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The Clock Strikes – a Hawthorn House Novella
All they wanted was a night out at the pub. Then battling Victorian warlocks crashed the party.
When Rob and Julian stumble across a crack in time, they fall into a war between two factions of Victorian warlocks. A war that follows them back to modern London.
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The Clock Strikes – A Hawthorn House Novella
All they wanted was a night out at the pub. Then battling Victorian warlocks crashed the party.
When Rob and Julian stumble across a crack in time, they fall into a war between two factions of Victorian warlocks. A war that follows them back to modern London.
Pursued across the city by Bartholomew Crow and his horrifying minions, aided by a tattoo witch, Rob and Julian must decide who to trust as they race through time and space itself.
Because if Crow succeeds, the world will be plunged into endless darkness.
The Clock Strikes is part of the Hawthorn House epic urban fantasy series. Pick it up to join Rob and Julian on their latest fast-paced adventure today!
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Ghost Electricity – Hawthorn House Book 1
A girl with a monster in her shadow. A warlock believed dead four years ago. A werewolf outcast from the London packs.
Rob wants a good job, friends to head to the pub with and a solid cage to lock himself in three nights a month. Julian dropped off the face of the Earth four years ago. He's back and trying to stay under the radar. But London after dark is full of dangers they cannot survive alone.
Fiona has a monster in her shadow but she doesn't know how it got there. A creature in the shape of a man is on her trail and he knows things about Fiona she doesn't know herself. Along with her inventor ten-year-old sister Jessica, Fiona will attempt to unravel the web of lies that surrounds them both.
And beneath their feet the plague dead of centuries stir in their graves, waiting for the spell that holds them to break...
Ghost Electricity is the first book in the fast-paced, epic urban fantasy series Hawthorn House.
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The Mortal Edge – Hawthorn House Book 2
To cross the Mortal Edge is to die – with no guarantee you’ll come back.
A murdered friend seeking revenge. An invitation from the werewolf world. An immortal teacher with her own agenda.
Four years ago Julian Blackwood killed his best friend. Now Mitch Longfield is back and Julian must ask himself how far he is willing to go to protect the secret they share.
The London werewolves have finally opened their arms to Rob Cromwell. But the werewolf world is darker than Rob ever imagined and the werewolves have their own reasons for pulling him in.
Fiona has joined the Red Sisters to learn magic, but she's starting to wonder if they really want to teach her. In mirrors and in dreams she is stalked by the Lord of Chains, who knows the truth buried deep within her.
The Mortal Edge is the second book in the fast-paced, epic urban fantasy series Hawthorn House.
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Immortal Make – Hawthorn House Book 3
Who will rule?
An ancient grave. A ruthless enemy. A power that once scoured the world.
Julian killed his best friend to protect a buried secret. A secret Astra and Crispin, exiles from the werewolf dynasties, want for themselves. If they succeed, they'll set the world on fire. Together, Rob and Julian must race to stop them, while Julian decides how much it's safe for Rob to know.
Fiona still can't light a candle with magic. But she's caught the interest of a wizard, a dread being from across the gulf between worlds. She must try to stop those around her from being hurt as she fights to survive the wizard's tests.
As the different factions of the shadow world rally for war, while forces from the non-magical world prepare to destroy them once and for all, the residents of Hawthorn House must come together. Or the world will burn once again.
Immortal Make is the third book in the fast-paced, epic urban fantasy series Hawthorn House.
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Acknowledgements
My continued thanks, as always, to my tireless editor Lorna Ferguson. Her insight and feedback catches me whenever I don’t quite hit the mark. My thanks also to Holly C, who does an excellent job of pointing out when this Australian slips and makes his British characters sound less British. I’m getting a bit better at not saying “sidewalk”, I promise.
There are always new places to see and new things to do. But these experiences are so much better when you have a partner in your adventures. To Amber, my adventure buddy, I’m very grateful that we get to go on these adventures together.
Author’s Note
This is not the end of the Hawthorn House series.
You learn something from every book you write, I’ve said before. From this one, I learned I work in threes. Three acts to a story, three books to a trilogy. As I wrote Immortal Make, I found I kept making callbacks to the first book, Ghost Electricity. It felt like the end of a trilogy.
I began writing long before I started reading the theory of writing. When I did begin studying the theory, I recognised much of the lessons on plot structure because I was already doing it. I’d picked it up from a lifetime of reading, TV shows and movies.
Immortal Make isn’t the end. It’s the midpoint. It’s here that the shape of the series’ overall arc starts to reveal itself. I was surprised by some of it. You know certain things going in as the writer, but even a planned story deviates from its outline. Rob, Julian, Fiona and Jessica had their own ideas about where they should go. I’ve listened when they told me, rather that tried to railroad them into something that ran against their character.
Places to which I’ve travelled have a way of ending up in my stories. So it is with Iceland. For a person raised in the tropical rainforests of Australia, with frequent trips into the dry interior, Iceland was an astounding experience. Rob’s wonder is my own. I feel I can never do it justice.
The story of the tenants of Hawthorn House has reached a turning point. Each character has made a decision, whether they understand it or not, on where they’re going. I hope you’ll continue to join them as the consequences of those decisions unfold.
About the Author
Sean Cunningham is the author of The Hawthorn House Series
, an urban fantasy series with London at its heart. His books blend fast-paced action, vivid characters and epic adventures.
Sean has a degree in Microelectronic Engineering and works as a software engineer. He lives in London, England, after moving over from Brisbane, Australia to work and travel for a couple of years and then forgetting to leave.
He enjoys the travel opportunities London provides and doesn't actually go to a new city or country with the intention of setting a story there, but it often happens. He enjoys whisky and has started learning about wines.
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Copyright
Copyright © Sean Cunningham, 2019
Cover art © Damonza.com, 2019
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Sean Cunningham has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work, in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN 978-1-9999515-3-5
All rights reserved.
This is a work of fiction. The people, events and circumstances depicted are fictitious and the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance of any character to any actual person, whether living or dead, is purely coincidental.
You may not copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce or otherwise make available this publication (or any part of it) in any form, or by any means, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Astra
Chapter 2 – Rob and Julian
Chapter 3 – Rob and Julian
Chapter 4 – Rob and Julian
Chapter 5 – The Landlord
Chapter 6 – Astra
Chapter 7 – Fiona
Chapter 8 – Fiona
Chapter 9 – Fiona
Chapter 10 – Astra
Chapter 11 – Julian
Chapter 12 – Rob
Chapter 13 – Rob and Julian
Chapter 14 – Fiona
Chapter 15 – Fiona
Chapter 16 – Fiona
Chapter 17 – Pavel
Chapter 18 – Rob and Julian
Chapter 19 – Rob and Julian
Chapter 20 - Alice
Chapter 21 - Fiona
Chapter 22 – Rob and Julian
Chapter 23 – Rob and Julian
Chapter 24 – Fiona/Julian
Chapter 25 – Fiona
Chapter 26 – Shifts
Chapter 27 – The Ancient
Chapter 28 – Weapons
Chapter 29 – Titan Bones
Chapter 30 – War
Chapter 31 – One Trick
Chapter 32 – The Fire that Burned the World
Chapter 33 – Rule
Chapter 34 – Hawthorn House
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Copyright
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