1645. The year Scotland died. "Ring a ring of roses." Dirty white rags dangled from windows, like hanging men left on gallows for the city to witness their shame. The Bubonic Plague is ravaging Edinburgh. Despite the council's best efforts, people are dying. Soon there will be more people buried under Edinburgh than living in it. "A pocketful of posies." When the plague doctor dies from the disease after a week, the council hires student doctor Alex McCrae, promising him one hundred pounds to cure the wretched pest. But a man who makes himself a hero, makes himself enemies. And when the...
1645. The year Scotland died. "Ring a ring of roses." Dirty white rags dangled from windows, like hanging men left on gallows for the city to witness ...
Longlisted for the Exeter Novel Prize and Flash 500 novel competition. Silent Dawn isn't real. She's a terrifying computer game character who erodes players' sanities. Just because her legend dates back to the 1600s, doesn't mean she's real. Just because people are vanishing, doesn't mean she's real. Just because she's standing in the corner... Reality is an illusion. Drake Skelton, Ben Crewe and Keira Black are seventeen-year-old outcasts. Their obsession with Silent Dawn: Asylum seems normal, until game features creep into their town: missing persons' posters, defaced patient records, the...
Longlisted for the Exeter Novel Prize and Flash 500 novel competition. Silent Dawn isn't real. She's a terrifying computer game character who erodes p...
