Consumers Book One: The Big Launch - First Three Chapters
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Want a smartphone that has apps that can turn you into a cat, make you invisible, cast a fireball? Do just about anything?
That's what happens to Margot when she finds a smartphone after helping an elderly neighbour mess up her house.
Investigating the mystery of the smartphone will lead Margot and her friends on a quest filled with adventure and danger. The answers are to be found in Atha, a world of magic that sits alongside our own, a world filled with extraordinary characters and weird magic. But not all is well in Atha. A powerful enemy is on the march.
And he wants his phone back.
Included here is the first three chapters of my novel Consumers, Book One: The Big Launch. If you like what you read you can find the complete novel to real as a Amazon Kindle ebook or paperback. Book Two: A Dangerous Holiday, will be published soon.
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