In the Broken Places (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780648254836)

Death watcher, Levi Monk, is coerced into delivering a deathbed letter to the deceased's former lover, Sara.

Too late they discover the letter has been impregnated with spores that will kill them within three months unless they recover two ancient orbs that have the power to reanimate the dead and so bring Sara's former partner back to life.

Levi enlists his mentor, Hiro, to help them recover the relics. Adapting the ancient art of kintsugi Hiro dispatches Sara and Levi into a parallel medieval world on the brink of war. Here they must overcome palace intrigue, betrayal and dark magic before returning with only one of the orbs and a partially burnt map to the other.

Now they must unravel the mystery to find the second orb while staying ahead of a ruthless cabal obsessed with using the orbs as a short cut to immortality. Throughout Sara and Levi must overcome the demons from their past and learn to trust while doing their best to ignore the growing attraction between them.