When the local rich boy ends up in a coma from a drug overdose, the local cop is determined to protect him despite what folks suspect him of or how much it will cost her.

When three Brits, spars sons to peers of the Realm, set out to one-up each other, one unleashes an Egyptian horror, another seeks to monopolize on it, and the third is left to protect London from it.

If Robert Louis Stevenson had written a sequel to his tragic tale of Dr. Jekyll, he might have created an ambitious young admirer of Jekyll, a doctor with interest is optics and mesmerism who believes he could succeed where his predecessor failed.

His efforts might then have unleashed a terrible, communicable affliction of the mind that only the combined efforts of Mina and Jonathan Harker, Mr and Mrs Fileas Fogg and their faithful servant Passepartout, and Dr Watson could challenge.

And the result would have been A Strange Occurrence of Mayhem in Westminster.

A new historical science fiction thriller. When an ambitious young doctor tries to succeed where Dr. Jekyll failed, the result is an epidemic of madness that turns Victorian London’s august West End into a post-apocalyptic nightmare.

Desperate to hold his family together, Patrick “Dug” Douglas accidentally assembles a dream team to battle the scourge of deviants that prowl the streets from Mayfair to Charring Cross.

Mina Harker brings telepathy residual of her encounter with the Transylvanian Count and experience at battling the diabolical. The “new woman” Ann Veronica Stanley proffers a firm grasp of scientific method and in-depth knowledge of biology. And Captainess Aouda Fogg commands the skies over London in her airship while her faithful manservant Jean Passepartout’s timing and agility binds the players neatly together into a single force.

But with Dug’s wife among the first infected, merely surviving the madness isn’t enough. A cure is the ultimate challenge and goal of the team.

An invisible hand manipulates the world, wreaking havoc upon the common folk, leaving entire villages desolate in its wake while making a few men terribly rich.

Coin is a commoner left with nothing but anger and sadness, but when he is drawn into the clandestine plot of Devonshire and Wellington, he meets Helen. Each unknowingly holds part of a key to defeating the puppetmaster and righting the world.

When an experiment goes wrong, each is put in the other’s body. Coin expects an immediate reversal from his pretense as a highborn lady, but Helen knows she’s come out a winner. Though she is now a commoner, she is also a man in this man’s world.

When a third diabolical participant enters the body exchange, all hope seems lost, but Helen and Coin must soldier on toward defeat of malevolence that threatens not only the British Empire but humanity itself.

Shelley is single and nearing her thirties at the dawn of Web 2.0 and internet dating.

She’s also ambitious and talented, a designer asserting and instigating herself into the male-dominated Chicago advertising world.

She’d like to meet someone, find someone to curl up with and watch a movie or hold hands with and watch the fireworks over Navy Pier, but competing with the guys in the office makes it hard to have time for dating. But the dating app she downloads is a game changer.

Its power to force submission and knock out the competition would be frightening, if Shelley were the type to scare easily.

A creepy paranormal dating horror novella.