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Unveiled Series
Series · 12
books · 2015-2023

Books in series

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#1

I Belong to the Earth

2015

"There." Grace pointed towards the moor and I saw it: there was a shape in the dark. A tall, masculine shape. No, not a man; a piece of darker darkness in the shape of a man. We were being watched. Seventeen-year-old Emlynn knows all about grief and guilt, not to mention secrets. Being able to sense the Dead wasn’t so bad before the accident which killed her mother. Now it’s taking over her life. Broken and shut off from the world, Emlynn is horrified when her father moves the family to a remote Yorkshire vicarage. A house that stands at the centre of a centuries old curse born of betrayal, jealousy and poisoned love. A curse that feeds on the lives of young girls. A pattern about to repeat itself once more... When her older sister, Grace, gets involved with local bad boy, Haze, Emlynn knows she has to act fast. Somehow Haze is connected to the curse. Is Grace his next intended victim? Hurtling towards another family tragedy, Emlynn must find the strength to stop running from her gift, or risk losing the rest of her family for good. Only the dead have the answers she needs. If she can bring herself to speak to them...
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#1.1

Cold Earth - An Unveiled Companion Novella

2023

Ciarán O'Connor has never settled in one place for long and he has no intention of changing that. Not for his mother's peace of mind. Definitely not for any of the girls who want to persuade him to settle down. Restless and out of step in his own life, he secretly wants adventure. Failing that, a change of scene. Deciding to pay his elderly godmother a visit in Yorkshire, he finds himself drawn into a centuries old mystery. A pattern of events that feeds on the lives of young women, that's winding down to its inevitable, tragic conclusion. It's not in Ciarán's nature to leave well alone. Especially not after he meets the strange and intriguing girl around whom the strange events turn. Old resentments and new tragedies clash in tangled web that will give him everything he wished for...before tearing it away.
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#1.3

Girls' Night In

2016

Unveiled#1.2 "I can't believe that I am trying to convince you two, that there's something wrong!" After the events of the previous spring, things have been quiet for Emlynn and her sisters, Grace and Amy. Emlynn no longer fears her gift.Instead she is becoming skilled at using her affinity for the Dead as a force for good. When Grace lands a job house sitting for a neighbour and weird things start to happen, Emlynn agrees to a sleepover with her hostile older sister. Privately she believes that Grace, who has no psychic ability at all, is mistaken. But then Emlynn finds she's got more than she bargained for on a Hallowe'en night of true terror. It's not just the restless Dead who are drawn to her after all...
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#1.4

Friendly Fire

2016

_“I’ll tell you a story,” I said. “You’ll likely see why I joined the clergy. And why Emlynn is different to her sisters. Then you can tell me a tale. We’ve a fair clip to go before we hit Moreton.” “Deal,” Spud said. “Since it’s Christmas will it be one of ghosts and goblins?”_ Driving home through a thickening snow storm on Christmas Eve, Emlynn's father - Rev. James Matthews - comes across a young soldier walking home. He offers the stranger a lift ... and, through the camaraderie and connection between an old ex-SAS serviceman and a new one, the secrets that both of them carry start to pour out... It could mean a complete change of perspective for Emlynn if she ever finds out...
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#1.5

Amazing Grace

2016

‘You should always play to your strengths. If you’ve got it, then you use it, that’s my motto.’ Grace is faking it. Her sister may have broken the Pattern but Grace often doesn’t feel like her body belongs to her – the memory of being possessed will do that to a girl. Not that Grace is admitting that to anyone because if there’s one thing she hates, it’s appearing weak. Besides, now that she’s in her second semester at University, things are going to get better. Especially since the University is a long way from Yorkshire. Of course there’s Nick – who is haunted by his own demons after carrying the other half of that ancient and twisted love story – but Grace isn’t worried. Everything is going to be FINE. While she may be able to fool everyone else, Grace can’t fool herself. There’s a voice beneath the lulling sound of the tide and Grace’s flat-mate, Laura, is acting weird. Much as Grace wants to avoid any further entanglements with the supernatural, she has a horrible suspicion that Laura needs help … and only Grace knows someone who can. Just as Grace begins to feel that she may be on solid ground again, supernatural forces or not, she is pitched into a life and death struggle to save the one person she’s come to care for more than anything or anyone else. Grace is about to find that the cost of hiding how you feel is a higher price than she is willing to pay…
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#1.9

