Disappearing Ones
The Magpie’s Rattle
Kia Malifus is twenty-five and exhausted. Living with her chronically ill mother and abusive, alcoholic brother, her world is collapsing inwards. With no money, no friends, no love and no future, music and the pages of her diary are the only spaces where she can breathe—where fear of eviction, loss, and inherited madness can't reach her.
Meanwhile, one-hundred-and-sixty-eight-year-old vampire Andrei Haas lives in near-total isolation, hidden away in a crumbling country house where time gathers like dust. His brother, Malus, is deteriorating—slowly, painfully—and with each passing year, Andrei must fight harder to keep their existence hidden. As the modern world outside edges closer, so does the risk of discovery.
Nearly two decades ago, Kia and Andrei met. Briefly. Strangely. But neither ever forgot. And now, as illness tightens its grip, their lives begin to intersect again.
The Magpie’s Rattle is the quiet, unsettling beginning of a series that examines what we’ll do to survive—physically, emotionally, morally. It's about what it means to be human.
The Blackbird’s Song
Coming 2026
London, 1849. When child prostitute, Florence, collapses in the street with a screaming infant in her arms, Thomas Harrington, a reclusive MP with a failing body and an uneasy conscience, realises the girl he once tried to save has come back in ruin.
As Thomas tends to Florence and the child she cannot love, both must face the weight of their choices. Told in piercing, melancholic diary entries, The Blackbird’s Song is a gothic tale of shame and compassion, power and vulnerability, set against the gaslit shadows of Victorian London.
