900+ 4 & 5 STAR RATINGS ON GOODREADS!Cole Westbay is running for his life from a cyberpunk-like surveillance state he helped build!If you ever wanted to give science fiction a try this is the perfect novel to start with. “Brilliant! The writer had me hooked immediately.” “This book demands our attention and posits the arrival of a genuinely gifted author. Very highly recommended.” “Brilliantly plotted and skillfully written, Effacement by Hieronymus Hawkes is a great book that will fill you with unease.” The development of the neurochip requires everyone to record every aspect of their life into a lifelog. You can’t get insurance, open a bank account, or hold a job without one. Surveillance has become a way of life in the US and the government continues to crack down. Dr. Cole Westbay has been a driving force for BioNarratus, maker of the neurochip that revolutionized the world. When his company is accused of being behind a series of recent deaths, Cole investigates to clear their name. Instead, he ends up attacked, with no memory of recent events and his neurochip destroyed. In the process of trying to figure out who is behind his attack, he ends up losing trust in everyone he loves and is forced to rely on a group of strangers living off the grid. As he pieces his life back together, he finds himself the target of every news agency in North America and the centerpiece of a government cover-up. Can he stop them from killing more innocents before they shut him up permanently? Purchase EFFACEMENT and find out what happens next!

The Aura Shaper trilogy is an epic tale of good versus evil set in a late medieval fantasy world where ‘gifted’ people are born with extraordinary talents and all living things are surrounded by an aura – a unique pattern of moving light that reveals their every thought, feeling, action and belief. Only a few people can see these auras and fewer still can read and understand them, but the ability to manipulate them belongs to the rarest gifted of all: Aura Shapers. The most feared and reviled of individuals, they can reach into a person’s aura and permanently alter whatever they wish with only the power of their mind. It’s little wonder Aura Shaping is forbidden, its use punishable by death, or that centuries of persecution is believed to have wiped out Aura Shapers. Until now. Ruth Northcott, a Healer, is dying from the poison she’s accumulated over decades of treating the sick. Her only daughter sits by her side, desperate to help, but to do so would be to break her word and risk her own life. Worse, it would deny the sacrifices her mother has made to keep her safe. For Anna is not just an ungifted girl with an ugly birthmark: Anna is an Aura Shaper. “Better an ungifted servant than a dead Shaper,” her mother told her again and again. She’s not sure when she began to disagree, or when the need to know what she is and learn what she can do began to overwhelm her fear of discovery and death. What she does know is that she can’t continue living the lie, and the only way she might survive is if the Quorum of Gifted grant her their protection. Before she even manages to leave her backwater home town, she finds herself making friends with a remarkable horse named Blue and gets embroiled in a rescue mission that takes her in completely the wrong direction – right into the path of disciples of Nystrieth, the Emperor and self-proclaimed God who’s ravaging the continent that lies across the Oestrieth Sea. Please note that the Aura Shaper trilogy contains difficult themes and significant levels of violence. It is intended for adults only. “An entertaining and exciting tale from a convincing and attractive fantasy world”“The finale is crashingly epic. I read it at the speed of sound!”“Absolutely loved this book. Cost me some sleepless nights cause I couldn’t drag myself away from it!”“The whole concept of this magical world is enchanting. Would thoroughly recommend and can’t wait for the next instalment!!”“The first in a trilogy, that draws you in to a wonderful world of fantasy. Great characters, well thought through plot, page turning.” Karen MacRae is a British author who writes in British English. The Aura Shaper trilogy is dedicated to her friend, Ann Clark, who passed away much too early after a lifetime dedicated to healing others.

This is the book that makes you think about the tax implications of time travel like never before! Time-traveling anarchist tax accountant Max Cash is trying to hide money in the past as part of a ploy to bring down the government, but the IRS is hot on his trail. Max will need to team up with a pathological liar, a mad-as-in-angry scientist, and a pair of unlikely robots to assemble a team of the greatest tax cheats that history has ever known to destroy the government and bring about an anarchist revolution. Replacing politicians’ jobs with robots, the tax-space continuum, random charity generators, claiming the Trojan Horse as a charitable gift, and the real reason the Scottish wear kilts – not to mention the terrible secret behind the tax code and the IRS – all in Andrew’s Anarchy, from the mind, and hopefully not any other part of the anatomy of, author Andrew Stanek.