Book 1: Walking the Knife’s Edge

The Pitch

Brock Heights is rundown, crap and Rarkin wants OUT. He’s a teen with a temper, a soft spot for his mum and lone wolf ways that could get him killed, courtesy of his abusive father.

But he’s got an escape plan: go to Sythe School, get qualified, work for Monster Containment and buy his own, safe home for himself, and his mum.

The problem is, PTSD and the constant stress of knowing dad could come home and start abusing anyone at any moment are impairing Rarkin’s studies. And his tendency to hold it in, to trust no one but the close-knit friends he hardly sees anymore, and try to do everything for himself; isn’t helping.

Worse, the danger and high stakes of on-the-job learning stir memories Rarkin has been repressing for years. If he doesn’t learn to make peace with his past and stop fighting EVERYTHING; he’s on the road to self destruction. In working for Sythe; Rarkin is Walking the Knife’s Edge.

Progress

Walking the Knife’s Edge is currently seeking beta and ARC readers. If you’re interested in giving constructive feedback, or in providing advance reviews to be posted on the book’s launch day (April 2025?), please contact me via my contact page!

As you can guess from a moodboard instead of cover appearing below, I’m currently seeking a cover artist and cover for this book.

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Of Interest

This series is set in the same world as the Ruarnon Trilogy, 3,000 years later. The schools Teliph founds have become a global organisation of magical education, monster and emergency services training. Though Umarinaris has regressed into (modern) city states, Sythe is international, as its nemesis; Organised Crime.

Representation: Rarkin’s toxic masculinity and his black and white, autistic mode of thinking are a bad combination, but his autistic tendency to logically puzzle things out might just save him. Other rep includes; mental health and PTSD, healing, and all kinds of queer here!

5 Photos clustered around centre.
Left: Male in hoody with head bowed, slumped against concrete wall.
'Long and dark is the tunnel.'
Brick ceilinged, domed tunnel with light shining at the end.
Path through moss covered, branching trees and greenery.
Path up rocky mountain slope into cloud (one my travel picks from New Zewland, as is forest & tunnel).
Group of 4 male friends smiling, hands on shoulders, leaning towards each other.
Castle tower in stone wall rising from hills.
Figure on rocky slope viewing sunset through valley.