The Blackout came and went, and the world moved on.
The world — but not our heroes.

Two years after the First Horseman tore their lives apart, Rick, Sandy, and their allies are still living with the scars. Grief lingers. Guilt festers. And the shadowy organisation responsible has not gone away — it has evolved.

A mysterious artefact draws them into an ancient secret, just as an old friend returns with no memory of who they were… or what they once meant. As enemies regroup and the past refuses to stay buried, the hunt widens beyond the UK, pulling them into a dangerous, Europe‑spanning race against forces older than history.

The Second Horseman is rising.

He carries a great sword.
He comes to take peace from the Earth.
He is War.

Hope & Fury is a bigger, darker, more painful follow‑up to Heroes & Demons — an urban fantasy thriller of conspiracy, grief, and destruction, where power is never enough, survival has a cost, and sometimes the only way to fight ancient shadows is to drag them into the light.

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What You’ll Find in This Book

• A world scarred by a forgotten global catastrophe
• A man haunted by love, loss, and unforgivable choices
• An ancient force that turns grief into violence
• Dark fantasy grounded in raw human emotion
• Love and fury colliding at the end of the world
• Hope that refuses to die—even when everything else has

A Short Excerpt

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Here, he felt connected to him. In some small way, as he sat there with the sun fading into the far-off west, he imagined, for a moment, that he was not alone. It was dangerous to indulge for too long, but to allow himself a moment would be fine. He could spare himself a little time, even though the world was still not right. The Blackout had cost them a lot. The First Horseman had nearly broken them all. She had been Conquest, riding forth to conquer.

She had failed. Seemingly. Now the others thought perhaps it was over; perhaps, somehow, with the Shadow organisation destroyed by her hand and her body now long gone, there would be no more reason for them to fear. No more reason for them to worry that they had started a chain of events that would lead to further cataclysm. To the apocalypse long foretold.

Perhaps it was the beer, perhaps it was the sorrowful serenity that plagued him in the still, silent moments when he was alone, but he knew they were wrong. Somewhere out there, somewhere in the raging throb of humanity, there was a figure waiting to be born. Conquest had only been the beginning. Somewhere there would be a red horse, a red rider upon it, the Second Horseman come to take peace from those they saw. Come to set them all to slay one another, coming with their great sword.

Their name would be War.

Behind the Story

Hope & Fury began life many moons ago as Gods & Monsters, but much of the DNA of that remains the same. There were second pyramids, and Temples, and the Horseman of War wearing a monstrous face. In fact, from initial conception to final execution much remained. It was as if this was, as my first sequel, easier to write than the first.

But where did it come from? Ultimately, I guess Hope & Fury came from pain. Not quite the same as the characters, but grief and sorrow have a way of pervading all our lives. I guess at the time when it was being conceived, fury came at the world around us, people marching happily into conflict whether it was cutting someone off at a traffic light or starting wars. The central idea, that conflict – which sits at the heart of the Heroes & Demons binary – was so innate, how do you even begin to fight it?

Well, perhaps it begins with the hope that you can. And the inevitable fury which happens when you cannot.