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Jack Cade only needs one more thing to save his girlfriend from her past: the ring she threw into the demon realms. The one she never wanted anyone to find. It's being guarded by the incarnation of despair, and he has mixed feelings about retrieving it - not just because Ellini asked him not to. Once he does, she's going to leave him to fight the mad goddess-in-waiting, Myrrha Crake. But if she doesn't, Myrrha could kill the mother goddess of the demons and lead a crazed demon army into the human world. Can Ellini find a way to stop her? Is Robin Crake really on her side? Will Alice Darwin embrace her role as one of the two divinely-appointed guardians of Oxford? And where has the other guardian been hiding all this time? Long Live the Queen, the final book of The Powder Trail, features sea-witches, silver dragons and a resurgent Ellini Syal, in control of her past and her future. But it will take every scrap of her new-found strength to fight Myrrha and the chaos that flows in her wake.Cover by the amazing @AnnamitaMuscaria…

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Jack Cade has spent the past seven months avenging his dead ex-girlfriend - organizing riots, hunting slavers, even committing the worst of all Oxford crimes: setting fire to the Bodleian Library.Now he's discovered that the woman whose death drove him over the edge has been alive all this time, shacked up with his worst enemy.Can he forgive her? Can he persuade her to forgive him? Can he help her in her quest to take on the scariest woman he's ever met - Myrrha Crake, the ageless, deathless leader of the Wylies?All he has is the mysterious shopping list given to him by the mother goddess of the demon race, the one headed 'How to save Ellini from her past': Ring. Sister. Piano.Trying to find these items - trying to make Ellini invincible - will take him into the demon realms, into his past, and into his worst nightmares.Ring. Sister. Piano is the fourth book in the epic fantasy romance The Powder Trail, a series where the past and the present meet, part and reunite with explosive consequences. Cover design by the awesome @AnnamitaMuscaria…

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After spending the past month as a cheerful amnesiac, drinking gin and making jokes while his world disintegrated, Jack Cade finally has his memories back. That means he knows exactly who Ellini Syal is, and how he feels about her. Unfortunately, he also thinks he's killed her. All he's living for now is revenge against the people who took her from him, be they demons or former friends. Ellini has come to London to do what she does best: a disappearing act. She has a broken heart, a punctured lung, and a pressing need to avoid all personal entanglements. But even in the smoke and bustle of London, someone from her old life has found her - someone who, like her, is supposed to be dead. A Thousand and One English Nights is the third book in the epic fantasy romance The Powder Trail, a series where the past and the present meet, part and reunite with explosive consequences. Cover design by the awesome @AnnamitaMuscaria…

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Eleven years later, in the city of Oxford, he met her again for the first time...In 1870, Jack Cade is admitted to the new-breed stronghold of Pandemonium, a colony of people just like him: descendants of the vanished demon race, all of them extraordinary in little ways, and deranged in much bigger ones. There, he falls in love with Ellini Syal, a shy, insular woman who spends most of her time scampering barefoot over the Edinburgh rooftops.In 1881, he meets her again, but has no idea who she is. All he knows is that there are dark, horribly suggestive gaps in his memory, and that Ellini is running from something she refuses to talk about. Can he work out who she is and what she's done in time to save her from the creatures pursuing her? Can he save himself from the amnesia and the creeping indifference that are eating him up piece by piece? Or is amnesia preferable to the kind of memories he will have to unearth?The Great Ellini is the first book in the epic historical-fantasy-romance The Powder Trail, a series where the past and the present meet, part, and reunite with explosive consequences.AWARDS (for full list see Author Notes):1st Place - Paranormal (The Misfit Awards 2022)1st Place - Fantasy (Clouded Ink Awards 2022)1st Place - Fantasy (The Pink Cloud Awards 2023)FEATURES (for full list see Author Notes): StoriesUndiscovered - Into the Abyss (01/10/2022)StudsandVixens - On-going Beaut (27/09/2022)WattpadDarkFantasy - A Kingdom in Shadows (11/09/2022)Lowfantasy - A History Unlikely (05/12/2022)Rankings:#1 Oxford (23/09/2022)#1 victoriangothic (09/09/2022)#1 darkfantasyromance (09/09/2022)#2 wellwritten (24/10/2022)#9 historicalfantasy (15/09/2022)#14 gothic (31/10/2022)#20 mysteryromance (24/10/2022)Cover and graphics by the amazing @AnnamitaMuscaria…

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In the days after Ellini left, Jack devoted himself wholeheartedly to the pursuit of oblivion...In 1876, Jack Cade has won a revolution, but lost his girlfriend. In 1881, he has the girlfriend back, but can't remember anything about how he lost her or what she was to him. Still, he knows she is determined to die on the fourth of July - that it has been predicted in quite a reliable book of prophecies - and that, for the sake of his sanity, he has to prevent it. That means pitting himself against living gargoyles, Oxford dons, man-hating sorceresses and - not least - Ellini's own despair. Red, White and Blue is the second book of the epic fantasy romance The Powder Trail, a series where the past and the present meet, part and reunite with explosive consequences. AWARDS:2nd Place - Best Romantic Scene (Mystical Mini Awards 2023).Cover design by the awesome @AnnamitaMuscaria…

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Cat Noir offers to give Ladybug dancing lessons in the evenings--strictly superhero talk, absolutely no kissy faces. They make a connection that helps both of them survive when Marinette is akumatized and Cat Noir's boundless optimism starts to falter.…