The Red Marsh King
The Extraordinary Last Days of Jake Miller: Book 1
Lauren Miller hasn’t had the easiest time in her short fourteen years. An annoying brother. Crap parents. Bullying. Depression. But she’s survived. This far. Now, everything is about to get worse. Evil has a face. She made it. Out of paper and glue.
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Lauren, together with her nine-year-old brother Jake, must face an evil, as ancient as it is new, if they want to prevent the destruction of everything they love.
Set in Bolton, a post-industrial mill town in the North of England, a visit to the local library leads to a terrifying encounter on the moors where a new evil emerges from the most unexpected of places, a darkness only Lauren and Jake can see. It creeps along the corridors of their school. Invades their home. All carried on the wings of a crow, black as nightmare.
That evil has a name.
The Red Marsh King.
The first book in an unsettlingly strange and deliciously scary series perfect for fans of Lockwood and Co.,Neverwhere and This Mortal Instruments.
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The Carrion Road
The Extraordinary Last Days of Jake Miller: Book 2
Bolton is no longer safe. Not for Lauren and Jake Miller. There are too many people asking questions.
What really happened at the Midland Hotel? Why is Lauren not in school? What’s wrong with Jake? And who’s looking after the children?
Running is the only option.
But what about the Red Marsh King?
The second book continues the series as Lauren and Jake struggle with the aftermath of events in book one.
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The Hotel Of Ghosts
The Extraordinary Last Days of Jake Miller: Book 3
The Hotel Spioridain looms large over an expanse of black water, its stark geometry like a threat beneath the brooding sky. A darkness exists there, both within and without.
One that needs to feed and innocence is its preferred dish.
Not the hiding place Lauren and Jake expected.
Are they safe?
What do you think? And this time, the Red Marsh King is not all they have to fear.
In the third book Lauren and Jake face terrors thought to only be myth and the surprising origin of the Red Marsh King is revealed.
Available Spring 2026
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‘We’re running from things that can’t be outrun, to places where they lie in wait. No one believes us, so no one helps.
We are alone, scared, and holding your Mum’s hand at night won’t keep you safe, not anymore, and it turns out that your Dad is afraid of the big bad wolf because the big bad wolf is a rabid killer.’
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