A black bird perched on a dark gray bowler hat inside a room, looking out a window at a foggy street scene with a horse-drawn carriage. The window has the title 'Disappearing Ones: the Blackbird's Song' and the author's name, Kerry Burton-Galley.

Disappearing Ones

Coming Summer 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.

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Grey Alpha

Former combat medic Ivan Corby has survived warzones, disasters, mountains, deserts, and more — but nothing could prepare him for becoming what he is now.

In 2013, while camping alone at the remote gorge of Troller’s Gill, Ivan encountered Barghest, the spectral black hound of legend. Days later, after a rapid decline linked to rabies from a recent dog encounter in the Philippines, he was pronounced dead.

Only he didn’t die.

Awakening in a covert government facility, Ivan learned he carried Lykos Lyssavirus — a form of werewolfism. Imprisoned and studied for years, he finally escaped with Qasim, a young Syrian refugee who shares his fate.

Now hiding in the wild, Ivan’s body changes month by month, his humanity slowly slipping away. Told entirely through letters and survival logs, Grey Alpha is his account of a full life to the son who believes he’s already dead — a story of survival, and an examination of what it means to be human.