as she is betrayed and forced into hiding after a hit gone wrong

• A college freshman unearths a stunning secret about her new roommate, and learns that the world beyond the stars full of many wonders... and many terrors

• A washed-up private investigator takes on the case of a lifetime, which could reveal a conspiracy that threatens the lives of every human being on the planet

But in the world of the Network - walled-off cities connected across thousands of miles by instantaneous teleportation devices known as SLEGWIT portals - a series of unsolved deaths and disappearances forces them to band together, in a battle to confront powers beyond their understanding.

Impossible feats of magic, remarkable achievements in science, and beings of legend and nightmare collide in this provocative new universe, with a diverse cast of characters and twists and turns galore.

"Welcome to the Network. Once you're here... you'll never want to be anywhere else."