An excerpt from HEROICA

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Here’s a taster from Revolution?, the first story in HEROICA

Roma Nova, 2020

‘You are joking!’

‘You think subversive activity threatening Roma Nova is a joke?’ Legate Conradus Mitelus, head of the Praetorian Guard Special Forces, and for good or bad, also my husband, frowned at me. […]

Excerpt from Double Stakes

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The first few pages…

The ringtone echoed through the trees around the lake.

Mel grabbed her phone.

‘Des Pittones. Bonjour.’

‘Mel! Mel!’

‘Mum?’ Mel turned over and pulled herself up on her elbows. Her fair hair, damp from swimming, fell both sides of her face. […]

PERFIDITAS excerpt

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‘Captain Carina Mitela?’

‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Who is this?’

‘Custodes XI Station. An emergency token with your code has been handed in. We’re holding the presenter.’

Juno.

I dropped everything and headed for the tunnel connecting our headquarters to the police station. The duty sergeant, with a typical cop’s bland expression but […]