Dead Lake

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On a landmass broken by man a corrupt network grows and a witch vows to take it down.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Book 1 - Sometimes it pays to be Tricky</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Damn and blast! That rancid piece of excrement Carter has had her ransacked out of Clancy! </em><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>How's she going to get her obsidian back now?</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When new-age witch Tricky returns to her cottage to find it turned upside down she knows her time in Clancy is over. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>After they burned her mother at the stake</span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> Randolf Carter head of the district is spreading lies and suspicion about her kind. She has three days to leave or risk punishment. But it wasn't just an ordinary ransacking - they were searching for something.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Using her gifts to trace the energy Carter's lackeys left behind Tricky spies that of a winged creature amongst them: a jackdaw. </span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Swift and wily</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> it</span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> pinches 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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Determined to get back what is rightfully hers even though she can't show her face in the district Tricky makes a plan. But when it goes awry and she discovers what's really going on along with who has betrayed her it takes all her strength and skill to survive.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Adept at manipulating energy and time as well as communicating with trees Tricky's drawn into something bigger than ownership of a gemstone and learns that sometimes it pays to be a little bit tricky. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Dead Lake is the first book in a thrilling new dark paranormal fantasy series set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. For those that enjoy new-age witches strong female characters including LGBTQ+ and dark dealings in a dystopian world Tricky's fast-paced adventures will capture the imagination.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>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</em></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>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</em></p>