What if home became a place of dread?Maliha Anderson returns to her family in French-owned Pondicherry, and it's worse than she expects. Her grandmother is trying to marry her off but that's nothing compared the suicide of an unknown woman in front of a family wedding party. Or that her rejected lover has returned unexpectedly.Maliha refuses to allow the woman's death to be brushed under the carpet but her investigations bring her to a very dark place. Slavery, sexual violence and taboo relationships guide her to a devastating revelation that might destroy her family.In a past that never was, the fourth book in the Maliha Anderson series reveals the darkest aspects of human nature with vivid descriptions, intriguing characters, and crisp, elegant prose."There is something totally captivating about these characters.""Maliha brings out the best and worst in those she loves.""Maliha Anderson...

Why are things never simple?Captain Qi Zang and her crew are on their way from Delhi to Kerala when their ice cargo ship is brought down in a storm. And then the local army mistake them for bandits.The only way out is to help the owner of the local plantation rescue her lover from a forced marriage. Assuming the army don't throw them in jail.

They stopped the monsters, but at what cost? Who’s going to stop them?Chloe Dark lives in a world decimated by a pandemic that turned humans into genetic freaks, and she fears it will happen to her. When her best friend goes missing, Britain's tyrannical Purity ruling class keeps Chloe from discovering the truth. To find her friend, she has no choice but to take the road more dangerous...As Chloe realizes she has more in common with the freaks than she'd care to admit, the search to save her friend transforms into a fight for her life. Now she must risk everything to determine if the real monster is the one within.KYMIERA is an action-packed dystopian biopunk page-turner. If you like gritty sci-fi settings, strong-willed heroines, and coming-of-age tales, then you'll love Steve Turnbull's binge-worthy thrill-ride.Become KYMIERA. Buy it today to discover the real monsters...

1896. Two sisters. One ornithopter. The African Savannah. And one Army. Harriet (Harry) Edgbaston and her sister Khuwelsa enjoy their life flitting around the grasslands of East Africa in the ornithopter her father bought for her. But on a trip to see Lieutenant Schmidt of the German Army they become mixed up in what looks like becoming a major war. Escaping from captivity they msut try to warn their father in Zanzibar - but who will believe a couple of teenage girls?

Harriet and Khuwelsa Edgbaston are not typical sisters.Harry wants to fly but even with all her sister's ingenuity they can't build a flying machine. Instead they just have the steam-powered runabout Sellie built.When they take a trip into Mombasa they are side-tracked by a landing Zeppelin and from that point things go from ordinary to outrageous.As chaos reigns they are forced to make a decision that will change their entire future.

Harry and Sellie are at home when the building comes crashing down around them. With their father kidnapped they are in a race against time to catch the man who has ruined their home and stolen away their father.

It's 1896 in a world where airships fill the skies. In East Africa, sisters Harriet and Khuwelsa Edgbaston set off in their steam-powered ornithopter on the trail of hippopotamus teeth. It's an adventure more dangerous than any they've encountered before.

Missing babies in Johannesburg, and nobody cares.Maliha Anderson and her entourage travel to South Africa to return Riette's baby to the father's family on what should be a simple mission of mercy. But they are soon embroiled in race politics and something even darker: Children are disappearing but no one cares because they are black.In a battle against a vast subversive power Maliha discovers the worst horrors that man can commit, and struggles to bring the true perpetrators to justice. But what can one woman do?In a past that never was, the fifth book in the Maliha Anderson series explores a new land, new people and new relationships, with vivid descriptions, intriguing characters, and crisp, elegant prose."Thoughtful, character-driven and sinister.""Maliha's world is not all sunshine and roses, and I prefer it that way.""Well-written, intelligent books that leave me an emotional...

1908. In a corner of India that will be forever France, a murderer walks. Maliha Anderson prefers to be alone and the murdered body washed up by the tide is one person too many. Having returned to the place of her birth to take part in the death rituals for her mother Maliha is confronted with a crime that will be unavenged unless she does something about it. But as she digs into the circumstances of the death she faces greed, lust and intense prejudice in a cultural clash between East and West. The question is, how far must she go to bring the true culprit to justice? In a past that never was, this tale of love and avarice is filled with vivid descriptions, intriguing characters, and crisp, elegant prose.

An airship off course. A creeping horror. And a crew losing their marbles.Having finally made it to Ceylon, Captain Qi and the motley crew of the Frozen Beauty picks up a simple job: carrying Dr Morbury, a botanist, and his cargo up the coast to Bombay. Nothing could be simpler.But the trip turns into a nightmare as one by one the crew succumb to a strange disease. Until only the youngest member of the crew, Fanning, is left in his (or her) right mind.

Death is chasing Maliha Anderson and it's catching up.Time is running out and the man who has turned out to be her nemesis has created an impossible situation to kill everyone she knows one by one.How can she possibly defeat a man with so much power he can make an honest man kill. With deaths piling up around her Maliha can only rely on her wits and her diminishing friends to help her on an unforgiving and unknown world.In a past that never was, the final book in the Maliha Anderson series takes her to a new world, where the very air is death and the power is all in the hands of her nemesis. Filled with vivid descriptions, intriguing characters, and crisp, elegant prose."Maliha remains a fascinating character at times warm and at others as cold as ice, almost suicidal in her search for justice.""Turnbull does not let his characters find a convenient way out of moral difficulties - it's one of my...

Captain Qi Zang and her motley crew, aboard the Chinese ice freighter Frozen Beauty make landfall in Delhi, and run straight into British Customs officers. Unfortunately not all her cargo is ice, nor is it entirely legal.