MY WORLD

One world. Two stories.

All my books are standalone adventures, but set in a single shared universe that ties them all together.

You can pick up any book and get a complete story that doesn't expect you to know anything about the world or its characters. The whole series does build up plenty of lore, with returning characters and recurring villains.

If it's your first time, you'll get a glimpse of a living, breathing world that (hopefully) you'll want to explore. If you're a long-time reader, you'll be immersed in a rich world with slow-burning character arcs and ongoing threats with much larger and more world-ending aims.

Agent of the Crown

Agent of the Crown is the adult series that follows Piety from the start of her career in 1961, chronicling her scars and her secrets as she defends Britain from impossibly malevolent threats.

It’s a world that can be scary and violent, and that has a cast of genuinely unsettling villains. This series is still fun, but fun like a James Bond movie, and has plenty of pulp heroics on the way to winning the day.

Blackhurst

Blackhurst is the young adult series that follows Lissy as she trains at Blackhurst College to join Piety’s world as an agent herself.

The series starts in 1967, when Lissy has just turned eighteen, six years after Piety's Fury, and the events that set her on the path to Blackhurst.

More personal and romantic than Agent of the Crown, the series centres on the coming-of-age stories of Lissy and her classmates as they learn what the work demands of them, fall in love and survive their first encounters with the occult on the way to becoming agents themselves.

Fitting it together

While one series is made up of adult action-thrillers, and the other young adult coming-of-age adventures, they’re both 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 have real peril and meaningful stories, and treat their characters seriously. The difference is just that the characters in one series are younger and are figuring all this 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.

Reading Order

Agent of the Crown

Adult - Action - Thriller