The end of the world didn’t begin with trumpets.
It began in a bank. In Manchester. On a Saturday.

When a routine act of violence leaves scars that never heal, four ordinary lives are set on a collision course with something ancient, buried, and waiting beneath the city streets. What they uncover should never have been disturbed—a sealed temple older than civilisation, built to contain a truth humanity was never meant to survive.

They emerge marked by impossible powers. Haunted by the dead. Watched by forces that have shaped history from the shadows.

As guilt mutates into rage and grief into obsession, the line between hero and monster erodes. Friends become weapons. Faith collapses. Love turns lethal. And the thing awakening beneath the world begins to choose its champions.

Demons wear familiar faces.
Heroes leave body counts.

When prophecy ignites and the Horsemen ride once more, the question is no longer how to stop the apocalypse—but whether humanity deserves to.

Heroes & Demons is a brutal urban‑fantasy thriller of conspiracy, trauma, and damnation, where salvation comes at an unbearable cost—and sometimes the only way to save the world is to become the thing it fears most.

What You’ll Find in This Book

• Ancient myth colliding with everyday life
• Flawed heroes pushed to breaking point
• Queer found family
• Moral grey areas and impossible choices
• Buried temples, seals, and awakening forces
• Humour cutting through darkness

A Short Excerpt

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He fell to his knees at her side, her body began to convulse. Her jaw clacked up and down as if she was trying to speak but her words were blood. At that moment there was only the two of them in that bank. There was only the sticky seep of warm liquid on his hand as he made a futile attempt to stop the flow. There was the tight clench of flesh, shaking, on his other hand. Finally, there were her eyes. Blue, striking.

He saw those eyes grow vacant as the pressure against both hands slackened. The red-stained name badge jovially announced: HI MY NAME IS STACEY. That more than anything made reality snap back into place. As if another breath was being drawn and blew away the stillness.

At that, he became aware of the trickle of warmth coming from his own torso. Then a blossom of white-hot flame unfolded in his abdomen. Sandy screamed his name from so far away as approaching sirens wailed. His head connected with the marble.

In one breath, one heartbeat it was done.

Behind the Story

Heroes & Demons has been a labour of love since 2006, when as a young eighteen year old psychology undergrad, I began to crave something a bit darker. The world, as big and wide and scary as it was for someone just entering it truly as an adult for the first time, was also in gradual revelation of it’s own darkness. Financial collapse. Attacks in public. Endless wars.

And at the personal level? People always seemed to be screwing each other over. People dealing with anger and pain and grief. Discrimination and hatred for simply being one another. People cheating, lying, stealing. The chance to fail to live up to your own childhood expectations was around every corner – and all of us, moving through it alone.

Most heroes are good people. Those champions who are paragons of who we wish to be. Even the ‘grittier’ heroes still have hearts of gold. So then came the idea, what if the heroes weren’t so good? What if they were all wrestling with their own personal demons? And what if, despite all the powers in the world, they were still the only ones we had to stand against the wider darkness?

Thus it was born. Heroes…and Demons…