THE ASHFALL SERIES
Book One - Shadows in the Dark Available now for pre-order on Amazon
Some fires don’t go out - They wait.
Detective Inspector Leah Lyles is suspended from duty when an old case resurfaces in the worst possible way. An old cottage fire on Australia’s southern coast was officially ruled an accident. The problem is, it wasn't an accident and someone is now going to extraordinary lengths to make sure it stays buried.
When a chance lead in London exposes erased CCTV footage, covert surveillance, and a trail of dead ends that feels anything but random, Leah realises she has stumbled into something far larger than a single crime. Intelligence agencies close ranks. Records vanish. People who ask the wrong questions disappear.
As Leah follows the trail back to Queenscliff, the fire’s true purpose begins to emerge. What was destroyed was not evidence, it was infrastructure. A hidden system built to observe, test, and control, long after the Cold War was meant to have ended.
With her career in ruins, her safety compromised, and the truth closing in, Leah must decide how far she’s willing to go to expose what powerful forces are desperate to keep in the dark.
Because some shadows aren’t cast by the past.
They’re still moving.
Book Two - Echoes in the dark - Due mid 2026
Some truths never die — they just change shape.
Months after the London investigation that nearly broke her, Detective Chief Inspector Leah Lyles is still haunted by the boy in the photograph nobody could save — and the ones who may still be alive. When a string of violent deaths ripples across Europe, each echoing the Queenscliff fire, Leah is pulled back into a conspiracy that refuses to fade.
As her personal and professional lives collide, Leah must navigate a labyrinth of corruption, betrayal, and dangerous obsession. Every clue whispers a single message: the past is not finished with her yet.
In Echoes, loyalty is tested, love resurfaces in unexpected places, and Leah learns that sometimes, the only way forward is to follow the sound of what still haunts you.
Book Three - Ashes in the dark - Due mid 2026
Every secret burns eventually.
Leah Lyles returns to Australia to confront the truth buried in the ruins of her past. Project Ashfall has risen again — deeper, darker, and closer to home than she ever imagined.
As old allies become enemies and ghosts take shape in the smoke, Leah races to expose the network that destroyed her life. But justice comes at a cost, and this time, redemption might mean setting everything, and everyone , she loves on fire.
From the scorched cliffs of Queenscliff to the corridors of power in Canberra, Ashes is a devastating finale about love, loss, and the lengths one woman will go to finally silence the shadows.