Amy's Academicals

2016

Sometimes it sucks being the youngest sister. I mean your scope for originality is totally limited. And it doesn’t matter what you do, you’ll always be the baby of the family. Don’t get me wrong, my sisters are awesome…but every sidekick eventually wants to be the super hero…’ Amy is thrilled when she wins a scholarship to a summer-camp for young scientists in Geneva. Between Emlynn acting distracted, and more than slightly obsessive over her new supernatural duties, and Grace avoiding the vicarage entirely in favour of spending all her holidays at her University in Cornwall, things have been kinda dull lately. Amy is ready for an adventure of her own. On the shore of Lake Geneva, gathered together with other brilliant young minds, Amy is about to find out that she may have bitten off more than she can chew. Almost exactly two hundred years before, another group of young and brilliant people gathered here - in the ‘Year without a Summer’... As Amy is pushed and pulled between two new friends, she starts to wonder just how safe the camp really is. Strange things are happening. An inexplicable illness is striking down both teachers and students, and there are shapes in the night that stalk between the cabins and the lake shore. Now that Amy is finally the heroine in her own mystery, is she strong enough to find the answers alone?
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#2

I am the Silence

2016

My feet refused to move. I was going to die a horrible death right here, right now, because I could not run. From the other side of the fire, a huge dark shape slunk forward. I gasped in smoke and hacked it out. The shape from my nightmares. I watched as its mouth opened, lips peeled back over teeth as long as my fingers. The beast snarled and sprang… A year after breaking the Pattern, Emlynn no longer fights her gift. She’s become adept at sending the Dead on to rest. Perhaps a little too good – her overconfidence is about to lead to a fall... Sent to investigate reports of a haunting, Emlynn finds herself facing a crushing embarrassment, and worse, a deep betrayal. Deciding it’s time to leave the supernatural alone for a while, she travels to Dorset to stay with her childhood best friend, Beth. The Milton Abbey festival of music should take her mind off everything; Ghosts, betrayals and disappointments. Except Beth has changed. She’s definitely running with a new crowd – a cooler, dangerous group whose leader, Rhys, has an unhealthy interest in Emlynn. As if that isn’t enough, Emlynn’s violin tutor turns out to be a young man she used to know. Lucas has definitely changed – hostile, volatile and rude, but also intense and disturbingly compelling. That’s one mystery Emlynn can’t leave alone. Torn between her connection with Beth’s troubled younger sister and the terrifying black beast that stalks Emlynn in her dreams, there’s no rest for the weary psychic. Facing the reality of what Beth is mixed up in, Emlynn may have finally picked a fight she cannot win...
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#2.1

Ciarán's Chance

2017

‘There are things we do in life that we can’t ever take back. Bad things that follow us, no matter how we wish we could change them. So I needed to find him. See the man. And the monster.’ A year after the events in Arncliffe and Ciarán is giving up hope of ever being able to return. Marked by what he did that night, he is no longer the person he thought he was. Surly, directionless and irritable, he reconnects with an old friend whilst staying with his sister. Somewhere between friendship and hatred, he starts to pick apart the strands of whatever darkness hides inside him. A trip to find his father and confront his past turns into a nightmare that dates back centuries. Because something hunts the men of Ciarán’s family. Something ancient that cannot be reasoned with or bribed. Amongst the O’Connors, the sins of the father really are visited on the sons. If Ciarán ever wants to be able to see Emlynn again, he must succeed where all his ancestors have failed and stop the creatures that have stalked his family for generations.
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#2.2

