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Ray and the Cat Thing
Book 1 “Ray and the Echoes” Series
Calling off the wedding had been the right thing to do, but now Reinette’s life stretches before her, safe, predictable, empty and lonely. She has to find a job and a new place to live, unless she plans to be stuck in her mother’s guest room forever.
Instead, the usually responsible Reinette signs up for a photography camp. Being out in the wilds, taking photographs, meeting new people…maybe this is what she’s been yearning for.
But deep in the forest a long-forgotten gate waits for her to unlock it, and discover the secrets beyond. Reinette will need all her reserves of courage and kindness to help the new, and rather magical friends she’s about to make.
Ray and the Stone Cold Axe Woman
Book 2 “Ray and the Echoes” Series
An enormous axe-wielding woman shows up on Ray’s doorstep. She’s a stranger, and she refuses to share her name. All she’ll say is that she was sent to protect Ray. What from? The Axe-Woman doesn’t know, but she’s not about to let Ray out of her sight.
As Ray navigates her neighbourhood with this unlikely body-guard in tow, she’s not always sure who’s protecting whom. But it soon becomes alarmingly clear that the danger is very real, and that if Ray wants to keep herself and her friends safe, she’ll have to figure out the mystery of the Axe-Woman’s identity.
We Broke the Moon
We Broke the Moon is Hope Punk Science Fiction, a genre that focuses on friendship, love, and a hopeful, can-do approach to the challenges the characters face. It features a virtual reality game on a spaceship in deep space, teenage hackers, talking cats, and a rogue artificial intelligence.
The Babylon Eye
Book 1 “Linked Worlds” Series
A cyber-dog, lost in the void between worlds. The woman who must find the dog to win back her freedom. A spy’s betrayal that could kill them both.
Meisje is no ordinary dog. She’s a gardag, a cybernetically enhanced living weapon. She’s also lost, hungry, and lonely. Elke Veraart is on Meisje’s trail. If she can find the dog she’ll win back her own freedom. If she fails she’ll be sent back to prison.
As she closes in on the gardag, Elke finds her admiration for Meisje growing. And Meisje, weak with hunger, begins to wonder if she could trust the woman who is hunting her. Then Elke discovers that there are other hunters searching for the gardag and that her orders have changed. She no longer has to find Meisje. She has to kill her.
The Real
Book 2 “Linked Worlds” Series
“Don’t trust anyone.” The message arrives just as Elke and her cyber-dog Meisje are settling in, content with their new life of patrolling the corridors of The Babylon Eye. It’s a warning: Elke is being framed for a crime that bears the death penalty.
Escaping arrest is the least of her troubles. Elke’s plans for her own safety are soon derailed by the needs of a lost child and a pack of rogue cyber-dogs.To clear her name and regain her home, Elke must find the sender of the message, the murderer and spy who has betrayed her once before. Her enemy has become her only hope.
The Strange
Book 3 “Linked Worlds” Series
Constable Elke Veraart and her cyber-dog Meisje are peace keepers, patrolling the Babylon Eye. It’s a good job, but there must be more to life than chasing smugglers and settling domestic disputes!
Then three children ask Elke to find their mother, who’s been missing for more than a year. The search attracts the wrong kind of attention. Elke and her young friends are in desperate danger.
Unable to resist the powers that have been unleashed against her, Elke is swept out of the Babylon Eye and into another world. While she struggles to regain her freedom, the children are unprotected. They must face, all alone, a new danger that stalks the corridors of the Babylon Eye.
Crooks & Straights
Book 1 “Crooked World” Series
Gia’s brother Nico is different from other boys. And being different can be dangerous in Gia’s world.
Cape Town is no longer the haven for magical refugees that it once was. The Purists want to get rid of all magic and the newspapers are full of dreadful stories about the Belle Gente, the magical terrorists.
None of this concerns Gia, until the Special Branch— police who investigate the illegal use of magic— come knocking at her door, looking for Nico. When Gia turns to her parents for help, she finds only more secrets. Then she realises that she was the one who put her brother in danger.
Wolf Logic
Book 2 “Crooked World” Series
Never trust a werewolf.
That’s Gia’s first lesson as she enters the wolf cages at Special Branch, the police force that deal with the illegal use of magic. But working with the tracker-werewolves is not the greatest danger she faces: Gia is a spy. She risks torture and death if her secret is discovered.
Then Gia receives shocking news. Her little brother has disappeared, taken out of his bed, in the middle of the night. She doesn’t want to believe that Special Branch is responsible, but who did take Nico? Could it be the magical terrorists, the Belle Gente? Or is there another, even stranger explanation?
The Story Trap
Book 1 “Sisters” Series
One girl’s death might save the ocean. But can her sisters let her die?
Rebecca never expected to meet a witch, least of all in a second-hand bookshop in Mowbray.
The Broken Path
Book 2 “Sisters” Series
What if a story came to life? If the characters stepped off the page and into our world?
Cape Town in winter is a harsh place to be homeless. Rebecca has to keep her people safe until she finds a way to get them back into their story. She turns to her sisters for help but finds that they have secrets of their own. And Rebecca’s gun-packing neighbour is getting far too interested in her strange visitors.
Strange Neighbours
Strange Neighbours is a collection of ten illustrated fantasy short stories set in Cape Town, South Africa.
Meet a hitch hiking troll with a taste for pepper-spray and a homeless witch with a trolley full of secrets. Discover a book hoarding mermaid and a fridge full of frogs. And learn how to greet a witch politely, of course.