The Isles of the Midnight Heavens is currently the first novel of the ever-growing Noctiluca series. Essentially a collection of short stories, embedded within an overall arching narrative, the tale is set upon a fictional cursed archipelago on the north-eastern side of Britain.

The primary protagonist is Huntington Peck, a low-key paranormal investigator who has been sent on a seemingly straightforward enquiry by Detective Inspector Connors of the Metropolitan Police. Huntington gradually realises that the enigmas of the islands can only be solved by first piecing back his own horrifically fragmented memories. Nothing is what it seems, including himself.

There are several instrumentals already inspired by this novel, but also by the later ones below…the current top picks are Unbreakable, Valour & Entwined.

The three stories which follow; Smoke Dragon, Ice Ghosts & Dark Skies all revolve around an action-adventure style, where three heroes (Myron McGivney, Isobel Fortuna & Ishyan Stölles) circumnavigate the Earth to help friends in peril, assist in stopping terrorist threats and ultimately begin to unravel the mystery of a world kept secret within the shadows.

One of the primary antagonists, Anthony Draven, continues to pursue his quest to find the answers to the afterlife in Shadow World, which ran parallel to the events of Dark Skies. Within this story Draven’s insatiable appetite eventually threatened the Earth and opened the eyes of the young hero James Farsyle to that of the Noctiluca for the first time.

At the conclusion of both Dark Skies, Shadow World & The Daggers of Dídymo, the Earth remains protected from dark forces, but at a truly horrific cost. For where once the Earth was alone in its universe, now it lies on the border to alien worlds.

The adventure continues in Border World, where both Myron & Isobel soon realise that the Earth was once alone in its universe…but no more.