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The Cold Iron War — Black Iron Prophecies book one

Urban Fantasy

Black Iron Prophecies

This is not the London we know. Elves, magic and assassins stalk the streets. From her palace, the Queen of the Elves plots an invasion — and her techno-mages are preparing to rip open the long-forgotten portals and send an army flooding across the Gap.

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Book One

The Cold Iron War

The Elven Queen is invading London. Only Rye can stop her.

A coven of elvish techno-mages — the vanguard of the Queen's army — is already in the city. If they open a portal between the worlds, the army will flood through in a full-scale invasion.

Rye's long-suppressed moral compass has dragged her across the Gap in pursuit of the techno-mages. But in this strange city, alone and cut off from all that's familiar, her lethal skills are useless — she needs friends and allies. Meanwhile Pete, sacked from the company he founded, starts looking into mysterious cat-nappings, and things get weird. Just don't ask about the pigeons.

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Book Two

The Demon Spear

The invasion has been foiled by an act of treason — and the punishment for treason is death.

The Queen knows exactly who to blame: Rye. Lord Galdoran is the instrument of her revenge, and he's brought an elite team of assassins to London to hunt Rye, Pete and Liz. He will stop at nothing to complete his mission.

And then there's the Black Iron Prophecy itself. What is Black Iron, and what role might it play in the coming storm? Can Rye stop Galdoran before he slaughters her friends and destroys everything she's built?

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Book Three

The Last Portal

Portals are opening at random across the realms — and disaster looms.

The network linking the worlds of humans and elves is collapsing, threatening to tear reality apart on both sides of the Gap. The fear of impending doom drives the Queen to send her Mage Lord across to fix it. But things are never as easy as they seem.

To repair the network, Rye, Pete and Yllmae must find a legendary book, unearth the long-lost master portal stones, and cast the right spell before the system suffers a devastating collapse. Can they prevent a disaster of global proportions?

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