Light Errant

Chaz Brenchley

Ben’s back — and this time he means business. Family business...

Benedict Macallan, protagonist of Dead of Light and wonder-worker malgré lui, has travelled the length and breadth of Europe and still discovered no family like his own. Maybe Macallan blood really is a biological sport, a freak of evolution.

What Ben does discover is that he can’t escape his birthright. He can run to the sun and hide among strangers, but he can’t hide his powers from himself, and when a friend asks for help he has to use them. With blood on his hands once more, it’s farewell la dolce vita; he gets on his bike and goes home.

Home is no sweeter than it was before, but it has changed. His gangster relatives have lost control somehow, of themselves and their city; more than one evil is at work here now, and even Ben’s unique talents may not be enough to save the one he loves.

If he can work out who that is...

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Dead of Light

Chaz Brenchley

When Benedict left home, it was maybe the first time he’d stood up to his family. It was also meant to be the last. No contact, he said, I’m disinvesting.

In all honesty, they weren’t sorry to see him go. Ben had never had their talent, never had the family spark. When you run a city — especially the way the Macallans ran theirs—the last thing you need is a reluctant passenger.

But suddenly Ben’s learning a lot, far more than his university course could ever teach him. And as his family starts to die one by one — vicious, gruesome, horrible deaths — the chief lesson is that you can’t turn your back on blood. There’s someone in the city with as much talent as the Macallans, and Ben’s connected after all. It’s there in his body, it’s in his veins; and be it thick or thin, be it still pumping or leaking out, blood is very much darker than water...

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Desdaemona

Ben Macallan

Jordan helps kids on the run find their way back home. He’s good at that. He should be — he’s a runaway himself. Sometimes he helps the kids in other, stranger, ways. He looks like a regular teenager, but he’s not. He acts like he’s not exactly human, but he is. He treads the line between mundane reality and the world of thesupernatural.

Desdaemona also knows the non-human world far too well. She tracks Jordan down and enlists his aid in searching for her lost sister Fay, who did a Very Bad Thing involving an immortal. This may be a mistake — for both of them. Too many people are interested now, and some of them are not people at all.

“Ben Macallan masterfully weaves myth, magic and the mundane to create a world where dangerous supernaturals control the shadows in a superbly realized English landscape. With its deft plotting, evocative prose, and the unique pairing of Jay, the plucky, engaging narrator, with the cool, take-no-prisoners Desdaemona, Macallan’s tale is smart, witty, full of surprises, and grips until the very last shock.”

Suzanne McLeod

Hidden Cities

Daniel Fox