Showing results by author "Ian Taylor" in Literature & Fiction

It's the 22nd century. Humanity has taken its first steps into the galaxy, and we've found ourselves in a vast playground of alien races and cultures. As the newest players on the universal stage, though, we're at the bottom of the food chain. Welcome back to the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates humans from the majority of the other races. While some of the stories deal with mercenaries, others introduce listeners to the other guilds, organizations, and races that make up the landscape of the Four Horsemen universe.

Will and Alice Harding and their seven-year-old son Toby have just moved to a new house in the countryside. Hoping for a fresh start, Will and Alice's past hides dark secrets that are just waiting to emerge. Soon, Toby begins to change. his voice, his appearance, his demeanor. Finally accepting that something is seriously wrong with their son - something traditional medicine can't help with - Will and Alice turn to folk magic for help.

At the edge of the Pennine Moors, Detective Sergeant Blackshaw and his rookie colleague, Detective Constable Lumb, are called to the scene of a double murder committed on a burial ground. They discover that the case is connected to an ancient Celtic cult. Desperate for career advancement and obsessed with solving the mystery, DC Lumb immerses himself in the group—and disappears. Amid a chain of unexplained deaths, the Sergeant Blackshaw attempts to unravel the plot. But with scarce evidence, can he prove his theory—or will he have to accept that there is no way to catch a phantom?

Social drama meets rite of passage and the supernatural in Guilt, a riveting psychological thriller set in 1962 small-town England. It's a time of class consciousness and jobs for life, where a man is defined by his work and the Aldermaston march is imminent. After a night of heavy rain, four teenage boys meet in the Roman camp: middle-class Brock; Red, whose working-class family has upwardly-mobile aspirations; Mouth, the scraplad; and Raggy, the deaf simpleton. They decide to go down the flooded riverside fields to see what they can shoot.

Después de que su madre y su hermana mueren en un incendio de un remolque, Luke Smith recurre al robo para recaudar dinero y proteger a su pueblo de la opresión. En el mundo de los viajeros gitanos y los bandidos del inframundo, el peligro nunca está lejos. Cuando un robo sale mal, Luke es arrastrado a una red de mentiras y engaños que revela una verdad sorprendente.

In the English village of Low Moor, something sinister is afoot. New to the small town, young vicar Paul Milton discovers the depths of the town’s ominous energy when his wife disappears. Desperate to find her, he gets tangled in a struggle between a deadly Celtic sorceress and a relentless Christian geomancer. Both sides seek control of the strange power running beneath the town, and tension mounts as a new channel to the darkest forces of the Otherworld opens.