Book 1 in the Torc of Moonlight trilogy ...poetically elegant, richly lyrical, yet fast-paced and thrilling... 'Stay away from me. Don't you understand? People close to me die.' Nick believes Alice is overreacting. She's been unlucky in her life, that's all. Coincidences - they happen all the time. It had been coincidence when they'd caught each other's gaze across the lecture room, a trick of the light that had lifted her auburn hair. But is it coincidence that someone, some thing, is alienating him from his friends as his need to possess Alice builds? Drawn into her obsession with finding the shrine to a Celtic water deity, and drowning in sublime passions, Nick is in denial... until he sees a jewelled sword fade in his hand and knows that he, or the thing that shadows him, has held it, and bloodied it, long ago. To tell Alice will make her flee. To stay silent could kill her. ...riveting contemporary fantasy set in the real world... Book 2 The Bull At The Gate is set in York. Book 3 Pilgrims Of The Pool is set in Durham.