'Winston is fourteen and apprenticed to the wizard Faramond. Winston’s problem is that he’s a lot brighter than his master.

'Faramond is being forced to bring more valuable magical slaves into the world. Winston wants to free the enslaved magical creatures who are already there.

'This spells trouble' (Publication summary)

'At the turn of the 20th Century, an expert on death, dying, and resuscitation is forced to help a woman make a short visit to the land of the dead.'

Source: Rocket Stack Rank (http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2019/01/Terminalia-Sean-McMullen.html). (Sighted: 21/02/2019)

'In 1899 London, Inspector Grant investigates a lady who claims her big electrical apparatus is for a camera, even though it looks like a bomb or a death ray.'

Source: Rocket Stack Rack (http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2017/03/The-Influence-Machine-Sean-McMullen.html) (Sighted: 30/04/2018)

When a Russian scientist discovers an alien colonising force, an assassin is sent after him to keep him from sharing the news.

'Seldom was the Mediterranean Sea so very calm that the wavelets were barely visible at the entrance to the Canal of Erythraea, gateway to the orient. In the western sky the moon hung as a thin crescent, and beside it Venus gleamed like burning silver. The sorceress Xarial stood on the wharf of green granite, tall, svelte, crowned by cascades of pale hair, gazing west through a tube of polished brass. Two figures approached, the smaller of them not half the height of his master. Xarial's swarthy Iberian guard. Grattan, looked on warily. ' (Introduction)

'It's hard to save the world when you are in jail. Dantar and Velza, children of the warlock Calbaras, need to escape from jails six hundred miles apart to stop their father unleashing a catastrophically dangerous spell. Both will soon learn that they are not just special, they are also very dangerous.' (Publication summary)

'The warlock Calbaras wants to revive the ancient, forbidden magic of dragons, and his son Dantar is vital to his plans. Dantar is on the run in an enemy kingdom, unaware that he is so important. Worse, his sister Velza is now working for the enemy king.' (Publication summary)

'The Invincible has been attacked, and all seems lost. Dantar's only escape from his enemies is through the foul-smelling sewers of Savaria.

'Velza's plans to save him are soon thwarted by three enormous dragons threatening to set fire to the city.

'Can Dantar and Velza deliver the city from danger?' (Publication summary)

'There is no lower rank than cabin boy on the warship Invincible.

'But Dantar knows he is important, because anyone who threatens his life gets turned into a pile of ashes. His older sister Velza is a shapecasting warrior, in a world where only men fight. Until now.

'Together they must solve the mystery of broken magic and escape the dragon.' (Publication summary)