The Black Dog of Lyme

2017

On her way to Cornwall with Grace and Amy, Emlynn can't resist making a slight detour. There's a very old ghost in Uplyme that just might need her help to move on. But first she has to deceive her sisters, summon the spirit and endure several centuries of wandering with a creature that is not human. No sweat, right?
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#3

I Hold The Tide

2017

‘Do you like ghost stories, Emily? Mine doesn’t have a happy ending...’ Emlynn’s power is spiralling out of control. Still reeling from the dark rite that almost killed her, Emlynn’s life is thrown back into turmoil when Grace requests her help in Cornwall. Caught between the seductive pull of the Veil, and haunted by the memories of a long-dead smuggler, and the apparition of a mysterious woman who is singing men to their deaths, Emlynn needs to get her powers back under control and unravel the mystery before the storm breaks...
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#3.5

Lucas Underground

2018

_'I remembered tearing up the hill with a speed I rarely showed to anyone, because she was burning like a star and being consumed like oxygen. Fear like I had never know. Fear for myself because I was in danger and had no wish to die. Fear for her because she was disappearing in the heart of that crackling, electric inferno, leaving something dark and other in her place. Fear of her, of the terrible beauty of her power and the way I was drawn to it. And tangled beneath all of these things, fear of the girl herself, when all power was pushed aside. She was a different kind of danger for me. A new danger, unknown until I met her.' Full description to come._
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#4

I Rule the Night

2017

“Those who have power must always ask themselves if they could give it up willingly...” Everything is going right for once. Emlynn has come out of her battle with the Veil stronger in herself than ever before. She is certain of who she is and what she wants. And on who she wants to be with. It’s the start of University, a time for testing your limits as an adult and Emlynn can’t wait to dive right in. Of course if you happen to be the ‘Veil-walker’ then nothing is really simple but she’s certain that the strange noises in the early hours of the morning are just memories. They can’t hurt anyone... The Veil doesn’t let those it wants go easily. On a dark and lonely hilltop, a discovery has been made. As wards are broken and the earth is disturbed, a half sleeping creature stirs, seeking its freedom and its queen. Some things aren’t meant to be uncovered... This time, all debts will be called in. Power has its price. Not everyone will survive. The heart-stopping conclusion to the Unveiled quartet Other titles in this series: I Belong to the Earth (Book 1) Girl's Night In (Short story 1.3) Friendly Fire (Short story 1.4 - free on Author Website) Amazing Grace (Novella 1.5) Amy's Academicals (Novella 1.9) I am the Silence (Book 2) Ciaran's Chance (Novella 2.1 - free and exclusive from author website) The Black Dog of Lyme (Short story 2.2 - free from author website) I Hold the Tide (Book 3) Lucas Underground (Novella 3.5 - coming soon) A Candle against the Dark (Shot story 3.8 - coming soon) I Rule the Night (Book 4 - coming December 2017) Blood and Bone (Book 4.5 - Unveiled Companion Novel - Coming soon free from author Website)

Author

J.A. Ironside
J.A. Ironside
Author · 30 books

Urban fantasy and historical fiction author J.A. Ironside masquerades by day as member of the county library service, which strangely enough has less to do with books than you would think. Jules grew up in Dorset in a house full of books, which probably explains a lot about how her mind works. You might think that folklore, fringe science, history, physics, magic and supernatural mystery wouldn’t go all that well together, but she’s hell bent on proving they do. Her urban fantasy series Harker & Blackthorn is now ten books long and counting. It features a sentient museum because someone needs to keep track of what’s going on. Unveiled – another UF series set in the same universe – is now complete. Jules is also determined to show that historical fiction can be both factually correct and funny. The King’s Knight series is set during the tumultuous reign of Richard II, while the sweeping Oath and Crown Duology – co-authored with Matthew Willis – follows the events leading up to and around the Battle of Hastings. When pried her away from her books, Jules enthusiastically engages in martial arts and playing the piano, although never at the same time. At least not yet. She lives on the edge of the Cotswold way with her boyfriend creature and two hell’s kittens. Find out more at www.jaironside.com Professional Reader

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