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Ray and the Cat Thing
Book 1 “Ray and the Echoes” Series
Reinette should be looking for a job. Instead, she signs up for photography camp. Being out in the wilds, learning something new, meeting people…maybe this is what she’s been yearning for.
Deep in the forest, a derelict house waits to be discovered. The strange creatures that are trapped there long for change, yet fear it too. Reinette will need all her courage and kindness to help the magical friends she’s about to make.
“Ray and the Cat Thing” is a cozy-creepy fantasy set in South Africa.
Ray and the Stone Cold Axe Woman
Book 2 “Ray and the Echoes” Series
An unexpected visitor comes knocking on Ray’s door. She’s an enormous, axe-wielding woman who claims that Ray is in danger. What from? The woman doesn’t know, but she won’t let Ray out of her sight.
Ray doesn’t have time for this. The mystery she’s trying to solve is how to earn enough for rent and groceries. But as Ray uncovers the history of a classic, ultra- violent video game, the line between fiction and reality blurs. The danger is real, and it’s up to Ray to protect her unwanted body-guard.
Ray and the Stone Cold Axe Woman is the sequel to “Ray and the Cat Thing” a cozy-creepy fantasy set in Cape Town, South Africa
We Broke the Moon
The AI War. When the spaceship Tahora went rogue and tried to kill all her crew. Decades later the survivors still don’t trust the technology their lives depend on.
Teenage hackers Io and Maksim don’t share their elders’ fears. They’re too young to remember the war and they’re concerned about a more pressing problem: the Tahora’s dwindling resources of air and food.
When a message arrives from an alien civilization, Io and Maksim realise they’ve been lied to. To find out the truth, they hack the Tahora’s security system. As they uncover the mystery hidden at the heart of their ship, Io and Maksim risk awakening the rogue AI and destroying the fragile bubble of life they all live in.
“We Broke the Moon” is Hope Punk Science-Fiction, a genre that focuses on friendship, love, and a can-do approach to the challenges the characters face.
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.