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 Leon Spar came to Detour with his life in pieces, desperate to find resolution, unaware he had fallen to the end of the world where men, superstition and nature collide in supernatural catastrophes. A no-man’s land that like a desolate beach, separates two worlds from ever meeting. The outback, dead and blistered by legend, brutal with heat, against the force of an earth-soaked curse, as overwhelming as the great oceans tide, hell-bent by design for revenge.

Between these two worlds Spar takes up his assignment with Coastal Surveillance in the fishing industry of Detour. A community built by the ignorant manufacture of man’s efforts to survive in a landscape few could ever understand, and none had the right to claim. With only a natural empathy for the sea, Spars self-destructive attitude towards people quickly draws the towns hatred. 

His awakening into a legacy of Aboriginal folklore that haunts the town, challenges his fragile thread of sanity. His precarious grip on normality balanced between a smuggling ring desperate for secrecy, a police sergeant desperate to keep the peace, a hitman’s contract bent on silencing him, and an Aboriginal medicine man desperate to prevent the on-coming destruction of an ancient horror.

Once Upon a Bad Time is an Australian adventure as epic as the Dreamtime myths of the outback. Where once nomadic tribes reined with their gods, now just the odd, remote town clings to a sunburnt land deformed by centuries of aboriginal superstitions. A few will survive, most will be swallowed alive… 

 Leftovers is a chilling collection of five twisted stories. 

Chechezin's Gate: a ghostly western where an aging Gunslinger must confront his greatest adversary in order to find redemption. 

Headlands: when two mates go camping in the wilderness of Fraser Island they are cut-off by a violent storm, trapped with a mysterious woman with unearthly, powers and a dark secret. 

The White Smile: is a tale of a writer struggling to find his feet in a desperate place of loss and despair. 

The Commoner: a cockney Detective has to solve a case of horror when a mutilated body is found in the parklands of Bexleyheath, and the only explanation lies in the impossible. 

Foodchain: a sci-fi set in the future, where four friends discover their exciting fishing holiday isn't quite what they thought it would be...remember when you turn out the lights, it was only a story.