Out on Friday!

Darkness Beckons is done, wrapped, edited, proofread, and wrapped in a pretty ribbon. It will be released in eBook form this Friday (27 September 2024) and in paperback on 29 September. You can pre-order either version on Amazon via the image below and follow the continuing adventures of Solace and Ulrich as they finally confront the quite dastardly Graf Bulcher, the author of all their woes.

Well, technically, I'm the author of all their woes, but you know what I mean...

Apologies to anyone who's been awaiting my newsletter. Editing Darkness Beckons has meant everything else has gone on the back burner, but I should have the next one, including Black Sails, the next chapter of my ongoing serial The Lady of Easterly Cay, out to people in the next day or two.

And here's the blurb to the latest instalment to The Night's Road...

To defeat the darkness, you must become the darkness…

We all die a little every day, don’t we? From the moment we’re born, death is coming, death is waiting, death is patient.

Driven by her unimaginable loss, Solace von Tassau, alongside her loyal retainer Ulrich Renard and the disparate company she has gathered upon the road, reaches the desolate Thasbald Castle, home of the monstrous Siegfried, Graf Bulcher—the man responsible for all that has befallen her. A year after the Red Company destroyed The Wolf’s Tower, Solace, accompanying the terrified Karoline, Bulcher’s fourteen-year-old bride-to-be, is determined to avenge her father’s death and the horrors visited upon her home, whatever the cost.

In the shadow of the wedding festivities, Solace hatches a dark plot to depose the cruel and debased Graf, force him to reveal the whereabouts of the elusive Red Company before they reach the doomed city of Magdeburg, and steal enough silver to raise an army to confront Saul the Bloodless and his legion of vampires. But vengeance is never straightforward and always demands sacrifice.

Yet the horrors of Thasbald Castle are even more depraved than Solace and Ulrich could have imagined. As the twisted legacy of Graf Bulcher is unwittingly unleashed, a new terror is set loose upon the world. Blood and darkness beckon at every turn in this grim fortress of secrets.

Solace will use any tool, any ally, and any means necessary to quench her thirst for revenge and fill the emptiness inside her—but as she will soon learn, when you cut a deal with the damned, blood will flow…

Join Solace von Tassau and Ulrich Renard in Darkness Beckons, the terrifying fifth instalment of the Night's Road saga, where vengeance comes at a harrowing price.