Droichead Books

Deep worlds, told through stories

Series

ALBA:

Land of the Sidhe

Fantasy · Celtic Folklore · Historical Fantasy
In an ancient Alba where the boundary between the human world and the Sidhe is beginning to fail, old agreements can no longer be taken for granted. Across three books, guardians, clans and supernatural powers are drawn into a struggle over the Veil and the future relationship between humanity and the beings who have always shared their land.

 

The Trilogy:
Fading Pact: The Veil of Alba · Winter of Spirits · The Reckoning

Blood Among the Stars

Science Fiction · Space Horror · Dark Adventure
Humanity has carried its oldest nightmares into space. Across distant colonies and hostile worlds, ancient predatory forces emerge within a civilisation that believed it had left superstition behind.
Blood Among the Stars combines science fiction, survival and horror on an interstellar scale.
 
The Trilogy:
Blood Among the Stars · Ancient Echoes · The Unmaking

Jurassic Frontier

MERCER FRONTIER MYSTERIES

Western Mystery · Dinosaurs · Adventure
The American frontier is dangerous enough without dinosaurs roaming beyond the settlements.
But in Jurassic Frontier, prehistoric predators aren't always the greatest threat.
Murder, corruption, hidden agendas and competing interests collide with frontier justice as each investigation reveals that people can be every bit as dangerous as the creatures outside town.

 

The Trilogy:
The Cowboy's Last Stand · Valley of Bones · The Concord Line

 CASSIUS DOYLE FILES

Western Mystery · Crime · Dinosaurs
The world of Jurassic Frontier continues through a new series of investigations led by Cassius Doyle. Stolen animals, illegal markets, bloodlines and organised criminal networks expose another side of life on a frontier where dinosaurs have become valuable commodities and where someone is always willing to profit from them.

 

The Trilogy:
Black Market · Bloodlines · The Last Wrangler

KESTREL STATION CASES

Western Mystery · Crime · Dinosaurs
At Kestrel Station, research director Prudence Okafor is trying to build a place people can trust. Then a nest counter is murdered and a clutch goes missing. With Cassius Doyle beside her, Prudence faces three cases involving a stolen clutch, a sick herd and records someone wanted buried.
Each murder has its own answer, but every investigation puts the station’s work under closer scrutiny.

 

Books: The Missing Clutch · The Sick Herd · The Kestrel Record

THE OPEN RANGE 

Western Mystery · Crime · Dinosaurs
In Westwater County, herds are changing course, fences are failing and maps may be sending people the wrong way. Tracker Etta Dray and Sheriff Adela Kincaid investigate three murders tied to the land and the people trying to control it. To find each killer, they must follow the evidence beyond the frightening stories told about the dinosaurs.
 
Books: The Empty Range · The Fence Line · Where the Herds Go

Republic Love

Contemporary Fiction · Relationship Drama
Three interconnected stories about relationships not at their beginnings, but in the complicated years that follow. Set in Australia, Republic Love follows ordinary people confronting love, marriage, communication, change and the quiet decisions that determine whether two people continue moving through life together.
 
The Trilogy:
Something I Needed · Burning Bridges · I Lived

Golden Province

Australian Historical Steampunk · Gold Rush · Adventure
Gold has transformed colonial Australia — and steam is transforming it again. Against the upheaval of the Australian gold rush, miners, engineers, immigrants, officials and opportunists become caught in a struggle over wealth, technology and power as increasingly ambitious machines promise to reshape the colony.
This is Australian steampunk grounded in the grit, inequality and ambition of the nineteenth-century goldfields rather than polished Victorian fantasy.

 

The Trilogy:
Southern Goldfields · Engines of Ambition · Empire of Iron & Gold

Twelve Houses

Contemporary Fiction · Relationship Drama · Ensemble
Four Melbourne communities. Twelve homes. Six relationships in each. And four very different reasons for neighbours to discover how closely their lives are connected.

 

Across Brunswick, Box Hill, Pascoe Vale and Langwarrin, The Twelve Houses follows ordinary people navigating love, family,
friendship, work and change while the places they call home face challenges of their own.

 

Each novel uses a different symbolic system to shape its twelve households — Western zodiac, Chinese zodiac, a tree calendar and Australian animals — while keeping the stories grounded in contemporary Australian life.
 
The Quadrilogy
The 12 Houses of the West · The 12 Houses of the East ·
The 12 Houses of the North · The 12 Houses of the South