While one is aimed to be adult action-thrillers, and the other young adult coming-of-age adventures, they’re both quite compatible with each other. If you like the style and the themes of one, you’ll probably like both. The difference is in the point of view, and the scale of the stories being told. Both sides has real peril and meaningful stories, and treat their characters seriously; just the characters in one are younger and are figuring this all out for the first time.

 

I avoid having sex and bad language in my books, to keep them accessible to a younger audience.

 

There certainly is more violence in Agent of the Crown, but it’s the sort of thing you’d see in a pulp adventure novel. The bad guys are appropriately dangerous and the good guys can be forceful in bringing them to justice, but they are always delivering justice and not being gratuitous.

 

Since Lissy is still studying, she won’t be getting into gunfights with squid-monsters, at least for a while, but she gets into her share of scrapes too. They just tend to be smaller scrapes, not pitched battles with megalomaniacal villains.