Modern Fairy Tale

Verity King has a problem with her husband. He's been turned into a frog, and contrary to opinion, that's not an improvement.A cryptic message, a severed finger in her fridge, and no signs of forced entry make it clear to Tempest why he was called, but Mr King's worrying transformation is just the first act.Almost before he can add up the clues, a second victim confirms the theme and Tempest finds himself up against someone performing modern retellings of the Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales … with real live human characters.Tempest also has a new partner and it's not his old army buddy, Darius Kane, in the country to learn the ropes before he opens his own franchise. No, it's the last person on Earth he wants to work with.He needs to solve the case, possibly just so his life can go back to normal, but he's going to get extra motivation whether he wants it or not when the Storyteller choses members of Tempest's own family to become part of the grand finale.Don't believe in fairy tales? That won't help you this time. Steve has been writing for years without producing anything that he believed was worth reading. Is he overly critical of his work? Probably, but having taken five years to finish the first book he took only five months for the second and is now working on three more stories simultaneously. He describes his current experience as that of a storyteller with ideas falling uncontrollably out of his ears. He keeps a notepad on his person at all times in case another idea comes to him and can be found scribbling pretty much any time he comes to a stop.He lives not far from where his books are based, but although he was born and raised in Kent he spent most of this adult life as a soldier deployed to various points of the globe. Now retired from the military he has the world's most perfect son and a beautiful wife who is completely convinced his description of the single women in his book is the early stages of a mid-life crisis. It's not love, honest.Influenced by Jim Butcher, Stephen King, Kim Harrison, Derek Landy, Lee Child and Janet Evanovich to name a few, his work will always be a mix of action and thriller mixed with situational comedy. The central character's parents are in no way based on his own. Definitely, definitely not.