Karl Drinkwater

Sometimes spaceships disappear with everyone on board — the Lost Ships. But sometimes they come back, strangely altered, derelict, and rumoured to be full of horrors. Opal is on a mission. She's been seeking something her whole life. Something she is willing to die for. And she thinks it might be on a Lost Ship. Opal has stolen Clarissa, an experimental AI-controlled spaceship, from the military. Together they have tracked down a Lost Ship, in...

Fifteen tense tales. One sleepless night. Horror lives in the shadows. It exists under the earth's surface in ancient caves; below the vast sea's undulating waves; under dense forest cover; within a storm's thick, rolling clouds; downstairs in our homes, when we hear the knife drawer rattle in the night. Even our minds and bodies harbour the alien under the skin, the childhood nightmares in our subconscious. In this collection of fifteen tales...

Mark Hopton is twenty-four, single, and obsessed with Manchester music. It's his escape into a better world. Oh man, he needs that escape. His psycho brother's on his case and in his face, his dad's in prison, and the local gangsters are twisting his melons to make him smuggle drugs. Heaven knows he's miserable now. His one true shining ray of hope is Samantha Rees, a gorgeous and chaotic Welsh woman who rocks his world. She is the only good thing...

She survived hell. Now her real problems begin.Opal Imbiana is many things to many people. Hero. Traitor. Soldier. Deserter. Criminal. Explorer.Survivor.She finally achieved her life's goal: to rescue her little sister from the utterly alien Null zone.But the world she returns to has changed. Her friends are gone, and her enemies are more powerful than ever.In the bleakest situations, it takes an exceptional mind to keep hope alive.Ideal for fans...

She has a family. Now it's time to find a home. Opal, Athene and Clarissa are finally free of Aseides' torture ship, but the past always catches up with us. Their enemies remain powerful, persistent and cruel. True escape will require more courage and strength than ever before, in order to achieve what others believed is impossible. To go home. Every journey has an end. But freedom comes at a price. Ideal for fans of space opera and horror; claustrophobic,...

If you're reading this: HELP! I've been kidnapped.Me and my big sister stayed together after our parents died. We weren't bothering anybody. But some mean government agents came anyway, and split us up.Now I'm a prisoner on this space ship. The agents won't even say where we're going.I hate them.And things have started to get a bit weird. Nullspace is supposed to be empty, but when I look out of the skywindows I can see … something. Out there. And...

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.At the end of Hidden Solace, Athene made a promise:"I'm coming for you. Anything that stands in my way will be neutralised. Destroyed. It will be probability-manipulated out of the equation. Out of existence. It will be absolutely Sevened. Please, my precious Opal, hold on just a bit longer. I am on my way."The most powerful AI in the universe is coming for her friend.There will be answers. There will be...

The legendary Lost Ships exist, and they harbour nightmarish horrors. Opal knows. She barely survived her first encounter with one. Despite escaping, she failed to find what she was looking for: her lost sister. Now Opal must board a second derelict Lost Ship to seek answers, and it's even more monstrous, a sickening place of death and decay. To make things worse, the military government wants her, dead or alive. Considering their reputation, dead...

Three horror books in one tense collection. Turner An isolated Welsh island seemed like the perfect escape for a convict on the run, a jilted woman, and a policeman seeking a quiet life. When the surly locals turn to murderous violence the three visitors are forced to flee together, trying to stay one step ahead of their increasingly insane pursuers. They Move Below In this collection of fifteen tales Karl Drinkwater sews flesh onto the bones...