In this thrilling third instalment of the Leopard's Bane series, star-crossed lovers Yalka and Peglar face their gravest test yet. Yalka is imprisoned, caught in a dangerous ploy orchestrated by Vancia, Peglar's stepmother, and his vengeful half-brother, Ragul. Peglar is captured and condemned to die by hanging at the next full moon. His fate seems sealed and despair grips the hearts of the lovers as they face the looming spectre of their separation, possibly forever. All seems lost, but then as the moon rises an unexpected twist of fate sets off a startling chain of events. Will Yalka and Peglar find a way to reunite and rewrite their destiny? The answer lies under the hanging moon.

A Hanging Moon (Leopard's Bane)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Featherstone, Phill

Fantasy

Opitus Books

Eleven short stories on the themes of life, death, fantasy and the supernatural. Each story is followed by an author's note explaining where the idea came from and the effects and reader responses the author was aiming to achieve.

Undiscovered Countries

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

The People Demand

Lane, Peter

Literary

Paradise Girl: A gripping psychological drama of a girl alone (REBOOT)

Religion & Spirituality

Aftershocks is a companion to the author's first novel, the successful and award winning Paradise Girl. However, both books stand alone, and it's not necessary to have read one to enjoy the other.A highly infectious and incurable virus spreads worldwide, eventually reaching the UK. The Shaw family live on an isolated Pennine farm. They think that their remote location will keep them safe from the infection, but they are wrong. A stranger comes to their door and brings the disease with him.Lander Shaw, the twin brother of Kerryl, the 'paradise girl' of the first book, leaves the farm and embarks on a journey to discover more about the infection and to seek a better future. He travels the length of the country, encountering both the best and the worst of humanity on a  journey that is both a pilgrimage and a voyage of self-discovery. In a series of exciting episodes he is robbed, captured, and has to face a terrible choice, and realises that not everything - or everyone - is as they at first seem.

After Shocks (REBOOT)

Genre Fiction

The story follows on from the end of Aftershocks. Lander leaves Lake Manor and is chased by dogs but escapes. Adam has a plan is to divide the plague survivors into geographically separate pods to control any resurgence of the infection. Another effect of the virus is mass infertility and he is concerned that if the situation becomes widely known it will cause panic. He makes a video showing some of the Nightingales holding dolls which look like new-born babies and intends to circulate this to create the impression that things are normal. Lander meets Steve and Chrissie. Chrissie believes the infection was sent by God to punish humankind for its wickedness and means to start a crusade. Lander is arrested for vagrancy and sent to a pod. Lander is made to set up a new internet, which will be heavily policed by the government. Adam asks Magda to inspect some research he has commissioned to overcome mass infertility by creating hybrid foetuses of humans and bonobo apes. Magda goes and is horrified by what she sees. Lander finds the government is increasingly dictatorial. He locates others who share his view and sets up an underground means of communicating with them on the back of the new internet. One contact uses the handle REG. Lander learns about Chrissie's crusade and goes to one of their meetings. Magda attends too. The rally is broken up by government agents. Steve is injured and Chrissie is taken away. Lander is hurt, and rescued by a girl from the band, who takes him to the Franklins, another of the women's groups. Magda manages to get Steve to hospital. In the recovery room she's joined by Adam. He says that Steve got what he deserved by arranging an illegal meeting. They row again and Magda leaves. When she returns Adam has gone and Steve is dead. At the Franklins, Lander meets REG, who turns out to be called Rachel. He finds her very attractive and is immediately smitten. She tells him that the Franklins have developed a vaccine against the infection, and that she is to be a guinea pig. Lander says he will volunteer too. They go to Paradise Farm. During the days that follow they fall in love, against a background of tension and anxiety while they wait to see if the vaccine works. Magda is arrested and accused of killing Steve. The magistrate finds her guilty and sentences her to a long term in prison. Adam offers a deal; she'll be released if she agrees to be a host mother in the bonobo experiments. Magda is appalled but agrees. She is prepared for the implant. In the middle of the night there's a fire, caused by the Drifters, who rescue her and escape. Back at Paradise Farm the vaccine has worked. Lander and Rachel return to the Franklins, where they find that Magda, the Drifter boy and many of the Nightingales have also gathered and become the hub of a resistance. They arrange a meeting with Adam, where they demand the replacement of the government and proper elections, a pardon for Magda, recognition of the Drifters, disbanding the pods, and freedom for Chrissie. Adam refuses but they inform him that they have infected him with the virus, and will only provide him with the vaccine if he agrees. Under pressure he does so. The action jumps forward five years. Life is getting back to normal. Adam is still in a powerful position but has reformed. Rachel and Lander are living at Paradise Farm and they have twins. The scene is one of domestic happiness, and the story concludes with them returning to an area of the moor which is prominent in Book 1 as a favourite haunt of Kerryl.

Jericho Rose (REBOOT)

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