Tricky's Tales

An eviction. A stolen gemstone. A hidden network. Will retrieving her precious obsidian get Tricky killed?Book 1 - Sometimes it pays to be TrickyDamn and blast! That rancid piece of excrement, Carter, has had her ransacked out of Clancy! How's she going to get her obsidian back?When Tricky returns to her cottage to find it turned upside down, she knows her time in Clancy is over. After they burned her mother at the stake, Randolf Carter, head of the district, is spreading lies and suspicion about her kind. She has three days to leave or face punishment. But it wasn't just an ordinary ransacking – they were searching for something.Tricky uses her gifts to trace the energy of Carter's lackeys left behind and spies a winged creature among them: a jackdaw. Swift and wily, it pinched her precious gemstone, a piece of black obsidian. But at whose bidding? Communicating with birds is a rare ability and she knows all who possess it.Tricky wants her stone back, but coming up against Carter and his corrupt network won't be easy – especially now she can't risk being seen in the district. In fact, it'll be decidedly tricky, but she hadn't earn her nickname for nothing.In a post-apocalyptic future, new-age witch, Tricky, must risk her life to retrieve what is hers. Adept at manipulating energy and time as well as communicating with trees, she's drawn into something bigger than ownership of a gemstone, and finds out that sometimes it pays to be a little bit tricky.Dead Lake is the first book in a new thrilling paranormal fantasy series, set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. For those that like new-age witches, strong female characters and dark dealings in a dystopian world, Tricky's fast-paced adventures will capture the imagination."Miranda Kate has crafted a thoroughly believable magical world, and a protagonist that you'll want to be your best mate." Michael Wombat, Author of The Raven's Wing"You'll be bewitched and beguiled by Tricky and left wanting to spend more time with her. An elemental fantasy with bite and attitude. I can't wait for more." Lisa Shambrook, Author of The Seren Stone Chronicles Miranda started out life wanting to be a film director, but when directing people didn't work, she turned to words instead, finding them much easier to deal with – most days.Miranda has been featured in several Flash Fiction anthologies and ezines, and published several books, including three collections, four novels, and a novella. She writes across genres, which include Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel and Paranormal Fantasy, often mixing them together – the one constant being that they are all dark.Under the pen name, M K Boers, she writes psychological thrillers.Miranda Kate, spent her early childhood in Surrey, in the south of England, and her teens and early adulthood moving round the UK, but currently resides in the Netherlands. Tricky's Tales is a dark paranormal fantasy series, set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. After a massive shift of the tectonic plates has decimated the population and the land, life on the remaining landmass has returned back to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer tolerated.Tricky is a new-age witch, of sorts, who is adept at working with energy and time as well as communicating with trees. Her tale starts when she is evicted from her home and finds her obsidian has been stolen. To get it back she comes up against the head of the district, Carter, and his corrupt network, and ends up drawn into something bigger than ownership of a gemstone.

Buggeration! Without knowing it she'd been recruited into unearthing Carter's bloody network, just as The Baron wanted!When Lucien Dufray's cat and flock of birds turn up at Tricky's cabin, she knows something's wrong. But when her crystal ball shows her one thing and Adric tells her another, Tricky becomes suspicious – which might be her natural state, but there was nothing natural about Dufray's disappearance. Adric wants her to find him, but has Dufray been kidnapped or has he turned traitor?Between her mother's jade calling to her in the forest of Ferriston, The Rabble, an untrustworthy fae collective directing her to the Unsailable Sea, and her spy glass showing her Dimitry Stanislav, one of her mother's murderers, Tricky is confused.The only witnesses to Dufray's exodus were his menagerie, so Tricky recruits an old friend, Nathan Rothschild, who can communicate with cats, and Annie's ex-girlfriend, Safa Odeh, who can communicate with birds, and together they try to piece together what happened that night.What they uncover is a plot deeper than the network's underground bunkers. Will Tricky be able to find Dufray or will she risk capture? Either way she needs to keep her wits about her and remember she's the tricky one.Tricky's Tales are a series of dark paranormal fantasy novels set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. After a massive shift of the tectonic plates has decimates the population and the land, life on the remaining landmass has returned back to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer tolerated. Miranda started out life wanting to be a film director, but when directing people didn't work, she turned to words instead, finding them much easier to deal with – most days.Miranda has been featured in several Flash Fiction anthologies and ezines, and published several books, including three collections, four novels, and a novella. She writes across genres, which include Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel and Paranormal Fantasy, often mixing them together – the one constant being that they are all dark.Under the pen name, M K Boers, she writes psychological thrillers.Miranda Kate, spent her early childhood in Surrey, in the south of England, and her teens and early adulthood moving round the UK, but currently resides in the Netherlands. Tricky's Tales is a dark paranormal fantasy series, set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. After a massive shift of the tectonic plates has decimated the population and the land, life on the remaining landmass has returned back to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer tolerated.Tricky is a new-age witch, of sorts, who is adept at working with energy and time as well as communicating with trees. Her tale starts when she is evicted from her home and finds her obsidian has been stolen. To get it back she comes up against the head of the district, Carter, and his corrupt network, and ends up drawn into something bigger than ownership of a gemstone.

Book Three - When Things get TrickyCracked glass balls! Tricky didn't think anything could top the risk of being killed by the network, but she was wrong.Tricky has managed to escape the network but she needs to reach the palace in Chestwick. She has to play a recording to The Baron; a recording Lucien Dufray discovered on her obsidian. It cost Lucien his life, and what it reveals might cost Tricky hers.On her way, the trees show Tricky a greater threat in the bunkers, not just to her but to the entire landmass. Destroying the network is imperative, and Tricky realises getting rid of Gandalf, aka Douglas Bottle, is the key. But Tricky's no murderer (only an inadvertent one) and devises a plan, one which, with the help of the fickle fae collective, The Rabble, she hopes will work.Will The Baron support Tricky or blame her? Can Tricky trap Gandalf before he catches her? And is she really considering settling down if she saves the landmass? The only thing Tricky knows for sure is she faces another journey, one that will take her out of the landmass and out of time – she only hopes she can get back.Tricky's Tales are a series of dark paranormal fantasy novels set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. After a massive shift of the tectonic plates decimates the world and its population, life on the remaining landmass has returned to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer tolerated. Miranda started out life wanting to be a film director, but when directing people didn't work, she turned to words instead, finding them much easier to deal with – most days.Miranda has been featured in several Flash Fiction anthologies and ezines, and published several books, including three collections, four novels, and a novella. She writes across genres, which include Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel and Paranormal Fantasy, often mixing them together – the one constant being that they are all dark.Under the pen name, M K Boers, she writes psychological thrillers.Miranda Kate, spent her early childhood in Surrey, in the south of England, and her teens and early adulthood moving round the UK, but currently resides in the Netherlands. Tricky's Tales is a dark paranormal fantasy series, set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. After a massive shift of the tectonic plates has decimated the population and the land, life on the remaining landmass has returned back to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer tolerated.Tricky is a new-age witch, of sorts, who is adept at working with energy and time as well as communicating with trees. Her tale starts when she is evicted from her home and finds her obsidian has been stolen. To get it back she comes up against the head of the district, Carter, and his corrupt network, and ends up drawn into something bigger than ownership of a gemstone.